Frank DeKova

actor

Género: M

Cumpleaños: 1910-03-17

Fallecido: 1981-10-15

Biografía
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.

Actor:

  1. ...
    Con Library
  2. 2. The Mob (1951), película
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    Culio (uncredited)
  3. ...
    Moleface
  4. ...
    Custin
  5. 5. ¡Viva Zapata! (1952), película
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    Colonel Guajardo
  6. ...
    Ali Nur
  7. ...
    Dummy
  8. ...
    Chief Chattez
  9. ...
    Stevenson (as Frank deKova)
  10. ...
    Akmed Salah
  11. 11. Rumbo al Oeste (1954), película
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    Isatai
  12. 12. Pasión (1954), película
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    Martinez
  13. ...
    Padre
  14. 14. Cheyenne (1955), serie
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    Benito Juarez
  15. ...
    Abiram
  16. ...
    Zachariah
  17. 17. Represalia (1956), película
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    Charlie Washackle
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    Chief Red Hawk
  19. 19. Yuma (1957), película
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    Red Cloud
  20. ...
    Chief Yellow Wolf
  21. 21. Caravana (1957), serie
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    Running Bear
  22. ...
    Capt. Vrublevski
  23. 23. Cowboy (1958), película
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    Alcaide
  24. 24. Territorio apache (1958), película
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    Lugo
  25. ...
    Harry
  26. ...
    Denver
  27. ...
    Evans
  28. 28. La ley del hampa (1960), película
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    Syndicate Chairman
  29. ...
    Sonoy the Astrologer
  30. ...
    Jack
  31. ...
    Nigosh
  32. ...
    Two Dog
  33. ...
    The Man
  34. 34. El Don ha muerto (1973), película
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    Giunta
  35. ...
    The Man (as Frank de Kova)
  36. 36. Tráfico pesado (1973), película
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    Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
  37. 37. American Pop (1981), película
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    Crisco (voice)
  38. 38. Hey Good Lookin' (1982), película
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    Old Vinnie (voice)

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