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Frank De Kova

Professione
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Nascita
17 marzo 1910 · New York City, New York, USA
Morte
15 ottobre 1981

Biografia

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.

Noto per

Locandina di I dieci comandamenti
I dieci comandamenti
Film · 1956 · ★ 7,8
Locandina di La casa nella prateria
La casa nella prateria
Serie · 1974 · ★ 8,0
Locandina di L'incredibile Hulk
L'incredibile Hulk
Serie · 1977 · ★ 7,2
Locandina di Professione assassino
Professione assassino
Film · 1972 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di L'uomo di Laramie
L'uomo di Laramie
Film · 1955 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Serie · 1955 · ★ 7,8
Locandina di La più grande storia mai raccontata
La più grande storia mai raccontata
Film · 1965 · ★ 6,4
Locandina di Il bacio della morte
Il bacio della morte
Film · 1947 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Hawaii squadra cinque zero
Hawaii squadra cinque zero
Serie · 1969 · ★ 7,2
Locandina di Coonskin
Coonskin
Film · 1975 · ★ 6,1
Locandina di Gli intoccabili
Gli intoccabili
Serie · 1959 · ★ 8,1
Locandina di Agenzia Rockford
Agenzia Rockford
Serie · 1974 · ★ 7,6

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