Brian Donlevy
Gender: Male
Born: 9th February 1901
Died: 5th April 1972
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Beyond This Place, Dangerous Assignment
Movies: Gamera, Impact, Kiss of Death, The Big Combo, The Great McGinty, The Glass Key, The Errand Boy, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, The Virginian, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Fat Spy, Wake Island, Quatermass 2, Beau Geste, Command Decision, The Beginning or the End, Two Years Before the Mast, The Glass Key, Allegheny Uprising, Curse of the Fly, Hangmen Also Die, Canyon Passage, The Great Man's Lady, Waco, Billy the Kid, Stand by for Action, Slaughter Trail, A Southern Yankee, This Is My Affair, A Gentleman After Dark, When the Daltons Rode, Gammera: The Invincible, Barbary Coast, Destry Rides Again, Cowboy, In Old Chicago, Never So Few, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Union Pacific, The Pigeon That Took Rome, House of Evil, Hostile Guns, Arizona Bushwackers, Five Golden Dragons, Pit Stop, Rogue's Gallery, Song of Scheherazade, Mother's Boy, An American Romance, Killer McCoy, Another Face, Another Face
Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 5, 1972) was an Irish-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".
Donlevy was born Waldo Brian Donlevy in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) to a whiskey distiller and his wife in 1901. When he was 10 months old his parents moved to Racine, Wisconsin. When he was 9 years old, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He lied about his age (he was actually 14) in 1916 so he could join the army. When Mexican rebels under Villa's command raided Columbus, NM, and killed 18 American soldiers and civilians, Gen. John J. Pershing sent American troops to invade Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa. Donlevy served with that expedition.
Donlevy began his career in New York in the early 1920s, appearing in many
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