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