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".
Known For
Top 40 Movies
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
Union Pacific
1939
The Trouble with Women
1947
Behind Prison Gates
1939
Midnight Taxi
1937
Command Decision
1948
Kansas Raiders
1950
Damaged Hearts
1924
Beau Geste
1939
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
Stand by for Action
1942
When the Daltons Rode
1940
Another Face
1935
Billy the Kid
1941
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Impact
1949
Duffy's Tavern
1945
Quatermass 2
1957
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Born Reckless
1937
The Great Man's Lady
1941
Slaughter Trail
1951
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Never So Few
1959
School for Wives
1925
Hostile Guns
1967
Birth of the Blues
1941
Destry Rides Again
1939
Jesse James
1939
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
Barbary Coast
1935
Cowboy
1958
The Virginian
1946
Pit Stop
1969
The Errand Boy
1961