Martin Kove
Biography
Date of Birth 6 March 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA Height 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Biography New York born, strong featured, narrow eyed 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" (1981) as honest Police Detective Isbecki, and then 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 ( in the hugely successful The Karate Kid (1984) in which he played "John Kreese", the 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.
The Karate Kid
John Kreese Cobra Kai Sensei
Death Race 2000
Nero the Hero
The Karate Kid Part III
John Kreese
VFW
Lou Clayton
Bloodtide
Neil Grice
To Be the Best
Rick Kulhane
Shadowchaser
Desilva
Alien Lockdown
Anslow
Steele Justice
John Steele
Ballistica
Riley
The Dink
Mitch
Bobby
A Gunfighter's Deal
Preacher
Satan, Get Thee Behind Me
Michael Silvano
Killing Mary Sue
Knox
Dark Night of the Soul
Dad
Queen of the Ring
Al Haft
Fight Another Day
Fischer
A Taste of Love
Glenn
Far Haven
Ambrose Masse
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
Self
Warden Jeffries
Dante's Hell
Speaker - 8th Circle: Bertran De Born
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
Gramps Jenkins
Elvis from Outer Space
State Trooper
Day 13
Magnus Torvald
Bring Me a Dream
Sheriff Jack Miller
Bare Knuckle Brawler
Mike Calderon
VFW
Lou Clayton
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Bounty Law Sheriff
D-Day: Battle of Omaha Beach
Nicholas
A Karate Christmas Miracle
Sam
The Savant
John Sonsay
Paint It Red
Scabs
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Self
American Poltergeist 4: The Curse of the Joker
Graham Palace
2 Lava 2 Lantula!
Colonel Jester
Six Gun Savior
The Mentor
Traded
Cavendish
A Horse for Christmas
Carson (as Marty Kove)
As Night Comes
Projectionist
The Extendables
Aye Lewis
Tapped Out
Principal Vanhorne
Eternity: The Movie
Barry Goldfield, Sr.
I'm in Love with a Church Girl
Terry Edgemond
Friend Request
Captain Meyers
Our Wild Hearts
Grizz
Silent But Deadly
Hodge
Assassins' Code
Tony Brill
Savage
Jack Lund
The Great Fight
John Cooper
Bare Knuckles
Sonny Cool
Carmen's Kiss
James Drayton
Ballistica
Riley
Middle Men
U.S. Senator
War Wolves
Malick
Beyond the Ring
Uncle Patrick
Revamped
Detective Reeger
Immortally Yours
Steven Miles
Mensagens do Além
DCI Collins
Max Havoc - Ring of Fire
Lt. Reynolds
7 Mummies
Kile
The Veteran
Father Brazinski
Christmas Miracle at Sage Creek
Jess (scenes deleted)
Crooked
Jake Lawlor
Glass Trap
Corrigan
The Hollywood Mom's Mystery
Sandy Palumbo
Alien Lockdown
Anslow
Devil's Knight
Zeff
Barbarian: The Last Great Warrior King
Munkar
Gentle Ben 2
Cully
Sting of the Black Scorpion
Jack Ames / Firearm
Miner's Massacre
Caleb
Trance: The Seduction of Magic
Robert Leoni
American Gun
Theodore Huntley
Gentle Ben
Cully
Crocodile II: Death Roll
Roland
Shattered Lies
Tom Reynolds
Hard Ground
Floyd
Con Games
Redick
Extreme Honor
Packard
Savages
Archie, a Bully
Jack Ames / Firearm
Under Heavy Fire
Father Brazinski
Strip 'n Run
Crow
Thompsonn
Fuera de la Ley (Borderline)
J. B. Walker
Nowhere Land
Hank
Top of the World
Carl
Shadow Warriors 2
Andy Powers
Shadow Warriors
Andy Powers
Top of the World
Carl
Grizzly Mountain
Marshal Jackson
Sliding Home
Samuel J. Weber
From Beyond the Grave
Michael Silvano
Rache - Söldner des Todes
Phoenix
Timelock
Admiral Danny Teegs
Final Equinox
Torman
Without Mercy
Wolf Larsen
Cagney and Lacey: The Return
Isbecki
Death Match
Paul Landis
The Gambler V: Playing for Keeps
Black Jack
Savage Land
Jabal
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Ed Ross
Wyatt Earp
Ed Ross
To Be the Best
Rick Kulhane
Shootfighter
Mr. Lee
Lightning in a Bottle
Duane Furber
Stewart
Diagnosis Murder - The Third Season
Capt. Walter Newman / ... (3 episodes, 1998-1999)
Shadowchaser
Desilva
White Light
Sean Craig
The Karate Kid Part III
John Kreese
Higher Ground
Rick Loden
Steele Justice
John Steele
The Karate Kid Part II
John Kreese
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ericson
The Karate Kid
John Kreese Cobra Kai Sensei
Bloodtide
Neil Grice
Cry for the Strangers
Jeff
Seven
Skip
The White Buffalo
Jack McCall
Mr. Billion
Texas Gambler (uncredited)
The November Plan
Stan
The Four Deuces
Smokey Ross, the 'Deuce of Diamonds'
White Line Fever
Clem
Death Race 2000
Nero the Hero
Capone
Pete Gusenberg
The Wild Party
Editor
The Groove Tube
Butz Beer (as Marty Cove)
Rollo
Cops and Robbers
Ambulance Attendant
The Last House on the Left
Deputy
Self
Savages
Archie, a Bully
Women In Revolt
Marty (as Marty Kove)
Little Murders
(uncredited)
The Highwayman
Roan Blackthorn
