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.
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 69% | Pit Stop | Grant Willard (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Arizona Bushwhackers | Mayor Joe Smith (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Golden Dragons | Dragon 3 (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hostile Guns | Marshal Willett (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The Fat Spy | George Wellington (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | Gammera the Invincible | Gen. Terry Arnold (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Waco | Ace Ross (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | 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 |
| 78% | 60% | Quatermass II | Quatermass (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Cry in the Night | Captain Ed Bates (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 88% | 67% | The Quatermass Xperiment | Prof. Bernard Quatermass (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 93% | 80% | The Big Combo | Joe McClure (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ride the Man Down | Bide Marriner (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | 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 | 25% | Slaughter Trail | Capt. Dempster (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Kansas Raiders | Col. William Clarke Quantrill (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shakedown | Nick Palmer (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 67% | 55% | Impact | Walter Williams (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucky Stiff | John J. Malone (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | A Southern Yankee | Kurt Devlynn (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | Command Decision | Brig. Gen. Clifton I. Garnet (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Killer McCoy | Jim Caighn (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 88% | 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 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Virginian | Trampas (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 65% | Canyon Passage | George Camrose (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 |
| 86% | 82% | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Gov. McGinty (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 86% | 40% | An American Romance | Steve Dangos (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 86% | 66% | Hangmen Also Die |
Dr. Franticek Svoboda/ |
- | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | The Great Man's Lady | Steely Edwards (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 78% | 70% | The Glass Key | Paul Madvig (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stand by for Action | Lieut. Cmdr. Martin J. Roberts (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 88% | 49% | Wake Island | Maj. Geoffrey Caton (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 | Nightmare | Daniel Shane (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Remarkable Andrew | General Andrew Jackson (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Billy the Kid | Jim Sherwood (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Birth of the Blues | Unknown (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | South of Tahiti | Bob (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 80% | The Great McGinty | Daniel "Dan" McGinty (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Brigham Young | Angus Duncan (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | When the Daltons Rode | Grat Dalton (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Allegheny Uprising | Trader Ralph Callendar (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Jesse James | Barshee (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 83% | 65% | Union Pacific | Sid Campeau (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 100% | 85% | Beau Geste | Sgt. Markoff (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 96% | 82% | Destry Rides Again | Kent (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind Prison Gates | Unknown (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 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 | We're Going to Be Rich | Yankee Gordon (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crack-Up | Ace Martin (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | This Is My Affair | Batiste Duryea (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born Reckless | Bob 'Hurry' Kane (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 67% | 54% | 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/ |
- | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 36 Hours to Kill | Frank Evers (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 92% | 48% | 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 Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | 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 |