Personal Info
Birthday
February 9, 1901
Place of Birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Known For
Acting
Brian Donlevy
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".
Acting Filmography (114)
6.3
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Movie2021
7.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie1997
6.8
The World of Hammer
TV Series1994
6.4
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Movie1987
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie1987
6.7
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie1982
6.8
Pit Stop
Movie1969
4.3
Arizona Bushwhackers
Movie1968
7.0
Rogue's Gallery
Movie1968
5.2
Five Golden Dragons
Movie1967
5.6
Hostile Guns
Movie1967
5.1
Gammera the Invincible
Movie1966
6.7
Family Affair
TV Series1966
6.7
Waco
Movie1966
3.1
The Fat Spy
Movie1966
5.3
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Movie1965
5.4
Curse of the Fly
Movie1965
7.2
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie1964
5.3
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Movie1962
6.2
The Errand Boy
Movie1961
5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
TV Series1961
6.0
Girl In Room 13
Movie1960
5.5
Never So Few
Movie1959
No Backdrop
6.8
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV Series1959
No Backdrop
7.7
Juke Box Rhythm
Movie1959
7.2
Rawhide
TV Series1959
No Backdrop
6.0
The Texan
TV Series1958
6.5
Cowboy
Movie1958
7.0
Escape from Red Rock
Movie1957
No Backdrop
7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
TV Series1957
7.7
Perry Mason
TV Series1957
6.4
Quatermass 2
Movie1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV Series1956
5.4
A Cry in the Night
Movie1956
6.5
The Quatermass Xperiment
Movie1955
7.0
The Big Combo
Movie1955
3.8
Climax!
TV Series1954
6.6
Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie1953
7.7
Ride the Man Down
Movie1952
6.5
Hoodlum Empire
Movie1952
5.3
Dangerous Assignment
TV Series1952
4.5
Slaughter Trail
Movie1951
6.7
Fighting Coast Guard
Movie1951
6.0
Kansas Raiders
Movie1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV Series1950
6.4
Shakedown
Movie1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV Series1950
5.8
The Lucky Stiff
Movie1949
6.1
Impact
Movie1949
6.6
Command Decision
Movie1948
5.4
Studio One
TV Series1948
5.5
A Southern Yankee
Movie1948
6.3
Killer McCoy
Movie1947
6.5
Heaven Only Knows
Movie1947
7.1
Kiss of Death
Movie1947
9.5
The Trouble with Women
Movie1947
6.6
Song of Scheherazade
Movie1947
6.4
The Beginning or the End
Movie1947
6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
Movie1946
6.7
Canyon Passage
Movie1946
6.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Movie1946
6.2
The Virginian
Movie1946
6.4
Duffy's Tavern
Movie1945
6.9
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Movie1944
6.1
An American Romance
Movie1944
No Backdrop
8.0
Twenty Years After
Movie1944
No Backdrop
5.7
Stalingrad
Movie1943
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
Movie1943
7.0
Stand by for Action
Movie1942
6.3
Nightmare
Movie1942
6.6
The Glass Key
Movie1942
5.9
Wake Island
Movie1942
4.6
A Gentleman After Dark
Movie1942
4.0
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Movie1942
7.4
The Remarkable Andrew
Movie1942
6.2
Birth of the Blues
Movie1941
6.3
The Great Man's Lady
Movie1941
6.5
South of Tahiti
Movie1941
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie1941
5.3
Billy the Kid
Movie1941
5.6
I Wanted Wings
Movie1941
4.6
Brigham Young
Movie1940
6.2
When the Daltons Rode
Movie1940
7.0
The Great McGinty
Movie1940
7.2
Destry Rides Again
Movie1939
5.9
Allegheny Uprising
Movie1939
10.0
Behind Prison Gates
Movie1939
7.0
Beau Geste
Movie1939
6.7
Union Pacific
Movie1939
6.5
Jesse James
Movie1939
No Backdrop
8.0
Sharpshooters
Movie1938
5.0
We're Going to Be Rich
Movie1938
5.0
Battle of Broadway
Movie1938
6.7
In Old Chicago
Movie1938
5.4
Born Reckless
Movie1937
7.3
This Is My Affair
Movie1937
6.2
Midnight Taxi
Movie1937
5.9
Crack-Up
Movie1936
6.1
36 Hours to Kill
Movie1936
5.8
High Tension
Movie1936
7.5
Half Angel
Movie1936
7.5
Human Cargo
Movie1936
5.2
13 Hours by Air
Movie1936
6.6
Strike Me Pink
Movie1936
4.8
Another Face
Movie1935
9.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie1935
6.4
Barbary Coast
Movie1935
No Backdrop
5.4
A Modern Cinderella
Movie1932
7.0
Mother's Boy
Movie1929
6.7
Gentlemen of the Press
Movie1929
No Backdrop
8.0
School for Wives
Movie1925
5.6
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie1924
No Backdrop
8.0
Damaged Hearts
Movie1924
No Backdrop
10.0
Jamestown
Movie1923