Martin Kove
Martin Kove ( born March 6, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York ) is an American actor.
Life
Kove began his acting career in 1970 with an undisclosed uncredited small role in Alan Arkin comedy film Shallow Grave. Until the mid- 1970s he played only in small roles, before he got a larger supporting role alongside Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine in the B- Movie Frankenstein's Death Race. As a result, he had guest roles on several television series, here mainly in crime series. Cagney & Lacey in the series he played from the first season in 1982 until its setting in 1988 in 104 episodes of Detective Victor Isbecki.
In 1984 he played the karate instructor John Kreese in the blockbuster The Karate Kid. He repeated this role of film villain, by which he was known in German-speaking public, in two sequels in 1986 and 1989 a further appearance in a blockbuster he had in 1985 in Rambo II -. Orders. Also in the 1990s had Kove guest roles in several successful series formats. His feature film roles, however, were increased last settled in the direct-to- video field in the B- Movie and.
Kove is divorced and has two sons. He holds a black belt in Kendo and Karate.