Brian Donlevy
Acting
Born February 9, 1901 · Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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".
Films (103)
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Pit Stop
1969
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968
Rogue's Gallery
1968
Five Golden Dragons
1967
Hostile Guns
1967
Gammera the Invincible
1966
Waco
1966
The Fat Spy
1966
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
Curse of the Fly
1965
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
The Errand Boy
1961
Girl In Room 13
1960
Never So Few
1959
Juke Box Rhythm
1959
Cowboy
1958
Escape from Red Rock
1957
Quatermass 2
1957
A Cry in the Night
1956
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
The Big Combo
1955
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
Ride the Man Down
1952
Hoodlum Empire
1952
Slaughter Trail
1951
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
Kansas Raiders
1950
Shakedown
1950
The Lucky Stiff
1949
Impact
1949
Command Decision
1948
A Southern Yankee
1948
Killer McCoy
1947
Heaven Only Knows
1947
Kiss of Death
1947
The Trouble with Women
1947
Song of Scheherazade
1947
The Beginning or the End
1947
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Canyon Passage
1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
The Virginian
1946
Duffy's Tavern
1945
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
An American Romance
1944
Twenty Years After
1944
Stalingrad
1943
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Stand by for Action
1942
Nightmare
1942
The Glass Key
1942
Wake Island
1942
A Gentleman After Dark
1942
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Birth of the Blues
1941
The Great Man's Lady
1941
South of Tahiti
1941
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
Billy the Kid
1941
I Wanted Wings
1941
Brigham Young
1940
When the Daltons Rode
1940
The Great McGinty
1940
Destry Rides Again
1939
Allegheny Uprising
1939
Behind Prison Gates
1939
Beau Geste
1939
Union Pacific
1939
Jesse James
1939
Sharpshooters
1938
We're Going to Be Rich
1938
Battle of Broadway
1938
In Old Chicago
1938
Born Reckless
1937
This Is My Affair
1937
Midnight Taxi
1937
Crack-Up
1936
36 Hours to Kill
1936
High Tension
1936
Half Angel
1936
Human Cargo
1936
13 Hours by Air
1936
Strike Me Pink
1936
Another Face
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
Barbary Coast
1935
A Modern Cinderella
1932
Ireno
1932
Mother's Boy
1929
Two Americans
1929
Gentlemen of the Press
1929
A Man of Quality
1926
School for Wives
1925
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924
Damaged Hearts
1924
Jamestown
1923