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

• 2021Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker — Archival Footage
• 1987Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood — Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
• 1982Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid — (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
• 1969Pit Stop — Grant Willard
• 1968Arizona Bushwhackers — Mayor Joe Smith
• 1968Rogue's Gallery — Detective Lee
• 1967Five Golden Dragons — Dragon #3
• 1967Hostile Guns — Marshal Willett
• Family Affair
• 1966Gammera the Invincible — Gen. Terry Arnold
• 1966The Fat Spy — George Wellington
• 1966Waco — Ace Ross
• 1965Curse of the Fly — Henri Delambre
• 1965How to Stuff a Wild Bikini — B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
• 1964The Big Parade of Comedy — Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
• 1962The Pigeon That Took Rome — Col. Sherman Harrington
• Target: The Corruptors!
• 1961The Errand Boy — Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
• 1960Girl In Room 13 — Steve Marshall
• 1959Juke Box Rhythm — George Manton
• 1959Never So Few — Gen. Sloan
• Rawhide — Jed Reston
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — John Ridges
• 1958Cowboy — Doc Bender, Trailhand
• The Texan
• DuPont Show of the Month — Constable Dale
• 1957Escape from Red Rock — Bronc Grierson
• Perry Mason — General Roger Brandon
• 1957Quatermass 2 — Prof. Bernard Quatermass
• 1956A Cry in the Night — Ed Bates
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Fred Childress
• Crossroads — Dr. Roy Bell
• 1955The Big Combo — Joe McClure
• 1955The Quatermass Xperiment — Prof. Bernard Quatermass
• Climax! — Sam Marvin
• 1953Woman They Almost Lynched — Charles Quantrill
• Dangerous Assignment
• 1952Hoodlum Empire — Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
• 1952Ride the Man Down — Bide Marriner
• 1951Fighting Coast Guard — Cmdr. McFarland
• 1951Slaughter Trail — Capt. Dempster
• 1950Kansas Raiders — Quantrill
• Lux Video Theatre — Dan Carmody, Walter Williams, Daniel J. McGinty
• Robert Montgomery Presents
• 1950Shakedown — Nick Palmer
• 1949Impact — Walter Williams
• 1949The Lucky Stiff — John J. Malone
• 1948A Southern Yankee — Kurt Devlynn
• 1948Command Decision — Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
• Studio One — Jim
• 1947Heaven Only Knows — Adam 'Duke' Byron
• 1947Killer McCoy — Jim Caighn
• 1947Kiss of Death — Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
• 1947Song of Scheherazade — Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
• 1947The Beginning or the End — Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
• 1947The Trouble with Women — Joe McBride
• 1946Canyon Passage — George Camrose
• 1946Our Hearts Were Growing Up — Tony Minnetti
• 1946The Virginian — Trampas
• 1946Two Years Before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana
• 1945Duffy's Tavern — Brian Donlevy
• 1944An American Romance — Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
• 1944The Miracle of Morgan's Creek — Governor McGinty
• 1944Twenty Years After — (archive footage)
• 1943Hangmen Also Die! — Dr. Franticek Svoboda
• 1943Stalingrad — Narrator (English version)
• 1942A Gentleman After Dark — Harry Melton
• 1942Nightmare — Daniel Shane
• 1942Stand by for Action — Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
• 1942The Glass Key — Paul Madvig
• 1942The Remarkable Andrew — General Andrew Jackson
• 1942Two Yanks in Trinidad — Vince Barrows
• 1942Wake Island — Maj. Geoffrey Caton
• 1941Billy the Kid — Jim Sherwood
• 1941Birth of the Blues — Memphis
• 1941Hold Back the Dawn — Movie Actor (uncredited)
• 1941I Wanted Wings — Capt. Mercer
• 1941South of Tahiti — Bob
• 1941The Great Man's Lady — Steely Edwards
• 1940Brigham Young — Angus Duncan
• 1940The Great McGinty — Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
• 1940When the Daltons Rode — Grat Dalton
• 1939Allegheny Uprising — Ralph Callendar
• 1939Beau Geste — Sergeant Markoff
• 1939Behind Prison Gates — Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
• 1939Destry Rides Again — Kent
• 1939Jesse James — Barshee
• 1939Union Pacific — Sid Campeau
• 1938Battle of Broadway — Chesty Webb
• 1938In Old Chicago — Gil Warren
• 1938Sharpshooters — Steve Mitchell
• 1938We're Going to Be Rich — Yankee Gordon
• 1937Born Reckless — Bob Kane
• 1937Midnight Taxi — Charles 'Chick' Gardner
• 1937This Is My Affair — Batiste Duryea
• 193613 Hours by Air — James Evarts
• 193636 Hours to Kill — Frank Evers
• 1936Crack-Up — Ace Martin
• 1936Half Angel — Duffy Giles
• 1936High Tension — Steve Reardon
• 1936Human Cargo — Packy Campbell
• 1936Strike Me Pink — Vance
• 1935Another Face — Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
• 1935Barbary Coast — Knuckles Jacoby
• 1935Mary Burns, Fugitive — Spike
• 1932A Modern Cinderella — Charlie the Chauffeur
• 1932Ireno — Drunk (uncredited)
• 1929Gentlemen of the Press — Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
• 1929Mother's Boy — Harry O'Day
• 1929Two Americans — Unknown
• 1926A Man of Quality — Richard Courtney
• 1925School for Wives — Ralph
• 1924Damaged Hearts — Jim Porter
• 1924Monsieur Beaucaire — unknown
• 1923Jamestown — Minor Role (Uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 1997Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line — Self (archive footage)
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self