Frank De Kova
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1910-03-17
- Fallecimiento:
- 1981-10-15
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biografía
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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Filmografía
Hey Good Lookin'
American Pop
Mafia on the Bounty
El gato
El increíble Hulk
The Swiss Family Robinson
Coonskin
Johnny Firecloud
Crossfire
Baretta
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Los casos de Rockford
La mujer policia
La casa de la pradera
Run, Joe, Run
El Don ha muerto
Toma
The Slams
Heavy Traffic
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Police Story
Fríamente... sin motivos personales
Cannon
La tierra de nadie
Love, American Style
Hawaii 5-0
Ladrón sin destino
El gran Chaparral
The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle
The F.B.I.
F Troop
La historia más grande jamás contada
La espada de Alí Babá
La familia Calloway
Daniel Boone
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Dakotas
The Gallant Men
Persigue tus sueños
Ben Casey
La Atlántida, el continente perdido
Gunslinger
The Roaring 20's
Route 66
Rompeolas
The Islanders
Outlaws
Thriller
The Tall Man
La ley del hampa
Los detectives
Los rebeldes de Kansas
Los Intocables
Intriga en Hawai (Serie de TV)
The Alaskans
The Rebel
The Third Man
Laramie
El Comisario
The Troubleshooters
Johnny Staccato
El día de los forajidos
The Lawless Years
Black Saddle
Cuero crudo
77 Sunset Strip
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Lawman
El hombre del rifle
Peter Gunn
Territorio apache
Yo fui un cavernícola adolescente
La ley de las armas
Los hermanos Karamazov
Cowboy
Ride Out for Revenge
The Walter Winchell File
The Californians
Maverick
Caravana
Yuma
Appointment with a Shadow
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Not One Shall Die
Los Diez Mandamientos
Represalia
The White Squaw
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
Las columnas del cielo
Santiago
Johnny Moccasin
El llanero solitario
Shack Out on 101
Hold Back Tomorrow
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Cheyenne
La ley del revólver
El hombre de Laramie
La pelirroja indómita
Rumbo al Oeste
Tambores de guerra
Rin Tin Tin
Pasión
El valle de los reyes
El capitán King
Fighter Attack
Todos los hermanos eran valientes
Hoguera de odios
The Desert Song
El pirata de los siete mares
Fracción de segundo
Río de sangre
Holiday for Sinners
Martin Kane, Private Eye
El beso de la muerte