Birthday
1901/02/09
Day of death
1972/04/06 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Also know as
Waldo Brian Donlevy, McGinty
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...Read more
(1959) Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan
(1947) Kiss of Death
as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
(1943) Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
(1948) Command Decision
as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
(1955) The Big Combo
as Joe McClure
(1955) The Quatermass Xperiment
as Bernard Quatermass
(1949) Impact
as Walter Williams
(1982) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
(1957) Quatermass 2
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
(1952) Hoodlum Empire
as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
(1965) How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
(1966) Gammera the Invincible
as Gen. Terry Arnold
(1961) The Errand Boy
as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
(1956) A Cry in the Night
as Ed Bates
(1940) The Great McGinty
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
(1939) Beau Geste
as Sergeant Markoff
(1943) The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
as Governor McGinty
(1946) Canyon Passage
as George Camrose
(1942) Wake Island
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
(1939) Allegheny Uprising
as Ralph Callendar
(1939) Destry Rides Again
as Kent
(1939) Jesse James
as Barshee
(1939) Union Pacific
as Sid Campeau
(1936) 36 Hours to Kill
as Frank Evers
(1965) Curse of the Fly
as Henri Delambre
(1942) The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
(1958) Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
(1941) Hold Back the Dawn
as Movie Actor (uncredited)
(1950) Shakedown
as Nick Palmer
(1940) Brigham Young
as Angus Duncan
(1969) Pit Stop
as Grant Willard
(1947) The Beginning or the End
as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
(1935) Barbary Coast
as Knuckles Jacoby
(1967) Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #3
(1943) Stalingrad
as Narrator (English version)
(1947) Killer McCoy
as Jim Caighn
(1941) Birth of the Blues
as Memphis
(1938) In Old Chicago
as Gil Warren
(1942) The Remarkable Andrew
as General Andrew Jackson
(1942) A Gentleman After Dark
as Harry Melton
(1941) The Great Man's Lady
as Steely Edwards
(1950) Kansas Raiders
as Quantrill
(1966) Waco
as Ace Ross
(1947) Heaven Only Knows
as Adam 'Duke' Byron
(1942) Stand by for Action
as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
(1946) The Virginian
as Trampas
(1935) Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Spike
(1951) Slaughter Trail
as Capt. Dempster
(1941) Billy the Kid
as Jim Sherwood
(1936) Strike Me Pink
as Vance
(1938) Battle of Broadway
as Chesty Webb
(1941) I Wanted Wings
as Capt. Mercer
(1940) When the Daltons Rode
as Grat Dalton
(1937) This Is My Affair
as Batiste Duryea
(1949) The Lucky Stiff
as John J. Malone
(1953) Woman They Almost Lynched
as Charles Quantrill
(1944) An American Romance
as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
(1968) Rogue's Gallery
as Detective Lee
(1936) High Tension
as Steve Reardon
(1968) Arizona Bushwhackers
as Mayor Joe Smith
(1962) The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Col. Sherman Harrington
(1939) Behind Prison Gates
as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
(1967) Hostile Guns
as Marshal Willett
(1959) Juke Box Rhythm
as George Manton
(1924) Damaged Hearts
as Jim Porter
(1948) A Southern Yankee
as Kurt Devlynn
(1935) Another Face
as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
(1937) Born Reckless
as Bob Kane
(1936) Crack-Up
as Ace Martin
(1936) 13 Hours by Air
as James Evarts
(1966) The Fat Spy
as George Wellington
(1946) Two Years Before the Mast
as Richard Henry Dana
(1947) Song of Scheherazade
as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
(1926) A Man of Quality
as Richard Courtney
(1936) Human Cargo
as Packy Campbell
(1951) Fighting Coast Guard
as Cmdr. McFarland
(1936) Half Angel
as Duffy Giles
(1937) Midnight Taxi
as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
(1924) Monsieur Beaucaire
as unknown
(1957) Escape from Red Rock
as Bronc Grierson
(1947) The Trouble with Women
as Joe McBride
(1952) Ride the Man Down
as Bide Marriner
(1997) Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1923) Jamestown
as Minor Role (Uncredited)
(1929) Two Americans
as Unknown
(1925) School for Wives
as Ralph
(1946) Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Tony Minnetti
(1938) We're Going to Be Rich
as Yankee Gordon
(1945) Duffy's Tavern
as Brian Donlevy
(1960) Girl In Room 13
as Steve Marshall
(1938) Sharpshooters
as Steve Mitchell
(1942) Two Yanks in Trinidad
as Vince Barrows
(1932) A Modern Cinderella
as Charlie the Chauffeur
(1941) South of Tahiti
as Bob
(1929) Gentlemen of the Press
as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
(1932) Ireno
as Drunk (uncredited)
(1929) Mother's Boy
as Harry O'Day
(1944) Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1942) Nightmare
as Daniel Shane
(1988) James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1964) The Big Parade of Comedy
as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
(1987) Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
(1966) Family Affair
as ---
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1948) Studio One
as Jim
(1961) Target: The Corruptors!
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Jed Reston
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Dan Carmody
(1954) Climax!
as Sam Marvin
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Fred Childress
(1952) Dangerous Assignment
as ---
(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as John Ridges
(1957) DuPont Show of the Month
as Constable Dale
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Walter Williams
(1957) Perry Mason
as General Roger Brandon
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Daniel J. McGinty