Frank de Kova

Frank de Kova
Frank de Kova
	As 'Chief Wild Eagle' in F Troop (1965–67)
Born	March 17, 1910; New York City, U.S.
Died	October 15, 1981 (aged 71); Sepulveda, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1951–1981

Frank de Kova (March 17, 1910 – October 15, 1981) was an Italian-American character actor in films, stage, and TV.[1]

Biography

De Kova was born in New York City and taught at a school in New York before joining a Shakespeare repertory group. He made his Broadway debut in Detective Story, and was discovered by director Elia Kazan.

Moving to Hollywood, he appeared in Viva Zapata! (1952) as the Mexican Colonel, and The Big Sky (1952) with Kirk Douglas. He played Abiram in The Ten Commandments, appeared in Cowboy (1958) with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon, and in The Mechanic (1972) with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent and the Ralph Bakshi film American Pop.[2]

He did much television work, including a role as Mafia hitman Jimmy Napoli in the ABC crime drama, The Untouchables, and an occasional recurring role in Gunsmoke as "Tobeel", a Kiowa Indian who is a friend of Marshal Matt Dillon. His best-known television role was as "Chief Wild Eagle", chief of the Hekawi tribe, on the western comedy F Troop (1965–1967). He also guest-starred in the ABC/Warner Brothers drama, The Roaring 20s. He appeared as Phil Kalama in "Along Came Joey" on Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

In 1981, de Kova died of heart failure in his sleep at his home in North Hills, California. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.

Films

Year	Films	Character	Info
1951	Up Front	Italian Man	Uncredited
1951	The Mob a.k.a. Remember That Face	Culio	Uncredited
1952	Viva Zapata!	Colonel Guajardo	Uncredited
1952	Holiday for Sinners	The Wiry Man
1952	The Big Sky	Moleface	Uncredited
1952	Pony Soldier a.k.a. MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties	Custin	Uncredited
1953	Split Second	Dummy
1953	The Desert Song	Mindar
1953	Raiders of the Seven Seas	Capt.Romero
1953	Arrowhead	Chief Chattez
1953	The Robe	Slave Dealer	Uncredited
1953	All the Brothers were Valiant	Stevenson
1953	Fighter Attack	Benedetto
1953	King of the Khyber Rifles	Ali Nur
1954	They Rode West	Isatai
1954	Valley of the Kings	Akmed Sala, Nomad Guide	Uncredited
1954	Passion	Martinez
1954	Drum Beat a.k.a. Delmer Daves' Drum Beat	Modoc Jim
1955	The Man from Laramie	Padre
1955	Strange Lady in Town	Anse Hatlo
1955	Hold Back Tomorrow a.k.a. No Tomorrow	Priest
1955	Shack Out on 101	Prof.Claude Dillon
1956	The Lone Ranger	Chief Red Hawk
1956	Santiago a.k.a. The Gun Runner	Jingo
1956	Pillars of the Sky a.k.a. The Tomahawk and the Cross	Zachariah
1956	The Ten Commandments	Abiram
1956	The White Squaw	Yellow Elk
1956	Reprisal!	Charlie Washackle
1957	Run of the Arrow a.k.a. Hot Lead	Red Cloud
1957	Appointment with a Shadow a.k.a. If I Should Die	Dutch Hayden
1957	Rideout for Revenge	Chief Yellow Wolf
1958	Cowboy	Alcaide
1958	The Brothers Karamazov a.k.a. The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov	Capt. Vrubleuski
1958	Machine-Gun Kelly	Harry
1958	Teenage Cave Man a.k.a. Out of Darkness a.k.a. Prehistoric World	The Black-Bearded One
1958	Apache Territory	Lugo
1959	Day of the Outlaw	Denver, Bruhn's Gang
1959	The Jayhawkers!	Evans
1960	The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond	"The Chairman"
1961	Portrait of a Mobster	Anthony Parazzo
1961	Atlantis, the Lost Continent	Sonoy the Astrologer
1962	Follow That Dream	Jack
1963	The Raiders	Pawnee Chief	Uncredited
1965	Those Calloways	Nigosh
1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	The Tormentor
1965	The Sword of Ali Baba	Old Baba
1967	The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle	Narrator	Voice
1970	The Wild Country	Two Dog
1972	The Mechanic	The Man
1973	Heavy Traffic	Angelo "Angie" Corleone	Voice
1973	The Slams	Capiello
1973	The Don Is Dead	Giunta
1974	Jive Turkey	Big Tony
1975	Coonskin	Madigan	uncredited
1978	Cat in the Cage	Rachid Khan
1980	Mafia on the Bounty
1981	American Pop	Crisco
1982	Hey Good Lookin'	Old Vinnie	Voice, (final film role)

