Brian Donlevy
Acting
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 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".
Born: February 9, 1901
Place of Birth: Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Known For
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Rawhide
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Kiss of Death
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
The Big Combo
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Juke Box Rhythm
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
Beau Geste
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
The Great McGinty
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Filmography
as Archival Footage
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
as Grant Willard
as Mayor Joe Smith
as Detective Lee
as Dragon #3
as Marshal Willett
as Gen. Terry Arnold
as Ace Ross
as George Wellington
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
as Henri Delambre
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
as Col. Sherman Harrington
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
as Steve Marshall
as Gen. Sloan
as John Ridges
as George Manton
as Jed Reston
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
as Bronc Grierson
as Constable Dale
as General Roger Brandon
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
as Fred Childress
as Ed Bates
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
as Joe McClure
as Sam Marvin
as Charles Quantrill
as Bide Marriner
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
as Capt. Dempster
as Cmdr. McFarland
as Quantrill
as Self
as Nick Palmer
as John J. Malone
as Walter Williams
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
as Jim
as Kurt Devlynn
as Jim Caighn
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
as Joe McBride
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
as Richard Henry Dana
as George Camrose
as Tony Minnetti
as Trampas
as Brian Donlevy
as Governor McGinty
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
as (archive footage)
as Narrator (English version)
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
as Daniel Shane
as Paul Madvig
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
as Harry Melton
as Vince Barrows
as General Andrew Jackson
as Memphis
as Steely Edwards
as Bob
as Movie Actor (uncredited)
as Jim Sherwood
as Capt. Mercer
as Angus Duncan
as Grat Dalton
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
as Kent
as Ralph Callendar
as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
as Sergeant Markoff
as Sid Campeau
as Barshee
as Steve Mitchell
as Yankee Gordon
as Chesty Webb
as Gil Warren
as Bob Kane
as Batiste Duryea
as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
as Ace Martin
as Frank Evers
as Steve Reardon
as Duffy Giles
as Packy Campbell
as James Evarts
as Vance
as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
as Spike
as Knuckles Jacoby
as Charlie the Chauffeur
as Harry O'Day
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
as Ralph
as unknown
as Jim Porter
as Minor Role (Uncredited)