Frank De Kova

Acting

Frank De Kova

Born 1910-03-17 New York City, New York, USA 57 films

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 Shakespearea…

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Filmography

57 films
American Pop poster

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant…

American Pop

★ 6.9 1981

Coonskin poster

A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracke…

Coonskin

★ 6.1 1975

Crossfire poster

Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was…

Crossfire

★ 8.0 1975

The Slams poster

Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.

The Slams

★ 6.5 1973

Heavy Traffic poster

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh,…

Heavy Traffic

★ 6.5 1973