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