Claude Akins
Born: 1926-05-25 in Nelson, Georgia, USA
Died: 1994-01-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Claude Marion Akins (May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994) was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen and television. Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series B. J. and the Bear, and later The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off series, with Ben Cooper appearing as Waverly. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Akins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2019
- The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration as Steve Brand (archive footage)
1994
- Twisted Fear as Detective Lucky Douglas
1993
- Seasons of the Heart as Pastor William Clay
1992
- Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as Theodore Roosevelt
- Falling from Grace as Speck Parks
- Grass Roots as Sheriff Cox
- Computeritis: The High-Tech Hazard as Narrator
1991
- Eerie, Indiana as Bank Robber / Grungy Bill
- The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw as President Theodore Roosevelt
- Where Evil Lives as Jack Devlin
1989
- Mothers, Daughters and Lovers as Kibby
1988
- Pushed Too Far as Sheriff Jim Forrest
1987
- The Curse as Nathan Crane
1986
- Matlock as Sam Taylor
- Pecos Bill as Grandpa / Narrator
- Monster in the Closet as Sheriff Sam Ketchem
- Manhunt for Claude Dallas as Bill Pogue
- Return of the Monster Trucks as Self / Host
1985
- Tall Tales & Legends as Grandpa / Narrator
- Battle of the Monster Trucks as Self / Host
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Ethan Cragg
- Hunter as Andy Polanski
- Crazy like a Fox
- Master Ninja as Mr. Trumbull
- The Master as Trumbull
- The Baron and the Kid as Harley Medford
- Legmen as Tom Bannon
- Celebrity as Uncle Bun Luther
1983
- Desperate Intruder as Carl
- Masquerade as Ted Kelly
1981
- Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo as Bert Springer
1979
- Concrete Cowboys as Woody Stone
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo as Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo
- Ebony, Ivory and Jade as Joe Blair
- Murder in Music City as Billy West
1978
- B.J. and the Bear as Sheriff Lobo
- Little Mo as Gus Berste
1977
- The Love Boat as Cappy
- Tentacles as Robards
- Yesterday's Child as Cliff Henley
- The Oregon Trail
- The Rhinemann Exchange as Walter Kendall
- Nashville 99 as Det. Lt. Stonewall Jackson 'Stoney' Huff
- Killer on Board as Oscar Billingham
1976
- Kiss Me... Kill Me as Harry Grant
1975
- Eric as Stanley 'Stan' Swenson
- Timber Tramps as Matt
- Medical Story
- Medical Story as Dr. Matthews
1974
- Dinah!
- Movin' On as Sonny Pruitt
- The Death Squad as Connie Brennan
- In Tandem as Sonny Pruitt
- Shadow of Fear as Styran
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Eli Rile
- Police Story
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes as Aldo
- Toma
- The Norliss Tapes as Sheriff Tom Hartley
1972
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco as Bob Mason
- Skyjacked as Sgt. Ben Puzo
- The Night Stalker as Sheriff Warren A. Butcher
1971
- Cannon
- Lock, Stock and Barrel as Punch Logan
- River of Mystery as Ernie Dorata
1970
- McCloud
- Flap as Lobo Jackson
- A Man Called Sledge as Hooker
1969
- Medical Center
- The Great Bank Robbery as Slade
1968
- The Devil's Brigade as Pvt. Rocky Rockman
- The Outsider
1967
- Mannix as Sgt. Al Reardon
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Turnbaugh
- Waterhole #3 as Sgt. Henry Foggers
- Judd for the Defense
- Hondo
- First to Fight as Captain Mason
- Garrison's Gorillas
1966
- Mission: Impossible
- Return of the Seven as Frank
- Ride Beyond Vengeance as Elwood Coates
- Incident at Phantom Hill as Krausman
- The Monroes
1965
- The Big Valley as Callahan
- The F.B.I. as Ben Gambriella
- Laredo
- Branded
- The Legend of Jesse James as Harte
1964
