Brian Donlevy
Known for: Acting
Born: February 8, 1901 in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK - Died: April 5, 1972
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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Never So Few
Gen. Sloan
Kiss of Death
Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
Hangmen Also Die!
Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Command Decision
Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
The Big Combo
Joe McClure
The Quatermass Xperiment
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Impact
Walter Williams
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Quatermass 2
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Hoodlum Empire
Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
Gammera the Invincible
Gen. Terry Arnold
The Errand Boy
Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
A Cry in the Night
Ed Bates
The Great McGinty
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Beau Geste
Sergeant Markoff
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Governor McGinty
Canyon Passage
George Camrose
Wake Island
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
Allegheny Uprising
Ralph Callendar
Jesse James
Barshee
Destry Rides Again
Kent
Union Pacific
Sid Campeau
36 Hours to Kill
Frank Evers