Brian Donlevy

Born: 1901-02-09, Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK

Died: 1972-04-06

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

• Perry Mason (1957)
• Rawhide (1959)
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
• Studio One (1948)
• Climax! (1954)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
• The Texan (1958)
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)
• Dangerous Assignment (1952)
• Target: The Corruptors! (1961)
• Never So Few (1959)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• In Old Chicago (1938)
• Jesse James (1939)
• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• Cowboy (1958)
• The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
• Crack-Up (1936)
• Brigham Young (1940)
• Canyon Passage (1946)
• Kansas Raiders (1950)
• Twenty Years After (1944)
• Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
• Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
• Command Decision (1948)
• Barbary Coast (1935)
• I Wanted Wings (1941)
• The Glass Key (1942)
• Quatermass 2 (1957)
• The Big Combo (1955)