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Brian Donlevy

Brian Donlevy

Highest Rated: 100% Canyon Passage (1946)

Lowest Rated: 40% Gamera (1965)

Birthday: Feb 9, 1901

Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Durable Irish-American character player, often cast as a fast-talking tough guy with a heart of gold. On occasion Donlevy played a leading role, notably in Preston Sturges's directorial debut, "The Great McGinty" (1940), but he played memorable supporting parts in "Beau Geste" (1939, as the villainous sergeant), "Destry Rides Again" (1939), "The Glass Key" (1942) and "An American Romance" (1944). Second wife was actress Marjorie Lane.

Highest rated movies

100% Canyon Passage
100% The Great McGinty
96% Destry Rides Again
93% The Big Combo
92% Beau Geste
92% Barbary Coast
89% The Quatermass Xperiment
89% Kiss of Death

Photos

THE BIG COMBO, Brian Donlevy, 1955 BIRTH OF THE BLUES, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, 1941 GLASS KEY, Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, 1942 IMPACT, Brian Donlevy, Helen Walker, 1949 IMPACT, Brian Donlevy, 1949 THE LUCKY STIFF, Brian Donlevy, Dorothy Lamour, 1949 OUR HEARTS WERE GROWING UP, Brian Donlevy, 1946 SONG OF SCHEHERAZADE, Brian Donlevy, 1947 STAND BY FOR ACTION, Brian Donlevy, Robert Taylor, 1942 STAND BY FOR ACTION, Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, 1942 THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN, Brian Donlevy, Lloyd Bridges, Freddie Chapman, 1947 TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, Alan Ladd, Esther Fernandez, Brian Donlevy, 1946 WAKE ISLAND, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, 1942 BILLY THE KID, seated: Robert Taylor, Mary Howard, Brian Donlevy, standing: Chill Wills, Grant Withers, 1941 BILLY THE KID, Robert Taylor, Mary Howard, Brian Donlevy, 1941 THE GLASS KEY, from left: Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, 1942 STAND BY FOR ACTION, Walter Brennan, Brian Donlevy, Robert Taylor, & crew members, 1942 AMERICAN ROMANCE, AN, Ann Richards, Brian Donlevy, 1944 DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, Brian Donlevy, Marlene Dietrich, 1939 DOWN WENT MCGINTY, William Demarest, Akim Tamiroff, Brian Donlevy, 1940
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 70% Pit Stop Grant Willard (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 20% Arizona Bushwhackers Mayor Joe Smith (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 20% Five Golden Dragons Dragon 3 (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hostile Guns Marshal Willett (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 23% Gammera the Invincible Gen. Terry Arnold (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 27% The Fat Spy George Wellington (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Waco Ace Ross (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet La Loi des hors-la-loi Unknown (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 15% The Curse of the Fly Henri Delambre (Character) - 1965
40% 32% Gamera Unknown (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 33% How to Stuff a Wild Bikini B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gamera the Invincible Gen. Terry Arnold (Character) - 1965
50% 72% The Errand Boy Tom "T.P." Paramutual (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Girl in Room 13 Steve Marshall (Character) - 1961
40% 34% Never So Few Gen. Sloan (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Juke Box Rhythm George Manton (Character) - 1959
75% 55% Cowboy Doc Bender (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Escape From Red Rock Bronc Grierson (Character) - 1958
80% 61% Quatermass II Quatermass (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 26% Cry in the Night Captain Ed Bates (Character) - 1956
89% 68% The Quatermass Xperiment Prof. Bernard Quatermass (Character) - 1955
93% 79% The Big Combo Joe McClure (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ride the Man Down Bide Marriner (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 50% The Woman They Almost Lynched Charles Quantrill (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hoodlum Empire Sen. Bill Stephens (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fighting Coast Guard Cmdr. McFarland (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 22% Slaughter Trail Capt. Dempster (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 38% Kansas Raiders Col. William Clarke Quantrill (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shakedown Nick Palmer (Character) - 1950
67% 58% Impact Walter Williams (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucky Stiff John J. Malone (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 81% Command Decision Brig. Gen. Clifton I. Garnet (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 29% A Southern Yankee Kurt Devlynn (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 57% Killer McCoy Jim Caighn (Character) - 1947
89% 76% Kiss of Death Assistant District Attorney Louie DeAngelo (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Beginning or the End Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Trouble With Women Joe McBride (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Song of Scheherazade Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heaven Only Knows Duke (Character) - 1947
100% 64% Canyon Passage George Camrose (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 50% The Virginian Trampas (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Our Hearts Were Growing Up Tony Minnetti (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana (Character) - 1946
87% 82% The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Gov. McGinty (Character) - 1944
86% 40% An American Romance Steve Dangos (Character) - 1944
88% 68% Hangmen Also Die Dr. Franticek Svoboda/Karel Vanek (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 44% The Great Man's Lady Steely Edwards (Character) - 1942
78% 71% The Glass Key Paul Madvig (Character) - 1942
89% 48% Wake Island Maj. Geoffrey Caton (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 17% Stand by for Action Lieut. Cmdr. Martin J. Roberts (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Yanks in Trinidad Vince Barrows (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Gentleman After Dark Harry "Heliotrope Harry" Melton (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Remarkable Andrew General Andrew Jackson (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nightmare Daniel Shane (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 29% Billy the Kid Jim Sherwood (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 54% Birth of the Blues Unknown (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet South of Tahiti Bob (Character) - 1941
100% 79% The Great McGinty Daniel 'Dan' McGinty (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 47% Brigham Young Angus Duncan (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 54% When the Daltons Rode Grat Dalton (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 66% Jesse James Barshee (Character) - 1939
83% 64% Union Pacific Sid Campeau (Character) - 1939
92% 85% Beau Geste Sgt. Markoff (Character) - 1939
96% 82% Destry Rides Again Kent (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 39% Allegheny Uprising Trader Ralph Callendar (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Behind Prison Gates Unknown (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet We're Going to Be Rich Yankee Gordon (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Battle of Broadway Chesty Webb (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sharpshooters Steve Mitchell (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crack-Up Ace Martin (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 33% This Is My Affair Batiste Duryea (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Born Reckless Bob 'Hurry' Kane (Character) - 1937
67% 53% In Old Chicago Gil Warren (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Midnight Taxi Charles "Chick" Gardner (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 70% High Tension Steve Reardon (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 14% Strike Me Pink Vance (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Human Cargo Packy Campbell (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Half Angel Duffy Giles (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Another Face Broken Nose Dawson/Spencer Dutro III (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet 36 Hours to Kill Frank Evers (Character) - 1936
92% 51% Barbary Coast Knuckles Jacoby (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Modern Cinderella Charlie the Chauffeur (Character) - 1932

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Affair Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason General Roger Brandon (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Unknown (Character) 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Jasper Cato (Guest Star) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rawhide Unknown (Guest Star) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Got a Secret Guest 1953 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1955