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Brian Donlevy

Acting

Brian Donlevy

Born
1901-02-09 · Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Died
1972-04-06
Filmography
119 titles on TMDB
About Brian Donlevy

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".

Backdrop from Two Years Before the Mast

Films & television

103 titles

(in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Dr. Franticek Svoboda

Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo

Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual

Movie Actor (uncredited)

Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)

Doc Bender, Trailhand

B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson

Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts

Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves

Sergeant Markoff

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