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
- Grass Roots as Sheriff Cox
- Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as Theodore Roosevelt
- Falling from Grace as Speck Parks
- 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
- Monster in the Closet as Sheriff Sam Ketchem
- Manhunt for Claude Dallas as Bill Pogue
- Pecos Bill as Grandpa / Narrator
- 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
- The Master as Trumbull
- Celebrity as Uncle Bun Luther
- Legmen as Tom Bannon
- Master Ninja as Mr. Trumbull
- The Baron and the Kid as Harley Medford
1983
- Masquerade as Ted Kelly
- Desperate Intruder as Carl
1979
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo as Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo
- Ebony, Ivory and Jade as Joe Blair
- Concrete Cowboys as Woody Stone
- 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
- The Oregon Trail
- Tentacles as Robards
- The Rhinemann Exchange as Walter Kendall
- Nashville 99 as Det. Lt. Stonewall Jackson 'Stoney' Huff
- Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo as Bert Springer
- Killer on Board as Oscar Billingham
- Yesterday's Child as Cliff Henley
1976
- Kiss Me... Kill Me as Harry Grant
1975
- Medical Story
- Medical Story as Dr. Matthews
- Eric as Stanley 'Stan' Swenson
- Timber Tramps as Matt
1974
- Dinah!
- Movin' On as Sonny Pruitt
- Shadow of Fear as Styran
- The Death Squad as Connie Brennan
- In Tandem as Sonny Pruitt
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
- The Night Stalker as Sheriff Warren A. Butcher
- Skyjacked as Sgt. Ben Puzo
1971
- Cannon
- Lock, Stock and Barrel as Punch Logan
- River of Mystery as Ernie Dorata
1970
- McCloud
- A Man Called Sledge as Hooker
- Flap as Lobo Jackson
1969
- Medical Center
- The Great Bank Robbery as Slade
1968
- The Outsider
- The Devil's Brigade as Pvt. Rocky Rockman
1967
- Mannix as Sgt. Al Reardon
- Judd, for the Defense
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Turnbaugh
- Garrison's Gorillas
- Hondo
- Waterhole #3 as Sgt. Henry Foggers
- First to Fight as Captain Mason
1966
- Mission: Impossible
- The Monroes
- Return of the Seven as Frank
- Ride Beyond Vengeance as Elwood Coates
- Incident at Phantom Hill as Krausman
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 Tall Man
- Outlaws
- The Roaring 20's
- 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
- The Rebel as Tom Hall
- Adventures in Paradise as Sam Kayle
- Laramie
- Riverboat as Jarret Sutton
- The Deputy as Jason Getty
- Rio Bravo as Joe Burdette
- The Alaskans
- Law of the Plainsman as Sheriff Clifford Shaw
- Yellowstone Kelly as Sergeant
- Porgy and Bess as Detective
- Don't Give Up the Ship as Lt. Cmdr. Farber
- Hound-Dog Man as Hog Peyson
- Frontier Rangers as Caleb Brandt
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jack Kelly
- Bat Masterson as Jack Fontana
- 77 Sunset Strip as Ed Bird
- The Texan
- Bronco
- Yancy Derringer as Toby Cook
- Steve Canyon as Sgt. Brecker
- The Defiant Ones as Mack
- Onionhead as Poznicki
1957
- Perry Mason as Detective Sgt. Phillip Dix
- Maverick as Paisley Briggs
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Dever
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Kenny Lambert
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Rake
- The Restless Gun as Wes Flagler
- Meet McGraw as Jim Bennett
- The Lonely Man as Blackburn
- Boots and Saddles
- Joe Dakota as Aaron Grant
- Hot Summer Night as Truck Driver
- The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm as Pete Logan
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Walker Collins
- State Trooper as Janskey
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie as Manion
- The Burning Hills as Ben Hindeman
- Battle Stations as Marty Brennan
- The Proud and Profane as Big soldier
- The Sharkfighters as Chief 'Gordy' Gordon
- Johnny Concho as Lem
- Johnny Moccasin as Bill Ames
1955
- Cheyenne as Sheriff Bob Walters
- Gunsmoke as Harry
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Anton Budenieff
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Cop
- The Millionaire as Sgt. Mike Harden
- Frontier
- My Friend Flicka
- Man with the Gun as Jim Reedy (uncredited)
- The Sea Chase as Winkler
1954
- Studio 57
- The Caine Mutiny as Horrible
- Down Three Dark Streets as Matty Pavelich
- The Raid as Lt. Ramsey (uncredited)
- Shield for Murder as Fat Michaels
- The Adventures of Hajji Baba as Chief Executioner (uncredited)
- The Human Jungle as George Mandy
- Bitter Creek as Vance Morgan
- Witness to Murder as Police Officer (uncredited)
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Pete Nemeck
- The Man Behind the Badge
- City Detective
- Letter to Loretta as Matt Malone
- From Here to Eternity as Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater as Steve Crawford
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Ace Miller
1951
- Dragnet
- I Love Lucy as Claude Akins (uncredited)
- 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