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