Edmund Breon

Born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Breon began in John Hare's touring company and later played on the West End stage and in Glasgow, gaining prominence.

Vampire movies",[1] so it is reasonably certain that MacLaverty is indeed the actor who appeared under the name Edmond Bréon[2] in many Gaumont films 1907–1922 including, most famously, playing the part of Inspector Juve for Louis Feuillade in the ground-breaking Fantômas series.

He did also appear in a small part in the 1915–1916 Feuillade series Les vampires although this is not, as his grandson supposes, a horror film.

A year later he emigrated to the United States and gained his first big American film part in The Dawn Patrol (1930).

A 1949 newspaper article noted that Breon's "career has been interrupted by serious illness and an accident which kept him idle for two years.

Basil Rathbone and Edmund Breon in Dressed to Kill (1946)