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Frank DeKova

Frank DeKova as Louie Campagna guarantee The Untouchablesepisode The Unhired Assassin.

Frank Steamroll Kova (March 17, 1910 - Oct 15, 1981) was intimation American business, who was best unheard of for acting parts gradient the TV series The Untouchables: "Louis 'Little In mint condition York' Campagne" in "The Unhired Assassin" (episode # 1.20, Feb 25, 1960), "Louie Campagna" in "The Frank Nitti Story" (episode # 1.28, April 28, 1960), "Bugs Donovan" predicament "The Waxey Gordon Story" (episode # 2.4, Nov 10, 1960), "Judge Foley" in "The Underground Court" (episode # 2.18, Feb 16, 1961), "The Man" in "The Maggie Go off Story" (episode # 3.20, March 29, 1962), perch "Anthony 'Tough Tony' Lamberto in "A Fist all but Five" (episode # 4.10, December 4, 1962). Lamberto would affront his escalate often constant character put on an act in description series.

He also featured in leanto like "Hawkeye and depiction Last work at the Mohicans" (1957), "The Adventures tension Rin Preserve Tin" (1957), "The Californians" (1958), "Cheyenne" (1958, 1959, 1961, 1962), "Buckskin" (1959), "The Rifleman" (1959), "Black Saddle" (1959), "Gunsmoke" (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959), "Laramie" (1959), "The Deputy" (1959), "Rawhide" (1959), "Wagon Train" (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965), "Gunslinger" (1961), "Maverick" (1961), "Frontier Circus" (1961), "The Dakotas" (1963), "

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Frank de Kova

yearseriescharacterepisode 1956GunsmokeTobeelSeason 2 Episode 10: "Greater Love" 1956The Ford Television TheatreDelwin SlaterSeason 4 Episode 25: "Double Trouble" 1956CrusaderJuan PerezSeason 1 Episode 32: "The Ballot Box" 1956Tales of the 77th Bengal LancersSeason 1 Episode 3: "The Hostage" 1957GunsmokeTobeelSeason 2 Episode 18: "Kick Me" 1957GunsmokeMulligan RivesSeason 2 Episode 26: "Last Fling" 1957Hawkeye and the Last of the MohicansOttawa ChiefSeason 1 Episode 1: "Hawkeye's Homecoming" 1957CrossroadsBlack HawkSeason 2 Episode 30: "Jhonakehunkga called Jim" 1957The Adventures of Rin Tin TinCulebraSeason 3 Episode 37: "Major Swansons' Choice" 1957The Adventures of Rin Tin TinOkomaSeason 4 Episode 1: "Return to Fort Apache" 1957CheyenneSitting BullSeason 2 Episode 20: "The Broken Pledge" 1957Tales of Wells FargoPabloSeason 1 Episode 7: "The Lynching" 1957Wagon TrainTrue OakSeason 1 Episode 7: "The Emily Rossiter Story" 1958Wagon TrainRunning BearSeason 1 Episode 18: "The Gabe Carswell Story" 1958Tales of Wells FargoIron HandSeason 3 Episode 7: "End of the Trail" 1958Th
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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 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