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