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
- Hostile Guns as Marshal Willett
- Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #3
1966
- Family Affair
- Gammera the Invincible as Gen. Terry Arnold
- Waco as Ace Ross
- 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
- Ride the Man Down as Bide Marriner
- Hoodlum Empire as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
1951
- Slaughter Trail as Capt. Dempster
- Fighting Coast Guard as Cmdr. McFarland
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Dan Carmody
- Shakedown as Nick Palmer
- Kansas Raiders as Quantrill
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
- Song of Scheherazade as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
- Killer McCoy as Jim Caighn
- The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride
- The Beginning or the End as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
- Heaven Only Knows as Adam 'Duke' Byron
1946
- Canyon Passage as George Camrose
- The Virginian as Trampas
- 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
- The Glass Key as Paul Madvig
- Wake Island as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
- Stand by for Action as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
- The Remarkable Andrew as General Andrew Jackson
- A Gentleman After Dark as Harry Melton
- Nightmare as Daniel Shane
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Vince Barrows
1941
- Billy the Kid as Jim Sherwood
- Hold Back the Dawn as Movie Actor (uncredited)
- South of Tahiti as Bob
- The Great Man's Lady as Steely Edwards
- Birth of the Blues as Memphis
- I Wanted Wings as Capt. Mercer
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
- Destry Rides Again as Kent
- Union Pacific as Sid Campeau
- Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff
- 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
- Battle of Broadway as Chesty Webb
- We're Going to Be Rich as Yankee Gordon
1937
- Born Reckless as Bob Kane
- This Is My Affair as Batiste Duryea
- Midnight Taxi as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
1936
- Crack-Up as Ace Martin
- 36 Hours to Kill as Frank Evers
- Strike Me Pink as Vance
- 13 Hours by Air as James Evarts
- High Tension as Steve Reardon
- Human Cargo as Packy Campbell
- Half Angel as Duffy Giles
1935
- Barbary Coast as Knuckles Jacoby
- Another Face as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
- Mary Burns, Fugitive as Spike
1932
- Ireno as Drunk (uncredited)
- A Modern Cinderella as Charlie the Chauffeur
1929
- Gentlemen of the Press as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
- Two Americans as Unknown
- Mother's Boy as Harry O'Day
1926
- A Man of Quality as Richard Courtney
1925
- School for Wives as Ralph
1924
- Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter
- Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown
1923
- Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)