Frank De Kova actor
- All known tv series 73
- Total known movies 56
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 Zapatas 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 Cormans 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 Tuckers Sgt. ORourke in ORourkes 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.
The tormentor
Movie 1965
Con Library (uncredited)
Movie 1947
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
Movie 1973
Evans
Movie 1959
Abiram
Movie 1956
Old Vinnie (voice)
Movie 1982
Dummy
Movie 1953
The Wiry Man
Movie 1952
Sonoy the Astrologer
Movie 1961
Crisco (voice)
Movie 1981
Capiello
Movie 1973
Albert Ambrose
Movie 1975
Nigosh
Movie 1965
Syndicate Chairman
Movie 1960
Prof. Claude Dillon
Movie 1955
Harry
Movie 1958
Capt. Vrublevski
Movie 1958
Chief Chattez
Movie 1953
Denver, Bruhn's Gang
Movie 1959
Dutch Hayden
Movie 1957
Old Baba
Movie 1965
Ali Nur
Movie 1953
Padre
Movie 1955
Big Tony (as Frank deKova)
Movie 1974
White Eagle
Movie 1975
Captain Romero
Movie 1953
The Black-Bearded One
Movie 1958
Chief Red Hawk
Movie 1956
Zachariah
Movie 1956
Modoc Jim
Movie 1954
Yellow Elk
Movie 1956
Brave Scout
Movie 1956
Moleface (uncredited)
Movie 1952
Charlie Washackle
Movie 1956
Benedetto
Movie 1953
Mindar
Movie 1953
Stevenson
Movie 1953
Priest
Movie 1955
Alcaide
Movie 1958
Rachid Khan
Movie 1978
Anse Hatlo
Movie 1955
Jack (as Frank de Kova)
Movie 1962
Isatai
Movie 1954
Martinez (as Frank de Kova)
Movie 1954
Chief Yellow Wolf
Movie 1957
Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova)
Movie 1957
Lugo (as Frank deKova)
Movie 1958
Two Dog
Movie 1970
The Man
Movie 1972
Narrator (voice)
Movie 1967
Managan (voice) / Ruby (voice) (uncredited)
Movie 1975
Akmed Salah (uncredited)
Movie 1954
Tv 1962
Tv 1977
Chief Wild Eagle
Tv 1965
Tv 1974
Phil Kalama
Tv 1968
Tv 1960
Tv 1975
Tv 1971
Carlos Roca
Tv 1960
Tv 1959
Tv 1974
Tv 1960
Tv 1975
Tv 1963
Tv 1960
Tv 1959
Chief Tawyawp
Tv 1959
Tv 1974
Talakum
Tv 1964
Tv 1973
Aguirre
Tv 1967
Lieutenant Vincoli
Tv 1960
Tv 1958
Tv 1954
Ottawa Chief
Tv 1957
Tv 1959
Calderon
Tv 1959
Richard Aloysius Sturgis
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Tv 1963
Tv 1961
Tv 1959
Tv 1973
Tv 1956
Nordoff
Tv 1959
Tv 1960
Tv 1957
Obuki
Tv 1957
Pete Dailey
Tv 1959
Wild Eagle
Tv 1965
Stefan
Tv 1957
Saugus
Tv 1964
Arlatti
Tv 1959
Nova (as Frank De Kova)
Tv 1974
Isaiah Quickfox
Tv 1957
Ocheo
Tv 1957
Thomas Randall
Tv 1949
Chief Hostay
Tv 1958
Cowan
Tv 1959
Vito Angelo
Tv 1974
Tv 1969
