DeForest Covan

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. Aside from acting, he performed stunt work at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for ten years.

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