Brian Donlevy
Acting
- Born:
- 1901-02-09
- Died:
- 1972-04-06
- Place of birth:
- Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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
Filmography
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
The World of Hammer
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Pit Stop
Arizona Bushwhackers
Rogue's Gallery
Five Golden Dragons
Hostile Guns
Gammera the Invincible
Family Affair
Waco
The Fat Spy
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Curse of the Fly
The Big Parade of Comedy
The Pigeon That Took Rome
The Errand Boy
Target: The Corruptors!
Girl In Room 13
Never So Few
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Juke Box Rhythm
Rawhide
The Texan
Cowboy
Escape from Red Rock
DuPont Show of the Month
Perry Mason
Quatermass 2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
A Cry in the Night
Crossroads
The Quatermass Xperiment
The Big Combo
Climax!
Woman They Almost Lynched
Ride the Man Down
Hoodlum Empire
Dangerous Assignment
Slaughter Trail
Fighting Coast Guard
Kansas Raiders
Lux Video Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Shakedown
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Lucky Stiff
Impact
Command Decision
Studio One
A Southern Yankee
Killer McCoy
Heaven Only Knows
Kiss of Death
The Trouble with Women
Song of Scheherazade
The Beginning or the End
Two Years Before the Mast
Canyon Passage
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
The Virginian
Duffy's Tavern
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
An American Romance
Twenty Years After
Stalingrad
Hangmen Also Die!
Stand by for Action
Nightmare
The Glass Key
Wake Island
A Gentleman After Dark
Two Yanks in Trinidad
The Remarkable Andrew
Birth of the Blues
The Great Man's Lady
South of Tahiti
Hold Back the Dawn
Billy the Kid
I Wanted Wings
Brigham Young
When the Daltons Rode
The Great McGinty
Destry Rides Again
Allegheny Uprising
Behind Prison Gates
Beau Geste
Union Pacific
Jesse James
Sharpshooters
We're Going to Be Rich
Battle of Broadway
In Old Chicago
Born Reckless
This Is My Affair
Midnight Taxi
Crack-Up
36 Hours to Kill
High Tension
Half Angel
Human Cargo
13 Hours by Air
Strike Me Pink
Another Face
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Barbary Coast
A Modern Cinderella
Ireno
Mother's Boy
Two Americans
Gentlemen of the Press
A Man of Quality
School for Wives
Monsieur Beaucaire
Damaged Hearts
Jamestown