Frank De Kova
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1910-03-17
- Décès:
- 1981-10-15
- Lieu de naissance:
- 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
Hey Good Lookin'
American Pop
Mafia on the Bounty
Cat in the Cage
L'Incroyable Hulk
The Swiss Family Robinson
Coonskin
Johnny Firecloud
Crossfire
Baretta
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
200 dollars plus les frais
Sergent Anderson
La Petite Maison dans la prairie
Run, Joe, Run
Don Angelo est mort
Toma
Le pénitencier
Flipper City
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Police Story
Le Flingueur
Cannon
The Wild Country
Love, American Style
Hawaï police d'État
Opération Vol
Le grand chaparral
The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle
Sur la piste du crime
F Troop
La Plus Grande Histoire jamais contée
Les Exploits d'Ali Baba
Calloway, le trappeur
Daniel Boone
Haute Tension
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Dakotas
The Gallant Men
Le Shérif de ces dames
Ben Casey
Atlantis, Terre engloutie
Gunslinger
The Roaring 20's
Route 66
Surfside 6
The Islanders
Outlaws
Thriller
The Tall Man
La Chute d'un caïd
The Detectives
Violence au Kansas
Les Incorruptibles
Hawaiian Eye
The Alaskans
The Rebel
The Third Man
Laramie
The Deputy
The Troubleshooters
Johnny Staccato
La Chevauchée des bannis
The Lawless Years
Black Saddle
Rawhide
77 Sunset Strip
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
L'Homme de la loi
The Rifleman
Peter Gunn
La Chasse aux Visages Pâles
Teenage Cave Man
Mitraillette Kelly
Les Frères Karamazov
Cow-boy
Ride Out for Revenge
The Walter Winchell File
The Californians
Maverick
Wagon Train
Le Jugement des flèches
Appointment with a Shadow
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Not One Shall Die
Les Dix Commandements
La Vengeance de l'Indien
The White Squaw
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
Les Piliers du ciel
Santiago
Johnny Moccasin
Le Justicier solitaire
Shack Out on 101
Hold Back Tomorrow
Alfred Hitchcock présente
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke Police Des Plaines
L'Homme de la plaine
Une étrangère dans la ville
La Ruée sanglante
L'Aigle solitaire
Les Aventures de Rintintin
Tornade
La Vallée des rois
Capitaine King
Fighter Attack
La Perle noire
Le sorcier du Rio Grande
The Desert Song
Le Pirate des sept mers
Même les assassins tremblent
La Captive aux yeux clairs
Holiday for Sinners
Martin Kane, Private Eye
Le Carrefour de la mort