Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 9, 1901
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".
Known For - Movies
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Union Pacific
as Sid Campeau
Jesse James
as Barshee
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
Impact
as Walter Williams
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
Cowboy
as Doc Bender, Trailhand
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Never So Few
as Gen. Sloan
Wake Island
as Maj. Geoffrey Caton
