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Martin Kove (/ ˈ k oʊ v /; born March 6, 1946 [2]) is an American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his role as John Kreese, the main antagonist of The Karate Kid (1984). Kove reprised the role in The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and the television series Cobra Kai (2018–2025).
In the original trilogy, Kreese is established as a Vietnam veteran and a deranged karate sensei who founded the Cobra Kai dojo. In the original film, Kreese teaches his class to be aggressive and show no mercy to opponents, which leads to his star student and son-figure Johnny Lawrence to come into conflict with Daniel LaRusso, a peaceful ...
In season 6, he receives Cobra Kai back from Kreese and ultimately reforms it alongside Daniel. John Kreese: Martin Kove, Barrett Carnahan (young) The main antagonist of The Karate Kid, and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Terry Silver) of Cobra Kai. Johnny's sensei and a co-founder of the Cobra Kai dojo.
That includes a pair of surprisingly cathartic conversations between him and John Kreese (Martin Kove), the sensei whose verbal and even physical abuse kicked off his slide into self-loathing and ...
The championship matches come down to the Iron Dragons, run by the dirty Sensei Wolf (Lewis Tan), and Cobra Kai, now led by Johnny after he and a redeemed Kreese (Martin Kove) had an emotional ...
Sure, in the penultimate episode of Cobra Kai's final season, Kreese confronts his friend-turned-nemesis Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) on the latter's yacht, determined to stop him from ...
Silver helps Kreese establish the Cobra Kai dojo. However, Silver was forced to help run his family's business at the insistence of his father, who threatened to cut him out of the family inheritance. Though he left Cobra Kai to Kreese, Silver continued to provide financial support and promised to help run the dojo one day.
Kreese and Silver go head-to-head, Johnny takes on Sensei Wolf, a Cobra Kai Part 2 Finale: EPs Talk Return of [Spoiler] and How Those Tragic Final Moments ‘Deeply Inform the Endgame of the Series’