Brian Donlevy
Department: 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".
Known For
Never So Few
1959
Kiss of Death
1947
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Command Decision
1948
The Big Combo
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
Impact
1949
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Quatermass 2
1957
Hoodlum Empire
1952
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
Gammera the Invincible
1966
The Errand Boy
1961
A Cry in the Night
1956
The Great McGinty
1940
Beau Geste
1939
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
Canyon Passage
1946
Wake Island
1942
Allegheny Uprising
1939
Destry Rides Again
1939
Jesse James
1939
Union Pacific
1939
36 Hours to Kill
1936
Curse of the Fly
1965
The Glass Key
1942
Cowboy
1958
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
Shakedown
1950
Brigham Young
1940
Pit Stop
1969
The Beginning or the End
1947
Barbary Coast
1935
Five Golden Dragons
1967
Stalingrad
1943
Killer McCoy
1947
Birth of the Blues
1941
In Old Chicago
1938
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
A Gentleman After Dark
1942
The Great Man's Lady
1941
Kansas Raiders
1950
Waco
1966
Heaven Only Knows
1947
Stand by for Action
1942
The Virginian
1946
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
Slaughter Trail
1951
Billy the Kid
1941
Strike Me Pink
1936
Battle of Broadway
1938
I Wanted Wings
1941
When the Daltons Rode
1940
This Is My Affair
1937
The Lucky Stiff
1949
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
An American Romance
1944
Rogue's Gallery
1968
High Tension
1936
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
Behind Prison Gates
1939
Hostile Guns
1967
Juke Box Rhythm
1959
Damaged Hearts
1924
A Southern Yankee
1948
Another Face
1935
Born Reckless
1937
Crack-Up
1936
13 Hours by Air
1936
The Fat Spy
1966
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Song of Scheherazade
1947
A Man of Quality
1926
Human Cargo
1936
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
Half Angel
1936
Midnight Taxi
1937
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924
Escape from Red Rock
1957
The Trouble with Women
1947
Ride the Man Down
1952
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Jamestown
1923
Two Americans
1929
School for Wives
1925
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
We're Going to Be Rich
1938
Duffy's Tavern
1945
Girl In Room 13
1960
Sharpshooters
1938
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
A Modern Cinderella
1932
South of Tahiti
1941
Gentlemen of the Press
1929
Ireno
1932
Mother's Boy
1929
Twenty Years After
1944
Nightmare
1942
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021
Family Affair
1966
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Studio One
1948
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Rawhide
1959
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Climax!
1954
The Texan
1958
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Dangerous Assignment
1952
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Perry Mason
1957
Lux Video Theatre
1950
The World of Hammer
1994