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