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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 9, 1901
Died
April 6, 1972
Place of Birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Also Known As
- Waldo Brian Donlevy
- McGinty
Brian Donlevy
0.8 Popularity
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".
Known For
6.3
Archival Footage
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
6.5
Self (archive footage)
The World of Hammer
1994
6.4
Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
6.6
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
6.7
Grant Willard
Pit Stop
1969
3.6
Mayor Joe Smith
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968
6.0
Detective Lee
Rogue's Gallery
1968
5.1
Dragon #3
Five Golden Dragons
1967
Credits
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage
2021
6.3
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
7.5
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
1987
6.4
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
1982
6.6
Pit Stop
as Grant Willard
1969
6.7
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith
1968
3.6
Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee
1968
6.0
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3
1967
5.1
Hostile Guns
as Marshal Willett
1967
5.1
Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold
1966
4.9
Family Affair
1966
6.7
Waco
as Ace Ross
1966
6.4
The Fat Spy
as George Wellington
1966
2.5
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
1965
5.2
Curse of the Fly
as Henri Delambre
1965
5.4
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
1964
6.3
The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Col. Sherman Harrington
1962
5.3
The Errand Boy
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
1961
6.1
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
3.5
Girl In Room 13
as Steve Marshall
1960
5.0
Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan
1959
5.4
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as John Ridges
1959
6.3
Juke Box Rhythm
as George Manton
1959
7.0
Rawhide
as Jed Reston
1959
7.2
The Texan
1958
5.5
Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
1958
6.3
Escape from Red Rock
as Bronc Grierson
1957
0.0
DuPont Show of the Month
as Constable Dale
1957
6.8
Perry Mason
as General Roger Brandon
1957
7.7
Quatermass 2
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1957
6.4
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Fred Childress
1956
6.0
A Cry in the Night
as Ed Bates
1956
5.2
The Quatermass Xperiment
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1955
6.5
The Big Combo
as Joe McClure
1955
7.0
Climax!
as Sam Marvin
1954
3.3
Woman They Almost Lynched
as Charles Quantrill
1953
6.3
Ride the Man Down
as Bide Marriner
1952
6.5
Hoodlum Empire
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
1952
6.1
Dangerous Assignment
1952
3.5
Slaughter Trail
as Capt. Dempster
1951
3.8
Fighting Coast Guard
as Cmdr. McFarland
1951
6.5
Kansas Raiders
as Quantrill
1950
5.8
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Dan Carmody
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Walter Williams
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Daniel J. McGinty
1950
6.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Shakedown
as Nick Palmer
1950
6.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
The Lucky Stiff
as John J. Malone
1949
4.8
Impact
as Walter Williams
1949
6.0
Command Decision
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
1948
6.4
Studio One
as Jim
1948
5.0
A Southern Yankee
as Kurt Devlynn
1948
5.2
Killer McCoy
as Jim Caighn
1947
6.0
Heaven Only Knows
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
1947
6.0
Kiss of Death
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
1947
7.0
The Trouble with Women
as Joe McBride
1947
0.0
Song of Scheherazade
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
1947
5.8
The Beginning or the End
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1947
6.1
Two Years Before the Mast
as Richard Henry Dana
1946
6.1
Canyon Passage
as George Camrose
1946
6.6
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Tony Minnetti
1946
6.2
The Virginian
as Trampas
1946
6.0
Duffy's Tavern
as Brian Donlevy
1945
6.1
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
as Governor McGinty
1944
6.8
An American Romance
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
1944
5.9
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
Stalingrad
as Narrator (English version)
1943
5.2
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
1943
6.9
Stand by for Action
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
1942
6.8
Nightmare
as Daniel Shane
1942
5.0
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
1942
6.6
Wake Island
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
1942
5.8
A Gentleman After Dark
as Harry Melton
1942
2.7
Two Yanks in Trinidad
as Vince Barrows
1942
2.5
The Remarkable Andrew
as General Andrew Jackson
1942
6.8
Birth of the Blues
as Memphis
1941
6.0
The Great Man's Lady
as Steely Edwards
1941
6.3
South of Tahiti
as Bob
1941
6.0
Hold Back the Dawn
as Movie Actor (uncredited)
1941
6.7
Billy the Kid
as Jim Sherwood
1941
5.0
I Wanted Wings
as Capt. Mercer
1941
5.4
Brigham Young
as Angus Duncan
1940
4.4
When the Daltons Rode
as Grat Dalton
1940
6.0
The Great McGinty
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
1940
6.9
Destry Rides Again
as Kent
1939
7.2
Allegheny Uprising
as Ralph Callendar
1939
5.6
Behind Prison Gates
as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
1939
0.0
Beau Geste
as Sergeant Markoff
1939
6.9
Union Pacific
as Sid Campeau
1939
6.6
Jesse James
as Barshee
1939
6.5
Sharpshooters
as Steve Mitchell
1938
0.0
We're Going to Be Rich
as Yankee Gordon
1938
4.5
Battle of Broadway
as Chesty Webb
1938
4.0
In Old Chicago
as Gil Warren
1938
6.6
Born Reckless
as Bob Kane
1937
5.1
This Is My Affair
as Batiste Duryea
1937
7.3
Midnight Taxi
as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
1937
5.0
Crack-Up
as Ace Martin
1936
5.5
36 Hours to Kill
as Frank Evers
1936
5.3
High Tension
as Steve Reardon
1936
5.4
Half Angel
as Duffy Giles
1936
6.0
Human Cargo
as Packy Campbell
1936
6.0
13 Hours by Air
as James Evarts
1936
4.6
Strike Me Pink
as Vance
1936
6.6
Another Face
as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
1935
4.2
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Spike
1935
0.0
Barbary Coast
as Knuckles Jacoby
1935
6.5
A Modern Cinderella
as Charlie the Chauffeur
1932
4.7
🎬
Ireno
as Drunk (uncredited)
1932
6.0
Mother's Boy
as Harry O'Day
1929
0.0
🎬
Two Americans
as Unknown
1929
0.0
Gentlemen of the Press
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
1929
5.0
🎬
A Man of Quality
as Richard Courtney
1926
0.0
School for Wives
as Ralph
1925
0.0
Monsieur Beaucaire
as unknown
1924
5.2
Damaged Hearts
as Jim Porter
1924
0.0
Jamestown
as Minor Role (Uncredited)
1923
0.0