Brian Donlevy
Known for: Acting
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".
Filmography
Series
Perry Mason
General Roger Brandon
1957
Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Series
Rawhide
Jed Reston
1959
Series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Fred Childress
1956
Series
Climax!
Sam Marvin
1954
Series
Studio One
Jim
1948
Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Series
Family Affair
1966
Series
The Texan
1958
Series
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
John Ridges
1959
Series
Dangerous Assignment
1952
Lux Video Theatre
Dan Carmody
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Walter Williams
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Daniel J. McGinty
1950
Series
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
1994
Series
DuPont Show of the Month
Constable Dale
1957
Series
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Film
Kiss of Death
Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
1947
Film
Never So Few
Gen. Sloan
1959
Film
Jesse James
Barshee
1939
Film
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
1982
Film
Beau Geste
Sergeant Markoff
1939
Film
Union Pacific
Sid Campeau
1939
Film
Canyon Passage
George Camrose
1946
Film
The Big Combo
Joe McClure
1955
Film
Hangmen Also Die!
Dr. Franticek Svoboda
1943
Film
In Old Chicago
Gil Warren
1938
Film
Destry Rides Again
Kent
1939
Film
The Quatermass Xperiment
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1955
Film
Brigham Young
Angus Duncan
1940
Film
The Virginian
Trampas
1946
Film
Quatermass 2
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1957
Film
Five Golden Dragons
Dragon #3
1967
Film
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
1987
Film
Command Decision
Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
1948
Film
Cowboy
Doc Bender, Trailhand
1958
Film
Crack-Up
Ace Martin
1936
Film
The Errand Boy
Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
1961
Film
Heaven Only Knows
Adam 'Duke' Byron
1947
Film
Fighting Coast Guard
Cmdr. McFarland
1951
Film
Barbary Coast
Knuckles Jacoby
1935
Film
The Glass Key
Paul Madvig
1942
Film
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
1944
Film
The Big Parade of Comedy
Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
1964
Film
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
Stalingrad
Narrator (English version)
1943
Film
Impact
Walter Williams
1949
Film
Wake Island
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
1942
Film
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
1987
Film
Curse of the Fly
Henri Delambre
1965
Film
When the Daltons Rode
Grat Dalton
1940
Film
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
1965
Film
Kansas Raiders
Quantrill
1950
Film
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Governor McGinty
1944
Film
Allegheny Uprising
Ralph Callendar
1939
Two Americans
Unknown
1929
Film
The Trouble with Women
Joe McBride
1947
Film
The Great Man's Lady
Steely Edwards
1941
Film
The Great McGinty
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
1940
Film
Pit Stop
Grant Willard
1969
Film
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie Actor (uncredited)
1941
Film
A Southern Yankee
Kurt Devlynn
1948
Film
Stand by for Action
Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
1942
Film
Arizona Bushwhackers
Mayor Joe Smith
1968
Film
Gammera the Invincible
Gen. Terry Arnold
1966
Film
An American Romance
Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
1944
Ireno
Drunk (uncredited)
1932
Film
Hostile Guns
Marshal Willett
1967
Film
The Beginning or the End
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1947
Film
Billy the Kid
Jim Sherwood
1941
Film
Waco
Ace Ross
1966
Film
Hoodlum Empire
Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
1952
Film
Ride the Man Down
Bide Marriner
1952
Film
I Wanted Wings
Capt. Mercer
1941
Film
Song of Scheherazade
Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
1947
Film
Jamestown
Minor Role (Uncredited)
1923
Film
Strike Me Pink
Vance
1936
Film
A Cry in the Night
Ed Bates
1956
Film
Woman They Almost Lynched
Charles Quantrill
1953
Film
13 Hours by Air
James Evarts
1936
Film
The Remarkable Andrew
General Andrew Jackson
1942
Film
36 Hours to Kill
Frank Evers
1936
Film
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana
1946
Film
Shakedown
Nick Palmer
1950
Film
Midnight Taxi
Charles 'Chick' Gardner
1937
Film
This Is My Affair
Batiste Duryea
1937
Film
South of Tahiti
Bob
1941
Film
Another Face
Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
1935
Film
The Fat Spy
George Wellington
1966
Film
High Tension
Steve Reardon
1936
Film
Slaughter Trail
Capt. Dempster
1951
Film
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Archival Footage
2021
Film
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Col. Sherman Harrington
1962
Film
Battle of Broadway
Chesty Webb
1938
Film
Duffy's Tavern
Brian Donlevy
1945
Film
Killer McCoy
Jim Caighn
1947
Film
The Lucky Stiff
John J. Malone
1949
Film
Rogue's Gallery
Detective Lee
1968
Film
Half Angel
Duffy Giles
1936
Film
Birth of the Blues
Memphis
1941
Film
A Gentleman After Dark
Harry Melton
1942
Film
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Vince Barrows
1942
Film
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Tony Minnetti
1946
Film
Human Cargo
Packy Campbell
1936
Film
Born Reckless
Bob Kane
1937
Film
Nightmare
Daniel Shane
1942
Film
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Spike
1935
Film
Escape from Red Rock
Bronc Grierson
1957
Film
Juke Box Rhythm
George Manton
1959
Film
Gentlemen of the Press
Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
1929
Film
Mother's Boy
Harry O'Day
1929
Film
We're Going to Be Rich
Yankee Gordon
1938
Film
Sharpshooters
Steve Mitchell
1938
Film
Monsieur Beaucaire
unknown
1924
Film
Behind Prison Gates
Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
1939
Film
Girl In Room 13
Steve Marshall
1960
Film
Damaged Hearts
Jim Porter
1924
A Man of Quality
Richard Courtney
1926
Film
A Modern Cinderella
Charlie the Chauffeur
1932
Film
School for Wives
Ralph
1925