- Daniel Boone as Toka
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as El Supremo
- The Killers as Earl Sylvester
- A Distant Trumpet as Seely Jones
- The Solid Gold Girl as Deputy Sheriff Rafe Collins
1963
- The Fugitive as Ralph Simmons
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Sergeant Phil Henning
- The Great Adventure as Father Kranz
- Mr. Novak as Lou Myerson
- The Dakotas
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Sheriff Jordan
- The Virginian as Lump
- Combat! as Mastin
- The Lucy Show as Lieutenant Finch
- How the West Was Won as Man (uncredited)
- Merrill's Marauders as Sgt. Kolowicz
- Black Gold as Chick Carrington
1961
- Bus Stop
- The Dick Powell Show as Police Lieutenant
- Claudelle Inglish as S.T. Crawford
- Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon as Rake
1960
- Route 66
- Surfside 6 as Mike Hogan
- The Roaring 20's
- Outlaws
- The Tall Man
- Inherit the Wind as Rev. Jeremiah Brown
- Comanche Station as Ben Lane
1959
- Bonanza as Marshal Emmett Dowd
- The Twilight Zone as Steve Brand
- The Untouchables as Vince Majesky
- Rawhide as Clete Manson
- Laramie
- The Rebel as Tom Hall
- Adventures in Paradise as Sam Kayle
- Rio Bravo as Joe Burdette
- Frontier Rangers as Caleb Brandt
- Law of the Plainsman as Sheriff Clifford Shaw
- The Deputy as Jason Getty
- Riverboat as Jarret Sutton
- Yellowstone Kelly as Sergeant
- The Alaskans
- Don't Give Up the Ship as Lt. Cmdr. Farber
- Porgy and Bess as Detective
- Hound-Dog Man as Hog Peyson
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jack Kelly
- Bat Masterson as Jack Fontana
- 77 Sunset Strip as Ed Bird
- The Texan
- Bronco
- Onionhead as Poznicki
- The Defiant Ones as Mack
- Yancy Derringer as Toby Cook
- Steve Canyon as Sgt. Brecker
1957
- Perry Mason as Detective Sgt. Phillip Dix
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Dever
- Maverick as Paisley Briggs
- Tales of Wells Fargo as John L. Sullivan
- Joe Dakota as Aaron Grant
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Kenny Lambert
- The Restless Gun as Wes Flagler
- The Lonely Man as Blackburn
- Hot Summer Night as Truck Driver
- The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm as Pete Logan
- Meet McGraw as Jim Bennett
- Boots and Saddles
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Walker Collins
- State Trooper as Janskey
- Johnny Concho as Lem
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie as Manion
- The Sharkfighters as Chief 'Gordy' Gordon
- The Burning Hills as Ben Hindeman
- Battle Stations as Marty Brennan
- Johnny Moccasin as Bill Ames
- The Proud and Profane as Big soldier
1955
- Cheyenne as Sheriff Bob Walters
- Gunsmoke as Harry
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Cop
- The Millionaire as Sgt. Mike Harden
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Anton Budenieff
- Man with the Gun as Jim Reedy (uncredited)
- The Sea Chase as Winkler
- Frontier
- My Friend Flicka
1954
- The Raid as Lt. Ramsey (uncredited)
- Bitter Creek as Vance Morgan
- Studio 57
- Witness to Murder as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Shield for Murder as Fat Michaels
- The Adventures of Hajji Baba as Chief Executioner (uncredited)
- The Caine Mutiny as Horrible
- The Human Jungle as George Mandy
- Down Three Dark Streets as Matty Pavelich
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Pete Nemeck
- The Man Behind the Badge
- From Here to Eternity as Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom (uncredited)
- Letter to Loretta as Matt Malone
- City Detective
- General Electric Theater as Steve Crawford
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Ace Miller
1951
- I Love Lucy as Claude Akins (uncredited)
- Dragnet
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Stanley Swensen
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Gus Garner
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Mandy