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.

Kino niedostępny od Frank De Kova

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The tormentor

Film 1965

Kiss of Death

Con Library (uncredited)

Film 1947

Heavy Traffic

Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)

Film 1973

The Jayhawkers!

Evans

Film 1959

The Ten Commandments

Abiram

Film 1956

Hey Good Lookin'

Old Vinnie (voice)

Film 1982

Split Second

Dummy

Film 1953

Holiday for Sinners

The Wiry Man

Film 1952

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

Sonoy the Astrologer

Film 1961

American Pop

Crisco (voice)

Film 1981

The Slams

Capiello

Film 1973

Crossfire

Albert Ambrose

Film 1975

Those Calloways

Nigosh

Film 1965

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Syndicate Chairman

Film 1960

Shack Out on 101

Prof. Claude Dillon

Film 1955

Machine-Gun Kelly

Harry

Film 1958

The Brothers Karamazov

Capt. Vrublevski

Film 1958

Arrowhead

Chief Chattez

Film 1953

Day of the Outlaw

Denver, Bruhn's Gang

Film 1959

Appointment with a Shadow

Dutch Hayden

Film 1957

The Sword of Ali Baba

Old Baba

Film 1965

King of the Khyber Rifles

Ali Nur

Film 1953

The Man from Laramie

Padre

Film 1955

Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes

Big Tony (as Frank deKova)

Film 1974

Johnny Firecloud

White Eagle

Film 1975

Raiders of the Seven Seas

Captain Romero

Film 1953

Teenage Cave Man

The Black-Bearded One

Film 1958

The Lone Ranger

Chief Red Hawk

Film 1956

Pillars of the Sky

Zachariah

Film 1956

Drum Beat

Modoc Jim

Film 1954

The White Squaw

Yellow Elk

Film 1956

Johnny Moccasin

Brave Scout

Film 1956

The Big Sky

Moleface (uncredited)

Film 1952

Reprisal!

Charlie Washackle

Film 1956

Fighter Attack

Benedetto

Film 1953

The Desert Song

Mindar

Film 1953

All the Brothers Were Valiant

Stevenson

Film 1953

Hold Back Tomorrow

Priest

Film 1955

Cowboy

Alcaide

Film 1958

Cat in the Cage

Rachid Khan

Film 1978

Strange Lady in Town

Anse Hatlo

Film 1955

Follow That Dream

Jack (as Frank de Kova)

Film 1962

They Rode West

Isatai

Film 1954

Passion

Martinez (as Frank de Kova)

Film 1954

Ride Out for Revenge

Chief Yellow Wolf

Film 1957

Run of the Arrow

Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova)

Film 1957

Apache Territory

Lugo (as Frank deKova)

Film 1958

The Wild Country

Two Dog

Film 1970

The Mechanic

The Man

Film 1972

The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle

Narrator (voice)

Film 1967

Coonskin

Managan (voice) / Ruby (voice) (uncredited)

Film 1975

Valley of the Kings

Akmed Salah (uncredited)

Film 1954

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Frank De Kova

The Gallant Men

Tv 1962

The Incredible Hulk

Tv 1977

F Troop

Chief Wild Eagle

Tv 1965

Little House on the Prairie

Tv 1974

Hawaii Five-O

Phil Kalama

Tv 1968

Route 66

Tv 1960

Baretta

Tv 1975

Cannon

Tv 1971

The Islanders

Carlos Roca

Tv 1960

Johnny Staccato

Tv 1959

Run, Joe, Run

Tv 1974

The Tall Man

Tv 1960

The Swiss Family Robinson

Tv 1975

The Greatest Show on Earth

Tv 1963

Outlaws

Tv 1960

The Lawless Years

Tv 1959

Rawhide

Chief Tawyawp

Tv 1959

Police Woman

Tv 1974

Daniel Boone

Talakum

Tv 1964

Police Story

Tv 1973

The High Chaparral

Aguirre

Tv 1967

Thriller

Lieutenant Vincoli

Tv 1960

Peter Gunn

Tv 1958

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

Tv 1954

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

Ottawa Chief

Tv 1957

The Alaskans

Tv 1959

Black Saddle

Calderon

Tv 1959

The Rebel

Richard Aloysius Sturgis

Tv 1959

The Rifleman

Tv 1958

The Dakotas

Tv 1963

Ben Casey

Tv 1961

Laramie

Tv 1959

Toma

Tv 1973

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Tv 1956

The Detectives

Nordoff

Tv 1959

The Roaring 20's

Tv 1960

Maverick

Tv 1957

Wagon Train

Obuki

Tv 1957

Hawaiian Eye

Pete Dailey

Tv 1959

F Troop

Wild Eagle

Tv 1965

The Walter Winchell File

Stefan

Tv 1957

Daniel Boone

Saugus

Tv 1964

The Third Man

Arlatti

Tv 1959

The Rockford Files

Nova (as Frank De Kova)

Tv 1974

Wagon Train

Isaiah Quickfox

Tv 1957

Wagon Train

Ocheo

Tv 1957

Martin Kane, Private Eye

Thomas Randall

Tv 1949

The Rifleman

Chief Hostay

Tv 1958

The Deputy

Cowan

Tv 1959

Police Woman

Vito Angelo

Tv 1974

Love, American Style

Tv 1969