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