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Frank De Kova

Acting 2 Film 1953 – 1972
17 Mar 1910 (71 yaş, vefat)
Vefat: 15 Oct 1981
New York City, 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.

IMDb TMDB: 50574
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Toplam Yapıt
6.3
Ort. IMDb
20
Yıllık Kariyer
1953 – 1972
Mekanik
⭐ 6.7
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Oynadığı Karakterler 115

Chief Chattez The tormentor Con Library (uncredited) Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice) Evans Abiram Old Vinnie (voice) Dummy The Wiry Man Sonoy the Astrologer Crisco (voice) Capiello Albert Ambrose Nigosh Syndicate Chairman Prof. Claude Dillon Harry Capt. Vrublevski Denver, Bruhn's Gang Dutch Hayden Old Baba Ali Nur Padre Big Tony (as Frank deKova) White Eagle Giunta Captain Romero The Black-Bearded One Chief Red Hawk Zachariah Modoc Jim Yellow Elk Brave Scout Moleface (uncredited) Charlie Washackle Jingo Benedetto Mindar Stevenson Priest Alcaide Rachid Khan Anse Hatlo Jack (as Frank de Kova) Isatai Martinez (as Frank de Kova) Chief Yellow Wolf Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova) Lugo (as Frank deKova) Two Dog Rupolo The Man Narrator (voice) Managan (voice) / Ruby (voice) (uncredited) Egyptian Official Akmed Salah (uncredited) Chief Wild Eagle Chief Kilowatt Edward Faber Phil Kalama Stinger Tobeel Carlos Roca Pedro Chief Tawyawp Talakum Aguirre Lieutenant Vincoli Ottawa Chief Calderon Richard Aloysius Sturgis Nordoff Spotted Bull Obuki Louis 'Little New York' Campagna Pete Dailey Anthony 'Tough Tony' Lamberto Louis Campagne Wild Eagle Dracus Mulligan Rives Sitting Bull Leader Stefan Saugus Arlatti Senor Vargas Nova Isaiah Quickfox Ocheo Jack Bent Jerry Gordon Thomas Randall Chief Hostay Cowan Louie Campagna Dull Knife Vito Angelo Juan Rodriguez Dino Malatesta Nadi Chief Johnny Cake War Cloud Tah-Za Jed Barker Joseph Bugs Donovan True Oak Jimmy Napoli Indian Chief Don Ignacio Alesandro Villegro Red Knife Gen. Tashkov

Filmler 2

Arrowhead
5.9
1953
Arrowhead
Mekanik
6.7
1972
Mekanik