Brian Donlevy

actor • producer • soundtrack

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...

Born: February 9, 1901 in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Died: April 6, 1972 (age 71)

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Known For

6.9

The Big Combo

Movies & TV Credits

119 total credits across film and television

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Coded Short Film	7.2	Actor	Archival Footage	2021
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line Movie	7.3	Actor	Self (archive footage)	1997
James Stewart's Wonderful Life Movie	7.4	Actor	Self (archive footage)	1988
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! Movie	7.1	Actor	Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)	1987
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Movie	6.9	Actor	(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)	1982
Pit Stop Movie	6.5	Actor	Grant Willard	1969
Rogue's Gallery Movie	6.3	Actor	Detective Lee	1968
Arizona Bushwhackers Movie	4.8	Actor	Mayor Joe Smith	1968
Five Golden Dragons Movie	4.7	Actor	Dragon #3	1967
Hostile Guns Movie	5.2	Actor	Marshal Willett	1967
Waco Movie	5.2	Actor	Ace Ross	1966
Gammera the Invincible Movie	4.9	Actor	Gen. Terry Arnold	1966
The Fat Spy Movie	2.4	Actor	George Wellington	1966
Family Affair TV Show	6.8	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1966
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini Movie	4.9	Actor	B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson	1965
Curse of the Fly Movie	5.2	Actor	Henri Delambre	1965
The Big Parade of Comedy Movie	5.6	Actor	Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)	1964
The Pigeon That Took Rome Movie	5.7	Actor	Col. Sherman Harrington	1962
The Errand Boy Movie	6.3	Actor	Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual	1961
Target: The Corruptors TV Show	7.3	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1961
Girl In Room 13 Movie	5.6	Actor	Steve Marshall	1960
Juke Box Rhythm Movie	5.4	Actor	George Manton	1959
Never So Few Movie	5.7	Actor	Gen. Sloan	1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson TV Show	7.0	Actor	John Ridges(1 Episode)	1959
Rawhide TV Show	7.7	Actor	Jed Reston(1 Episode)	1959
Cowboy Movie	6.6	Actor	Doc Bender, Trailhand	1958
The Texan TV Show	7.3	Actor	—(2 Episodes)	1958
Quatermass 2 Movie	6.6	Actor	Prof. Bernard Quatermass	1957
Escape from Red Rock Movie	5.9	Actor	Bronc Grierson	1957
The DuPont Show of the Month TV Show	7.0	Actor	Constable Dale(1 Episode)	1957
Perry Mason TV Show	8.1	Actor	General Roger Brandon(1 Episode)	1957
A Cry in the Night Movie	5.8	Actor	Ed Bates	1956
Zane Grey Theatre TV Show	7.3	Actor	Fred Childress(1 Episode)	1956
The Big Combo Movie	7.4	Actor	Joe McClure	1955
The Quatermass Xperiment Movie	6.7	Actor	Bernard Quatermass	1955
Climax! TV Show	6.3	Actor	Sam Marvin(1 Episode)	1954
Woman They Almost Lynched Movie	6.3	Actor	Charles Quantrill	1953
Ride the Man Down Movie	5.9	Actor	Bide Marriner	1952
Hoodlum Empire Movie	5.7	Actor	Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens	1952
Slaughter Trail Movie	4.3	Actor	Capt. Dempster	1951
Fighting Coast Guard Movie	5.9	Actor	Cmdr. McFarland	1951
Shakedown Movie	6.9	Actor	Nick Palmer	1950
Kansas Raiders Movie	6.3	Actor	Quantrill	1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour TV Show	7.5	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1950
Lux Video Theatre TV Show	7.1	Actor	Daniel J. McGinty(1 Episode)	1950
Robert Montgomery Presents TV Show	7.4	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1950
Lux Video Theatre TV Show	7.1	Actor	Dan Carmody(1 Episode)	1950
Dangerous Assignment TV Show	6.4	Actor	—(41 Episodes)	1950
Lux Video Theatre TV Show	7.1	Actor	Walter Williams(1 Episode)	1950
Impact Movie	6.8	Actor	Walter Williams	1949
The Lucky Stiff Movie	5.8	Actor	John J. Malone	1949
A Southern Yankee Movie	6.4	Actor	Kurt Devlynn	1948
Command Decision Movie	7.4	Actor	Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet	1948
