Frank De Kova
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1910-03-17
- Falecimento:
- 1981-10-15
- Local de nascimento:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
Hey Good Lookin'
American Pop
Mafia on the Bounty
Cat in the Cage
O Incrível Hulk
A Família Robinson
Street Fight
Johnny Firecloud
Crossfire
Baretta
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Arquivo Confidencial
Police Woman
Os Pioneiros
Run, Joe, Run
The Don Is Dead
Toma
The Slams
Heavy Traffic
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Os Novos Centuriões
Assassino a Preço Fixo
Cannon
A Vida É Um Desafio
O Jogo Perigoso do Amor
Havaí Cinco-0
O Rei dos Ladrões
Chaparral
The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle
The F.B.I.
F Troop
A Maior História de Todos os Tempos
The Sword of Ali Baba
Somente os Fracos Se Rendem
Daniel Boone
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Dakotas
The Gallant Men
Em Cada Sonho um Amor
Ben Casey
Atlântida: O Continente Perdido
Gunslinger
The Roaring 20's
Rota 66
Surfside 6
The Islanders
Outlaws
Thriller
The Tall Man
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
The Detectives
The Jayhawkers!
Os Intocáveis
Hawaiian Eye
The Alaskans
The Rebel
The Third Man
Laramie
The Deputy
The Troubleshooters
Johnny Staccato
Quadrilha Maldita
The Lawless Years
Black Saddle
Couro Cru
77 Sunset Strip
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Lawman
O Homem do Rifle
Peter Gunn
O Poder da Vingança
Teenage Cave Man
Dominados Pelo Ódio
Os Irmãos Karamazov
Como Nasce um Bravo
Ride Out for Revenge
The Walter Winchell File
The Californians
Maverick
Wagon Train
A FLECHA SAGRADA
Appointment with a Shadow
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Not One Shall Die
Os Dez Mandamentos
Represália
The White Squaw
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
Pilastras do Céu
Santiago
Johnny Moccasin
O Justiceiro Mascarado 1956
Shack Out on 101
A Trágica Noite de Amor
Alfred Hitchcock Apresenta
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Um Certo Capitão Lockhart
Strange Lady in Town
Traição Heróica
Rajadas de Ódio
As Aventuras de Rin Tin Tin
Sob a Lei da Chibata
O Vale dos Reis
King of the Khyber Rifles
Fighter Attack
Todos os Irmãos Eram Valentes
O Último Guerreiro
Canção do Sheik
Corsário dos Sete Mares
Suplício de um Condenado
O Rio da Aventura
Holiday for Sinners
Martin Kane, Private Eye
O Beijo da Morte