Frank De Kova
Birthday: 1910-03-17 | Place of Birth: New York - USAFrank 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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jouer Crisco (voice)
jouer Rachid Khan
jouer White Eagle
jouer Big Tony (as Frank deKova)
jouer Angelo "Angie" Corleone
jouer Capiello
jouer The Man
jouer Chief Wild Eagle
jouer Nigosh
jouer Jack (as Frank de Kova)
jouer Sonoy the Astrologer
jouer Syndicate Chairman
jouer Denver, Bruhn's Gang
jouer Evans
jouer Harry
jouer Lugo (as Frank deKova)
jouer The Black-Bearded One (as Frank De Kova)
jouer Chief Yellow Wolf
jouer Dutch Hayden
jouer Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova)
jouer Charlie Washackle
jouer Chief Red Hawk (as Frank deKova)
jouer Jingo
jouer Yellow Elk
jouer Prof. Claude Dillon
jouer Martinez (as Frank de Kova)
jouer Modoc Jim
jouer Ali Nur
jouer Chief Chattez
jouer Dummy