
Brian Donlevy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1901
- Died
- April 6, 1972 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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".
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Filmography

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Movie · as Archival Footage

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The World of Hammer
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Movie · as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie · as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Pit Stop
Movie · as Grant Willard

Rogue's Gallery
Movie · as Detective Lee

Arizona Bushwhackers
Movie · as Mayor Joe Smith

Five Golden Dragons
Movie · as Dragon #3

Hostile Guns
Movie · as Marshal Willett

Gammera the Invincible
Movie · as Gen. Terry Arnold

Waco
Movie · as Ace Ross

The Fat Spy
Movie · as George Wellington

Family Affair
TV · 1 ep

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Movie · as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson

The Curse of the Fly
Movie · as Henri Delambre

The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie · as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)

The Pigeon That Took Rome
Movie · as Col. Sherman Harrington

The Errand Boy
Movie · as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual

Target: The Corruptors!
TV · 1 ep

Girl In Room 13
Movie · as Steve Marshall

Never So Few
Movie · as Gen. Sloan

Juke Box Rhythm
Movie · as George Manton

Rawhide
TV · as Jed Reston · 1 ep

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV · as John Ridges · 1 ep

Cowboy
Movie · as Doc Bender, Trailhand

The Texan
TV · 2 eps

Quatermass 2
Movie · as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Escape from Red Rock
Movie · as Bronc Grierson

DuPont Show of the Month
TV · as Constable Dale · 1 ep

Perry Mason
TV · as General Roger Brandon · 1 ep

A Cry in the Night
Movie · as Ed Bates

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Fred Childress · 1 ep

The Big Combo
Movie · as Joe McClure

The Quatermass Xperiment
Movie · as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Crossroads
TV · as Dr. Roy Bell · 1 ep

Climax!
TV · as Sam Marvin · 1 ep

Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie · as Charles Quantrill

Hoodlum Empire
Movie · as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens

Ride the Man Down
Movie · as Bide Marriner

Dangerous Assignment
TV · 41 eps

Slaughter Trail
Movie · as Capt. Dempster

Fighting Coast Guard
Movie · as Cmdr. McFarland

Shakedown
Movie · as Nick Palmer

Kansas Raiders
Movie · as Quantrill

The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Dan Carmody, Walter Williams, Daniel J. McGinty · 1 ep

Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · 1 ep

Impact
Movie · as Walter Williams

The Lucky Stiff
Movie · as John J. Malone

Command Decision
Movie · as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet

A Southern Yankee
Movie · as Kurt Devlynn

Studio One
TV · as Jim · 1 ep

Kiss of Death
Movie · as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo

The Beginning or the End
Movie · as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves

Killer McCoy
Movie · as Jim Caighn

Heaven Only Knows
Movie · as Adam 'Duke' Byron

Song of Scheherazade
Movie · as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch

The Trouble with Women
Movie · as Joe McBride

Canyon Passage
Movie · as George Camrose

The Virginian
Movie · as Trampas

Two Years Before the Mast
Movie · as Richard Henry Dana

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Movie · as Tony Minnetti

Duffy's Tavern
Movie · as Brian Donlevy

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Movie · as Governor McGinty

An American Romance
Movie · as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos

Twenty Years After
Movie · as (archive footage)

Hangmen Also Die!
Movie · as Dr. Franticek Svoboda

Stalingrad
Movie · as Narrator (English version)

Wake Island
Movie · as Maj. Geoffrey Caton

The Glass Key
Movie · as Paul Madvig

The Remarkable Andrew
Movie · as General Andrew Jackson

A Gentleman After Dark
Movie · as Harry Melton

Stand by for Action
Movie · as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts

Two Yanks in Trinidad
Movie · as Vince Barrows

Nightmare
Movie · as Daniel Shane

Hold Back the Dawn
Movie · as Movie Actor (uncredited)

Birth of the Blues
Movie · as Memphis

The Great Man's Lady
Movie · as Steely Edwards

Billy the Kid
Movie · as Jim Sherwood

I Wanted Wings
Movie · as Capt. Mercer

South of Tahiti
Movie · as Bob

The Great McGinty
Movie · as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty

Brigham Young
Movie · as Angus Duncan

When the Daltons Rode
Movie · as Grat Dalton

Beau Geste
Movie · as Sergeant Markoff

Allegheny Uprising
Movie · as Ralph Callendar

Jesse James
Movie · as Barshee

Destry Rides Again
Movie · as Kent

Union Pacific
Movie · as Sid Campeau

Behind Prison Gates
Movie · as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray

In Old Chicago
Movie · as Gil Warren

Battle of Broadway
Movie · as Chesty Webb

We're Going to Be Rich
Movie · as Yankee Gordon

Sharpshooters
Movie · as Steve Mitchell

This Is My Affair
Movie · as Batiste Duryea

Born Reckless
Movie · as Bob Kane

Midnight Taxi
Movie · as Charles 'Chick' Gardner

36 Hours to Kill
Movie · as Frank Evers

Strike Me Pink
Movie · as Vance

High Tension
Movie · as Steve Reardon

Crack-Up
Movie · as Ace Martin

13 Hours by Air
Movie · as James Evarts

Human Cargo
Movie · as Packy Campbell

Half Angel
Movie · as Duffy Giles

Barbary Coast
Movie · as Knuckles Jacoby

Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie · as Spike

Another Face
Movie · as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III

A Modern Cinderella
Movie · as Charlie the Chauffeur
Ireno
Movie · as Drunk (uncredited)
Two Americans
Movie · as Unknown

Gentlemen of the Press
Movie · as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)

Mother's Boy
Movie · as Harry O'Day
A Man of Quality
Movie · as Richard Courtney

School for Wives
Movie · as Ralph

Damaged Hearts
Movie · as Jim Porter

Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie · as unknown

Jamestown
Movie · as Minor Role (Uncredited)




