Frank De Kova
SuivreInterpr茅tation 路 N茅(e) en 1910 路 New York City, New York, USA
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
5.5Hey Good Lookin'
1982
1982 路 Old Vinnie (voice)
6.9American Pop
1981
1981 路 Crisco (voice)
3.7Mafia on the Bounty
1980
1980 路 Rupolo
3.8Cat in the Cage
1978
1978 路 Rachid Khan
6.1Coonskin
1975
1975 路 Managan (voice) / Ruby (voice) (uncredited)
5.0Johnny Firecloud
1975
1975 路 White Eagle
8.0Crossfire
1975
1975 路 Albert Ambrose
4.2Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
1974
1974 路 Big Tony (as Frank deKova)
7.6200 dollars plus les frais
1974
1974 路 Nova
6.5Sergent Anderson
1974
1974 路 Vito Angelo
8.0La Petite Maison dans la prairie
1974
1974 路 Chief Kilowatt
5.8Don Angelo est mort
1973
1973 路 Giunta
6.5Le p茅nitencier
1973
1973 路 Capiello
6.5Flipper City
1973
1973 路 Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
7.0Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
1973 路 The Man
6.7Le Flingueur
1972
1972 路 The Man
6.0The Wild Country
1970
1970 路 Two Dog
7.2Hawa茂 police d'脡tat
1969
1969 路 Phil Kalama
7.2Op茅ration Vol
1968
1968 路 Gen. Tashkov
6.7Le grand chaparral
1967
1967 路 Aguirre
5.6Sur la piste du crime
1965
1965 路 Faber
6.2F Troop
1965
1965 路 Chief Wild Eagle
6.4La Plus Grande Histoire jamais cont茅e
1965
1965 路 The tormentor
7.2Les Exploits d'Ali Baba
1965
1965 路 Old Baba
6.5Calloway, le trappeur
1964
1964 路 Nigosh
7.0Daniel Boone
1964
1964 路 Talakum
6.5Haute Tension
1963
1963 路 Edward
- The Greatest Show on Earth7.5
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
1963 路 Joseph
6.1Le Sh茅rif de ces dames
1962
1962 路 Jack (as Frank de Kova)
5.2Atlantis, Terre engloutie
1961
1961 路 Sonoy the Astrologer
6.3Gunslinger
1961
1961 路 Don Ignacio Alesandro
6.3Surfside 6
1960
1960 路 Stinger
8.0The Islanders
1960
1960 路 Carlos Roca
6.7Thriller
1960
1960 路 Lieutenant Vincoli
6.1La Chute d'un ca茂d
1960
1960 路 Syndicate Chairman
6.7The Detectives
1959
1959 路 Nordoff
6.1Violence au Kansas
1959
1959 路 Evans
8.1Les Incorruptibles
1959
1959 路 Louis 'Little New York' Campagna
5.6Hawaiian Eye
1959
1959 路 Pete Dailey
5.1The Rebel
1959
1959 路 Richard Aloysius Sturgis
7.2The Third Man
1959
1959 路 Arlatti
6.7Laramie
1959
1959 路 Tah-Za
6.5The Deputy
1959
1959 路 Cowan
10.0The Troubleshooters
1959
1959 路 Nadi
6.8La Chevauch茅e des bannis
1959
1959 路 Denver, Bruhn's Gang
6.2Black Saddle
1959
1959 路 Calderon
7.3Rawhide
1959
1959 路 Chief Tawyawp
7.277 Sunset Strip
1958
1958 路 Jack Bent
6.3Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
1958 路 Jimmy Napoli
6.0L'Homme de la loi
1958
1958 路 Jed Barker
7.1The Rifleman
1958
1958 路 Chief Hostay
6.5La Chasse aux Visages P芒les
1958
1958 路 Lugo (as Frank deKova)
3.9Teenage Cave Man
1958
1958 路 The Black-Bearded One
6.0Mitraillette Kelly
1958
1958 路 Harry
6.5Les Fr猫res Karamazov
1958
1958 路 Capt. Vrublevski
6.5Cow-boy
1958
1958 路 Alcaide
5.7Ride Out for Revenge
1957
1957 路 Chief Yellow Wolf
7.5The Walter Winchell File
1957
1957 路 Stefan
5.8The Californians
1957
1957 路 Ug-A-Mug
6.6Wagon Train
1957
1957 路 Obuki
6.1Le Jugement des fl猫ches
1957
1957 路 Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova)
5.7Appointment with a Shadow
1957
1957 路 Dutch Hayden
5.9Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
1957 路 Ottawa Chief
6.0Not One Shall Die
1957
1957 路 Egyptian Official
7.8Les Dix Commandements
1956
1956 路 Abiram
6.9La Vengeance de l'Indien
1956
1956 路 Charlie Washackle
6.8The White Squaw
1956
1956 路 Yellow Elk
5.5Les Piliers du ciel
1956
1956 路 Zachariah
5.8Santiago
1956
1956 路 Jingo
- Johnny Moccasin
Johnny Moccasin
1956
1956 路 Brave Scout
6.2Le Justicier solitaire
1956
1956 路 Chief Red Hawk
6.0Shack Out on 101
1955
1955 路 Prof. Claude Dillon
6.4Hold Back Tomorrow
1955
1955 路 Priest
7.8Alfred Hitchcock pr茅sente
1955
1955 路 Pedro
6.2Cheyenne
1955
1955 路 Spotted Bull
6.7Gunsmoke Police Des Plaines
1955
1955 路 Tobeel
7.1L'Homme de la plaine
1955
1955 路 Padre
4.9Une 茅trang猫re dans la ville
1955
1955 路 Anse Hatlo
6.5La Ru茅e sanglante
1954
1954 路 Isatai
6.1L'Aigle solitaire
1954
1954 路 Modoc Jim
5.4Tornade
1954
1954 路 Martinez (as Frank de Kova)
4.9La Vall茅e des rois
1954
1954 路 Akmed Salah (uncredited)
5.9Capitaine King
1953
1953 路 Ali Nur
4.5Fighter Attack
1953
1953 路 Benedetto
6.0La Perle noire
1953
1953 路 Stevenson
6.1Le sorcier du Rio Grande
1953
1953 路 Chief Chattez
6.8The Desert Song
1953
1953 路 Mindar
6.1Le Pirate des sept mers
1953
1953 路 Captain Romero
6.4M锚me les assassins tremblent
1953
1953 路 Dummy
6.6La Captive aux yeux clairs
1952
1952 路 Moleface (uncredited)
6.3Holiday for Sinners
1952
1952 路 The Wiry Man
6.8Viva Zapata !
1952
1952 路 Colonel Guajardo
7.3Martin Kane, Private Eye
1949
1949 路 Thomas Randall
7.0Le Carrefour de la mort
1947
1947 路 Con Library (uncredited)