Brian Donlevy

from Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

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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".

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Timeline

2021Aged 120

  • Poster for Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

    Archival Footage

1997Aged 96

  • Poster for Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

    Self (archive footage)

1987Aged 86

  • Poster for James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)

1982Aged 81

  • Poster for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

    (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

1969Aged 68

  • Poster for Pit Stop

    Grant Willard

1968Aged 67

  • Poster for Rogue's Gallery

    Detective Lee

  • Poster for Arizona Bushwhackers

    Mayor Joe Smith

1967Aged 66

  • Poster for Hostile Guns

    Marshal Willett

  • Poster for Five Golden Dragons

    Dragon #3

1966Aged 65

  • Poster for The Fat Spy

    George Wellington

  • Poster for Waco

    Ace Ross

  • Poster for Gammera the Invincible

    Gen. Terry Arnold

1965Aged 64

  • Poster for Curse of the Fly

    Henri Delambre

  • Poster for How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

    B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson

1964Aged 63

  • Poster for The Big Parade of Comedy

    Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)

1962Aged 61

  • Poster for The Pigeon That Took Rome

    Col. Sherman Harrington

1961Aged 60

  • Poster for The Errand Boy

    Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual

1960Aged 59

  • Poster for Girl In Room 13

    Steve Marshall

1959Aged 58

  • Poster for Juke Box Rhythm

    George Manton

  • Poster for Never So Few

    Gen. Sloan

1958Aged 57

  • Poster for Cowboy

    Doc Bender, Trailhand

1957Aged 56

  • Poster for Quatermass 2

    Prof. Bernard Quatermass

  • Poster for Escape from Red Rock

    Bronc Grierson

1956Aged 55

  • Poster for A Cry in the Night

    Ed Bates

1955Aged 54

  • Poster for The Big Combo

    Joe McClure

  • Poster for The Quatermass Xperiment

    Prof. Bernard Quatermass

1953Aged 52

  • Poster for Woman They Almost Lynched

    Charles Quantrill

1952Aged 51

  • Poster for Hoodlum Empire

    Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens

  • Poster for Ride the Man Down

    Bide Marriner

1951Aged 50

  • Poster for Fighting Coast Guard

    Cmdr. McFarland

  • Poster for Slaughter Trail

    Capt. Dempster

1950Aged 49

  • Poster for Shakedown

    Nick Palmer

  • Poster for Kansas Raiders

    Quantrill

1949Aged 48

  • Poster for Impact

    Walter Williams

  • Poster for The Lucky Stiff

    John J. Malone

1948Aged 47

  • Poster for A Southern Yankee

    Kurt Devlynn

  • Poster for Command Decision

    Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet

1947Aged 46

  • Poster for The Beginning or the End

    Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves

  • Poster for Song of Scheherazade

    Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch

  • Poster for The Trouble with Women

    Joe McBride

  • Poster for Kiss of Death

    Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo

  • Poster for Heaven Only Knows

    Adam 'Duke' Byron

  • Poster for Killer McCoy

    Jim Caighn

1946Aged 45

  • Poster for The Virginian

    Trampas

  • Poster for Our Hearts Were Growing Up

    Tony Minnetti

  • Poster for Canyon Passage

    George Camrose

  • Poster for Two Years Before the Mast

    Richard Henry Dana

1945Aged 44

  • Poster for Duffy's Tavern

    Brian Donlevy

1944Aged 43

  • Poster for Twenty Years After

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for An American Romance

    Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos

  • Poster for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

    Governor McGinty

1943Aged 42

  • Poster for Hangmen Also Die!

    Dr. Franticek Svoboda

  • Poster for Stalingrad

    Narrator (English version)

1942Aged 41

  • Poster for The Remarkable Andrew

    General Andrew Jackson

  • Poster for Two Yanks in Trinidad

    Vince Barrows

  • Poster for A Gentleman After Dark

    Harry Melton

  • Poster for Wake Island

    Maj. Geoffrey Caton

  • Poster for The Glass Key

    Paul Madvig

  • Poster for Nightmare

    Daniel Shane

  • Poster for Stand by for Action

    Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts

1941Aged 40

  • Poster for I Wanted Wings

    Capt. Mercer

  • Poster for Billy the Kid

    Jim Sherwood

  • Poster for Hold Back the Dawn

    Movie Actor (uncredited)

  • Poster for South of Tahiti

    Bob

  • Poster for The Great Man's Lady

    Steely Edwards

  • Poster for Birth of the Blues

    Memphis

1940Aged 39

  • Poster for The Great McGinty

    Daniel 'Dan' McGinty

  • Poster for When the Daltons Rode

    Grat Dalton

  • Poster for Brigham Young

    Angus Duncan

1939Aged 38

  • Poster for Jesse James

    Barshee

  • Poster for Union Pacific

    Sid Campeau

  • Poster for Beau Geste

    Sergeant Markoff

  • Poster for Behind Prison Gates

    Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray

  • Poster for Allegheny Uprising

    Ralph Callendar

  • Poster for Destry Rides Again

    Kent

1938Aged 37

  • Poster for In Old Chicago

    Gil Warren

  • Poster for Battle of Broadway

    Chesty Webb

  • Poster for We're Going to Be Rich

    Yankee Gordon

  • Poster for Sharpshooters

    Steve Mitchell

1937Aged 36

  • Poster for Midnight Taxi

    Charles 'Chick' Gardner

  • Poster for This Is My Affair

    Batiste Duryea

  • Poster for Born Reckless

    Bob Kane

1936Aged 35

  • Poster for Strike Me Pink

    Vance

  • Poster for 13 Hours by Air

    James Evarts

  • Poster for Human Cargo

    Packy Campbell

  • Poster for Half Angel

    Duffy Giles

  • Poster for High Tension

    Steve Reardon

  • Poster for 36 Hours to Kill

    Frank Evers

  • Poster for Crack-Up

    Ace Martin

1935Aged 34

  • Poster for Barbary Coast

    Knuckles Jacoby

  • Poster for Mary Burns, Fugitive

    Spike

  • Poster for Another Face

    Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III

1932Aged 31

  • Ireno

    Drunk (uncredited)

  • Poster for A Modern Cinderella

    Charlie the Chauffeur

1929Aged 28

1926Aged 25

1925Aged 24

  • Poster for School for Wives

    Ralph

1924Aged 23

  • Poster for Damaged Hearts

    Jim Porter

  • Poster for Monsieur Beaucaire

    unknown

1923Aged 22

  • Poster for Jamestown

    Minor Role (Uncredited)