FRANK DE KOVA
ACTING
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.
- The Greatest Story Ever Told1965
- Heavy Traffic1973
- The Jayhawkers!1959
- The Ten Commandments1956
- Hey Good Lookin'1982
- Split Second1953
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent1961
- American Pop1981
- The Slams1973
- Those Calloways1965
- Machine-Gun Kelly1958
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond1960
- The Brothers Karamazov1958
- Shack Out on 1011955
- Arrowhead1953
- Day of the Outlaw1959
- Appointment with a Shadow1957
- King of the Khyber Rifles1953
- The Man from Laramie1955
- The Don Is Dead1973
- Teenage Cave Man1958
- Drum Beat1954
- Ride Out for Revenge1957
- The White Squaw1956
- Reprisal!1956
- Santiago1956
- Fighter Attack1953
- The Desert Song1953
- Cowboy1958
- Strange Lady in Town1955
- The Lone Ranger1956
- Follow That Dream1962
- They Rode West1954
- Passion1954
- Run of the Arrow1957
- Apache Territory1958
- The Wild Country1970
- Mafia on the Bounty1980
- The Mechanic1972
- The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle1967
- Coonskin1975
- Holiday for Sinners1952
- Pillars of the Sky1956
- Hold Back Tomorrow1955
- Kiss of Death1947
- Raiders of the Seven Seas1953
- The Big Sky1952
- All the Brothers Were Valiant1953
- The F.B.I.1965
- Surfside 61960
- Gunsmoke1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
- Rawhide1959
- Daniel Boone1964
- Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans1957
- F Troop1965
- Kraft Suspense Theatre1963
- Hawaii Five-O1968
- The High Chaparral1967
- Thriller1960
- The Rebel1959
- Black Saddle1959
- The Rockford Files1974
- The F.B.I.1965
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Daniel Boone1964
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
- The Untouchables1959
- The Detectives1959
- Cheyenne1955
- Wagon Train1957
- Hawaiian Eye1959
- The Untouchables1959
- The Untouchables1959
- The Untouchables1959
- F Troop1965
- Cheyenne1955
- The Untouchables1959
- Wagon Train1957
- Wagon Train1957
- 77 Sunset Strip1958
- 77 Sunset Strip1958
- The Rifleman1958
- The Deputy1959