Brian Donlevy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1901
- Place of birth
- Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
- Died
- April 6, 1972
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".
Movies with Brian Donlevy
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 · ★ 6.6
- The Quatermass Xperiment 1955 · ★ 6.5
- Destry Rides Again 1939 · ★ 7.2
- The Big Combo 1955 · ★ 7.0
- Kiss of Death 1947 · ★ 7.1
- Quatermass 2 1957 · ★ 6.4
- Hangmen Also Die! 1943 · ★ 6.9
- The Glass Key 1942 · ★ 6.7
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 · ★ 6.8
- Jesse James 1939 · ★ 6.6
- Beau Geste 1939 · ★ 7.0
- The Curse of the Fly 1965 · ★ 5.4
- The Great McGinty 1940 · ★ 7.0
- Union Pacific 1939 · ★ 6.7
- Cowboy 1958 · ★ 6.5
- Never So Few 1959 · ★ 5.5
- Canyon Passage 1946 · ★ 6.8
- Impact 1949 · ★ 6.1
- The Errand Boy 1961 · ★ 6.2
- In Old Chicago 1938 · ★ 6.7
- Hold Back the Dawn 1941 · ★ 6.7
- Barbary Coast 1935 · ★ 6.4
- Gammera the Invincible 1966 · ★ 5.1
- Allegheny Uprising 1939 · ★ 5.9
- Wake Island 1942 · ★ 5.8
- Pit Stop 1969 · ★ 6.9
- The Virginian 1946 · ★ 6.0
- Command Decision 1948 · ★ 6.6
- How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 1965 · ★ 5.3
- Billy the Kid 1941 · ★ 5.3
- Shakedown 1950 · ★ 6.4
- Kansas Raiders 1950 · ★ 6.0
- Woman They Almost Lynched 1953 · ★ 6.6
- When the Daltons Rode 1940 · ★ 6.2
- Five Golden Dragons 1967 · ★ 5.2
- A Cry in the Night 1956 · ★ 5.4
- This Is My Affair 1937 · ★ 7.3
- Brigham Young 1940 · ★ 4.6
- Stand by for Action 1942 · ★ 7.0
- The Fat Spy 1966 · ★ 3.1