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Brian Donlevy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

09/02/1901

Day of Death

06/04/1972
(71) years old

Place of Birth

Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Brian Donlevy

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... Read More

Known For

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Pit Stop

Arizona Bushwhackers

Rogue's Gallery

Five Golden Dragons

Hostile Guns

Filmography

Cast

2021

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendeck...

as Archival Footage

1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)

1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive fo...

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

1969

Pit Stop

as Grant Willard

1968

Arizona Bushwhackers

as Mayor Joe Smith

1968

Rogue's Gallery

as Detective Lee

1967

Five Golden Dragons

as Dragon #3

1967

Hostile Guns

as Marshal Willett

1966

Gammera the Invincible

as Gen. Terry Arnold

1966

Waco

as Ace Ross

1966

The Fat Spy

as George Wellington

1965

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson

1965

Curse of the Fly

as Henri Delambre

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (ar...

1962

The Pigeon That Took Rome

as Col. Sherman Harrington

1961

The Errand Boy

as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual

1960

Girl In Room 13

as Steve Marshall

1959

Never So Few

as Gen. Sloan

1959

Juke Box Rhythm

as George Manton

1958

Cowboy

as Doc Bender, Trailhand

1957

Escape from Red Rock

as Bronc Grierson

1957

Quatermass 2

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

1956

A Cry in the Night

as Ed Bates

1955

The Quatermass Xperiment

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

1955

The Big Combo

as Joe McClure

1953

Woman They Almost Lynched

as Charles Quantrill

1952

Ride the Man Down

as Bide Marriner

1952

Hoodlum Empire

as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens

1951

Slaughter Trail

as Capt. Dempster

1951

Fighting Coast Guard

as Cmdr. McFarland

1950

Kansas Raiders

as Quantrill

1950

Shakedown

as Nick Palmer

1949

The Lucky Stiff

as John J. Malone

1949

Impact

as Walter Williams

1948

Command Decision

as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet

1948

A Southern Yankee

as Kurt Devlynn

1947

Killer McCoy

as Jim Caighn

1947

Heaven Only Knows

as Adam 'Duke' Byron

1947

Kiss of Death

as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo

1947

The Trouble with Women

as Joe McBride

1947

Song of Scheherazade

as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch

1947

The Beginning or the End

as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves

1946

Two Years Before the Mast

as Richard Henry Dana

1946

Canyon Passage

as George Camrose

1946

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

as Tony Minnetti

1946

The Virginian

as Trampas

1945

Duffy's Tavern

as Brian Donlevy

1944

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

as Governor McGinty

1944

An American Romance

as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1943

Stalingrad

as Narrator (English version)

1943

Hangmen Also Die!

as Dr. Franticek Svoboda

1942

Stand by for Action

as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts

1942

Nightmare

as Daniel Shane

1942

The Glass Key

as Paul Madvig

1942

Wake Island

as Maj. Geoffrey Caton

1942

A Gentleman After Dark

as Harry Melton

1942

Two Yanks in Trinidad

as Vince Barrows

1942

The Remarkable Andrew

as General Andrew Jackson

1941

Birth of the Blues

as Memphis

1941

The Great Man's Lady

as Steely Edwards

1941

South of Tahiti

as Bob

1941

Hold Back the Dawn

as Movie Actor (uncredited)

1941

Billy the Kid

as Jim Sherwood

1941

I Wanted Wings

as Capt. Mercer

1940

Brigham Young

as Angus Duncan

1940

When the Daltons Rode

as Grat Dalton

1940

The Great McGinty

as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty

1939

Destry Rides Again

as Kent

1939

Allegheny Uprising

as Ralph Callendar

1939

Behind Prison Gates

as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray

1939

Beau Geste

as Sergeant Markoff

1939

Union Pacific

as Sid Campeau

1939

Jesse James

as Barshee

1938

Sharpshooters

as Steve Mitchell

1938

We're Going to Be Rich

as Yankee Gordon

1938

Battle of Broadway

as Chesty Webb

1938

In Old Chicago

as Gil Warren

1937

Born Reckless

as Bob Kane

1937

This Is My Affair

as Batiste Duryea

1937

Midnight Taxi

as Charles 'Chick' Gardner

1936

Crack-Up

as Ace Martin

1936

36 Hours to Kill

as Frank Evers

1936

High Tension

as Steve Reardon

1936

Half Angel

as Duffy Giles

1936

Human Cargo

as Packy Campbell

1936

13 Hours by Air

as James Evarts

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Vance

1935

Another Face

as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III

1935

Mary Burns, Fugitive

as Spike

1935

Barbary Coast

as Knuckles Jacoby

1932

A Modern Cinderella

as Charlie the Chauffeur

1932

Ireno

as Drunk (uncredited)

1929

Mother's Boy

as Harry O'Day

1929

Two Americans

as Unknown

1929

Gentlemen of the Press

as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)

1926

A Man of Quality

as Richard Courtney

1925

School for Wives

as Ralph

1924

Monsieur Beaucaire

as unknown

1924

Damaged Hearts

as Jim Porter

1923

Jamestown

as Minor Role (Uncredited)