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Brian Donlevy

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Actor 1901–1972 On stage 19241934

Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was a prolific American character actor as well as leading man in Hollywood, noted for playing dangerous and tough roles. Usually appearing in supporting roles, among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), Jesse James (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942). For his role as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He starred as U.S. special agent Steve Mitchell in the radio/TV series Dangerous Assignment. His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom said, "Any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete w…

On stage 16 productions, 10 years

1924 What Price Glory Plymouth Theatre · Original 435 perf.
1927 Hit The Deck! Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Alexander Leftwich 352 perf.
1928 Rainbow Gallo Theatre · Original · directed by Oscar Hammerstein II 29 perf.
1928 Ringside Broadhurst Theatre · Original 37 perf.
1929 Queen Bee Belmont Theatre · Original · directed by Allan Dinehart 21 perf.
1930 Up Pops the Devil Theatre Masque · Original · directed by Worthington Miner 148 perf.
1931 Peter Flies High Gaiety Theatre · Original 8 perf.
1931 Society Girl Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Logan 13 perf.
1932 The Boy Friend Morosco Theatre · Original 15 perf.
1932 The Inside Story National Theatre · Original · directed by A.H. Van Buren 24 perf.
1933 Three and One Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by William Harris, Jr. 77 perf.
1933 Three-Cornered Moon Cort Theatre · Original 76 perf.
1934 Life Begins at 8:40 Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by John Murray Anderson 237 perf.
1934 No Questions Asked Theatre Masque · Original · directed by Edward T. Goodman 16 perf.
1934 The Milky Way Cort Theatre · Original · directed by William W. Schorr 63 perf.
1934 The Perfumed Lady Ambassador Theatre · Original 40 perf.

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Worked with more than once6 names

Victor Young 2 productions
Mary Carney 2 productions
John Perkins 2 productions
John Eldredge 2 productions
Harriet Macgibbon 2 productions
Ben Lackland 2 productions

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In the literature6 passages

  • Cast: Louise Groody, Charles King, Stella Mayhew, Madeline Cameron, Brian Donlevy, Jack McCauleyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Luella Gear, Frances Williams, Brian Donlevy, Dixie Dunbar, Earl Oxfordebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • C AST : Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman (as Joyce Lennox), Sally Eilers, Harry Parke, William Frawley, Helen Lowell, Brian Donlevy, the Goldwyn Girlsebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • Three and One, with Lillian Bond, Paul McGrath, Brian Donlevy, and John Eldredge. New York, Longacre Theatre, 1933. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
  • Introduced by James MacColl (Rabelais), Brian Donlevy (De Maupassant), Ray Bolger (Boccaccio), and Bert Lahr (Balzac). Alternate titles: ““Rabelais” and *‘Rabelais, Detheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
  • BRIAN DONLEVY, 71, Insh-bom stage and film actor, died Apr. 5. 1972 of cancer in the Motion Picture Hospital. Madetheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt

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