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The following year, he played the role for which he is perhaps best remembered, that of McGinty in The Great McGinty, a role he reprised four years later in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

In 1942, Donlevy starred in Wake Island and The Glass Key.

In 1955, he played the lead 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.

The character had been British, but Hammer cast Donlevy, who was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and raised in the United States, in an attempt to help sell the film to North American audiences.

Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale disliked Donlevy's portrayal, 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 then on the radio.