Acting

Brian Donlevy

Born 1901-02-09 · Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Died 1972-04-06

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".

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Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage
2021
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
1982
Pit Stop
as Grant Willard
1969
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith
1968
Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee
1968
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3
1967
Hostile Guns
as Marshal Willett
1967
Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold
1966
Family Affair
1966
Waco
as Ace Ross
1966
The Fat Spy
as George Wellington
1966
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
1965
Curse of the Fly
as Henri Delambre
1965
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
1964
The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Col. Sherman Harrington
1962
The Errand Boy
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
1961
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Girl In Room 13
as Steve Marshall
1960
Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as John Ridges
1959
Juke Box Rhythm
as George Manton
1959
Rawhide
as Jed Reston
1959
The Texan
1958
Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
1958
Escape from Red Rock
as Bronc Grierson
1957
DuPont Show of the Month
as Constable Dale
1957
Perry Mason
as General Roger Brandon
1957
Quatermass 2
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Fred Childress
1956
A Cry in the Night
as Ed Bates
1956
Crossroads
as Dr. Roy Bell
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1955
The Big Combo
as Joe McClure
1955
Climax!
as Sam Marvin
1954
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Charles Quantrill
1953
Ride the Man Down
as Bide Marriner
1952
Hoodlum Empire
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
1952
Dangerous Assignment
1952
Slaughter Trail
as Capt. Dempster
1951
Fighting Coast Guard
as Cmdr. McFarland
1951
Kansas Raiders
as Quantrill
1950
Lux Video Theatre
as Dan Carmody
1950
Lux Video Theatre
as Walter Williams
1950
Lux Video Theatre
as Daniel J. McGinty
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
Shakedown
as Nick Palmer
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Lucky Stiff
as John J. Malone
1949
Impact
as Walter Williams
1949
Command Decision
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
1948
Studio One
as Jim
1948
A Southern Yankee
as Kurt Devlynn
1948
Killer McCoy
as Jim Caighn
1947
Heaven Only Knows
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
1947
Kiss of Death
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
1947
The Trouble with Women
as Joe McBride
1947
Song of Scheherazade
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
1947
The Beginning or the End
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1947
Two Years Before the Mast
as Richard Henry Dana
1946
Canyon Passage
as George Camrose
1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Tony Minnetti
1946
The Virginian
as Trampas
1946
Duffy's Tavern
as Brian Donlevy
1945
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Governor McGinty
1944
An American Romance
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
1944
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
Stalingrad
as Narrator (English version)
1943
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
1943
Stand by for Action
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
1942
Nightmare
as Daniel Shane
1942
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
1942
Wake Island
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
1942
A Gentleman After Dark
as Harry Melton
1942
Two Yanks in Trinidad
as Vince Barrows
1942
The Remarkable Andrew
as General Andrew Jackson
1942
Birth of the Blues
as Memphis
1941