Actor

Claude Akins

May 25, 1926 · Nelson, Georgia, USA

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.

Notable work

7.8
Rio Bravo (1959)
as Joe Burdette
5.7
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
as Aldo
8.5
The Twilight Zone (1959)
as Steve Brand
7.3
From Here to Eternity (1953)
as Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom (uncredited)
7
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Man (uncredited)
7.5
Bonanza (1959)
as Marshal Emmett Dowd and as Ezekiel and as Sam Hill and as Col. Edward J. Dunwoody
7.7
Inherit the Wind (1960)
as Rev. Jeremiah Brown
7.5
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
as Ethan Cragg
7.2
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
as Horrible
7.1
The Defiant Ones (1958)
as Mack
7.6
Mission: Impossible (1966)
cast
6.1
Return of the Seven (1966)
as Frank

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