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Brian Donlevy
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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 supportin…
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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".
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2021
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Movie Archival Footage
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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1994
The World of Hammer
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Movie Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
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1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
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1969
Pit Stop
Movie Grant Willard
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1968
Arizona Bushwhackers
Movie Mayor Joe Smith
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1968
Rogue's Gallery
Movie Detective Lee
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1967
Five Golden Dragons
Movie Dragon #3
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1967
Hostile Guns
Movie Marshal Willett
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1966
Gammera the Invincible
Movie Gen. Terry Arnold
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1966
Family Affair
TV show
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1966
Waco
Movie Ace Ross
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1966
The Fat Spy
Movie George Wellington
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1965
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Movie B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
More credits
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1965
Curse of the Fly
Movie Henri Delambre
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1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
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1962
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Movie Col. Sherman Harrington
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1961
The Errand Boy
Movie Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
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1961
Target: The Corruptors!
TV show
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1960
Girl In Room 13
Movie Steve Marshall
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1959
Never So Few
Movie Gen. Sloan
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1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV show John Ridges
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1959
Juke Box Rhythm
Movie George Manton
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1959
Rawhide
TV show Jed Reston
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1958
The Texan
TV show
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1958
Cowboy
Movie Doc Bender, Trailhand
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1957
Escape from Red Rock
Movie Bronc Grierson
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1957
DuPont Show of the Month
TV show Constable Dale
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show General Roger Brandon
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1957
Quatermass 2
Movie Prof. Bernard Quatermass
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Fred Childress
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1956
A Cry in the Night
Movie Ed Bates
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1955
Crossroads
TV show Dr. Roy Bell
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1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
Movie Prof. Bernard Quatermass
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1955
The Big Combo
Movie Joe McClure
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1954
Climax!
TV show Sam Marvin
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1953
Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie Charles Quantrill
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1952
Ride the Man Down
Movie Bide Marriner
