Brian Donlevy

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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

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

The Quatermass Xperiment

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Destry Rides Again

Kent

The Big Combo

Joe McClure

Kiss of Death

Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo

Quatermass 2

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Hangmen Also Die!

Dr. Franticek Svoboda

Perry Mason

General Roger Brandon

Full Filmography

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

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