Studio One TV Show	7.3	Actor	Jim(1 Episode)	1948
The Beginning or the End Movie	6.3	Actor	Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves	1947
Kiss of Death Movie	7.3	Actor	Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo	1947
Killer McCoy Movie	6.4	Actor	Jim Caighn	1947
Heaven Only Knows Movie	6.4	Actor	Adam 'Duke' Byron	1947
The Trouble with Women Movie	5.9	Actor	Joe McBride	1947
Song of Scheherazade Movie	6.1	Actor	Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch	1947
The Virginian Movie	6.6	Actor	Trampas	1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up Movie	6.8	Actor	Tony Minnetti	1946
Canyon Passage Movie	6.7	Actor	George Camrose	1946
Two Years Before the Mast Movie	6.7	Actor	Richard Henry Dana	1946
Duffy's Tavern Movie	5.6	Actor	Brian Donlevy	1945
An American Romance Movie	6.5	Actor	Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos	1944
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek Movie	7.3	Actor	Governor McGinty	1944
Twenty Years After Short Film	6.0	Actor	(archive footage)	1944
Hangmen Also Die! Movie	7.2	Actor	Dr. Franticek Svoboda	1943
Stalingrad Movie	7.6	Actor	Narrator (English version)	1943
Nightmare Movie	6.1	Actor	Daniel Shane	1942
A Gentleman After Dark Movie	6.4	Actor	Harry Melton	1942
Wake Island Movie	6.8	Actor	Maj. Geoffrey Caton	1942
The Glass Key Movie	6.9	Actor	Paul Madvig	1942
The Remarkable Andrew Movie	6.5	Actor	General Andrew Jackson	1942
Stand by for Action Movie	6.3	Actor	Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts	1942
Two Yanks in Trinidad Movie	6.0	Actor	Vince Barrows	1942
Hold Back the Dawn Movie	7.1	Actor	Movie Actor (uncredited)	1941
I Wanted Wings Movie	6.0	Actor	Capt. Mercer	1941
Billy the Kid Movie	5.5	Actor	Jim Sherwood	1941
South of Tahiti Movie	5.8	Actor	Bob	1941
Birth of the Blues Movie	6.1	Actor	Memphis	1941
The Great Man's Lady Movie	6.4	Actor	Steely Edwards	1941
When the Daltons Rode Movie	6.2	Actor	Grat Dalton	1940
The Great McGinty Movie	7.3	Actor	Daniel 'Dan' McGinty	1940
Brigham Young Movie	6.1	Actor	Angus Duncan	1940
Behind Prison Gates Movie	6.4	Actor	Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray	1939
Jesse James Movie	6.8	Actor	Barshee	1939
Beau Geste Movie	7.6	Actor	Sergeant Markoff	1939
Allegheny Uprising Movie	6.2	Actor	Ralph Callendar	1939
Destry Rides Again Movie	7.5	Actor	Kent	1939
Union Pacific Movie	6.8	Actor	Sid Campeau	1939
Battle of Broadway Movie	6.3	Actor	Chesty Webb	1938
Sharpshooters Movie	3.7	Actor	Steve Mitchell	1938
We're Going to Be Rich Movie	6.4	Actor	Yankee Gordon	1938
In Old Chicago Movie	6.5	Actor	Gil Warren	1938
Midnight Taxi Movie	6.5	Actor	Charles 'Chick' Gardner	1937
Born Reckless Movie	5.8	Actor	Bob Kane	1937
This Is My Affair Movie	6.4	Actor	Batiste Duryea	1937
36 Hours to Kill Movie	5.9	Actor	Frank Evers	1936
Crack-Up Movie	5.9	Actor	Ace Martin	1936
Human Cargo Movie	6.0	Actor	Packy Campbell	1936
High Tension Movie	5.4	Actor	Steve Reardon	1936
Half Angel Movie	5.4	Actor	Duffy Giles	1936
13 Hours by Air Movie	5.9	Actor	James Evarts	1936
Strike Me Pink Movie	6.2	Actor	Vance	1936
Another Face Movie	5.8	Actor	Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III	1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive Movie	6.6	Actor	Spike	1935
Barbary Coast Movie	6.6	Actor	Knuckles Jacoby	1935
Ireno Short Film	6.6	Actor	Drunk (uncredited)	1932
A Modern Cinderella Short Film	5.4	Actor	Charlie the Chauffeur	1932
Mother's Boy Movie	5.5	Actor	Harry O'Day	1929
Gentlemen of the Press Movie	5.9	Actor	Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)	1929
Two Americans Short Film	7.1	Actor	Unknown	1929
A Man of Quality Movie	4.9	Actor	Richard Courtney	1926
School for Wives Movie	5.9	Actor	Ralph	1925
Damaged Hearts Movie	—	Actor	Jim Porter	1924
Monsieur Beaucaire Movie	5.8	Actor	unknown	1924
Jamestown Short Film	9.5	Actor	Minor Role (Uncredited)	1923

Brian Donlevy

Known For

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Destry Rides Again

Kiss of Death

The Big Combo

Movies & TV Credits