Martin Kove (born March 6, 1946) is a film and television actor best known for his work in films such as Rambo: First Blood Part II and the Karate Kid film series, and on TV series such as Cagney & Lacey.

Filmography

• Dinosaurs of the Wild West
• 2026Boris Is Dead — Bobby
• 2026The Dink — Mitch
• 2025A Gunfighter's Deal — Preacher
• 2025Dante's Inferni — Speaker – 8th Circle: Bertran De Born
• 2025Killing Mary Sue — Knox
• 2025Queen of the Ring — Al Haft
• 2024A Taste of Love — Glenn
• 2024Dark Night of the Soul — Dad
• 2024Fight Another Day — Fischer
• 2024The Cobra Kai Movie — Martin Kove
• 2023Far Haven — Ambrose Masse
• 2022Beyond the Bonsai
• 20213 Tickets to Paradise — Felix
• 2020A Wrestling Christmas Miracle — Warden Jeffries
• 2020Bring Me a Dream — Sheriff Jack Miller
• 2020Day 13 — Magnus Torvald
• 2020Elvis from Outer Space — State Trooper
• 2020Max Reload and the Nether Blasters — Gramps Jenkins
• 2019A Karate Christmas Miracle — Graham Palace
• All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite — Martin Kove
• 2019Bare Knuckle Brawler — Mike Calderon
• 2019D-Day — Nikolai
• 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — 'Bounty Law' - Sheriff
• 2019The Savant — John Sonsay
• 2019VFW — Lou Clayton
• Cobra Kai — John Kreese
• 2018Garlic and Gunpowder — Agent Tracey
• 2018Gathering of Heroes: Legend of the Seven Swords — Galaron
• 2018Paint It Red — Scabs
• 2018Show No Mercy — Frank
• 2018Warning - No Trespassing — Marty the CIA agent
• 2017Fake News — Vice President John Phillips
• 2017Joker's Poltergeist — Graham Palace
• 2017Price for Freedom — Ayatollah Khalkhali
• 20162 Lava 2 Lantula! — Colonel Jester
• 2016Hospital Arrest — Boss Nigel
• 2016Six Gun Savior — The Mentor, Associate Producer
• 2016The Chemist — Frank
• 2016Traded — Cavendish
• 2015I Hate Christian Laettner — John Kreese (archive footage)
• 2015Running Forever — Carson
• 2015The Dog Who Saved Summer — Captain Vernon
• 2014As Night Comes — Projectionist
• 2014Beyond the Game — James Star
• 2014Eternity: The Movie — Barry Goldfield, Sr.
• 2014Falcon Song — Caspian
• 2014Number Runner — Bingo Brown
• 2014Red Sky — Navy Intel Commander
• 2014Rice Girl — Captain Ron Williams
• 2014Tapped Out — Principal Vanhorne
• 2014The Extendables — Aye Lewis
• 2013Friend Request — Captain Meyers
• 2013I'm in Love with a Church Girl — Terry Edgemond
• 2013Jet Set — John
• 2013Our Wild Hearts — Grizz
• 2013Reality Terror Night — Othello Lazarus
• The Goldbergs — Master John
• 2012Silent but Deadly — Hodge
• 2011Assassins' Code — Tony Brill
• 2011Dark Games — Detective Dave Reinhart
• NTSF:SD:SUV:: — Cell Leader
• 2011Savage — Jack Lund
• 2011The Great Fight — John Cooper
• 2011The Life Zone — Randy Graves
• 2010Bare Knuckles — Sonny Cool, Co-Producer
• 2010Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen — Marty
• 2010Carmen's Kiss — James Drayton
• 2009Ballistica — Riley, Associate Producer
• 2009Immortally Yours — Steven Miles
• 2009Middle Men — US Senator
• 2009War Wolves — Malick
• 2008Beyond The Ring — Uncle Patrick
• 2008Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance — Sheriff Jones
• 2007Fallen Angels — Daniels
• 2007Messages — DCI Collins
• 2007ReVamped — Detective Reeger
• 2007The Dead Sleep Easy — Bob Depugh
• 2007The Ultimate Fighter — Detective Karpov
• 20067 Mummies — Kile
• 2006Crooked — Jake Lawlor
• 2006Exit 38 — Reese
• 2006Max Havoc: Ring of Fire — Lt. Reynolds
• 2006The Veteran — Father Brazinski
• 2005Glass Trap — Corrigan
• 2004Alien Lockdown — Anslow
• 2004Illusion Infinity — Taxi Driver
• 2004The Hollywood Mom's Mystery — Sandy Palumbo
• 2003Barbarian — Munkar
• 2003Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain — Cully
• 2003Hard Ground — Floyd
• 2002American Gun — Theodore Huntly
• 2002Crocodile 2: Death Roll — Roland
• 2002Curse of the Forty-Niner — Caleb
• 2002Gentle Ben — Cully
• 2002Shattered Lies — Tom Reynolds
• 2002Sting of the Black Scorpion — Jack Ames / Firearm
• 2002The Thief & the Stripper — Crow
• 2002Trance — Robert Leoni
• Black Scorpion
• 2001Black Scorpion Returns — Jack Ames / Firearm
• 2001Con Games — Redick
• 2001Extreme Honor — Packard
