Claude Akins

Born: 1926-05-25, Nelson, Georgia, USA

Died: 1994-01-27

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.

Filmography

• Perry Mason (1957)
• The Love Boat (1977)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• The Rifleman (1958)
• Hunter (1984)
• Bonanza (1959)
• The Twilight Zone (1959)
• I Love Lucy (1951)
• Rawhide (1959)
• The Virginian (1962)
• The Alaskans (1959)
• Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
• The Big Valley (1965)
• Hotel (1982)
• Route 66 (1960)
• Combat! (1962)
• Daniel Boone (1964)
• Tales of Wells Fargo (1957)
• Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
• The F.B.I. (1965)
• Gunsmoke (1955)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
• Surfside 6 (1960)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
• Bat Masterson (1958)
• Laramie (1959)
• Medical Center (1969)
• The Rookies (1972)