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Frank De Kova

Frank De Kova

cumpleaños: 1910-03-17 | lugar de nacimiento: New York - USA

Frank DeKova parlayed a sinister scowl, piercing eyes and an all-around menacing attitude into a long career of playing cold-blooded trigger-men, rampaging Indian chiefs, brutal Mexican army officers and the like. So it would probably come as a shock to those who know his work to discover that, before he became an actor, he was--of all things--a schoolteacher. Born in New York in 1910, DeKova gave up teaching for the stage, and played in many Shakespearean productions before getting work on Broadway. One of his first starring roles was in the classic detective play "Detective Story", which got him noticed and brought to Hollywood. He debuted in Viva Zapata! (1952) as the devious Mexican colonel who sets up Zapata's assassination. For the next several years he played an assortment of gangsters, killers, gunfighters and Indians--with time out to play a prehistoric patriarch in Roger Corman's campy Teenage Cave Man (1958)--and did much television work, including a standout job as a Mafia hit-man assigned to kill Elliot Ness in Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: The Untouchables: Part 1 (1959). The role for which he will be most remembered, however, is probably the one that was his most atypical: the scheming, somewhat untrustworthy but very funny Hekawi Chief Wild Eagle, the partner to Forrest Tucker's Sgt. O'Rourke in O'Rourke's various schemes to make money, in the western comedy series F Troop (1965). He showed a previously unknown talent for comedy and managed to steal most of the scenes he was in from such veterans as Tucker and Larry Storch. He died in his sleep in 1981.

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1981
American Pop

as    Crisco (voice)

1980
Mafia on the Bounty

as    Rupolo

1978
Cat in the Cage

as    Rachid Khan

1975
Johnny Firecloud

as    White Eagle

1974
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes

as    Big Tony (as Frank deKova)

1973
Heavy Traffic

as    Angelo "Angie" Corleone

1973
The Slams

as    Capiello

1972
1970
La tierra de nadie

as    Two Dog

1965
F Troop

as    Chief Wild Eagle

1965
La familia Calloway

as    Nigosh

1962
Persigue tus sueños

as    Jack (as Frank de Kova)

1961
La Atlántida, el continente perdido

as    Sonoy the Astrologer

1960
La ley del hampa

as    Syndicate Chairman

1959
El día de los forajidos

as    Denver, Bruhn's Gang

1959
Los rebeldes de Kansas

as    Evans

1958
La ley de las armas

as    Harry

1958
Territorio apache

as    Lugo (as Frank deKova)

1958
Yo fui un cavernícola adolescente

as    The Black-Bearded One (as Frank De Kova)

1957
Ride Out for Revenge

as    Chief Yellow Wolf

1957
Appointment with a Shadow

as    Dutch Hayden

1957
Yuma

as    Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova)

1956
El llanero solitario

as    Chief Red Hawk (as Frank deKova)

1956
Santiago

as    Jingo

1956
The White Squaw

as    Yellow Elk

1955
Shack Out on 101

as    Prof. Claude Dillon

1954
Pasión

as    Martinez (as Frank de Kova)

1953
El capitán King

as    Ali Nur

1953
Hoguera de odios

as    Chief Chattez

1953
Split Second

as    Dummy