DeForest Covan

Actor

DeForest Covan

Born September 9, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USADied September 8, 200724 films

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Rocky posterFirst watchRocky19767.8as Apollo's CornerA supporting role in one of the best-rated films of their career.Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one…View film

Essential films

Ranked by role, acclaim and reach
New York, New York poster6.5New York, New York1977When a Stranger Calls poster6.2When a Stranger Calls1979The Day of the Locust poster6.4The Day of the Locust1975To Sleep with Anger poster6.8To Sleep with Anger1990Cheech & Chong's Next Movie poster5.9Cheech & Chong's Next Movie1980The Night Before poster6.1The Night Before1988One Good Cop poster5.7One Good Cop1991Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens poster5.3Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens1979

Filmography

24 films as actor
  1. 1991One Good CopOlder Man
  2. 1990To Sleep with AngerFred Jenkins
  3. 1988The Night BeforeConcierge
  4. 1981Body and SoulCut Man
  5. 1981Midnight LaceFred
  6. 1980Cheech & Chong's Next MoviePinochle Player
  7. 1979When a Stranger CallsOfficer #1
  8. 1979Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-VixensZebulon
  9. 1977The Incredible Melting ManJanitor
  10. 1977New York, New YorkPorter
  11. 1976RockyApollo's Corner
  12. 1975The Day of the LocustShoe Shine Boy
  13. 1974Black SamsonSamson's Street People
  14. 1973A Dream for ChristmasCharlie Pritchard (uncredited)
  15. 1963Living Between Two WorldsOrderly
  16. 1948No Time for Romance
  17. 1942Take My Life'Shadow', Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Member
  18. 1942Mr. Washington Goes to TownHeadless Man
  19. 1940Drums of the DesertTribesman
  20. 1940New MoonDancer
  21. 1940Chasing TroubleJackson
  22. 1938Going PlacesShoe-Shine
  23. 1938Too Hot to HandleSouth American Fire Dancer (uncredited)
  24. 1936The Singing KidDancer (uncredited)