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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

119

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-02-09

Deathday

1972-04-06 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Also Known As

Waldo Brian Donlevy
McGinty

Brian Donlevy

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".

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Acting

2021

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage

1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)

1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)

1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Professor Bernard Quatermass (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		Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #3
1967		Hostile Guns as Marshal Willett

1966		Gammera the Invincible as Gen. Terry Arnold
1966		Family Affair
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
1961		Target: The Corruptors!

1960

Girl In Room 13 as Steve Marshall

1959		Never So Few as Gen. Sloan
1959		The DuPont Show with June Allyson as John Ridges
1959		Juke Box Rhythm as George Manton
1959		Rawhide as Jed Reston

1958		The Texan
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		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Fred Childress
1956		A Cry in the Night as Ed Bates

1955		The Quatermass Xperiment as 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
1952		Dangerous Assignment

1951		Slaughter Trail as Capt. Dempster
1951		Fighting Coast Guard as Cmdr. McFarland

1950		Kansas Raiders as Quantrill
1950		Lux Video Theatre as Dan Carmody
1950		Lux Video Theatre as Walter Williams
1950		Lux Video Theatre as Daniel J. McGinty
1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950		Shakedown as Nick Palmer
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents

1949		The Lucky Stiff as John J. Malone
1949		Impact as Walter Williams

1948		Command Decision as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
1948		Studio One as Jim
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		The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride
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		Our Hearts Were Growing Up as Tony Minnetti
1946		The Virginian as Trampas

1945

Duffy's Tavern as Brian Donlevy

1944		The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek as Governor McGinty
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		Birth of the Blues as Memphis
1941		The Great Man's Lady as Steely Edwards
1941		South of Tahiti as Bob
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		Destry Rides Again as Kent
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		Strike Me Pink as Vance

1935		Another Face as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
1935		Mary Burns, Fugitive as Spike
1935		Barbary Coast as Knuckles Jacoby

1932		A Modern Cinderella as Charlie the Chauffeur
1932		Ireno as Drunk (uncredited)

1929		Mother's Boy as Harry O'Day
1929		Two Americans as Unknown
1929		Gentlemen of the Press as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)

1926

A Man of Quality as Richard Courtney

1925

School for Wives as Ralph

1924		Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown
1924		Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter

1923

Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)