Brian Donlevy
Known for: Acting
Born: February 9, 1901
Died: April 6, 1972
Place of birth: Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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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Filmography
103 movies · 16 TV shows, newest first
6.3
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021
7.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
6.8
The World of Hammer
1994
6.4
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
6.6
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
6.9
Pit Stop
1969
4.3
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968
7.0
Rogue's Gallery
1968
5.2
Five Golden Dragons
1967
5.6
Hostile Guns
1967
5.1
Gammera the Invincible
1966
6.7
Family Affair
1966
6.7
Waco
1966
3.1
The Fat Spy
1966
5.3
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
5.4
Curse of the Fly
1965
7.2
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
5.3
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962
6.2
The Errand Boy
1961
5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
6.0
Girl In Room 13
1960
5.5
Never So Few
1959
6.8
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
7.7
Juke Box Rhythm
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
6.0
The Texan
1958
6.5
Cowboy
1958
7.0
Escape from Red Rock
1957
7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
1957
6.4
Quatermass 2
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
5.4
A Cry in the Night
1956
6.8
Crossroads
1955
6.5
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
7.0
The Big Combo
1955
3.8
Climax!
1954
6.6
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
7.7
Ride the Man Down
1952
6.5
Hoodlum Empire
1952
5.3
Dangerous Assignment
1952
4.5
Slaughter Trail
1951
6.7
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
6.0
Kansas Raiders
19506.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
6.4
Shakedown
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.8
The Lucky Stiff
1949
6.1
Impact
1949
6.6
Command Decision
1948
5.4
Studio One
1948
5.7
A Southern Yankee
1948
6.3
Killer McCoy
1947
6.5
Heaven Only Knows
1947
7.1
Kiss of Death
1947
9.5
The Trouble with Women
1947
6.6
Song of Scheherazade
1947
6.4
The Beginning or the End
1947
6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
6.7
Canyon Passage
1946
6.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
6.2
The Virginian
1946
6.4
Duffy's Tavern
1945
6.8
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
6.1
An American Romance
1944
8.0
Twenty Years After
1944
5.7
Stalingrad
1943
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
7.0
Stand by for Action
1942
6.3
Nightmare
1942
6.7
The Glass Key
1942
5.9
Wake Island
1942
4.6
A Gentleman After Dark
1942
4.0
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
7.4
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
6.2
Birth of the Blues
1941
6.3
The Great Man's Lady
1941
6.5
South of Tahiti
1941
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
5.3
Billy the Kid
1941
5.6
I Wanted Wings
1941
4.6
Brigham Young
1940
6.2
When the Daltons Rode
1940
7.0
The Great McGinty
1940
7.2
Destry Rides Again
1939
5.9
Allegheny Uprising
1939
10.0
Behind Prison Gates
1939
7.0
Beau Geste
1939
6.7
Union Pacific
1939
6.5
Jesse James
1939
8.0
Sharpshooters
1938
5.0
We're Going to Be Rich
1938
5.0
Battle of Broadway
1938
6.7
In Old Chicago
1938
5.4
Born Reckless
1937
7.3
This Is My Affair
1937
6.2
Midnight Taxi
1937
5.9
Crack-Up
1936
6.1
36 Hours to Kill
1936
5.8
High Tension
1936
7.5
Half Angel
1936
7.5
Human Cargo
1936
5.2
13 Hours by Air
1936
6.6
Strike Me Pink
1936
4.8
Another Face
1935
9.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
6.4
Barbary Coast
1935
5.4
A Modern Cinderella
19327.5
Ireno
1932
7.0
Mother's Boy
19297.0
Two Americans
1929
6.7
Gentlemen of the Press
192910.0
A Man of Quality
1926
8.0
School for Wives
1925
5.6
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924
8.0
Damaged Hearts
1924
10.0
Jamestown
1923