Frank DeKova

Frank DeKova
Date of Birth: 17 Mar 1910
Country: USA
Biography: 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.
Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor)
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Heavy Traffic
Michael, a Jewish-Italian cartoonist with a black girlfriend tries to make it in New York City. (imdb)
American Pop
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish family of musicians parallels the history of American popular music in the 20th century. (imdb)
The Mechanic
An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them. (imdb)
The Man from Laramie
Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around town, his presence a catalyst for changes in people's lives, searching for someone he doesn't know...who's been selling rifles to the Apaches. (imdb)
Viva Zapata!
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century. (imdb)
Run of the Arrow
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
Machine-Gun Kelly
Charles Bronson has his first starring role as the famous bank robber, seldom without his Thompson machine gun. The story opens with great jazzy music and a murder shown in shadows. As his moll, Susan Cabot is the driving force behind his exploits... (imdb)
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth... (IMDB)
The Big Sky
Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left. (imdb)
Cowboy
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for. (imdb)
Johnny Firecloud
Puerto Rican actor Victor Mohica plays the title character, a Native American who has returned to his small California desert home town after service in Vietnam to face a new enemy -- a gang of ruthless racist thugs led by town boss Colby. (Allmovie.com)
Arrowhead
An Army scout and an Indian chief resolve their differences in single combat. (TCM.com)
Teenage Caveman
Robert Vaughn stars as a white 25-year-old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe's campsite. It is against the Word (and the Word is the Law), but he breaks it anyway. Soon he discovers a strange creature which kills with its touch. (imdb)
The Brothers Karamazov
In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. (imdb)
Valley of the Kings
Archaeologists clash with grave robbers during the search for a priceless Egyptian treasure. (TCM.com)
Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists. (imdb)
King of the Khyber Rifles
A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler. (imdb)
Pony Soldier
In 1876, Duncan MacDonald joins the new, 300-member Mounted Police in western Canada, just in time for a dangerous mission. It seems the Cree Indians, raiding across the border in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. But MacDonald, with only scout Natayo to help, will need all his diplomacy and then some to extract the captives from the midst of a thousand Cree. (imdb)
They Rode West
A Calvary doctor defies orders to treat Native Americans. (TCM.com)
Shack Out on 101
At an isolated, seaside greasy-spoon cafe live George, the sarcastic owner; Slob, the potentially violent cook; and Kotty, the sexy waitress all the men lust after. Plus an occasional customer, including "Professor Sam", Kotty's boyfriend from a nearby research facility. And something's going on under the potentially explosive surface emotions...nuclear secrets being smuggled out of the country. (imdb)
Cat in the Cage
A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover, the chauffeur, to murder the father and take his fortune. (imdb)
Follow That Dream
A family of squatters takes on a gambling chieftan and a corrupt social worker. (TCM.com)
The Lone Ranger
The Kilgores start a mining company on Indian territory, and the Indians aren't happy about it. The Lone Ranger must fight the savages and find away to make peace in the old west once again. (imdb)
The Wild Country
Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved to what they thought would be a fully functional ranch in Wyoming. Instead they find a broken down ruin. In addition to having to rebuild and battle the elements, they have a fight on their hands. Their cattleman neighbor controls the water, and he hates farmers. (allmovie.com)
The Slams
After a heist Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police. In jail various people want to know where he stashed the loot. But the places where he stashed the loot ($1.500.000) will be demolished so he has to get out of jail to get to the dough. (imdb)
Santiago
Set during Cuba's struggle to free itself from colonialist Spain, this exciting adventure chronicles the exploits of a tough, mercenary gun runner who learns about honor, sacrifice and caring for others when he ends up forced to smuggle his latest weapon's cache aboard a beat up stern wheeler bound for Cuba. There he meets a beautiful freedom fighter who has been in the States trying to rally her expatriot colleagues into returning to join in the battle. (allmovie.com)
Jive Turkey
In 1956 Ohio, the head of a lucrative numbers game is pursued by both the mob and the local police. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference guide.")
Strange Lady in Town
Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who arrives in 1880 New Mexico to set up practice as a doctor. The townsfolk are not only resistant to the notion of a lady sawbones, but they become downright hostile when Julia turns out to be a tireless advocate of the Women's Suffrage movement. (allmovie.com)
Hold Back Tomorrow
A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours. (imdb)
Apache Territory
A cowboy sets out to try to stop an Indian war and rescue a white woman captured by the Apaches. (imdb)
Ride Out for Revenge
In this revisionist western, Captain George (Lloyd Bridges) is a cavalry officer of dubious principles who is given the assignment of escorting a tribe of Cheyenne Indians from the land of their birth to a government reservation. However, as the Cheyenne are en route to their new home, gold is discovered on the land, and suddenly a call goes up to relocate the Indians somewhere else. (allrovi.com)
The Sword of Ali Baba
Ali Baba (Peter Mann) battles against the Mongol invaders and fights for the woman he loves.
F Troop
F Troop (1965) - TV Series
The misadventures of the staff and neighbors of a remote US Army outpost in the Wild West. (imdb)
Johnny Moccasin
Johnny Moccasin is a white teenage boy who has been raised by an Indian tribe after his parents were killed in a Wagon Train massacre.
Portrait of a Mobster
1920s gangster Dutch Schultz, while building his own mob ring, romances Iris, the daughter of a man he killed. When Iris marries a cop, Schultz makes sure the cop goes bad and takes kickbacks from Schultz's organization. Iris goes back to the arms of Schultz, not knowing he's the man who killed her father.
Crossfire
Crossfire (1975) - TV Movie
Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being branded a dirty cop. And his first job is to go after a mob boss.