Brian Donlevy
Born: 1901-02-09 in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Died: 1972-04-06
Known For: Acting
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".
Filmography
2021
- Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- Rogue's Gallery as Detective Lee
1967
- Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #3
- Hostile Guns as Marshal Willett
1966
- Family Affair
- Waco as Ace Ross
- Gammera the Invincible as Gen. Terry Arnold
- The Fat Spy as George Wellington
1965
- Curse of the Fly as Henri Delambre
- 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
- Target: The Corruptors!
- The Errand Boy as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
1960
- Girl In Room 13 as Steve Marshall
1959
- Rawhide as Jed Reston
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as John Ridges
- Never So Few as Gen. Sloan
- Juke Box Rhythm as George Manton
1957
- Perry Mason as General Roger Brandon
- DuPont Show of the Month as Constable Dale
- Quatermass 2 as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- Escape from Red Rock as Bronc Grierson
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Fred Childress
- A Cry in the Night as Ed Bates
1955
- The Big Combo as Joe McClure
- The Quatermass Xperiment as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1954
- Climax! as Sam Marvin
1953
- Woman They Almost Lynched as Charles Quantrill
1952
- Dangerous Assignment
- Hoodlum Empire as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
- Ride the Man Down as Bide Marriner
1951
- Fighting Coast Guard as Cmdr. McFarland
- Slaughter Trail as Capt. Dempster
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Dan Carmody
- Kansas Raiders as Quantrill
- Shakedown as Nick Palmer
1949
- Impact as Walter Williams
- The Lucky Stiff as John J. Malone
1948
- Studio One as Jim
- Command Decision as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
- A Southern Yankee as Kurt Devlynn
1947
- Kiss of Death as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
- Killer McCoy as Jim Caighn
- The Beginning or the End as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
- Heaven Only Knows as Adam 'Duke' Byron
- Song of Scheherazade as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
- The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride
1946
- The Virginian as Trampas
- Canyon Passage as George Camrose
- Two Years Before the Mast as Richard Henry Dana
- 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
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- An American Romance as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
1943
- Hangmen Also Die! as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
- Stalingrad as Narrator (English version)
1942
- Wake Island as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
- The Glass Key as Paul Madvig
- Stand by for Action as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
- The Remarkable Andrew as General Andrew Jackson
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Vince Barrows
- A Gentleman After Dark as Harry Melton
- Nightmare as Daniel Shane
1941
- Billy the Kid as Jim Sherwood
- Hold Back the Dawn as Movie Actor (uncredited)
- I Wanted Wings as Capt. Mercer
- Birth of the Blues as Memphis
- The Great Man's Lady as Steely Edwards
- South of Tahiti as Bob
1940
- Brigham Young as Angus Duncan
- The Great McGinty as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
- When the Daltons Rode as Grat Dalton
1939
- Jesse James as Barshee
- Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff
- Union Pacific as Sid Campeau
- Destry Rides Again as Kent
- Allegheny Uprising as Ralph Callendar
- Behind Prison Gates as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
1938
- In Old Chicago as Gil Warren
- Sharpshooters as Steve Mitchell
- We're Going to Be Rich as Yankee Gordon
- Battle of Broadway as Chesty Webb
1937
- Born Reckless as Bob Kane
- Midnight Taxi as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
- This Is My Affair as Batiste Duryea
1936
- Half Angel as Duffy Giles
- Crack-Up as Ace Martin
- 36 Hours to Kill as Frank Evers
- High Tension as Steve Reardon
- 13 Hours by Air as James Evarts
- Strike Me Pink as Vance
- Human Cargo as Packy Campbell
1935
- Barbary Coast as Knuckles Jacoby
- Mary Burns, Fugitive as Spike
- Another Face as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
1932
- Ireno as Drunk (uncredited)
- A Modern Cinderella as Charlie the Chauffeur
1929
- Two Americans as Unknown
- Mother's Boy as Harry O'Day
- Gentlemen of the Press as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
1926
- A Man of Quality as Richard Courtney
1925
- School for Wives as Ralph
1924
- Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown
- Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter
1923
- Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)