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Martin Kove
Birth at
6 March 1947
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Martin Cove was born in Brooklyn on March 6, 1947. Like many New York actors, he would do anything to keep his name out of the credits to appear on screen. As it happened in the films Little Murders and Last House on the Left. By 1984, Martin Cove had finally seen his name on the screen in The Karate Kid, where he played a bad coach. Cove took the place of Chuck Norris, who turned down the role for personal reasons (he just didn’t want people teaching teenagers karate to be portrayed in a bad light).
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Martin Cove was born in Brooklyn on March 6, 1947. Like many New York actors, he would do anything to keep his name out of the credits to appear on screen. As it happened in the films Little Murders and Last House on the Left.
By 1984, Martin Cove had finally seen his name on the screen in The Karate Kid, where he played a bad coach. Cove took the place of Chuck Norris, who turned down the role for personal reasons (he just didn’t want people teaching teenagers karate to be portrayed in a bad light).
Since then, he occasionally appears somewhere in the background in films of any rank from low-budget “Destroyers” to majors like “Wyatt Earp”. And on television, Martin Cove is mostly known for his role as Detective Victor Izbetzky in the TV series "Kagney and Lacey."