Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy is known for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Destry Rides Again (1939).
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".
Questions about Brian Donlevy
How many Brian Donlevy films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 82 films with Brian Donlevy, from 1929 to 2021.
What is the best rated Brian Donlevy film?
The best rated Brian Donlevy film in the catalogue is Destry Rides Again (1939), rated 7.2.
What was the first Brian Donlevy film?
The first Brian Donlevy film in the catalogue is In Old Chicago, from 1938.
Who has Brian Donlevy worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Brian Donlevy shares the most credits with Akim Tamiroff (3 films), Andy Devine (2 films) and Anthony Hinds (2 films).
People data: TMDb.
- Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1940)
Known for
Trivia
- Also works as
- film producer
- Spouse
- Marjorie Lane · Lillian Arch
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
103 films — 82 in the catalogue
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6.3 Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021 · Archival Footage
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7.7 Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997 · Self (archive footage)
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6.4 Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987 · Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
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6.5 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self (archive footage)
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6.6 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
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6.9 Pit Stop
1969 · Grant Willard
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4.3 Arizona Bushwhackers
1968 · Mayor Joe Smith
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7.0 Rogue's Gallery
1968 · Detective Lee
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5.2 Five Golden Dragons
1967 · Dragon #3
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5.6 Hostile Guns
1967 · Marshal Willett
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5.1 Gammera the Invincible
1966 · Gen. Terry Arnold
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6.7 Waco
1966 · Ace Ross
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3.1 The Fat Spy
1966 · George Wellington
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5.3 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965 · B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
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5.4 Curse of the Fly
1965 · Henri Delambre
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7.2 The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
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5.3 The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962 · Col. Sherman Harrington
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6.2 The Errand Boy
1961 · Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
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6.0 Girl In Room 13
1960 · Steve Marshall
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5.5 Never So Few
1959 · Gen. Sloan
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7.7 Juke Box Rhythm
1959 · George Manton
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6.5 Cowboy
1958 · Doc Bender, Trailhand
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7.0 Escape from Red Rock
1957 · Bronc Grierson
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6.4 Quatermass 2
1957 · Prof. Bernard Quatermass
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5.4 A Cry in the Night
1956 · Ed Bates
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6.5 The Quatermass Xperiment
1955 · Prof. Bernard Quatermass
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7.0 The Big Combo
1955 · Joe McClure
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6.6 Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · Charles Quantrill
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7.7 Ride the Man Down
1952 · Bide Marriner
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6.5 Hoodlum Empire
1952 · Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
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4.5 Slaughter Trail
1951 · Capt. Dempster
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6.7 Fighting Coast Guard
1951 · Cmdr. McFarland
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6.0 Kansas Raiders
1950 · Quantrill
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6.4 Shakedown
1950 · Nick Palmer
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5.8 The Lucky Stiff
1949 · John J. Malone
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6.1 Impact
1949 · Walter Williams
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6.6 Command Decision
1948 · Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
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5.7 A Southern Yankee
1948 · Kurt Devlynn
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6.3 Killer McCoy
1947 · Jim Caighn
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6.5 Heaven Only Knows
1947 · Adam 'Duke' Byron
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7.1 Kiss of Death
1947 · Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
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9.5 The Trouble with Women
1947 · Joe McBride
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6.6 Song of Scheherazade
1947 · Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
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6.4 The Beginning or the End
1947 · Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
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6.5 Two Years Before the Mast
1946 · Richard Henry Dana
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6.7 Canyon Passage
1946 · George Camrose
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6.5 Louca Inocência
1946 · Tony Minnetti
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6.2 The Virginian
1946 · Trampas
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6.4 Duffy's Tavern
1945 · Brian Donlevy
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6.8 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · Governor McGinty
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6.1 An American Romance
1944 · Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
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8.0 Twenty Years After
1944 · (archive footage)
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5.7 Сталинград
1943 · Narrator (English version)
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6.9 Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Dr. Franticek Svoboda
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7.0 Stand by for Action
1942 · Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
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6.3 Nightmare
1942 · Daniel Shane
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6.7 The Glass Key
1942 · Paul Madvig
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5.9 Wake Island
1942 · Maj. Geoffrey Caton
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4.6 A Gentleman After Dark
1942 · Harry Melton
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4.0 Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942 · Vince Barrows
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7.4 The Remarkable Andrew
1942 · General Andrew Jackson
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6.2 Birth of the Blues
1941 · Memphis
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6.3 The Great Man's Lady
1941 · Steely Edwards
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6.5 South of Tahiti
1941 · Bob
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6.7 Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Movie Actor (uncredited)
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5.3 Billy the Kid
1941 · Jim Sherwood
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5.6 I Wanted Wings
1941 · Capt. Mercer
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4.6 Brigham Young
1940 · Angus Duncan
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6.2 When the Daltons Rode
1940 · Grat Dalton
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6.9 The Great McGinty
1940 · Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
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7.2 Destry Rides Again
1939 · Kent
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5.9 Allegheny Uprising
1939 · Ralph Callendar
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10.0 Behind Prison Gates
1939 · Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
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7.0 Beau Geste
1939 · Sergeant Markoff
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6.7 Union Pacific
1939 · Sid Campeau
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6.5 Jesse James
1939 · Barshee
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8.0 Sharpshooters
1938 · Steve Mitchell
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5.0 We're Going to Be Rich
1938 · Yankee Gordon
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5.0 Battle of Broadway
1938 · Chesty Webb
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6.7 In Old Chicago
1938 · Gil Warren
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5.4 Born Reckless
1937 · Bob Kane
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7.3 This Is My Affair
1937 · Batiste Duryea
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6.2 Midnight Taxi
1937 · Charles 'Chick' Gardner
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5.9 Crack-Up
1936 · Ace Martin
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6.1 36 Hours to Kill
1936 · Frank Evers
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5.8 High Tension
1936 · Steve Reardon
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7.5 Half Angel
1936 · Duffy Giles
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7.5 Human Cargo
1936 · Packy Campbell
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5.2 13 Hours by Air
1936 · James Evarts
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6.6 Strike Me Pink
1936 · Vance
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4.8 Another Face
1935 · Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
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9.0 Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935 · Spike
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6.4 Barbary Coast
1935 · Knuckles Jacoby
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5.4 A Modern Cinderella
1932 · Charlie the Chauffeur
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7.5 Ireno
1932 · Drunk (uncredited)
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7.0 Mother's Boy
1929 · Harry O'Day
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7.0
Two Americans
1929 · Unknown
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6.7 Gentlemen of the Press
1929 · Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
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10.0
A Man of Quality
1926 · Richard Courtney
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8.0 School for Wives
1925 · Ralph
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5.6 Monsieur Beaucaire
1924 · unknown
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8.0 Damaged Hearts
1924 · Jim Porter
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10.0 Jamestown
1923 · Minor Role (Uncredited)
Series and TV shows
3 titles
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7.3
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People data: TMDb.
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