Brian Donlevy
Acting • Born 1901-02-09 – Died 1972-04-06
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
120 credits
Never So Few
Movie • 1959
Gen. Sloan
Kiss of Death
Movie • 1947
Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
Hangmen Also Die!
Movie • 1943
Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Command Decision
Movie • 1948
Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
The Big Combo
Movie • 1955
Joe McClure
The Quatermass Xperiment
Movie • 1955
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Impact
Movie • 1949
Walter Williams
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie • 1982
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Quatermass 2
Movie • 1957
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Hoodlum Empire
Movie • 1952
Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Movie • 1965
B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
Gammera the Invincible
Movie • 1966
Gen. Terry Arnold
The Errand Boy
Movie • 1961
Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
A Cry in the Night
Movie • 1956
Ed Bates
The Great McGinty
Movie • 1940
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Beau Geste
Movie • 1939
Sergeant Markoff
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Movie • 1944
Governor McGinty
Canyon Passage
Movie • 1946
George Camrose
Wake Island
Movie • 1942
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
Allegheny Uprising
Movie • 1939
Ralph Callendar
Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Barshee
Destry Rides Again
Movie • 1939
Kent
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Sid Campeau
36 Hours to Kill
Movie • 1936
Frank Evers
Curse of the Fly
Movie • 1965
Henri Delambre
The Glass Key
Movie • 1942
Paul Madvig
Cowboy
Movie • 1958
Doc Bender, Trailhand
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie • 1941
Movie Actor (uncredited)
Shakedown
Movie • 1950
Nick Palmer
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Angus Duncan
Pit Stop
Movie • 1969
Grant Willard
The Beginning or the End
Movie • 1947
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
Barbary Coast
Movie • 1935
Knuckles Jacoby
Five Golden Dragons
Movie • 1967
Dragon #3
Stalingrad
Movie • 1943
Narrator (English version)
Killer McCoy
Movie • 1947
Jim Caighn
Birth of the Blues
Movie • 1941
Memphis
In Old Chicago
Movie • 1938
Gil Warren
The Remarkable Andrew
Movie • 1942
General Andrew Jackson
A Gentleman After Dark
Movie • 1942
Harry Melton
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Steely Edwards
Kansas Raiders
Movie • 1950
Quantrill
Waco
Movie • 1966
Ace Ross
Heaven Only Knows
Movie • 1947
Adam 'Duke' Byron
Stand by for Action
Movie • 1942
Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
The Virginian
Movie • 1946
Trampas
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie • 1935
Spike
Slaughter Trail
Movie • 1951
Capt. Dempster
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1941
Jim Sherwood
Strike Me Pink
Movie • 1936
Vance
Battle of Broadway
Movie • 1938
Chesty Webb
I Wanted Wings
Movie • 1941
Capt. Mercer
When the Daltons Rode
Movie • 1940
Grat Dalton
This Is My Affair
Movie • 1937
Batiste Duryea
The Lucky Stiff
Movie • 1949
John J. Malone
Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie • 1953
Charles Quantrill
An American Romance
Movie • 1944
Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
Rogue's Gallery
Movie • 1968
Detective Lee
High Tension
Movie • 1936
Steve Reardon
Arizona Bushwhackers
Movie • 1968
Mayor Joe Smith
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Movie • 1962
Col. Sherman Harrington
Behind Prison Gates
Movie • 1939
Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
Hostile Guns
Movie • 1967
Marshal Willett
Juke Box Rhythm
Movie • 1959
George Manton
Damaged Hearts
Movie • 1924
Jim Porter
A Southern Yankee
Movie • 1948
Kurt Devlynn
Another Face
Movie • 1935
Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
Born Reckless
Movie • 1937
Bob Kane
Crack-Up
Movie • 1936
Ace Martin
13 Hours by Air
Movie • 1936
James Evarts
The Fat Spy
Movie • 1966
George Wellington
Two Years Before the Mast
Movie • 1946
Richard Henry Dana
Song of Scheherazade
Movie • 1947
Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
A Man of Quality
Movie • 1926
Richard Courtney
Human Cargo
Movie • 1936
Packy Campbell
Fighting Coast Guard
Movie • 1951
Cmdr. McFarland
Half Angel
Movie • 1936
Duffy Giles
Midnight Taxi
Movie • 1937
Charles 'Chick' Gardner
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie • 1924
unknown
Escape from Red Rock
Movie • 1957
Bronc Grierson
The Trouble with Women
Movie • 1947
Joe McBride
Ride the Man Down
Movie • 1952
Bide Marriner
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Jamestown
Movie • 1923
Minor Role (Uncredited)
Two Americans
Movie • 1929
Unknown
School for Wives
Movie • 1925
Ralph
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Movie • 1946
Tony Minnetti
We're Going to Be Rich
Movie • 1938
Yankee Gordon
Duffy's Tavern
Movie • 1945
Brian Donlevy
Girl In Room 13
Movie • 1960
Steve Marshall
Sharpshooters
Movie • 1938
Steve Mitchell
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Movie • 1942
Vince Barrows
A Modern Cinderella
Movie • 1932
Charlie the Chauffeur
South of Tahiti
Movie • 1941
Bob
Gentlemen of the Press
Movie • 1929
Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
Ireno
Movie • 1932
Drunk (uncredited)
Mother's Boy
Movie • 1929
Harry O'Day
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
Nightmare
Movie • 1942
Daniel Shane
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Movie • 1987
Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Movie • 2021
Archival Footage
Family Affair
TV • 1966
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Jim
Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jed Reston
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Dan Carmody
Climax!
TV • 1954
Sam Marvin
The Texan
TV • 1958
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Fred Childress
Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
John Ridges
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Constable Dale
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Walter Williams
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
General Roger Brandon
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Daniel J. McGinty
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)