Frank De Kova

Frank De Kova

Acting 1910-03-17 New York City, New York, USA

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.

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1982 Old Vinnie (voice)
1981 Crisco (voice)
1980 Rupolo
1978 Rachid Khan
1977
1975 Albert Ambrose
1975 White Eagle
1975 Managan (voice) / Ruby (voice) (uncredited)
1975
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1974 Big Tony (as Frank deKova)
1974 Nova (as Frank De Kova)
1974 Vito Angelo
1973 Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
1973 Capiello
1973 Giunta
1973 The Man
1973
1972 The Man
1971
1970 Two Dog
1968 Phil Kalama
1967 Narrator (voice)
1967 Aguirre
1965 The tormentor
1965 Old Baba
1965 Chief Wild Eagle
1965 Faber
1965 Wild Eagle
1965 Dracus
1964 Nigosh
1964 Talakum
1964 Saugus
1963 Edward
1962 Jack (as Frank de Kova)
1961 Sonoy the Astrologer
1961
1961 Don Ignacio Alesandro
1960 Syndicate Chairman
1960 Stinger
1960 Carlos Roca
1960
1960 Lieutenant Vincoli
1959 Evans
1959 Denver, Bruhn's Gang
1959 Chief Tawyawp
1959 Calderon
1959 Richard Aloysius Sturgis
1959
1959 Nordoff
1959 Louis 'Little New York' Campagna
1959 Pete Dailey
1959 Anthony 'Tough Tony' Lamberto
1959 Louis Campagne
1959 Arlatti
1959 Cowan
1959 Louie Campagna
1959 The Man
1959 Juan Rodriguez
1959 Nadi
1959 Tah-Za
1959 Bugs Donovan
1959 Villegro
1958 Harry
1958 Capt. Vrublevski
1958 The Black-Bearded One
1958 Alcaide
1958 Lugo (as Frank deKova)
1958
1958 Jack Bent
1958 Jerry Gordon
1958 Chief Hostay
1958 Dino Malatesta
1958 Jed Barker
1958 Jimmy Napoli
1957 Dutch Hayden
1957 Chief Yellow Wolf
1957 Red Cloud (as Frank De Kova)
1957 Egyptian Official
1957
1957 Obuki
1957 Stefan
1957 Isaiah Quickfox
1957 Ocheo
1957 True Oak
1957 Indian Chief
1956 Abiram
1956 Chief Red Hawk
1956 Zachariah
1956 Yellow Elk
1956 Brave Scout
1956 Charlie Washackle
1956 Jingo
1955 Prof. Claude Dillon
1955 Padre
1955 Priest
1955 Anse Hatlo
1955
1955 Tobeel
1955 Pedro
1955 Spotted Bull
1955 Mulligan Rives
1955 Sitting Bull
1955 Leader
1955 Senor Vargas
1955 Dull Knife
1955 Chief Johnny Cake
1955 War Cloud
1954 Modoc Jim
1954 Isatai
1954 Martinez (as Frank de Kova)
1954 Akmed Salah (uncredited)
1953 Dummy
1953 Chief Chattez
1953 Ali Nur
1953 Captain Romero
1953 Benedetto
1953 Mindar
1953 Stevenson
1952 The Wiry Man
1952 Moleface (uncredited)
1949 Thomas Randall
1947 Con Library (uncredited)