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
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
1969
- Pit Stop as Grant Willard
1968
- Rogue's Gallery as Detective Lee
- Arizona Bushwhackers as Mayor Joe Smith
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
- Crossroads as Dr. Roy Bell
- The Quatermass Xperiment as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- The Big Combo as Joe McClure
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
- 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
- The Beginning or the End as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
- The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride
- Heaven Only Knows as Adam 'Duke' Byron
- Song of Scheherazade as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
- Killer McCoy as Jim Caighn
1946
- Two Years Before the Mast as Richard Henry Dana
- Canyon Passage as George Camrose
- The Virginian as Trampas
- 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
- Stand by for Action as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Vince Barrows
- Wake Island as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
- A Gentleman After Dark as Harry Melton
- Nightmare as Daniel Shane
- The Remarkable Andrew as General Andrew Jackson
1941
- Hold Back the Dawn as Movie Actor (uncredited)
- I Wanted Wings as Capt. Mercer
- Billy the Kid as Jim Sherwood
- 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
- When the Daltons Rode as Grat Dalton
- The Great McGinty as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
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
- We're Going to Be Rich as Yankee Gordon
- Battle of Broadway as Chesty Webb
- Sharpshooters as Steve Mitchell
1937
- This Is My Affair as Batiste Duryea
- Midnight Taxi as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
- Born Reckless as Bob Kane
1936
- Crack-Up as Ace Martin
- 36 Hours to Kill as Frank Evers
- 13 Hours by Air as James Evarts
- Half Angel as Duffy Giles
- Strike Me Pink as Vance
- High Tension as Steve Reardon
- 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
- 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
- Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown
- Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter
1923
- Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)