Brian Donlevy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 9 February 1901 · Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
- Died
- 6 April 1972
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
Acting 103
- 2021Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage
- 1997Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
- 1987Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1982Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
- 1969Pit Stop as Grant Willard
- 1968Arizona Bushwhackers as Mayor Joe Smith
- 1968Rogue's Gallery as Detective Lee
- 1967Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #3
- 1967Hostile Guns as Marshal Willett
- 1966Gammera the Invincible as Gen. Terry Arnold
- 1966Waco as Ace Ross
- 1966The Fat Spy as George Wellington
- 1965How to Stuff a Wild Bikini as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
- 1965Curse of the Fly as Henri Delambre
- 1964The Big Parade of Comedy as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
- 1962The Pigeon That Took Rome as Col. Sherman Harrington
- 1961The Errand Boy as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
- 1960Girl In Room 13 as Steve Marshall
- 1959Never So Few as Gen. Sloan
- 1959Juke Box Rhythm as George Manton
- 1958Cowboy as Doc Bender, Trailhand
- 1957Escape from Red Rock as Bronc Grierson
- 1957Quatermass 2 as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- 1956A Cry in the Night as Ed Bates
- 1955The Quatermass Xperiment as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- 1955The Big Combo as Joe McClure
- 1953Woman They Almost Lynched as Charles Quantrill
- 1952Ride the Man Down as Bide Marriner
- 1952Hoodlum Empire as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
- 1951Slaughter Trail as Capt. Dempster
- 1951Fighting Coast Guard as Cmdr. McFarland
- 1950Kansas Raiders as Quantrill
- 1950Shakedown as Nick Palmer
- 1949The Lucky Stiff as John J. Malone
- 1949Impact as Walter Williams
- 1948Command Decision as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
- 1948A Southern Yankee as Kurt Devlynn
- 1947Killer McCoy as Jim Caighn
- 1947Heaven Only Knows as Adam 'Duke' Byron
- 1947Kiss of Death as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
- 1947The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride
- 1947Song of Scheherazade as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
- 1947The Beginning or the End as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
- 1946Two Years Before the Mast as Richard Henry Dana
- 1946Canyon Passage as George Camrose
- 1946Our Hearts Were Growing Up as Tony Minnetti
- 1946The Virginian as Trampas
- 1945Duffy's Tavern as Brian Donlevy
- 1944The Miracle of Morgan's Creek as Governor McGinty
- 1944An American Romance as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
- 1944Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- 1943Stalingrad as Narrator (English version)
- 1943Hangmen Also Die! as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
- 1942Stand by for Action as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
- 1942Nightmare as Daniel Shane
- 1942The Glass Key as Paul Madvig
- 1942Wake Island as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
- 1942A Gentleman After Dark as Harry Melton
- 1942Two Yanks in Trinidad as Vince Barrows
- 1942The Remarkable Andrew as General Andrew Jackson
- 1941Birth of the Blues as Memphis
- 1941The Great Man's Lady as Steely Edwards
- 1941South of Tahiti as Bob
- 1941Hold Back the Dawn as Movie Actor (uncredited)
- 1941Billy the Kid as Jim Sherwood
- 1941I Wanted Wings as Capt. Mercer
- 1940Brigham Young as Angus Duncan
- 1940When the Daltons Rode as Grat Dalton
- 1940The Great McGinty as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
- 1939Destry Rides Again as Kent
- 1939Allegheny Uprising as Ralph Callendar
- 1939Behind Prison Gates as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
- 1939Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff
- 1939Union Pacific as Sid Campeau
- 1939Jesse James as Barshee
- 1938Sharpshooters as Steve Mitchell
- 1938We're Going to Be Rich as Yankee Gordon
- 1938Battle of Broadway as Chesty Webb
- 1938In Old Chicago as Gil Warren
- 1937Born Reckless as Bob Kane
- 1937This Is My Affair as Batiste Duryea
- 1937Midnight Taxi as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
- 1936Crack-Up as Ace Martin
- 193636 Hours to Kill as Frank Evers
- 1936High Tension as Steve Reardon
- 1936Half Angel as Duffy Giles
- 1936Human Cargo as Packy Campbell
- 193613 Hours by Air as James Evarts
- 1936Strike Me Pink as Vance
- 1935Another Face as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
- 1935Mary Burns, Fugitive as Spike
- 1935Barbary Coast as Knuckles Jacoby
- 1932A Modern Cinderella as Charlie the Chauffeur
- 1932Ireno as Drunk (uncredited)
- 1929Mother's Boy as Harry O'Day
- 1929Two Americans as Unknown
- 1929Gentlemen of the Press as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
- 1926A Man of Quality as Richard Courtney
- 1925School for Wives as Ralph
- 1924Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown
- 1924Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter
- 1923Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)