Brian Donlevy in The Big Combo

Brian Donlevy (born Waldo Bruce Donlevy on February 9, 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, died April 6, 1972 in Woodland Hills, California) was an American actor, known for many film roles from the 1930s to the 1960s. Early in his career, Hollywood film bosses established a fictional background of Donlevy having been born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland. This was not true, although it remains a popular biographical myth. Image File history File linksMetadata Brian_Donlevy. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Brian_Donlevy. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: The Forest City Motto: Progress and Prosperity Location in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio County Cuyahoga Founded 1796 Incorporated 1836 Mayor Frank G. Jackson (D) Area    - City 82. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... County Armagh (Contae Ard Mhacha in Irish) is a county in Ulster, Ireland. ...

After lying about his age, Donlevy joined the American army in 1916 and saw service as a pilot during the First World War. After the war, he remained in the army for a short time before he decided to make the move into acting. He began his career in New York in the early 1920s, over the course of the decade appearing in many theatre productions and also winning an increasing number of silent film parts. The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States armed forces and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession. ... Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps image_skyline = Top_of_Rock_Cropped. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...

Donlevy's break into major film roles came in 1935, when he was cast in the Edward G. Robinson film Barbary Coast. A large amount of successful film work followed, with several important parts. In 1939, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, although the Oscar went to Thomas Mitchell for Stagecoach. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edward Goldenberg Robinson (December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American stage and film actor, of Romanian origin. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Beau Geste is one of the most re-made stories of all time, with three movie versions released in 1926, 1939, and 1966, as well as a television mini-series in 1982 and a 1977 parody, the aptly named The Last Remake of Beau Geste starring Marty Feldman and Michael... Thomas Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American film actor. ... Stagecoach is a 1939 western film, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. ...

The following year he played the role for which he is perhaps the best remembered, that of McGinty in The Great McGinty (known as Down Went McGinty in the UK), a role he reprised four years later in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy. ... The Miracle of Morgans Creek poster The Miracle of Morgans Creek is a 1944 comedy film about a girl named Trudy Kockenlocker who wakes up one morning after a wild night with a group of soldiers to find herself pregnant and married. ...

In 1955, he starred in the British science-fiction / horror film The Quatermass Xperiment (called The Creeping Unknown in the US) for the Hammer Films company, playing the lead role of Professor Bernard Quatermass. The film was based on a 1953 BBC Television serial of the same name, in which the character had been British, but Hammer cast Donlevy in an attempt to help sell the film to American audiences, much to the displeasure of Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale who disliked Donlevy's portrayal of the character, referring to Donlevy as "a former Hollywood heavy gone to seed". Nonetheless, the film version was a success and Donlevy returned for the sequel, Quatermass 2 (Enemy From Space in the US), in 1957, also based on a BBC television serial. This made Donlevy the only man ever to play the famous scientist on screen twice, although later Scottish actor Andrew Keir would play him two times, once on film and later on the radio. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still, an archetypal science fiction film Science fiction has been a film genre since the earliest days of cinema. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... The 1955 advertising poster for the films UK release. ... Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. ... Reginald Tate, the first actor to portray Professor Bernard Quatermass, in 1953s The Quatermass Experiment. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953. ... Nigel Kneale (born Thomas Nigel Kneale on April 18, 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK) is a Manx television and film scriptwriter, who has worked mostly in the UK. He is best known for his creation of the character of Professor Bernard Quatermass, who has appeared in three... Categories: 1957 films | Films based on television series | Movie stubs | Science fiction films ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The opening title sequence of Quatermass II. Quatermass II is a British television science-fiction serial, the second in the popular and influential Quatermass series written by Nigel Kneale. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1. ... Andrew Keir, born Andrew Buggy on April 3, 1926 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, was a British actor, well-known for his roles in several Hammer Films horror film productions during the 1960s. ...

Throughout his film career, Mr. Donlevy also did several radio shows including a reprisal of his "Great McGinty" film. He went on to feature in a number of further film roles over the following years until his death, although also appearing increasingly in the newly-popular medium of television. He appeared in a variety of television series from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, guesting in episodes of such popular programmes as Perry Mason, Wagon Train and Rawhide, including his own series in the 1950s, "Dangerous Assignment." // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. ... A wagon train is a long chain of wagons, each moving together and forming a line. ... Rawhide was a television western series about cattle drives that aired on CBS from 1959-1966, which starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood, who played Rowdy Yates. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ...

His last film role was in a picture called The Winner, released in 1969, and three years later he died of throat cancer at the age of seventy-one. His ashes were scattered over Santa Monica Bay. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Head and neck cancer. ... Santa Monica Bay is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern California. ...

Donlevy was married three times: firstly to Yvonne Grey from 1928-36, then to actress Marjorie Lane from 1936-38, and finally to Lillian Lugosi (the widow of Bela Lugosi, famous for playing Dracula) from 1966 until his death in 1972. Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of its title character, the vampire Count Dracula. ...

He died on April 6, 1972 in Woodland Hills, California from cancer, aged 71, survived by his last wife, Lillian, and a daughter, Judy Donlevy, by his second wife. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...

External links

• Official Website
• Brian Donlevy at the Internet Movie Database