Brian Donlevy
Actor · 1901–1972 · Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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Biography
Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 5, 1972) was an Ulster-born American film actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste (1939) and The Great McGinty (1940). For his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom stated that "any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him".
Acted in 111
2020s
- 2021
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Archival Footage
1980s
- 1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
- 1982
1960s
- 1969
- 1968
Arizona Bushwhackers
Mayor Joe Smith
Rogue's Gallery
Detective Lee
- 1967
Five Golden Dragons
Dragon #3
Hostile Guns
Marshal Willett
- 1966
Gammera the Invincible
Gen. Terry Arnold
The Fat Spy
George Wellington
- 1965
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
The Curse of the Fly
Henri Delambre
- 1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
- 1962
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Col. Sherman Harrington
- 1961
- 1960
Girl In Room 13
Steve Marshall
1950s
- 1959
Juke Box Rhythm
George Manton
- 1958
- 1957
Escape from Red Rock
Bronc Grierson
- 1956
A Cry in the Night
Ed Bates
- 1955
Crossroads
Dr. Roy Bell · 1 episode
- 1954
- 1953
Woman They Almost Lynched
Charles Quantrill
- 1952
Ride the Man Down
Bide Marriner
Hoodlum Empire
Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
- 1951
Slaughter Trail
Capt. Dempster
Fighting Coast Guard
Cmdr. McFarland
- 1950
Shakedown
Nick Palmer
1940s
- 1949
The Lucky Stiff
John J. Malone
- 1948
Command Decision
Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
A Southern Yankee
Kurt Devlynn
- 1947
Killer McCoy
Jim Caighn
Kiss of Death
Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
The Trouble with Women
Joe McBride
Song of Scheherazade
Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
The Beginning or the End
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
- 1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Tony Minnetti
The Virginian
Trampas
- 1945
Duffy's Tavern
Brian Donlevy
- 1944
An American Romance
Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
- 1943
- 1942
Stand by for Action
Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
Nightmare
Daniel Shane
The Glass Key
Paul Madvig
Wake Island
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
A Gentleman After Dark
Harry Melton
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Vince Barrows
The Remarkable Andrew
General Andrew Jackson
- 1941
Birth of the Blues
Memphis
The Great Man's Lady
Steely Edwards
South of Tahiti
Bob
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie Actor (uncredited)
I Wanted Wings
Capt. Mercer
- 1940
Brigham Young
Angus Duncan
When the Daltons Rode
Grat Dalton
The Great McGinty
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
1930s
- 1939
Destry Rides Again
Kent
Allegheny Uprising
Ralph Callendar
Behind Prison Gates
Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
- 1938
Sharpshooters
Steve Mitchell
We're Going to Be Rich
Yankee Gordon
Battle of Broadway
Chesty Webb
In Old Chicago
Gil Warren
- 1937
Born Reckless
Bob Kane
This Is My Affair
Batiste Duryea
Midnight Taxi
Charles 'Chick' Gardner
- 1936
Crack-Up
Ace Martin
36 Hours to Kill
Frank Evers
High Tension
Steve Reardon
Half Angel
Duffy Giles
Human Cargo
Packy Campbell
13 Hours by Air
James Evarts
Strike Me Pink
Vance
- 1935
Another Face
Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Spike
- 1932
A Modern Cinderella
Charlie the Chauffeur
1920s
- 1929
Mother's Boy
Harry O'Day
Gentlemen of the Press
Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
- 1925
School for Wives
Ralph
- 1924
Monsieur Beaucaire
unknown
Damaged Hearts
Jim Porter
- 1923
Jamestown
Minor Role (Uncredited)
Appearances5
1990s
- 1997
- 1994
1980s
- 1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
1950s
- 1950
1940s
- 1943
Stalingrad
Narrator (English version)