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Birthdate: February 9, 1901
Death date: April 5, 1972
Brian Donlevy
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
5
1930s
2.6507
24
1940s
2.5873
31
1950s
2.7270
15
1960s
2.4437
13
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.6437
2.6437
Brian Donlevy Movie Rankings
1
3.0483Although Destry hates guns and gun play, he takes the position as town deputy promising to clean up the town when the sheriff goes missing. Despite the fact he has sniper accuracy, Destry prefers to keep the law without violence. ...more about Destry Rides Again
DVD from $5.66
(12 sellers)
2
3.0483Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D'Angelo, refuses to rat on his partners and goes to jail, assured that his wife and children will be taken care of. ...more about Kiss of Death
DVD from $6.22
(11 sellers)
3
3.0291The O'Leary brothers live very different lifestyles. When their mother's cow tips over a lantern they ban together to help stop what becomes the Great Fire of 1871. When one dies, the other promises to turn his life around and rebuild the city. ...more about In Old Chicago
DVD from $4.86
(12 sellers)
4
2.9899
Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. ...more about Big Combo
DVD from $5.39
(3 sellers)
5
2.7813
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. ...more about Barbary Coast
DVD from $6.62
(8 sellers)
6
2.7740
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 mail room so that he can have access to the lot. ...more about Errand Boy
DVD from $6.99
(13 sellers)
7
2.7563
Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon. ...more about Beau Geste
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $16.37
(12 sellers)
8
2.7338
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 Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. ...more about Cowboy
DVD from $8.91
(10 sellers)
9
2.6864
A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. ...more about Quatermass Xperiment
DVD from $3.99
(10 sellers)
10
2.6711
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. ...more about Wake Island
DVD from $8.89
(8 sellers)
11
2.6608
Professor Quatermass, still shook up from London's refusal to proceed with his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar - meteorites crashing down?. ...more about Quatermass 2
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.6597
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. ...more about Great McGinty
DVD from $38.39
(13 sellers)
13
2.6475
Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, ...more about Curse of the Fly
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.6300
No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. ...more about Impact
DVD from $5.16
(6 sellers)
15
2.5022
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, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. ...more about Birth of the Blues
DVD from $9.99
(7 sellers)
16
2.4186
Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. ...more about Never So Few
DVD from $3.99
(14 sellers)
17
2.3774
General Dennis of the US Force in England in World War II finds that he must order his planes deeper and deeper into Germany to prevent the production of military jet planes that will turn the tide of battle to the Germans. ...more about Command Decision
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.3153
Another installment in the Frankie and Dee Dee beach adventures. Among the musical numbers, the story involves Frankie going on reserve duty. However, he gets jealous, thinking that Dwayne will steal Dee Dee. ...more about How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
DVD from $6.62
(11 sellers)
20
2.2784
The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. ...more about Jesse James
DVD from $9.59
(12 sellers)
21
2.2602
In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit. Jim Smith won't sit still for that. ...more about Allegheny Uprising
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.2556
Charles Stewart, the "Pilgrim" owner's playboy son, finds himself shanghaied on his father's ship commanded by cruel Captain Thompson. When scurvy breaks out he leads a mutiny and is slapped in irons. Floggings and torture abound. ...more about Two Years Before the Mast
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.2328
Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist. ...more about American Romance
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.1290
Off the coast of Florida, a nearly-deserted island is rumored to have the fountain of youth. A boatload of teenage kids are headed there for a scavenger hunt. ...more about Fat Spy
DVD from $1.99
(6 sellers)
25
2.1118
The plot is very similar to that of Miller's Crossing. Based on the book by Dashiell Hammett, a gangster falls out with his boss over a woman and joins up with a rival gang. If you liked Miller's Crossing, then see the classic film noir which inspired it. ...more about Glass Key
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.0136
Trade shown, reviewed and released as "Heaven Only Knows," for a short while until the exhibitors (in mostly small town situations) started complaining that customers were staying away in droves because they thought it was a religious film. ...more about Heaven Only Knows
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.9862
The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. ...more about Brigham Young
DVD from $4.11
(11 sellers)
30
1.8173
