Martin Kove
Jessie in Hard Time on Planet Earth, Victor Isbecki in Cagney and Lacey
Birth name : Martin Kove
Birth date : 1947/03/06 (78 years old)
Birth place : new york
Height: 1.85 m
Biography for Martin Kove
New York born, strong featured, narrow eyed and often untrustworthy looking actor who has portrayed a mixed bag of both good and bad guys! First turned up on screen in several minor roles, and got himself noticed as the villainous "Nero The Hero" in the low budget road race Death Race 2000 (1975), and then as "Clem" the sadistic rigger, breaking Jan-Michael Vincent's ribs in White Line Fever (1975). He cropped up in the hit TV series "Cagney & Lacey" (1982) as honest Police Detective Isbecki, and then (stupidly) got on the wrong side of rampaging Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
Kove probably scored his greatest visibility to the public (yet again, as another villain) in the hugely successful The Karate Kid (1984) in which he played "John Kreese", the brutal head instructor of the Cobra Kai karate school, and he reprised the role in the two sequels, The Karate Kid, Part II (1986) and The Karate Kid, Part III (1989).
Kove has since kept consistently busy, primarily in the action / thriller film genre, and has notched up over 80 film appearances to date, as well as numerous TV guest roles.
Martin Kove and a well -known actor in the USA. He played 3 times alongside Sylvester Stallone: in "Capone", "The Lords of the Road", "Rambo 2".
He played with Charles Bronson in "Le Bison Blanc", with Kevin Costner in "Wyatt Earp", and in the cult film of Wes Craven "the last house on the left".
He and especially known for having played in the "Karate Kid" trilogy and in the series "Cagney & Lacey". He will have played in lots of TV films by series Z like "Steele Justice", "Chadowshaser project", "The skin of the angel", "Fugitive outrage", "The last judgment", "Shootfighter", "Death Match" , etc ... and in guest star in series known as "the incredible hulk", "starsky & hutch", "kung fu the legend continues", "the rebel", "the tales of the crypt", "walker Texas Ranger "...
Martin Kove is an American actor born March 6, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for his role as John Kreese in the Karate Kid film franchise.
Kove began his acting career in the 1970s by playing in films such as The Ultimate Warrior and Death Game. He also played in television series such as Kojak and the streets of San Francisco.
In 1984, Kove played in the film Karate Kid, in the role of the bad John Kreese. He repeated this role in the two suites of Karate Kid, Karate Kid 2 and Karate Kid 3. The character of John Kreese has become one of the most emblematic bad cinema in the 1980s.
During his career, Kove continued to play in action films such as Rambo: First Blood Part II and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection. He also played in popular television series such as Walker, Texas Ranger and NCIS: Los Angeles.
In addition to his acting career, Kove is also an experienced martial arts practitioner. He studied karate and judo for many years and even taught these martial arts to other people.
In summary, Martin Kove is an American actor known for his role as John Kreese in the Karate Kid film franchise. He is also an experienced martial arts practitioner and has played in many other films and television series during his career.
