Martin Kove

Martin Kove is an American actor who has appeared in feature films and television series. His best-known roles may have been on the 1980s hit CBS television series Cagney & Lacey as Detective 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. He studied Okinawa-te Karate under prominent black belt Shihan Gordon Doversola. In 1985 Kove played a traitorous helicopter pilot in Rambo: First Blood Part II. Kove appeared as George... Baker in the short-lived CBS series Code R about the emergency services in the California Channel Islands. His co-stars were James Houghton, Tom Simcox, and Joan Freeman. He also starred in the short-lived science fiction series Hard Time on Planet Earth and made guest appearances on several television programs including Gunsmoke, Three for the Road, Kojak, The Incredible Hulk, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Streets of San Francisco, and Black Scorpion.
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