Brian Donlevy
Birthday: 1901-02-09
Place of Birth: Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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".
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Never So Few
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II....
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Kiss of Death
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge....
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Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass...
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Command Decision
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing ne...
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The Big Combo
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice ...
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The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars b...
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Impact
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
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Quatermass 2
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the ...
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Hoodlum Empire
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify...
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend....
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Gammera the Invincible
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of year...
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The Errand Boy
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. M...
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A Cry in the Night
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped....
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The Great McGinty
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
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Beau Geste
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped ...
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell ...
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Canyon Passage
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty ...
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Wake Island
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to ke...
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Allegheny Uprising
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the...
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Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...
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Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...
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Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...
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36 Hours to Kill
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a...
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Curse of the Fly
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to tr...
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The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d...
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Cowboy
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by ...
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Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota sys...
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Shakedown
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes...
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Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp...
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Pit Stop
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. ...
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The Beginning or the End
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hirosh...
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Barbary Coast
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel o...
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Five Golden Dragons
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal n...
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Stalingrad
A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the turning points of World War II...
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Killer McCoy
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerfu...
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Birth of the Blues
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts ...
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In Old Chicago
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually riva...
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The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...
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A Gentleman After Dark
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, ...
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The Great Man's Lady
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who...
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Kansas Raiders
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's...
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Waco
Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who di...
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Heaven Only Knows
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-...
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Stand by for Action
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about ...
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The Virginian
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve a...
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangs...
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Slaughter Trail
Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to ge...
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Billy the Kid
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and ...
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Strike Me Pink
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters....
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Battle of Broadway
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance...
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I Wanted Wings
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army ...
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When the Daltons Rode
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto...
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This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...
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Woman They Almost Lynched
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, ...
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An American Romance
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family....
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Rogue's Gallery
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress....
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High Tension
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h...
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Arizona Bushwhackers
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover fo...
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The Pigeon That Took Rome
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for out...
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Behind Prison Gates
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot....
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Hostile Guns
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female ...
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Juke Box Rhythm
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert....
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Damaged Hearts
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are a...
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A Southern Yankee
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an ag...
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Another Face
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new ...
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Born Reckless
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection serv...
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Crack-Up
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage....
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13 Hours by Air
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to Calif...
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The Fat Spy
A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coas...
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Two Years Before the Mast
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaie...
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A Man of Quality
Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strong...
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Human Cargo
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end...
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Half Angel
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Re...
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Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with ...
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Escape from Red Rock
Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country....
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The Trouble with Women
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Jamestown
The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that ...
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Two Americans
Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selectio...
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School for Wives
School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conwa...
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bo...
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We're Going to Be Rich
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa...
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Duffy's Tavern
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces t...
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Girl In Room 13
A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murde...
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Sharpshooters
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He g...
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Two Yanks in Trinidad
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy),...
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A Modern Cinderella
Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the la...
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South of Tahiti
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love...
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Gentlemen of the Press
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his...
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Ireno
Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistak...
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Mother's Boy
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed wi...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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Nightmare
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and sabote...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films i...
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Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's ...
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