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Filmography
| Title | Role |
|---|---|
| Bare Knuckles (2008) (post-production) | Sonny Cool |
| Carmen's Kiss (2008) (post-production) | Drayton |
| The Dead Sleep Easy (2008) (V) (completed) | Bob Depugh |
| Beyond the Ring (2008) (completed) | Patrick |
| Chinaman's Chance (2008) | Sheriff Jones |
| Revamped (2007) (V) | Detective Reeger |
| Messages (2007) | DCI Collins |
| The Veteran (2006) (TV) (uncredited) | Father Brazinski |
| Fallen Angels (2006) | Daniels |
| Exit 38 (2006) (V) | Reese |
| Soft Target (2006) | Jake Lawlor |
| Max Havoc: Ring of Fire (2006) | Lt. Reynolds |
| Immortally Yours (2006) | Steven Miles |
| Seven Mummies (2006) | Kile |
| Miracle at Sage Creek (2005) (scenes deleted) | Jess |
| Glass Trap (2005) | Corrigan |
| Alien Lockdown (2004) (TV) | Anslow |
| Big Chuck, Little Chuck (2004) | The Clown/Himself |
| The Hollywood Mom's Mystery (2004) (TV) | Sandy Palumbo |
| Curse of the Forty-Niner (2003) | Caleb |
| Rice Girl (2003) | Captain Ron Williams |
| Hard Ground (2003) (TV) | Floyd |
| Barbarian (2003) (V) | Munkar |
| Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain (2003) (TV) | Cully |
| Devil's Knight (2003) | Zeff |
| Paradise (2003/I) | Taxi Driver |
| Sting of the Black Scorpion (2002) (V) | Jack Ames/Firearm |
| Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002) | Roland |
| Trance (2002) | Robert Leoni |
| American Gun (2002) | Theodore Huntley |
| Gentle Ben (2002) (TV) | Cully |
| Shattered Lies (2002) | Tom Reynolds |
| Con Games (2001) (V) | Redick |
| Extreme Honor (2001) | Packard |
| Going Back (2001) (TV) | Father Brazinski |
| Black Scorpion Returns (2001) (V) | |
| Final Payback (2001) | Captain Peter James |
| Black Scorpion | Firearm (1 episode, 2001) |
| Savage Season (2001) | Frank |
| Hollywood Off-Ramp (1 episode, 2000) | |
| Bad Guys (2000) | ...The Commander |
| Shadow Warriors II: Hunt for the Death Merchant (1999) (TV) | Andy Powers |
| Diagnosis Murder | Capt. Walter Newman / ... (3 episodes, 1998-1999) |
| V.I.P. | Mr. Scornabacho (1 episode, 1998) |
| Nowhere Land (1998) | Hank |
| The Waterfront (1998) | James Ricks |
| The Thief & the Stripper (1998) | Crow |
| Hyacinth (1998) | |
| Joseph's Gift (1998) | Thompsonn |
| Grizzly Mountain (1997) | Marshal Jackson |
| Assault on Devil's Island (1997) (TV) | Andy Powers |
| Mercenary (1997) (TV) | Phoenix |
| The Marksmen (1997) | Samuel J. Weber |
| Top of the World (1997/I) | Carl |
| Judge and Jury (1996) | Michael Silvano |
| Timelock (1996) | Admiral Danny Teegs |
| Final Equinox (1995) | Torman |
| Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Demetrius (1 episode, 1995) |
| Walker, Texas Ranger | Fred Kimble (1 episode, 1995) |
| Without Mercy (1995) | Wolf Larsen |
| Baby Face Nelson (1995) | John Dillinger |
| Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994) (TV) | Isbecki |
| Death Match (1994) | Paul Landis |
| Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (1994) (TV) | Black Jack |
| Savage Land (1994) | Jabal |
| Endangered (1994) | DeVoe |
| Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994) | |
| Wyatt Earp (1994) | Ed Ross |
| Burke's Law | Joe Tanner (1 episode, 1994) |
| Tales from the Crypt | Dectective (1 episode, 1993) |
| To Be the Best (1993) | Rick Kulhane |
| The Outfit (1993) | Agent Baker |
| Renegade | Mitch Raines (1 episode, 1993) |
| Without a Kiss Goodbye (1993) (TV) | |
| Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Chi'Ru Master (1 episode, 1993) |
| Lightning in a Bottle (1993) | Duane Furber |
| Future Shock (1993) | Dr. Langdon |
| Firehawk (1993) (V) | Stewart |
| Shadowchaser (1992) | Desilva |
| Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1992) | Mr. Lee |
| White Light (1991) | Sean Craig |
| The Karate Kid, Part III (1989) | John Kreese |
| Hard Time on Planet Earth | Jesse (13 episodes, 1989) |
| President's Target (1989) | Sam Nicholson |
| Higher Ground (1988) (TV) | Rick Loden |
| Cagney & Lacey | Det. Victor Isbecki / ... (74 episodes, 1982-1988) |
| Steele Justice (1987) | John Steele |
| The Karate Kid, Part II (1986) | John Kreese |
