George P. Breakston

Acting

George P. Breakston

Born — Died

1920-01-22 — 1973-05-21

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

George Paul Breakston (January 22, 1920 – May 21, 1973) was a French-American actor, producer and film director, active in Hollywood from his days as a child actor in Andy Hardy films in the 1930s to a period as an independent producer/director in the 1950s.

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 5 titles

1930s · 17 titles

It Happened One Night poster
7.8

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

It Happened One Night

1934

Jesse James poster
6.6

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Jesse James

1939

A Midsummer Night's Dream poster
6.4

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch poster
6.0

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1934

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever poster
5.7

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

1939

Love Finds Andy Hardy poster
6.2

Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

Love Finds Andy Hardy

1938

The Dark Angel poster
6.2

Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.

The Dark Angel

1935

Judge Hardy and Son poster
5.9

Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.

Judge Hardy and Son

1939

No Greater Glory poster
6.6

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

No Greater Glory

1934

Boulder Dam poster
5.7

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Boulder Dam

1936

Second Wife poster
7.0

Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.

Second Wife

1936

Great Expectations poster
7.0

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Great Expectations

1934

The Return Of Peter Grimm poster
6.0

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.

The Return Of Peter Grimm

1935

Life Returns poster
5.1

A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.

Life Returns

1935

A Criminal Is Born poster
7.4

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.

A Criminal Is Born

1938

Swanee River poster
7.0

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

Swanee River

1939

A Successful Failure poster
4.2

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.

A Successful Failure

1934

Behind the camera

Tokyo File 212 poster
5.1

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.

Tokyo File 212

1951

The Manster poster
4.7

An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.

The Manster

1959

The Manster poster
4.7

An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.

The Manster

1959

Urubu poster
10.0

Planning to make an expedition into the Matto Grosso jungle, George Breakston and Yorke Coplen fly from Los Angeles to Brazil. Their Brazilian guide is explorer Mike Roginsky.

Urubu

1948

Woman and the Hunter poster
8.0

When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.

Woman and the Hunter

1957

Woman and the Hunter poster
8.0

When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.

Woman and the Hunter

1957

Geisha Girl poster
6.5

Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant, a mad scientist, geisha girls, and a goofy magician-hypnotist and his white rabbits.

Geisha Girl

1952

Geisha Girl poster
6.5

Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant, a mad scientist, geisha girls, and a goofy magician-hypnotist and his white rabbits.

Geisha Girl

1952

Shadow of Treason poster
5.2

Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors and the map locates money hidden in Somaliland with evidence of their guilt. Having contacted all the names, they leave for Africa taking Nadia in place of her father who is killed. Michael tries to persuade her to join him against the others and escapes when she refuses. Later, in the caves he re-appears and in the ensuing fight falls over a cliff edge after the money. Steve throws the incriminating document after him. Melodrama involving a treasure hunt and an old blackmail system during the war, which is cleared up by a bodyguard.

Shadow of Treason

1963

Shadow of Treason poster
5.2

Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors and the map locates money hidden in Somaliland with evidence of their guilt. Having contacted all the names, they leave for Africa taking Nadia in place of her father who is killed. Michael tries to persuade her to join him against the others and escapes when she refuses. Later, in the caves he re-appears and in the ensuing fight falls over a cliff edge after the money. Steve throws the incriminating document after him. Melodrama involving a treasure hunt and an old blackmail system during the war, which is cleared up by a bodyguard.

Shadow of Treason

1963

Shadow of Treason poster
5.2

Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors and the map locates money hidden in Somaliland with evidence of their guilt. Having contacted all the names, they leave for Africa taking Nadia in place of her father who is killed. Michael tries to persuade her to join him against the others and escapes when she refuses. Later, in the caves he re-appears and in the ensuing fight falls over a cliff edge after the money. Steve throws the incriminating document after him. Melodrama involving a treasure hunt and an old blackmail system during the war, which is cleared up by a bodyguard.

Shadow of Treason

1963

The Boy Cried Murder poster
6.0

A young lad with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he really did witness a terrible murder. Unfortunately no one believes him--except the killer. This multi-national drama/thriller, set within a resort community on the Adriatic Sea is a remake of the 1949 film The Window. A screen adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story of the same name.

The Boy Cried Murder

1966

Escape in the Sun poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Escape in the Sun

1956

Escape in the Sun poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Escape in the Sun

1956

Escape in the Sun poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Escape in the Sun

1956

The Scarlet Spear poster
6.5

In colonial Kenya, chief's son believes he must kill another tribe's chief in ancient ritual before he can claim father's throne; district officer and female reporter try to stop him before he breaks colonial law.

The Scarlet Spear

1954

The Scarlet Spear poster
6.5

In colonial Kenya, chief's son believes he must kill another tribe's chief in ancient ritual before he can claim father's throne; district officer and female reporter try to stop him before he breaks colonial law.

The Scarlet Spear

1954

Jungle Stampede poster
10.0

While most of the footage is indeed authentic and the safari journey and the reason is real, this is far from being qualified as a documentary since it is filled with stock-footage and staged-incidents to add to the film moments of suspense and/or peril that were not part of the actual expedition, i.e., the camera shows a wild beast stalking the safari with the narrator explaining that the man is unaware that he is being stalked until the animal jumps and kills him. Obvious question would be why didn't the cameraman warn him? The film tells the story of two explorers, George Breakston and Yorke Coplen, setting out to make a photographic record of animal life, and the lives of the tribes they encounter along the way. It is broken up into three segments---the journey from Nairobi to the Land of the Pgymies; the trip from there to the territory of the Masai tribe; and the Masai tribe itself.

Jungle Stampede

1950

Golden Ivory poster
6.0

Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Golden Ivory

1954

Golden Ivory poster
6.0

Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Golden Ivory

1954

The Soldier poster
8.0

A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.

The Soldier

1966

No artwork available
10.0

Set in post war Japan, the film tells the tale of a woman looking for her missing brother. Her brother operated a small export business and has suddenly disappeared. Strangely his business partner has also vanished.

Oriental Evil

1951