Personal Info
Known Credits
102
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1901-02-09 (124 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Also Known For
Waldo Brian DonlevyMcGinty
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 ...
Known For
Acting
1997 --
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
| Self (archive footage)
1988 --
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
| Self (archive footage)
1987 --
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
| Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
1982 --
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
| (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
1969 --
Pit Stop
| Grant Willard
1968 --
Arizona Bushwhackers
| Mayor Joe Smith
1968 --
Rogue's Gallery
| Detective Lee
1967 --
Five Golden Dragons
| Dragon #3
1967 --
Hostile Guns
| Marshal Willett
1966 --
Gammera the Invincible
| Gen. Terry Arnold
1966 --
Waco
| Ace Ross
1966 --
The Fat Spy
| George Wellington
1965 --
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
| B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
1965 --
Curse of the Fly
| Henri Delambre
1964 --
The Big Parade of Comedy
| Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
1962 --
The Pigeon That Took Rome
| Col. Sherman Harrington
1961 --
The Errand Boy
| Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
1960 --
Girl In Room 13
| Steve Marshall
1959 --
Never So Few
| Gen. Sloan
1959 --
Juke Box Rhythm
| George Manton
1958 --
Cowboy
| Doc Bender, Trailhand
1957 --
Escape from Red Rock
| Bronc Grierson
1957 --
Quatermass 2
| Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1956 --
A Cry in the Night
| Ed Bates
1955 --
The Quatermass Xperiment
| Bernard Quatermass
1955 --
The Big Combo
| Joe McClure
1953 --
Woman They Almost Lynched
| Charles Quantrill
1952 --
Ride the Man Down
| Bide Marriner
1952 --
Hoodlum Empire
| Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
1951 --
Slaughter Trail
| Capt. Dempster
1951 --
Fighting Coast Guard
| Cmdr. McFarland
1950 --
Kansas Raiders
| Quantrill
1950 --
Shakedown
| Nick Palmer
1949 --
The Lucky Stiff
| John J. Malone
1949 --
Impact
| Walter Williams
1948 --
Command Decision
| Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
1948 --
A Southern Yankee
| Kurt Devlynn
1947 --
Killer McCoy
| Jim Caighn
1947 --
Heaven Only Knows
| Adam 'Duke' Byron
1947 --
Kiss of Death
| Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
1947 --
The Trouble with Women
| Joe McBride
1947 --
Song of Scheherazade
| Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
1947 --
The Beginning or the End
| Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1946 --
Two Years Before the Mast
| Richard Henry Dana
1946 --
Canyon Passage
| George Camrose
1946 --
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
| Tony Minnetti
1946 --
The Virginian
| Trampas
1945 --
Duffy's Tavern
| Brian Donlevy
1944 --
An American Romance
| Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
1944 --
Twenty Years After
| (archive footage)
1943 --
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
| Governor McGinty
1943 --
Stalingrad
| Narrator (English version)
1943 --
Hangmen Also Die!
| Dr. Franticek Svoboda
1942 --
Stand by for Action
| Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
1942 --
Nightmare
| Daniel Shane
1942 --
The Glass Key
| Paul Madvig
1942 --
Wake Island
| Maj. Geoffrey Caton
1942 --
A Gentleman After Dark
| Harry Melton
1942 --
Two Yanks in Trinidad
| Vince Barrows
1942 --
The Remarkable Andrew
| General Andrew Jackson
1941 --
Birth of the Blues
| Memphis
1941 --
The Great Man's Lady
| Steely Edwards
1941 --
South of Tahiti
| Bob
1941 --
Hold Back the Dawn
| Movie Actor (uncredited)
1941 --
Billy the Kid
| Jim Sherwood
1941 --
I Wanted Wings
| Capt. Mercer
1940 --
Brigham Young
| Angus Duncan
1940 --
When the Daltons Rode
| Grat Dalton
1940 --
The Great McGinty
| Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
1939 --
Destry Rides Again
| Kent
1939 --
Allegheny Uprising
| Ralph Callendar
1939 --
Behind Prison Gates
| Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
1939 --
Beau Geste
| Sergeant Markoff
1939 --
Union Pacific
| Sid Campeau
1939 --
Jesse James
| Barshee
1938 --
Sharpshooters
| Steve Mitchell
1938 --
We're Going to Be Rich
| Yankee Gordon
1938 --
Battle of Broadway
| Chesty Webb
1938 --
In Old Chicago
| Gil Warren
1937 --
Born Reckless
| Bob Kane
1937 --
This Is My Affair
| Batiste Duryea
1937 --
Midnight Taxi
| Charles 'Chick' Gardner
1936 --
Crack-Up
| Ace Martin
1936 --
36 Hours to Kill
| Frank Evers
1936 --
High Tension
| Steve Reardon
1936 --
Half Angel
| Duffy Giles
1936 --
Human Cargo
| Packy Campbell
1936 --
13 Hours by Air
| James Evarts
1936 --
Strike Me Pink
| Vance
1935 --
Another Face
| Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
1935 --
Mary Burns, Fugitive
| Spike
1935 --
Barbary Coast
| Knuckles Jacoby
1932 --
A Modern Cinderella
| Charlie the Chauffeur
1932 --
Ireno
| Drunk (uncredited)
1929 --
Mother's Boy
| Harry O'Day
1929 --
Two Americans
| Unknown
1929 --
Gentlemen of the Press
| Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
1926 --
A Man of Quality
| Richard Courtney
1925 --
School for Wives
| Ralph
1924 --
Monsieur Beaucaire
| unknown
1924 --
Damaged Hearts
| Jim Porter
1923 --
Jamestown
| Minor Role (Uncredited)