Brian Donlevy

Known for: Acting

Born: 1901-02-09 – 1972-04-06 (aged 71)

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

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".

Filmography (118)

MOVIE★ 6.3
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021
as Archival Footage
MOVIE★ 7.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
TV★ 6.8
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.4
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.7
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.8
Pit Stop
1969
as Grant Willard
MOVIE★ 4.3
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968
as Mayor Joe Smith
MOVIE★ 7.0
Rogue's Gallery
1968
as Detective Lee
MOVIE★ 5.2
Five Golden Dragons
1967
as Dragon #3
MOVIE★ 5.6
Hostile Guns
1967
as Marshal Willett
MOVIE★ 5.1
Gammera the Invincible
1966
as Gen. Terry Arnold
TV★ 6.7
Family Affair
1966
MOVIE★ 6.7
Waco
1966
as Ace Ross
MOVIE★ 3.1
The Fat Spy
1966
as George Wellington
MOVIE★ 5.3
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
MOVIE★ 5.4
Curse of the Fly
1965
as Henri Delambre
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
as Col. Sherman Harrington
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Errand Boy
1961
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
TV★ 5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
MOVIE★ 6.0
Girl In Room 13
1960
as Steve Marshall
MOVIE★ 5.5
Never So Few
1959
as Gen. Sloan
TV★ 6.8
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as John Ridges
MOVIE★ 7.7
Juke Box Rhythm
1959
as George Manton
TV★ 7.2
Rawhide
1959
as Jed Reston
TV★ 6.0
The Texan
1958
MOVIE★ 6.5
Cowboy
1958
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
MOVIE★ 7.0
Escape from Red Rock
1957
as Bronc Grierson
TV★ 7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Constable Dale
TV★ 7.7
Perry Mason
1957
as General Roger Brandon
MOVIE★ 6.4
Quatermass 2
1957
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
TV★ 6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Fred Childress
MOVIE★ 5.4
A Cry in the Night
1956
as Ed Bates
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Big Combo
1955
as Joe McClure
TV★ 3.8
Climax!
1954
as Sam Marvin
MOVIE★ 6.6
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
as Charles Quantrill
MOVIE★ 7.7
Ride the Man Down
1952
as Bide Marriner
MOVIE★ 6.5
Hoodlum Empire
1952
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
TV★ 5.3
Dangerous Assignment
1952
MOVIE★ 4.5
Slaughter Trail
1951
as Capt. Dempster
MOVIE★ 6.7
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
as Cmdr. McFarland
MOVIE★ 6.0
Kansas Raiders
1950
as Quantrill
TV★ 6.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Dan Carmody
TV★ 6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.4
Shakedown
1950
as Nick Palmer
TV★ 6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Lucky Stiff
1949
as John J. Malone
MOVIE★ 6.1
Impact
1949
as Walter Williams
MOVIE★ 6.6
Command Decision
1948
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
TV★ 5.4
Studio One
1948
as Jim
MOVIE★ 5.5
A Southern Yankee
1948
as Kurt Devlynn
MOVIE★ 6.3
Killer McCoy
1947
as Jim Caighn
MOVIE★ 6.5
Heaven Only Knows
1947
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
MOVIE★ 7.1
Kiss of Death
1947
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
MOVIE★ 9.5
The Trouble with Women
1947
as Joe McBride
MOVIE★ 6.6
Song of Scheherazade
1947
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Beginning or the End
1947
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
MOVIE★ 6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
as Richard Henry Dana
MOVIE★ 6.7
Canyon Passage
1946
as George Camrose
MOVIE★ 6.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
as Tony Minnetti
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Virginian
1946
as Trampas
MOVIE★ 6.4
Duffy's Tavern
1945
as Brian Donlevy
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
as Governor McGinty
MOVIE★ 6.1
An American Romance
1944
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
MOVIE★ 8.0
Twenty Years After
1944
as (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.7
Stalingrad
1943
as Narrator (English version)
MOVIE★ 6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
MOVIE★ 7.0
Stand by for Action
1942
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
MOVIE★ 6.3
Nightmare
1942
as Daniel Shane
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Glass Key
1942
as Paul Madvig
MOVIE★ 5.9
Wake Island
1942
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
MOVIE★ 4.6
A Gentleman After Dark
1942
as Harry Melton
MOVIE★ 4.0
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
as Vince Barrows
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
as General Andrew Jackson
MOVIE★ 6.2
Birth of the Blues
1941
as Memphis
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Great Man's Lady
1941
as Steely Edwards
MOVIE★ 6.5
South of Tahiti
1941
as Bob
MOVIE★ 6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
as Movie Actor (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.3
Billy the Kid
1941
as Jim Sherwood
MOVIE★ 5.6
I Wanted Wings
1941
as Capt. Mercer
MOVIE★ 4.6
Brigham Young
1940
as Angus Duncan
MOVIE★ 6.2
When the Daltons Rode
1940
as Grat Dalton
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Great McGinty
1940
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
MOVIE★ 7.2
Destry Rides Again
1939
as Kent
MOVIE★ 5.9
Allegheny Uprising
1939
as Ralph Callendar
MOVIE★ 10.0
Behind Prison Gates
1939
as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
MOVIE★ 7.0
Beau Geste
1939
as Sergeant Markoff
MOVIE★ 6.7
Union Pacific
1939
as Sid Campeau
MOVIE★ 6.5
Jesse James
1939
as Barshee
MOVIE★ 8.0
Sharpshooters
1938
as Steve Mitchell
MOVIE★ 5.0
We're Going to Be Rich
1938
as Yankee Gordon
MOVIE★ 5.0
Battle of Broadway
1938
as Chesty Webb
MOVIE★ 6.7
In Old Chicago
1938
as Gil Warren
MOVIE★ 5.4
Born Reckless
1937
as Bob Kane
MOVIE★ 7.3
This Is My Affair
1937
as Batiste Duryea
MOVIE★ 6.2
Midnight Taxi
1937
as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
MOVIE★ 5.9
Crack-Up
1936
as Ace Martin
MOVIE★ 6.1
36 Hours to Kill
1936
as Frank Evers
MOVIE★ 5.8
High Tension
1936
as Steve Reardon
MOVIE★ 7.5
Half Angel
1936
as Duffy Giles
MOVIE★ 7.5
Human Cargo
1936
as Packy Campbell
MOVIE★ 5.2
13 Hours by Air
1936
as James Evarts
MOVIE★ 6.6
Strike Me Pink
1936
as Vance
MOVIE★ 4.8
Another Face
1935
as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
MOVIE★ 9.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
as Spike
MOVIE★ 6.4
Barbary Coast
1935
as Knuckles Jacoby
MOVIE★ 5.4
A Modern Cinderella
1932
as Charlie the Chauffeur
MOVIE★ 7.5
Ireno
1932
as Drunk (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.0
Mother's Boy
1929
as Harry O'Day
MOVIE★ 7.0
Two Americans
1929
as Unknown
MOVIE★ 6.7
Gentlemen of the Press
1929
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 10.0
A Man of Quality
1926
as Richard Courtney
MOVIE★ 8.0
School for Wives
1925
as Ralph
MOVIE★ 5.6
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924
as unknown
MOVIE★ 8.0
Damaged Hearts
1924
as Jim Porter
MOVIE★ 10.0
Jamestown
1923
as Minor Role (Uncredited)