Aubrey Filmore (Red Skelton) is a bumbling bellboy in a Missouri town who pesters the Union officers there; he desperately wants to be a spy for the North in the American Civil War. ...more about Southern Yankee
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.6712
In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. ...more about Canyon Passage
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.6712
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. ...more about Union Pacific
DVD from $19.99
(13 sellers)
35
1.4441
Grant Willard (Brian Donlevy) sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP. ...more about Winner
DVD from $23.99
(1 sellers)
36
In 1865, the cadets of a Russian Naval Academy ship have shore leave in Morocco; among them is (fictionalized) future composer 'Nicky' Rimsky-Korsakov. ...more about Song of Scheherazade
- Not Available on DVD
39
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 finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians. ...more about Arizona Bushwhackers
- Not Available on DVD
41
Det. Norman Craig (Brian Donlevy) assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police are looking for. ...more about Behind Prison Gates
- Not Available on DVD
44
Owen Marks, parked at Lovers' Loop with girlfriend Liz Taggart, surprises a peeping Tom, who knocks him out and kidnaps Liz. The police leap into action when they learn the victim is a cop's daughter. ...more about Cry in the Night
- Not Available on DVD
52
A greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. ...more about Gentleman After Dark
- Not Available on DVD
53
A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. ...more about Girl in Room 13
- Not Available on DVD
54
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) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. ...more about Great Man's Lady
- Not Available on DVD
55
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence. ...more about Half Angel
- Not Available on DVD
57
A former gangster who joined the army during World War II and became a hero is now leading a respectable life, out of the rackets. ...more about Hoodlum Empire
- Not Available on DVD
60
Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps --- a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde. ...more about I Wanted Wings
- Not Available on DVD
61
While in New York to select her coronation wardrobe, Princess Ann (Jo Morrow) is photographed dancing with Riff Manton (Jack Jones), son of impoverished producer George Manton (Brian Donlevy). ...more about Juke Box Rhythm
- Not Available on DVD
62
Audie Murphy plays a young Jesse James falling under the Svengali-like spell of the outlaw William Quantrill, played by Brian Donlevy. ...more about Kansas Raiders
- Not Available on DVD
63
Semi-successful lawyer John Malone is intrigued by local night club singer Anna Marie St. Clair. After meeting her at the club, he is present when her boss (and more?) is killed, and she is arrested for the crime. ...more about Lucky Stiff
- Not Available on DVD
65
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ...more about Mary Burns
- Not Available on DVD
66
G-Man Chick Gardner (Brian Donlevy), posing as a taxi driver, convinces the members of a counterfeiting gang that he is on their side and is taken into the organization by Philip Strickland (Alan Dinehart), the boss, over the objections of gang ...more about Midnight Taxi
- Not Available on DVD
67
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 design at first, but agrees to let Anita model it for her to decide whether to keep it. ...more about Modern Cinderella
- Not Available on DVD
70
Cornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a chance-met, kindly bootlegger. Much of the humor derives from pre-Roaring Twenties naivity. ...more about Our Hearts Were Growing Up
- Not Available on DVD
71
Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in World War II. In order to communicate German movements to the Allies, he uses carrier pigeons fitted with messages. ...more about Pigeon That Took Rome
- Not Available on DVD
72
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 insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. ...more about Remarkable Andrew
- Not Available on DVD
74
London's Newgate Prison of the 1750s was the atmospheric setting for this bawdy and boisterous series of 60-minute tales, the first four of which were run as part of Rediffusion's 'Playhouse' series. ...more about Rogues' Gallery
- Not Available on DVD
76
Ace newsreel cameraman (Donlevy) is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger. ...more about Sharpshooters
- Not Available on DVD
77
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 war path and they have to take refuge in an Army fort to avoid them. ...more about Slaughter Trail
- Not Available on DVD
78
An airplane crashes in an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. Three men survive, and one gets in love with a beautiful native girl. ...more about South of Tahiti
- Not Available on DVD
79
After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he pursues a nightclub singer. ...more about Strike Me Pink
- Not Available on DVD
81
Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century). ...more about This Is My Affair
- Not Available on DVD
84
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. ...more about Virginian
- Not Available on DVD
87
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 their land to a crooked development company. ...more about When the Daltons Rode
DVD from $5.95
(9 sellers)
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