Martin Kove’s net worth is estimated to be $2 million. In 1971, he made his film debut as an uncredited extra in the bleak comedy Little Murders.
He later appeared in movies such as Women in Revolt, Savages, The Last House on the Left, and Cops and Robbers. In a similar vein, in 1975, he was cast as Nero the Hero in the low-budget sci-fi thriller Death Race 2000.
Martin rose to prominence in the 1985 film The Karate Kid as John Kreese, the sociopathic sensei of the Cobra Kai school. The father of Made also appeared in later scenes of the film. The brown-haired return a rile in the 2018 web series Cobra Kai.