Portrait of Brian Donlevy

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

Filmography

1997
1994
The World of Hammer

as Self (archive footage)

1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)

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
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' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)

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

1959
Rawhide

as Jed Reston

1958
Cowboy

as Doc Bender, Trailhand

1957
Escape from Red Rock

as Bronc Grierson

1957
DuPont Show of the Month

as Constable Dale

1957
Perry Mason

as General Roger Brandon

1957
Quatermass 2

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

1956
1956
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

1955
The Big Combo

as Joe McClure

1954
Climax!

as Sam Marvin

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
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
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
1946
The Virginian

as Trampas

1945
Duffy's Tavern

as Brian Donlevy

1944
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
1941
The Great Man's Lady

as Steely Edwards

1941
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
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
1935
Another Face

as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III

1935
Barbary Coast

as Knuckles Jacoby

1932
A Modern Cinderella

as Charlie the Chauffeur

1929
Mother's Boy

as Harry O'Day

1929
Gentlemen of the Press

as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)

1925
1924
1924
Damaged Hearts

as Jim Porter

1923
Jamestown

as Minor Role (Uncredited)