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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Donlevy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Gen. Sloan

Never So Few

Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo

Kiss of Death

Dr. Franticek Svoboda

Hangmen Also Die!

Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet

Command Decision

Joe McClure

The Big Combo

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

The Quatermass Xperiment

Walter Williams

Impact

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Quatermass 2

Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens

Hoodlum Empire

B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Gen. Terry Arnold

Gammera the Invincible

Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual

The Errand Boy

Ed Bates

A Cry in the Night

Daniel 'Dan' McGinty

The Great McGinty

Sergeant Markoff

Beau Geste

Governor McGinty

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

George Camrose

Canyon Passage

Maj. Geoffrey Caton

Wake Island

Ralph Callendar

Allegheny Uprising

Kent

Destry Rides Again

Barshee

Jesse James

Sid Campeau

Union Pacific

Frank Evers

36 Hours to Kill

Henri Delambre

Curse of the Fly

Paul Madvig

The Glass Key

Doc Bender, Trailhand

Cowboy

Movie Actor (uncredited)

Hold Back the Dawn

Nick Palmer

Shakedown

Angus Duncan

Brigham Young

Grant Willard

Pit Stop

Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves

The Beginning or the End

Knuckles Jacoby

Barbary Coast

Dragon #3

Five Golden Dragons

Narrator (English version)

Сталинград

Jim Caighn

Killer McCoy

Memphis

Birth of the Blues

Gil Warren

In Old Chicago

General Andrew Jackson

The Remarkable Andrew

Harry Melton

A Gentleman After Dark

Steely Edwards

The Great Man's Lady

Quantrill

Kansas Raiders

Ace Ross

Waco

Adam 'Duke' Byron

Heaven Only Knows

Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts

Stand by for Action

Trampas

The Virginian

Spike

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Capt. Dempster

Slaughter Trail

Jim Sherwood

Billy the Kid

Vance

Strike Me Pink

Chesty Webb

Battle of Broadway

Capt. Mercer

I Wanted Wings

Grat Dalton

When the Daltons Rode

Batiste Duryea

This Is My Affair

John J. Malone

The Lucky Stiff

Charles Quantrill

Woman They Almost Lynched

Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos

An American Romance

Detective Lee

Rogue's Gallery

Steve Reardon

High Tension

Mayor Joe Smith

Arizona Bushwhackers

Col. Sherman Harrington

The Pigeon That Took Rome

Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray

Behind Prison Gates

Marshal Willett

Hostile Guns

George Manton

Juke Box Rhythm

Jim Porter

Damaged Hearts

Kurt Devlynn

A Southern Yankee

Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III

Another Face

Bob Kane

Born Reckless

Ace Martin

Crack-Up

James Evarts

13 Hours by Air

George Wellington

The Fat Spy

Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the Mast

Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch

Song of Scheherazade

Richard Courtney

A Man of Quality

Packy Campbell

Human Cargo

Cmdr. McFarland

Fighting Coast Guard

Duffy Giles

Half Angel

Charles 'Chick' Gardner

Midnight Taxi

unknown

Monsieur Beaucaire

Bronc Grierson

Escape from Red Rock

Joe McBride

The Trouble with Women

Bide Marriner

Ride the Man Down

Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Minor Role (Uncredited)

Jamestown

Unknown

Two Americans

Ralph

School for Wives

Tony Minnetti

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Yankee Gordon

We're Going to Be Rich

Brian Donlevy

Duffy's Tavern

Steve Marshall

Girl In Room 13

Steve Mitchell

Sharpshooters

Vince Barrows

Two Yanks in Trinidad

Charlie the Chauffeur

A Modern Cinderella

Bob

South of Tahiti

Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)

Gentlemen of the Press

Drunk (uncredited)

Ireno

Harry O'Day

Mother's Boy

(archive footage)

Twenty Years After

Daniel Shane

Nightmare

Self (archive footage)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)

The Big Parade of Comedy

Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Archival Footage

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

103

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-02-09

Place of Birth

Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Also Known As

Waldo Brian Donlevy