Personal Info
Birth date
1901-02-09 (124 Years)
Day of death
1972-04-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Also known as
Waldo Brian Donlevy
McGinty
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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Donlevy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Overview:
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.The Texan
5.5
Overview:
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
Overview:
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.Target: The Corruptors!
3.5
Overview:
Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television.Perry Mason
7.717
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Rawhide
7.111
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
Overview:
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.Family Affair
6.6
Overview:
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.DuPont Show of the Month
6.75
Overview:
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.Lux Video Theatre
6.333
Overview:
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.Dangerous Assignment
3.5
Overview:
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.Impact
6
Overview:
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.Woman They Almost Lynched
6.2
Overview:
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.Jesse James
6.407
Overview:
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.The Quatermass Xperiment
6.5
Overview:
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.The Big Combo
7.044
Overview:
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.Waco
6.4
Overview:
Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The mayor rejects Gates' suggestion that he release gunfighter Waco from jail to clean up the town. When Patricia is attacked by a cowboy after leaving her boyfriend Scotty Moore, the mayor finally decides it is time accept the governor;s offer of amnesty for Waco. Jill Stone's first reaction, when learning that Waco has been released, is to leave town before Waco finds out that she, his former fiancée, has married the town preacher while Waco was in jail. Town boss Joe Gore is not overjoyed, either, but Ike and Pete Jenner eagerly await the chance to shoot Waco for the death of their brother. Written by Les AdamsQuatermass 2
6.4
Overview:
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.Cowboy
6.4
Overview:
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...Union Pacific
6.5
Overview:
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?Pit Stop
6.7
Overview:
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.629
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Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.Never So Few
5.381
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A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.In Old Chicago
6.476
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The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.Shakedown
6.1
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Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.Acting
2021Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage
1997Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1987Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1982Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
1969Pit Stop as Grant Willard
1968Arizona Bushwhackers as Mayor Joe Smith
1968Rogue's Gallery as Detective Lee
1967Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #3
1967Hostile Guns as Marshal Willett
1966Gammera the Invincible as Gen. Terry Arnold
1966Family Affair (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Waco as Ace Ross
1966The Fat Spy as George Wellington
1965How to Stuff a Wild Bikini as B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
1965Curse of the Fly as Henri Delambre
1964The Big Parade of Comedy as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
1962The Pigeon That Took Rome as Col. Sherman Harrington
1961The Errand Boy as Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
1961Target: The Corruptors! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Girl In Room 13 as Steve Marshall
1959Never So Few as Gen. Sloan
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as John Ridges
1959Juke Box Rhythm as George Manton
1959Rawhide (1 Episode) as Jed Reston
1958The Texan (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Cowboy as Doc Bender, Trailhand
1957Escape from Red Rock as Bronc Grierson
1957DuPont Show of the Month (1 Episode) as Constable Dale
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as General Roger Brandon
1957Quatermass 2 as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Fred Childress
1956A Cry in the Night as Ed Bates
1955The Quatermass Xperiment as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1955The Big Combo as Joe McClure
1954Climax! (1 Episode) as Sam Marvin
1953Woman They Almost Lynched as Charles Quantrill
1952Ride the Man Down as Bide Marriner
1952Hoodlum Empire as Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
1952Dangerous Assignment (41 Episodes) as Unknown
1951Slaughter Trail as Capt. Dempster
1951Fighting Coast Guard as Cmdr. McFarland
1950Kansas Raiders as Quantrill
1950Lux Video Theatre (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Dan Carmody, Walter Williams, Daniel J. McGinty
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour (1 Episode) as Self
1950Shakedown as Nick Palmer
1950Robert Montgomery Presents (1 Episode) as Unknown
1949The Lucky Stiff as John J. Malone
1949Impact as Walter Williams
1948Command Decision as Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Jim
1948A Southern Yankee as Kurt Devlynn
1947Killer McCoy as Jim Caighn
1947Heaven Only Knows as Adam 'Duke' Byron
1947Kiss of Death as Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
1947The Trouble with Women as Joe McBride
1947Song of Scheherazade as Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
1947The Beginning or the End as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1946Two Years Before the Mast as Richard Henry Dana
1946Canyon Passage as George Camrose
1946Our Hearts Were Growing Up as Tony Minnetti
1946The Virginian as Trampas
1945Duffy's Tavern as Brian Donlevy
1944The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek as Governor McGinty
1944An American Romance as Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
1944Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
1943Stalingrad as Narrator (English version)
1943Hangmen Also Die! as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
1942Stand by for Action as Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
1942Nightmare as Daniel Shane
1942The Glass Key as Paul Madvig
1942Wake Island as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
1942A Gentleman After Dark as Harry Melton
1942Two Yanks in Trinidad as Vince Barrows
1942The Remarkable Andrew as General Andrew Jackson
1941Birth of the Blues as Memphis
1941The Great Man's Lady as Steely Edwards
1941South of Tahiti as Bob
1941Hold Back the Dawn as Movie Actor (uncredited)
1941Billy the Kid as Jim Sherwood
1941I Wanted Wings as Capt. Mercer
1940Brigham Young as Angus Duncan
1940When the Daltons Rode as Grat Dalton
1940The Great McGinty as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
1939Destry Rides Again as Kent
1939Allegheny Uprising as Ralph Callendar
1939Behind Prison Gates as Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
1939Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff
1939Union Pacific as Sid Campeau
1939Jesse James as Barshee
1938Sharpshooters as Steve Mitchell
1938We're Going to Be Rich as Yankee Gordon
1938Battle of Broadway as Chesty Webb
1938In Old Chicago as Gil Warren
1937Born Reckless as Bob Kane
1937This Is My Affair as Batiste Duryea
1937Midnight Taxi as Charles 'Chick' Gardner
1936Crack-Up as Ace Martin
193636 Hours to Kill as Frank Evers
1936High Tension as Steve Reardon
1936Half Angel as Duffy Giles
1936Human Cargo as Packy Campbell
193613 Hours by Air as James Evarts
1936Strike Me Pink as Vance
1935Another Face as Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
1935Mary Burns, Fugitive as Spike
1935Barbary Coast as Knuckles Jacoby
1932A Modern Cinderella as Charlie the Chauffeur
1932Ireno as Drunk (uncredited)
1929Mother's Boy as Harry O'Day
1929Two Americans as Unknown
1929Gentlemen of the Press as Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
1926A Man of Quality as Richard Courtney
1925School for Wives as Ralph
1924Monsieur Beaucaire as unknown
1924Damaged Hearts as Jim Porter
1923Jamestown as Minor Role (Uncredited)