Brian Donlevy
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-02-09
Day of Death
1972-04-06 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Brian Donlevy
Biography
Brian Donlevy 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".
Known For
Acting
(2021)
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage
(1997)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
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 Willard
(1968)
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith
(1968)
Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee
(1967)
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3
(1967)
Hostile Guns
as Marshal Willett
(1966)
Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold
(1966)
The Fat Spy
as George Wellington
(1966)
Waco
as Ace Ross
(1965)
Curse of the Fly
as Henri Delambre
(1965)
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
(1964)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
(1962)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Col. Sherman Harrington
(1961)
The Errand Boy
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
(1960)
Girl In Room 13
as Steve Marshall
(1959)
Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan
(1959)
Juke Box Rhythm
as George Manton
(1958)
Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
(1957)
Quatermass 2
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
(1957)
Escape from Red Rock
as Bronc Grierson
(1956)
A Cry in the Night
as Ed Bates
(1955)
The Big Combo
as Joe McClure
(1955)
The Quatermass Xperiment
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
(1953)
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Charles Quantrill
(1952)
Ride the Man Down
as Bide Marriner
(1952)
Hoodlum Empire
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
(1951)
Slaughter Trail
as Capt. Dempster
(1951)
Fighting Coast Guard
as Cmdr. McFarland
(1950)
Kansas Raiders
as Quantrill
(1950)
Shakedown
as Nick Palmer
(1949)
Impact
as Walter Williams
(1949)
The Lucky Stiff
as John J. Malone
(1948)
Command Decision
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
(1948)
A Southern Yankee
as Kurt Devlynn
(1947)
Kiss of Death
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
(1947)
The Beginning or the End
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
(1947)
Heaven Only Knows
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
(1947)
Killer McCoy
as Jim Caighn
(1947)
The Trouble with Women
as Joe McBride
(1947)
Song of Scheherazade
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
(1946)
The Virginian
as Trampas
(1946)
Canyon Passage
as George Camrose
(1946)
Two Years Before the Mast
as Richard Henry Dana
(1946)
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Tony Minnetti
(1945)
Duffy's Tavern
as Brian Donlevy
(1944)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
as Governor McGinty
(1944)
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1944)
An American Romance
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
(1943)
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
(1943)
Stalingrad
as Narrator (English version)
(1942)
Stand by for Action
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
(1942)
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
(1942)
Wake Island
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
(1942)
Two Yanks in Trinidad
as Vince Barrows
(1942)
A Gentleman After Dark
as Harry Melton
(1942)
The Remarkable Andrew
as General Andrew Jackson
(1942)
Nightmare
as Daniel Shane
(1941)
South of Tahiti
as Bob
(1941)
I Wanted Wings
as Capt. Mercer
(1941)
Hold Back the Dawn
as Movie Actor (uncredited)
(1941)
The Great Man's Lady
as Steely Edwards
(1941)
Billy the Kid
as Jim Sherwood
(1941)
Birth of the Blues
as Memphis
(1940)
Brigham Young
as Angus Duncan
(1940)
When the Daltons Rode
as Grat Dalton
(1940)
The Great McGinty
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
(1939)
Jesse James
as Barshee
(1939)
Union Pacific
as Sid Campeau
(1939)
Beau Geste
as Sergeant Markoff
(1939)
Destry Rides Again
as Kent
(1939)
Allegheny Uprising
as Ralph Callendar
(1939)
Behind Prison Gates
as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
(1938)
In Old Chicago
as Gil Warren
(1938)
Battle of Broadway
as Chesty Webb
(1938)
We're Going to Be Rich
as Yankee Gordon
(1938)
Sharpshooters
as Steve Mitchell
(1937)
This Is My Affair
as Batiste Duryea
(1937)
Midnight Taxi
as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
(1937)
Born Reckless
as Bob Kane
(1936)
Strike Me Pink
as Vance
(1936)
High Tension
as Steve Reardon
(1936)
Human Cargo
as Packy Campbell
(1936)
13 Hours by Air
as James Evarts
(1936)
Crack-Up
as Ace Martin
(1936)
Half Angel
as Duffy Giles
(1936)
36 Hours to Kill
as Frank Evers
(1935)
Barbary Coast
as Knuckles Jacoby
(1935)
Another Face
as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Spike
(1932)
A Modern Cinderella
as Charlie the Chauffeur
(1932)
Ireno
as Drunk (uncredited)
(1929)
Mother's Boy
as Harry O'Day
(1929)
Gentlemen of the Press
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
(1929)
Two Americans
as Unknown
(1926)
A Man of Quality
as Richard Courtney
(1925)
School for Wives
as Ralph
(1924)
Monsieur Beaucaire
as unknown
(1924)
Damaged Hearts
as Jim Porter
(1923)
Jamestown
as Minor Role (Uncredited)