Television

Year	Television	Character	Episode	1956	Television	Gunsmoke	Tobeel	"Greater Love"	Season 2 Episode 10	1956	The Ford Television Theatre a.k.a. Ford Theatre	Delwin Slater	Double Trouble
1956	Crusader	Juan Perez	The Ballot Box
1956	Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers a.k.a. The 77th Bengal Lancers		The Hostage
1957	Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans a.k.a. Hawkeye a.k.a. Last of the Mohicans	Ottawa Chief	Hawkeye's Homecoming
1957	Crossroads	Black Hawk	Jhonakehunkga called Jim
1957	The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin	Okoma	Return to Fort Apache
1957	Cheyenne	Sitting Bull	The Broken Pledge
1957	The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin	Culebra	Major Swansons' Choice
1958	The Restless Gun	Lupo Lazaro	Dragon for a Day
1958	Cheyenne	Sioux Chief	Wagon-Tongue North
1959	Buckskin	Potato Man	Coup Stick
1959	The Lawless Years	Harry the Horse	The Poison Ivy Story
1959	Black Saddle a.k.a. The Westerners	Rubio Calderone	Client Martinez
1959	Peter Gunn	Joe Taber	Breakout
1959	U.S. Marshal	Red Slade	Maryjo Is Missing
1959	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse a.k.a. Desilu Playhouse	Jimmy Napoli Louis Campagna	The Untouchables (1959 TV series) The Untouchables: Part 1 The Untouchables: Part 2 The Frank Nitti Story
1959	The Californians	Up-A-Mug	An Act of Faith (1959) The Painless Extractionist (1958)
1959	The Alaskans	Fanton	Petticoat Crew
1959	Wagon Train	Ocheo	The Rodney Lawrence Story
1959	The Rifleman	Chief Hostay	The Indian
1959	Rawhide	Villegro	Incident at Spanish Rock, S2, Ep12, Airdate: Dec. 18, 1959
1960	Cheyenne	Dull Knife	Gold, Glory and Custer - Requiem
1960	The Rifleman	Carl Miller	Meeting at Midnight
1960	The Islanders	Carlos Roca	The Widow from Richmond
1960	Johnny Staccato	Eddie Wayneright	Night of Jeopardy
1960	Overland Trail	Shoshone Chief	West of Boston
1960	Five Fingers	Landau	The Judas Goat
1960	Lawman	Jed Barker	Cornered
1960	Wagon Train	Indian Chief	The Tom Tuckett Story
1961	The Tall Man	Mike Gray Eagle	"The Cloudbusters"
1961	The Rebel	Richard Aloysius "Dick" Sturgis	"Shriek of Silence"
1961	Cheyenne	Chief Spotted Bull	Cross Purpose
1962	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Señor Vargas	Season 7 / Episode 19 "Strange Miracle"
1962	Cheyenne	White Cloud	Indian Gold
\|1963	Laramie	Tah-sa	Season 4 / Episode 23 "The Unvanquished"
1964	Daniel Boone	Chief Talakum	The Sound of Wings
1965-67	F Troop	Chief Wild Eagle
1968	Hawaii Five-0		episode "Along Came Joey"
1974	Police Woman	Vito Angelo	Season 1 / Episode 19 "The Company"
1976	Cannon	Lucius Delgado	Season 5 / Episode 18 "Revenge"
1980	The Incredible Hulk	Sam Monte	Season 3 / Episode 22 "Nine Hours"

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References

"Frank de Kova". The New York Times.
Canby, Vincent (February 13, 1981). "'American Pop' Grown-Up Animation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-16.

External links

Frank Dekova on IMDb
Frank de Kova at the Internet Broadway Database
Frank de Kova at Find a Grave

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[NYT-1] "Frank de Kova". The New York Times.

[2] Canby, Vincent (February 13, 1981). "'American Pop' Grown-Up Animation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-16.