Actor
Brian Donlevy
February 9, 1901 · 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".
Notable work
Often works with
Akim Tamiroff
3 titles together
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Union Pacific, The Great McGinty
Alan Ladd
2 titles together
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Glass Key
Barbara Stanwyck
2 titles together
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Union Pacific
Ray Milland
2 titles together
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Beau Geste
Veronica Lake
2 titles together
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Glass Key
Marianne Stone
2 titles together
The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2
Full filmography · 115
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
as Archival Footage
2021
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
1987
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
19826.6
Pit Stop
as Grant Willard
19696.9
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith
1968
Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee
1968
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3
19675.2
Hostile Guns
as Marshal Willett
1967
Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold
19665.1
Waco
as Ace Ross
1966
The Fat Spy
as George Wellington
1966
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
19655.3