Martin Kove (March 6 1946) is an American actor who has appeared in both feature films and television series.
His best known roles may have been on the 1980s hit TV series Cagney & Lacey as Det. Victor Isbecki and in the 1984 hit film The Karate Kid as Cobra Kai Sensei John Kreese. He reprised his role as Kreese in the 1986 hit sequel The Karate Kid, Part II and the 1989 sequel The Karate Kid, Part III. In 1985, Kove played a mercenary helicopter pilot in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Kove has starred in the short-lived television series Code R and Hard Time on Planet Earth and has made guest appearances on several television programs including Gunsmoke, Kojak, The Incredible Hulk, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Black Scorpion. In 2007, Kove appeared in the No More Kings video, Sweep The Leg, in a parody of his Karate Kid character.
Kove has been married to Vivienne Kove since 1981. In 1990, they welcomed twins, a boy named Jesse and girl named Rachel.
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Crocodile 2: Death Swamp is a 2002 horror film that was directed by Gary Jones and was released on August 1, 2002. It also serves as a sequel to the 2000 film Crocodile, which was released on December 26, 2000.After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they're trapped within its world, and if it doesn't kill them, the criminals will....,
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The Karate Kid, Part III (1989) is the second sequel to the hit motion picture The Karate Kid (1984). This film stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Thomas Ian Griffith, Robyn Lively, and Martin Kove. Like the first two films, it was directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Robert Mark Kamen, stunts choreographed by Pat E. Johnson, and music by Bill Conti.
After his best student lost to Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) at the All Valley Tournament almost a year earlier, Sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) proved himself a sadistic, sore loser. As a result, his students abandoned him. The futures of Kreese and his Cobra Kai dojo appear bleak and uncertain. After giving up all hope and having nowhere to go, Kreese visits his long-time Vietnam War comrade Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith), who is also a karate expert and president of Dynatox Industries (a multinational company with a record of polluting the environment with toxic chemicals). Silver, a sponsor of Kreese's, tells Kreese that...,
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The Karate Kid is a 1984 John G. Avildsen film starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. It is a martial arts movie and an "underdog" story much in the model of a previous Avildsen smash, the 1976 boxing picture Rocky. It was a massive commercial hit and retains a popular following to this day. It also garnered a favorable critical reception, even earning Pat Morita an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
He taught him the secret to karate lies in the mind and heart. Not in the hands.
Teenager Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) moves with his mother (Randee Heller) from Newark, New Jersey to Reseda, California, (San Fernando Valley) in search of a new beginning after the death of Daniel's father. The handyman of their apartment building is a kindly and humble Okinawan immigrant named Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita).
The last night of summer, Daniel and his new friends from school are at the beach, where Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue) catches his eye. Her ex-boyfriend, Johnny Lawrence...,
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Savages is a 1972's Merchant Ivory Film directed and idea by James Ivory and screenplay by George Swift Trow and Michael O'Donoghue. Its first showing came at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1972.A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.The Householder • Shakespeare Wallah •The Guru •Bombay Talkie •Savages •The Wild Party •Autobiography of a Princess •Roseland •Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures •The Five Forty-Eight •The Europeans •Jane Austen in Manhattan •Quartet •Courtesans of Bombay •Heat and Dust •The Bostonians •A Room with a View •Maurice •The Deceivers •Slaves...
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Martin Kove was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York
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