Brian Donlevy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 9, 1901
- Died
- Apr 6, 1972 (aged 71)
- Place of birth
- Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
- Credits
- 119
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".
Known for
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982Movie
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955Movie
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Destry Rides Again
1939Movie
Kent
The Big Combo
1955Movie
Joe McClure
Kiss of Death
1947Movie
Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
Quatermass 2
1957Movie
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Filmography
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021Movie
Archival Footage
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997Movie
Self (archive footage)
The World of Hammer
1994TV
Self (archive footage)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987Movie
Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987Movie
Self (archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982Movie
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Pit Stop
1969Movie
Grant Willard
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968Movie
Mayor Joe Smith
Rogue's Gallery
1968Movie
Detective Lee
Five Golden Dragons
1967Movie
Dragon #3
Hostile Guns
1967Movie
Marshal Willett
Gammera the Invincible
1966Movie
Gen. Terry Arnold
Family Affair
1966TV
Waco
1966Movie
Ace Ross
The Fat Spy
1966Movie
George Wellington
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965Movie
B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
Curse of the Fly
1965Movie
Henri Delambre
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964Movie
Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962Movie
Col. Sherman Harrington
The Errand Boy
1961Movie
Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
Target: The Corruptors!
1961TV
Girl In Room 13
1960Movie
Steve Marshall
Never So Few
1959Movie
Gen. Sloan
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959TV
John Ridges
Juke Box Rhythm
1959Movie
George Manton
Rawhide
1959TV
Jed Reston
The Texan
1958TV
Cowboy
1958Movie
Doc Bender, Trailhand
Escape from Red Rock
1957Movie
Bronc Grierson
DuPont Show of the Month
1957TV
Constable Dale
Perry Mason
1957TV
General Roger Brandon
Quatermass 2
1957Movie
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Fred Childress
A Cry in the Night
1956Movie
Ed Bates
Crossroads
1955TV
Dr. Roy Bell
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955Movie
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
The Big Combo
1955Movie
Joe McClure
Climax!
1954TV
Sam Marvin
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953Movie
Charles Quantrill
Ride the Man Down
1952Movie
Bide Marriner
Hoodlum Empire
1952Movie
Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
Dangerous Assignment
1952TV
Slaughter Trail
1951Movie
Capt. Dempster
Fighting Coast Guard
1951Movie
Cmdr. McFarland
Kansas Raiders
1950Movie
Quantrill
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
Dan Carmody, Walter Williams, Daniel J. McGinty
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950TV
Self
Shakedown
1950Movie
Nick Palmer
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950TV
The Lucky Stiff
1949Movie
John J. Malone
Impact
1949Movie
Walter Williams
Command Decision
1948Movie
Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
Studio One
1948TV
Jim
A Southern Yankee
1948Movie
Kurt Devlynn
Killer McCoy
1947Movie
Jim Caighn
Heaven Only Knows
1947Movie
Adam 'Duke' Byron
Kiss of Death
1947Movie
Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
The Trouble with Women
1947Movie
Joe McBride
Song of Scheherazade
1947Movie
Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
The Beginning or the End
1947Movie
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
Two Years Before the Mast
1946Movie
Richard Henry Dana
Canyon Passage
1946Movie
George Camrose
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946Movie
Tony Minnetti
The Virginian
1946Movie
Trampas
Duffy's Tavern
1945Movie
Brian Donlevy
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944Movie
Governor McGinty
An American Romance
1944Movie
Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
Twenty Years After
1944Movie
(archive footage)
Stalingrad
1943Movie
Narrator (English version)
Hangmen Also Die!
1943Movie
Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Stand by for Action
1942Movie
Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
Nightmare
1942Movie
Daniel Shane
The Glass Key
1942Movie
Paul Madvig
Wake Island
1942Movie
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
A Gentleman After Dark
1942Movie
Harry Melton
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942Movie
Vince Barrows
The Remarkable Andrew
1942Movie
General Andrew Jackson
Birth of the Blues
1941Movie
Memphis
The Great Man's Lady
1941Movie
Steely Edwards
South of Tahiti
1941Movie
Bob
Hold Back the Dawn
1941Movie
Movie Actor (uncredited)
Billy the Kid
1941Movie
Jim Sherwood
I Wanted Wings
1941Movie
Capt. Mercer
Brigham Young
1940Movie
Angus Duncan
When the Daltons Rode
1940Movie
Grat Dalton
The Great McGinty
1940Movie
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Destry Rides Again
1939Movie
Kent
Allegheny Uprising
1939Movie
Ralph Callendar
Behind Prison Gates
1939Movie
Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
Beau Geste
1939Movie
Sergeant Markoff
Union Pacific
1939Movie
Sid Campeau
Jesse James
1939Movie
Barshee
Sharpshooters
1938Movie
Steve Mitchell
We're Going to Be Rich
1938Movie
Yankee Gordon
Battle of Broadway
1938Movie
Chesty Webb
In Old Chicago
1938Movie
Gil Warren
Born Reckless
1937Movie
Bob Kane
This Is My Affair
1937Movie
Batiste Duryea
Midnight Taxi
1937Movie
Charles 'Chick' Gardner
Crack-Up
1936Movie
Ace Martin
36 Hours to Kill
1936Movie
Frank Evers
High Tension
1936Movie
Steve Reardon
Half Angel
1936Movie
Duffy Giles
Human Cargo
1936Movie
Packy Campbell
13 Hours by Air
1936Movie
James Evarts
Strike Me Pink
1936Movie
Vance
Another Face
1935Movie
Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935Movie
Spike
Barbary Coast
1935Movie
Knuckles Jacoby
A Modern Cinderella
1932Movie
Charlie the Chauffeur
Ireno
1932Movie
Drunk (uncredited)
Mother's Boy
1929Movie
Harry O'Day
Two Americans
1929Movie
Unknown
Gentlemen of the Press
1929Movie
Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
A Man of Quality
1926Movie
Richard Courtney
School for Wives
1925Movie
Ralph
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924Movie
unknown
Damaged Hearts
1924Movie
Jim Porter
Jamestown
1923Movie
Minor Role (Uncredited)