| The Twilight Zone | Joe Farrell (segment Opening Day) (1 episode, 1985) |
| Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) | Ericson |
| Wildside | Lyle Rainwood (1 episode, 1985) |
| Murder, She Wrote | Dr. Ellison (1 episode, 1985) |
| The Karate Kid (1984) | John Kreese |
| The Optimist | The Rival (1 episode, 1983) |
| Blood Tide (1982) | Neil Grice |
| Cry for the Strangers (1982) (TV) | Jeff |
| The Edge of Night (1956) TV series | Romeo Slade (unknown episodes, 1981) |
| Trouble in High Timber Country (1980) (TV) | Willie Yeager |
| Laboratory (1980) | |
| Beyond Westworld | Jack Edwards (1 episode, 1980) |
| Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1 episode, 1980) | |
| CHiPs | Sherwood (1 episode, 1979) |
| Barnaby Jones | Greg Saunders / ... (2 episodes, 1978-1979) |
| Seven (1979) | Skip |
| The Runaways | Mike (1 episode, 1979) |
| The Sky Trap (1979) (TV) | |
| Disneyland (1 episode, 1979) | |
| Quincy M.E. | Joe Kirby (1 episode, 1979) |
| Starsky and Hutch | Jimmy Lucas (1 episode, 1979) |
| The Incredible Hulk | Henry 'Rocky' Welsh (1 episode, 1978) |
| Charlie's Angels | Georgie (1 episode, 1977) |
| We've Got Each Other (1977) TV series | Ken Redford |
| The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Pete Miller (1 episode, 1977) |
| The White Buffalo (1977) | Jack McCall |
| The Rockford Files | Harry Smick (1 episode, 1977) |
| Mr. Billion (1977) (uncredited) | Texas Gambler |
| Code R (1977) TV series | George Baker (unknown episodes) |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Willis Hines (1 episode, 1976) |
| Kojak | Burl Slote (1 episode, 1976) |
| Captains and the Kings (1976) (mini) TV mini-series | |
| Kingston (1976) (TV) | Dealey |
| Petrocelli | Frank Harris (1 episode, 1976) |
| The Four Deuces (1976) | Smokey Ross, the 'Deuce of Diamonds' |
| The November Plan (1976) (TV) | Stan |
| The Rookies | Jimmy Jay (1 episode, 1975) |
| Three for the Road (1 episode, 1975) | |
| Switch | Bud Ewing (1 episode, 1975) |
| White Line Fever (1975) | Clem |
| Death Race 2000 (1975) | Nero the Hero |
| Capone (1975) | Pete Gusenberg |
| The Wild Party (1975) | Editor |
| Rhoda | Gary (1 episode, 1974) |
| Gunsmoke | Guthrie / ... (2 episodes, 1974) |
| McMillan & Wife (1 episode, 1974) | |
| McCloud | Punk (1 episode, 1974) |
| Road Movie (1974) | Weigh Station Cop |
| Wide World Mystery | Rollo (1 episode, 1974) |
| Cops and Robbers (1973) | Ambulance Attendant |
| The Last House on the Left (1972) | Deputy |
| Savages (1972) | Archie, a Bully |
| Women in Revolt (1971) (as Marty Kove) | Marty |
Trivia
- Honorary marshal of Tarzana, California
- He was a substitute match teacher at Ward Melville High School in New York.
- During the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, Kove was a well-known TV-spokesman for King Cobra beer: "Don't let the smooth taste fool you." In more recent years, however, he has sworn off alcohol.
- Has black belts in all of the following martial arts: Kendo; Okinawa-te; and Tiger Kenpo.
- Injured his hand during the fateful fight scene between his character, John Kreese, and Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, Part II (1986). The effects team ill-timed one of the car window shattering shots, causing Kove to inadvertently break the prop window with his own fist. He sustained several injuries to his hand but continued filming.
Quotes
[on one of his most famous characterizations, in The Karate Kid (1984)] Over the years, kids have come up to me in places like supermarkets, and hit me and said things like, "You hurt Ralph [Ralph Macchio]!" It makes me feel like the Darth Vader of the contemporary cinematic world. As "Sensei Jon Kreese," I'm truly hated and I love it. I had no idea how much anxiety people would be releasing by hating this character.
From the moment I got to Hollywood I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way, the business gets in the way of the art.
Family
- Spouse : Vivienne Kove (1981 - 2005) (divorced) 2 children
- Has twins: son Jesse Morgan Kove; and daughter Rachel Olivia Kove. Jesse and Rachel were born November 2, 1990.
Author of the card
- Creation date: 11/01/2008 by franckenstein