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