Frank DeKova
Gjinia: M
Ditëlindje: 1910-03-17
Vdiq: 1981-10-15
Biografi
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.
Aktor:
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1. Kiss of Death (1947), Film...Con Library
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2. The Mob (1951), Film...Culio (uncredited)
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3. The Big Sky (1952), Film...Moleface
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4. Pony Soldier (1952), Film...Custin
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5. VIVA ZAPATA (1952), Film...Colonel Guajardo
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6. King of the Khyber Rifles (1953), Film...Ali Nur
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7. Split Second (1953), Film...Dummy
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8. Arrowhead (1953), Film...Chief Chattez
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9. All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953), Film...Stevenson (as Frank deKova)
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10. Valley of the Kings (1954), Film...Akmed Salah
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11. They Rode West (1954), Film...Isatai
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12. Where the Wind Dies (1954), Film...Martinez
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13. Njeriu nga Laramia (1955), Film...Padre
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14. Cheyenne (1955), seriale...Benito Juarez
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15. The Ten Commandments (1956), Film...Abiram
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16. Pillars of the Sky (1956), Film...Zachariah
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17. Reprisal! (1956), Film...Charlie Washackle
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18. The Lone Ranger (1956), Film...Chief Red Hawk
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19. Run of the Arrow (1957), Film...Red Cloud
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20. Ride Out for Revenge (1957), Film...Chief Yellow Wolf
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21. Wagon Train (1957), seriale...Running Bear
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22. The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Film...Capt. Vrublevski
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23. Cowboy (1958), Film...Alcaide
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24. Apache Territory (1958), Film...Lugo
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25. Machine Gun Kelly (1958), Film...Harry
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26. Day of the Outlaw (1959), Film...Denver
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27. The Jayhawkers! (1959), Film...Evans
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28. The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960), Film...Syndicate Chairman
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29. Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961), Film...Sonoy the Astrologer
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30. Verë në Florida (1962), Film...Jack
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31. Those Calloways (1965), Film...Nigosh
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32. The Wild Country (1970), Film...Two Dog
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33. The Mechanic (1972), Film...The Man
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34. The Don Is Dead (1973), Film...Giunta
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35. Frasier The Loveable Lion (1973), Film...The Man (as Frank de Kova)
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36. Heavy Traffic (1973), Film...Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
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37. American Pop (1981), Film...Crisco (voice)
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38. Hey Good Lookin' (1982), Film...Old Vinnie (voice)
