Brian Donlevy
Popularity:0.484
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1901-02-09
Place of Birth:Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
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Also Known As:Waldo Brian Donlevy, McGinty

Never So Few (1959)
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Kiss of Death (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe",...

Command Decision (1948)
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...

The Big Combo (1955)
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's...

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...

Impact (1949)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese...

Quatermass 2 (1957)
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

Hoodlum Empire (1952)
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide...

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.

Gammera the Invincible (1966)
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.

The Errand Boy (1961)
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the...

A Cry in the Night (1956)
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.

The Great McGinty (1940)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

Beau Geste (1939)
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in...

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

Canyon Passage (1946)
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the...

Wake Island (1942)
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island...

Allegheny Uprising (1939)
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many...

Jesse James (1939)
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Destry Rides Again (1939)
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he...

Union Pacific (1939)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000...

Curse of the Fly (1965)
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly,...

The Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Cowboy (1958)
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom...

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...

Shakedown (1950)
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity,...

Brigham Young (1940)
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

Pit Stop (1969)
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him...

The Beginning or the End (1947)
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

Barbary Coast (1935)
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy...

Five Golden Dragons (1967)
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden...

Killer McCoy (1947)
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing,...

Birth of the Blues (1941)
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...

In Old Chicago (1938)
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...

A Gentleman After Dark (1942)
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises...

The Great Man's Lady (1941)
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers)...

Kansas Raiders (1950)
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in...

Waco (1966)
Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia,...

Heaven Only Knows (1947)
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his...

Stand by for Action (1942)
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...

The Virginian (1946)
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Slaughter Trail (1951)
Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the...

Billy the Kid (1941)
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When...

Strike Me Pink (1936)
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

Battle of Broadway (1938)
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938...

I Wanted Wings (1941)
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and...

When the Daltons Rode (1940)
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...

This Is My Affair (1937)
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint...

The Lucky Stiff (1949)
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.

Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're...

An American Romance (1944)
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

Rogue's Gallery (1968)
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.

High Tension (1936)
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon...

The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.

Behind Prison Gates (1939)
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.

Hostile Guns (1967)
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura...

Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.

Damaged Hearts (1924)
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with...

A Southern Yankee (1948)
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the...

Another Face (1935)
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!

Born Reckless (1937)
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion...

Crack-Up (1936)
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

13 Hours by Air (1936)
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves...

The Fat Spy (1966)
A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in...

Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own...

Song of Scheherazade (1947)
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.

A Man of Quality (1926)
Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson," Banning infiltrates a gang of...

Human Cargo (1936)
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens...

Fighting Coast Guard (1951)
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Half Angel (1936)
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

Midnight Taxi (1937)
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and...

Escape from Red Rock (1957)
Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.

The Trouble with Women (1947)
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating...

Ride the Man Down (1952)
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...

Jamestown (1923)
The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.

Two Americans (1929)
Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selection of a commander of the Army of the Potomac....

School for Wives (1925)
School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy...

We're Going to Be Rich (1938)
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally...

Duffy's Tavern (1945)
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Girl In Room 13 (1960)
A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and...

Sharpshooters (1938)
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds...

Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the...

A Modern Cinderella (1932)
Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the...

South of Tahiti (1941)
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader,...

Gentlemen of the Press (1929)
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

Ireno (1932)
Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up.

Mother's Boy (1929)
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument...

Twenty Years After (1944)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Nightmare (1942)
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood (1987)
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips...

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (2021)
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.

Family Affair (1966)
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The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
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Studio One (1948)
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Target: The Corruptors! (1961)
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Rawhide (1959)
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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Climax! (1954)
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The Texan (1958)
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Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
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Dangerous Assignment (1952)
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)
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DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
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Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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