Brian Donlevy

Brian Donlevy

Birthday: 1901-02-09

Deathday: 1972-04-06

Place of birth: Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Also known as: Waldo Brian Donlevy, McGinty

imdb_id: nm0002046

Biography:

Brian Donlevy 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".

Played in movies:

The Remarkable Andrew

Score: 8.2

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

Score: 7.4

This Is My Affair

Score: 7.3

Destry Rides Again

Score: 7.2

The Big Combo

Score: 7.0

Kiss of Death

Score: 7.0

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Score: 7.0

Juke Box Rhythm

Score: 7.0

Beau Geste

Score: 7.0

Hangmen Also Die!

Score: 6.9

The Great McGinty

Score: 6.9

Stand by for Action

Score: 6.8

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Score: 6.8

Pit Stop

Score: 6.7

Hold Back the Dawn

Score: 6.7

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Score: 6.6

The Glass Key

Score: 6.6

Strike Me Pink

Score: 6.6

Canyon Passage

Score: 6.6

Barbary Coast

Score: 6.6

Ride the Man Down

Score: 6.5

Fighting Coast Guard

Score: 6.5

The Beginning or the End

Score: 6.5

Union Pacific

Score: 6.5

The Quatermass Xperiment

Score: 6.5

In Old Chicago

Score: 6.5

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Score: 6.4

Waco

Score: 6.4

Jesse James

Score: 6.4

Quatermass 2

Score: 6.4

Command Decision

Score: 6.4

Cowboy

Score: 6.4

Woman They Almost Lynched

Score: 6.3

The Big Parade of Comedy

Score: 6.3

The Great Man's Lady

Score: 6.3

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Score: 6.2

Two Years Before the Mast

Score: 6.2

Shakedown

Score: 6.2

Duffy's Tavern

Score: 6.1

The Errand Boy

Score: 6.1

Hoodlum Empire

Score: 6.1

The Virginian

Score: 6.1

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Score: 6.0

Twenty Years After

Score: 6.0

Ireno

Score: 6.0

South of Tahiti

Score: 6.0

Half Angel

Score: 6.0

Human Cargo

Score: 6.0

Rogue's Gallery

Score: 6.0

When the Daltons Rode

Score: 6.0

Heaven Only Knows

Score: 6.0

Killer McCoy

Score: 6.0

Impact

Score: 6.0

Monsieur Beaucaire

Score: 5.9

An American Romance

Score: 5.9

Song of Scheherazade

Score: 5.8

Kansas Raiders

Score: 5.8

Crack-Up

Score: 5.8

Wake Island

Score: 5.7

Birth of the Blues

Score: 5.6

Allegheny Uprising

Score: 5.6

High Tension

Score: 5.4

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Score: 5.4

Curse of the Fly

Score: 5.4

Never So Few

Score: 5.4

I Wanted Wings

Score: 5.4

The Pigeon That Took Rome

Score: 5.3

36 Hours to Kill

Score: 5.3

Five Golden Dragons

Score: 5.3

A Southern Yankee

Score: 5.2

Stalingrad

Score: 5.2

A Cry in the Night

Score: 5.2

Hostile Guns

Score: 5.1

Born Reckless

Score: 5.1

Nightmare

Score: 5.0

Gentlemen of the Press

Score: 5.0

Girl In Room 13

Score: 5.0

We're Going to Be Rich

Score: 5.0

Midnight Taxi

Score: 5.0

The Lucky Stiff

Score: 4.8

Gammera the Invincible

Score: 4.8

Billy the Kid

Score: 4.8

13 Hours by Air

Score: 4.6

Brigham Young

Score: 4.4

Another Face

Score: 4.2

Battle of Broadway

Score: 4.2

A Modern Cinderella

Score: 4.0

Slaughter Trail

Score: 3.8

Arizona Bushwhackers

Score: 3.6

A Gentleman After Dark

Score: 3.5

The Fat Spy

Score: 2.7

Two Yanks in Trinidad

Score: 2.0

Mother's Boy

Score: 0.0

Sharpshooters

Score: 0.0

School for Wives

Score: 0.0

Two Americans

Score: 0.0

Jamestown

Score: 0.0

The Trouble with Women

Score: 0.0

Escape from Red Rock

Score: 0.0

A Man of Quality

Score: 0.0

Damaged Hearts

Score: 0.0

Behind Prison Gates

Score: 0.0

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

DuPont Show of the Month

Score: 6.8

Family Affair

Score: 6.6

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Score: 6.3

Robert Montgomery Presents

Score: 5.6

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

Studio One

Score: 5.0

Dangerous Assignment

Score: 3.5

Target: The Corruptors!

Score: 3.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3