Acting
Brian Donlevy
EN, RU cinema · 103 credits
Born
9 February 1901
Died
6 April 1972 (aged 71)
Birthplace
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Also known as Waldo Brian Donlevy · McGinty
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
Filmography
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Pit Stop
as Grant Willard
Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3
Hostile Guns
as Marshal Willett
Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold
Waco
as Ace Ross
The Fat Spy
as George Wellington
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
The Curse of the Fly
as Henri Delambre
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Col. Sherman Harrington
The Errand Boy
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
Girl In Room 13
as Steve Marshall
Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan
Juke Box Rhythm
as George Manton
Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
Quatermass 2
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Escape from Red Rock
as Bronc Grierson
A Cry in the Night
as Ed Bates
The Big Combo
as Joe McClure
The Quatermass Xperiment
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Charles Quantrill
Hoodlum Empire
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
Ride the Man Down
as Bide Marriner
Slaughter Trail
as Capt. Dempster
Fighting Coast Guard
as Cmdr. McFarland
Shakedown
as Nick Palmer
Kansas Raiders
as Quantrill
Impact
as Walter Williams
The Lucky Stiff
as John J. Malone
Command Decision
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
A Southern Yankee
as Kurt Devlynn
Kiss of Death
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
The Beginning or the End
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
Killer McCoy
as Jim Caighn
Heaven Only Knows
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
Song of Scheherazade
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
The Trouble with Women
as Joe McBride
Canyon Passage
as George Camrose
The Virginian
as Trampas
Two Years Before the Mast
as Richard Henry Dana
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Tony Minnetti
Duffy's Tavern
as Brian Donlevy
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Governor McGinty
An American Romance
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Stalingrad
as Narrator (English version)
Wake Island
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
The Remarkable Andrew
as General Andrew Jackson
A Gentleman After Dark
as Harry Melton
Stand by for Action
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
Two Yanks in Trinidad
as Vince Barrows
Nightmare
as Daniel Shane
Hold Back the Dawn
as Movie Actor (uncredited)
Birth of the Blues
as Memphis
The Great Man's Lady
as Steely Edwards
Billy the Kid
as Jim Sherwood
I Wanted Wings
as Capt. Mercer
The Great McGinty
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Brigham Young
as Angus Duncan
When the Daltons Rode
as Grat Dalton
Beau Geste
as Sergeant Markoff
Allegheny Uprising
as Ralph Callendar
Jesse James
as Barshee
Union Pacific
as Sid Campeau
Behind Prison Gates
as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
In Old Chicago
as Gil Warren
Battle of Broadway
as Chesty Webb
We're Going to Be Rich
as Yankee Gordon
Sharpshooters
as Steve Mitchell
This Is My Affair
as Batiste Duryea
Born Reckless
as Bob Kane
Midnight Taxi
as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
36 Hours to Kill
as Frank Evers
Strike Me Pink
as Vance
High Tension
as Steve Reardon
Crack-Up
as Ace Martin
13 Hours by Air
as James Evarts
Human Cargo
as Packy Campbell
Half Angel
as Duffy Giles
Barbary Coast
as Knuckles Jacoby
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Spike
Another Face
as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
A Modern Cinderella
as Charlie the Chauffeur
Ireno
1932
Ireno
as Drunk (uncredited)
Gentlemen of the Press
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
Mother's Boy
as Harry O'Day
A Man of Quality
1926
A Man of Quality
as Richard Courtney
School for Wives
as Ralph
Damaged Hearts
as Jim Porter
Monsieur Beaucaire
as unknown
Jamestown
as Minor Role (Uncredited)