Edmund Breese

Profile

From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936. Born : 17th-Jun-1871

Movie Credits

Duck Soup

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Released : 12th-Nov-1933

Finders Keepers

Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Released : 18th-Feb-1928

Burning Daylight

Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
Released : 10th-Mar-1928

Platinum Blonde

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Released : 31st-Oct-1931

Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Released : 18th-Apr-1929

Young Sinners

The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
Released : 17th-May-1931

Paradise for Two

Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
Released : 23rd-Jan-1927

Return of the Terror

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Released : 7th-Jul-1934

The Perfect Crime

A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
Released : 4th-Aug-1928

The Hurricane Express

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
Released : 1st-Aug-1932

Fighting With Kit Carson

In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
Released : 1st-Jul-1933

Trying Out Torchy

The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
Released : 25th-Aug-1933

Broadway Bill

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Released : 30th-Nov-1934

An Honorable Cad

Released : 2nd-Sep-1919

The Match King

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Released : 31st-Dec-1932

The Weakness of Strength

Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
Released : 20th-Aug-1916

Cross-Examination

Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
Released : 13th-Feb-1932

Millie

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Released : 6th-Feb-1931

Chinatown After Dark

The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Released : 15th-Oct-1931

The Hatchet Man

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Released : 6th-Feb-1932

Luck

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Released : 1st-Mar-1923

Lost in the Stratosphere

Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
Released : 14th-Nov-1934

Womanhandled

Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
Released : 27th-Dec-1925

The Reckoning

Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.
Released : 15th-Feb-1932

Morals for Women

A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Released : 24th-Oct-1931

The Wright Idea

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…
Released : 5th-Aug-1928

Damaged Hearts

Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with hostility, David now an adult, goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the adopting family.
Released : 21st-Feb-1924

Torchy Passes the Buck

Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
Released : 6th-Dec-1931

Torchy Turns the Trick

When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
Released : 7th-Feb-1932

Torchy Raises the Auntie

Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
Released : 1st-May-1932

Torchy

Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
Released : 4th-Oct-1931

Torchy's Night Cap

Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1932

Torchy's Two Toots

When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
Released : 6th-Jun-1932

Torchy's Kitty Coup

Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Released : 22nd-Jan-1933

Torchy Rolls His Own

In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
Released : 20th-Oct-1932

Torchy's Busy Day

Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1932

Torchy Turns Turtle

One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
Released : 23rd-Apr-1933

Alias Mary Smith

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
Released : 14th-Jul-1932

The Good Bad Girl

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Released : 20th-May-1931

Young Bride

A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Released : 8th-Apr-1932

Drifting Souls

A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
Released : 7th-Aug-1932

Laughing at Life

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Released : 12th-Jul-1933

Women Won't Tell

A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Released : 16th-Nov-1932

Kismet

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Released : 30th-Oct-1930

The Sea Bat

The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Released : 5th-Jul-1930

A Man of Sentiment

A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Released : 15th-Sep-1933

Defenders of the Law

A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
Released : 23rd-May-1931

The Painted Desert

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Released : 18th-Jan-1931

Above the Clouds

Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
Released : 13th-Dec-1933

The Cabin in the Cotton

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Released : 26th-Sep-1932

The Brown Derby

Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns that an eccentric uncle has died, leaving him a brown derby said to bring good luck to its wearer. Meanwhile Edith Worthing and her Aunt Anna are expecting Edith's wealthy uncle, Adolph Plummer, from Australia. On a call to their house, Tommy is mistaken for the uncle, being announced as "a plumber," and soon a mutual romance develops with Edith. They are wedded by mistake when serving as witnesses to marriage by elopement. Farrell, a rival for Edith, learns of Tommy's deception and persuades Edith to elope with him; but Tommy follows in hot pursuit, in his pajamas and derby. At the last minute, a message arrives telling Edith that she and Tommy are already married.
Released : 4th-Jul-1926

Search - Add-ons, Builds, Videos, Hardware

Search Movies, TV Shows or Persons

Disclaimer - This is a news site. All the information listed here is to be found on the web elsewhere. We do not host, upload or link to any video, films, media file, live streams etc. Kodiapps is not responsible for the accuracy, compliance, copyright, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content streamed to/from your device. We are not connected to or in any other way affiliated with Kodi, Team Kodi, or the XBMC Foundation. We provide no support for third party add-ons installed on your devices, as they do not belong to us. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all your regional legalities and personal access rights regarding any streams to be found on the web. If in doubt, do not use.
DMCA Policy - Privacy Policy

Kodiapps app v7.0 - Available for Android. You can now add latest scene releases to your collection with Add to Trakt. More features and updates coming to this app real soon.

Tip : Add https://kodiapps.com/rss to your RSS Ticker in System/Appearance/Skin settings to get the very latest Movie & TV Show release info delivered direct to your Kodi Home Screen. Builders are free to use it for their builds too.

You can get all the very release news and updates direct from our Telegram group.
Our Twitter and Facebook pages are no longer supported.

Latest Movies

The Bad Shepherd 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

The Bouncer 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Tuesdays Trash 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

The Girl Who Cried Her Eyes Out 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Clear Cut 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

You Gotta Believe 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Wolf Man 2025 - Movies (Jan 17th)

My Divorce Party 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

A Quiet Place Day One 2024 - Movies (Oct 2nd)

Cabrini 2024 - Movies (Oct 2nd)

Back in Action 2025 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Henry Danger The Movie 2025 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Alarum 2025 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Ed Hill Stupid Ed 2024 - Movies (Jan 16th)

Alien Rubicon 2024 - Movies (Jan 17th)

Smile 2 2024 - Movies (Jan 16th)

Gabriel Iglesias Legend of Fluffy 2025 - Movies (Jan 16th)

The Substance 2024 - Movies (Jan 16th)

Unstoppable 2024 - Movies (Jan 16th)

Here 2024 - Movies (Jan 16th)

The Calendar Killer 2025 - Movies (Jan 16th)

Latest TV Shows

The Last Word with Lawrence ODonnell - (Jan 18th)

WWE SmackDown - (Jan 18th)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives - (Jan 18th)

My Lottery Dream Home - (Jan 18th)

The Young and the Restless - (Jan 18th)

Gold Rush - (Jan 18th)

Lets Make a Deal - (Jan 18th)

Listen to the Earth - (Jan 18th)

The Price Is Right - (Jan 18th)

Alex Wagner Tonight - (Jan 18th)

The One Show - (Jan 18th)

Someday at a Place in the Sun - (Jan 18th)

Lopez vs Lopez - (Jan 18th)

The ReidOut with Joy Reid - (Jan 18th)

All In with Chris Hayes - (Jan 18th)

The Beat with Ari Melber - (Jan 18th)

Happys Place - (Jan 18th)

Deadline- White House - (Jan 17th)

The Bidding Room - (Jan 17th)

Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun - (Jan 17th)