Brian Donlevy
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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Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
119
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-02-09 (124 years old)
Place of Birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Acting
2021
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)1969
Pit Stop as Grant Willard1968
Arizona Bushwhackers as Mayor Joe Smith1968
Rogue's Gallery as Detective Lee1967
Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #31967
Hostile Guns as Marshal Willett1966
Family Affair as Not available1966
The Fat Spy as George Wellington1966
Gammera the Invincible as Gen. Terry Arnold1966
Waco as Ace Ross1965
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson1965
Curse of the Fly as Henri Delambre1964
The Big Parade of Comedy as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)1962
The Pigeon That Took Rome as Col. Sherman Harrington1961
Target: The Corruptors! as Not available1961
The Errand Boy as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual1960
Girl In Room 13 as Steve Marshall1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson as John Ridges1959
Rawhide as Jed Reston1959
Never So Few as Gen. Sloan1959
Juke Box Rhythm as George Manton1958
The Texan as Not available1958
Cowboy as Doc Bender, Trailhand1957
Perry Mason as General Roger Brandon1957
DuPont Show of the Month as Constable Dale1957
Escape from Red Rock as Bronc Grierson1957
Quatermass 2 as Prof. Bernard Quatermass1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Fred Childress1956
A Cry in the Night as Ed Bates1955
The Big Combo as Joe McClure1955
The Quatermass Xperiment as Bernard Quatermass1954
Climax! as Sam Marvin1953
Woman They Almost Lynched as Charles Quantrill1952
Dangerous Assignment as Not available1952
Hoodlum Empire as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens1952
Ride the Man Down as Bide Marriner1951
Fighting Coast Guard as Cmdr. McFarland1951
Slaughter Trail as Capt. Dempster1950
Robert Montgomery Presents as Not available1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self1950
Lux Video Theatre as Dan Carmody1950
Lux Video Theatre as Walter Williams1950
Lux Video Theatre as Daniel J. McGinty1950
Shakedown as Nick Palmer1950
Kansas Raiders as Quantrill1949
Impact as Walter Williams1949
The Lucky Stiff as John J. Malone1948
Studio One as Jim1948
A Southern Yankee as Kurt Devlynn1948
Command Decision as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet1947
Kiss of Death as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo1947
Killer McCoy as Jim Caighn1947
Song of Scheherazade as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch1947
The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride1947
Heaven Only Knows as Adam 'Duke' Byron1947
The Beginning or the End as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves1946
The Virginian as Trampas1946
Canyon Passage as George Camrose1946
Two Years Before the Mast as Richard Henry Dana1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up as Tony Minnetti1945
Duffy's Tavern as Brian Donlevy1944
Twenty Years After as (archive footage)1944
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek as Governor McGinty1944
An American Romance as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos1943
Hangmen Also Die! as Dr. Franticek Svoboda1943
Stalingrad as Narrator (English version)1942
Wake Island as Maj. Geoffrey Caton1942
The Glass Key as Paul Madvig1942
Stand by for Action as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts1942
The Remarkable Andrew as General Andrew Jackson1942
Two Yanks in Trinidad as Vince Barrows1942
Nightmare as Daniel Shane1942
A Gentleman After Dark as Harry Melton1941
Hold Back the Dawn as Movie Actor (uncredited)1941
Billy the Kid as Jim Sherwood1941
The Great Man's Lady as Steely Edwards1941
Birth of the Blues as Memphis1941
South of Tahiti as Bob1941
I Wanted Wings as Capt. Mercer1940
Brigham Young as Angus Duncan1940
The Great McGinty as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty1940
When the Daltons Rode as Grat Dalton1939
Union Pacific as Sid Campeau1939
Jesse James as Barshee1939
Destry Rides Again as Kent1939
Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff1939
Allegheny Uprising as Ralph Callendar1939
Behind Prison Gates as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray1938
In Old Chicago as Gil Warren1938
Sharpshooters as Steve Mitchell1938
Battle of Broadway as Chesty Webb1938
We're Going to Be Rich as Yankee Gordon1937
Born Reckless as Bob Kane1937
Midnight Taxi as Charles 'Chick' Gardner1937
This Is My Affair as Batiste Duryea1936
Strike Me Pink as Vance1936
High Tension as Steve Reardon1936
36 Hours to Kill as Frank Evers1936
13 Hours by Air as James Evarts1936
Crack-Up as Ace Martin1936
Human Cargo as Packy Campbell1936
Half Angel as Duffy Giles1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive as Spike1935
Barbary Coast as Knuckles Jacoby1935
Another Face as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III1932
Ireno as Drunk (uncredited)1932
A Modern Cinderella as Charlie the Chauffeur1929
Gentlemen of the Press as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)1929
Mother's Boy as Harry O'Day1929
Two Americans as Unknown1926
A Man of Quality as Richard Courtney1925
School for Wives as Ralph1924
Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown1924
Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter1923
Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)