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