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Breedlove was born on November 14, 1898, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to John Breedlove and Carrie Bruton.
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He was one of 12 siblings, the others being James Willoughby, John Chisholm, Wharton Hicks, Napoleon, Otho, Robert Bruton, William Otway, Cassie, Walton David and Willard Stapler. After graduating from Fort Smith High School, Breedlove joined the United States. Marine Corps in June 1917 and went to officer training school in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He was injured in action during World War I and spent six months in Walter Reed Hospital.
He was discharged in July 1919.
In that city he joined Metro Goldwyn Studios, where he was an actor and assisted in directing motion pictures, then became a director of educational features. He left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in January 1929, and moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where for six months he directed play revivals for a little theater group.
He next went to China to direct educational films, then returned to Los Angeles, where he directed films with Educational Studio. Breedlove died at his home, 3003 Chesapeake Avenue, in the West Adams district on April 26, 1934, after two heart attacks that day, his cardiac condition having been diagnosed when he was discharged from the Marines.
His funeral service at Patriotic Hall with full military honors, was attended by more than a thousand mourners.
Burial followed at Rosedale Cemetery.
