Brian Donlevy
Acting

Brian Donlevy

Born 9 February 1901 · Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK · Died 6 April 1972

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

The Quatermass Xperiment
Destry Rides Again
The Big Combo
Kiss of Death
Quatermass 2
Hangmen Also Die!
The Glass Key
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Jesse James
Beau Geste
The Curse of the Fly
The Great McGinty
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Pit Stop
Rogue's Gallery
Arizona Bushwhackers
Five Golden Dragons
Hostile Guns
Gammera the Invincible
Waco
The Fat Spy
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
The Curse of the Fly
The Pigeon That Took Rome
The Errand Boy
Girl In Room 13
Never So Few
Juke Box Rhythm
Cowboy
Quatermass 2
Escape from Red Rock
A Cry in the Night
The Big Combo
The Quatermass Xperiment
Woman They Almost Lynched
Hoodlum Empire
Ride the Man Down
Slaughter Trail
Fighting Coast Guard
Shakedown
Kansas Raiders
Impact
The Lucky Stiff
Command Decision
A Southern Yankee
Kiss of Death
The Beginning or the End
Killer McCoy
Heaven Only Knows
Song of Scheherazade
The Trouble with Women
Canyon Passage
The Virginian
Two Years Before the Mast
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Duffy's Tavern
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
An American Romance
Hangmen Also Die!
Stalingrad
Wake Island
The Glass Key
The Remarkable Andrew
A Gentleman After Dark
Stand by for Action
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Nightmare
Birth of the Blues
The Great Man's Lady
Billy the Kid
I Wanted Wings
South of Tahiti
The Great McGinty
Brigham Young
When the Daltons Rode
Beau Geste
Allegheny Uprising
Destry Rides Again
Jesse James
Union Pacific
Behind Prison Gates
In Old Chicago
Battle of Broadway
We're Going to Be Rich
Sharpshooters
This Is My Affair
Born Reckless
Midnight Taxi
36 Hours to Kill
Strike Me Pink
High Tension
Crack-Up
13 Hours by Air
Human Cargo
Half Angel
Barbary Coast
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Another Face
A Modern Cinderella
Mother's Boy
School for Wives
Damaged Hearts
Monsieur Beaucaire
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