DeForest Covan
DeForest Covan | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 9, 1917 |
| Died | September 8, 2007 (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | Actor, dancer, entertainer |
| Years active | 1936–1994 |
DeForest Covan (September 9, 1917 – September 8, 2007) was an American actor, dancer, and vaudeville performer. From 1974 to 1975, he held a co-starring role on the first season of That's My Mama as Josh, the barbershop patron.[1] Aside from acting, he performed stunt work at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for ten years.[2]
Partial filmography
- The Singing Kid (1936) - Dancer (uncredited)
- Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937) - Little Bill (uncredited)
- A Day at the Races (1937) - Black Singer (uncredited)
- Every Day's a Holiday (1937) - Dancer (uncredited)
- Too Hot to Handle (1938) - South American Fire Dancer (uncredited)
- Going Places (1938) - Shoe-Shine (uncredited)
- Boy Slaves (1939) - Pinkie (uncredited)
- St. Louis Blues (1939) - Dancer (uncredited)
- Pride of the Blue Grass (1939) - Blackie (uncredited)
- Chasing Trouble (1940) - Jackson (uncredited)
- New Moon (1940) - Dancer (uncredited)
- South of Suez (1940) - Bita (uncredited)
- Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941) - Short Man
- Jungle Drums of Africa (1953) - Native Tribesman (uncredited)
- Carmen Jones (1954) - Trainer (uncredited)
- Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955) - Koango (uncredited)
- Pork Chop Hill (1959) - U.S. Soldier (uncredited)
- Black Samson (1974) - Samson's Street People
- The Day of the Locust (1975) - Shoe Shine Boy
- Rocky (1976) - Apollo's Corner #1
- New York, New York (1977) - Porter
- The Incredible Melting Man (1977) - Janitor
- Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) - Zebulon
- When a Stranger Calls (1979) - Officer #1
- Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980) - Pinochle Player
- Evilspeak (1981) - Janitor
- Body and Soul (1981) - Cut Man
- Honkytonk Man (1982) - Gravedigger
- The Night Before (1988) - Concierge
- To Sleep with Anger (1990) - Fred Jenkins
- One Good Cop (1991) - Older Man
References
- ↑ Tripodi, Jim (September 4, 1974). "ABC Offering 'Sneak' Peek At Premier Week". The Beaver County Times.
- ↑ "'Mama' Checker Players Started Long Way Back". The Sacramento Union. Sacramento, California. September 12, 1974. p. 4. Retrieved July 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 2007 deaths
- Male actors from Chicago
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- 20th-century American male actors
- 20th-century African-American male actors
- 21st-century African-American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- American theatre actor, 20th-century birth stubs
- American screen actor, 1910s birth stubs