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