• 2001Final Payback — Captain Peter James
• 2001Outlaw — Bill Henderson (as Marty Kove)
• 2001Savage Season — Frank
• 2001Under Heavy Fire — Father Brazinski
• 2000A Drug Called Pornography — Narrator
• 2000Bad Guys — The Commander
• 1999Assault on Death Mountain — Andy Powers
• 1999Joseph's Gift — Thompsonn
• 1998Hyacinth — J. B. Walker
• 1998Maximum Justice — James Ricks
• 1998Nowhere Land — Hank
• V.I.P. — Mr. Scornabacho
• 1997Assault on Devil's Island — Andy Powers
• 1997Judge and Jury — Michael Silvano
• 1997Sliding Home — Samuel J. Webber
• 1997Top of the World — Carl
• 1996Baby Face Nelson — John Dillinger
• 1996Mercenary — Phoenix
• 1996Timelock — Admiral Teegs
• 1996Without Mercy — Wolf Larsen
• 1995Final Equinox — Torman
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys — Demetrius
• Burke's Law — Joe Tanner
• 1994Cagney & Lacey: The Return — Isbecki
• 1994Death Match — Paul Landis
• 1994Endangered — DeVoe
• 1994Future Shock — Dr. Langdon
• 1994Savage Land — Jabal
• 1994Wyatt Earp — Ed Ross
• 1994Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone — Ed Ross
• Diagnosis: Murder — Capt. Walter Newman
• 1993Firehawk — Stewart
• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Chi'Ru Master, Shadow Assassin
• 1993Lightning in a Bottle — Duane Furber
• 1993Shootfighter: Fight to the Death — Mr. Lee
• 1993The Outfit — Agent Baker
• 1993To Be the Best — Rick Kulhane
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Fred Kimble
• 1992Project: Shadowchaser — Desilva
• Renegade — Mitch Raines / Goliath
• Silk Stalkings — Director
• 1991White Light — Sean Craig
• Hard Time on Planet Earth — Jesse
• 1989President's Target — Sam Nicholson
• Tales from the Crypt — Detective
• 1989The Karate Kid Part III — Kreese
• 1988Higher Ground — Rick Loden
• 1987Steele Justice — John Steele
• 1986The Karate Kid Part II — Kreese
• 1985Rambo: First Blood Part II — Ericson
• The Twilight Zone — Joe Farrell (segment "Opening Day")
• Wildside — Lyle Rainwood
• Murder, She Wrote — Dr. Ellison
• 1984The Karate Kid — Kreese
• 1982Blood Tide — Neil Grice
• Cagney & Lacey — Det. Victor Isbecki
• 1982Partners — Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
• Beyond Westworld — Jack Edwards
• 1980Laboratory
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe — Hell Hound Leader
• 1980Trouble in High Timber Country — Willie Yeager
• 1979Donovan's Kid — Kelso
• 1979Seven — Skip
• 1979The Sky Trap — Hoover
• The Runaways — Mike
• CHiPs — Sherwood
• Code R — George Baker
• The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries — Pete Miller
• The Incredible Hulk — Henry 'Rocky' Welsh
• 1977The November Plan — Stan
• The San Pedro Beach Bums — Ace
• 1977The White Buffalo — Jack McCall
• We've Got Each Other — Ken Redford
• Charlie's Angels — Georgie
• 1976Kingston — Dealey
• Quincy, M.E. — Joe Kirby
• 1975Capone — Pete Gusenberg
• 1975Death Race 2000 — Nero the Hero
• Starsky & Hutch — Jimmy Lucas
• Switch — Bud Ewing
• 1975The Four Deuces — Smokey Ross - the 'Deuce of Diamonds'
• 1975The Wild Party — Editor
• Three for the Road
• 1975White Line Fever — Clem
• Petrocelli — Frank Harris
• Rhoda — Gary
• 1974The Groove Tube — Butz Beer
• The Rockford Files — Harry Smick
• 1974The Spy Who Returned from the Dead — Rollo
• 1973Cops and Robbers — Ambulance Attendant
• Kojak — Burl Slote
• 1972Savages — Archie, a Bully
• 1972The Last House on the Left — Deputy
• The Rookies — Jimmy Jay
• The Streets of San Francisco — Willis Hines
• 1971Little Murders — Checkpoint Police Officer (uncredited)
• 1971Women in Revolt — Marty
• Gunsmoke — Gutherie Cassinger
• Boot Lake
• The Roommates — Jerry
• Unarmed

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Cobra Kai: Inside the Dojo — Self
• Barmageddon — Self - Contestant
• 2021More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story — Self
• 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self
• Dancing with the Stars — Self - Contestant
• 2005The Way of The Karate Kid — Self / Kreese
• 2002It's Only a Movie: The Making of 'Last House on the Left' — Self
• 1991Voices That Care — Self - Choir Member
• 1972The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self