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.
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The Twilight Zone
I Love Lucy
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Rio Bravo
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Combat!
Inherit the Wind
Perry Mason
Eerie, Indiana
Mission: Impossible
Murder, She Wrote
Bonanza
The Fugitive
Have Gun, Will Travel
From Here to Eternity
Steve Canyon
McCloud
Rawhide
The Caine Mutiny
Matlock
Hunter
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Lucy Show
The Defiant Ones
The Rifleman
Tales of Wells Fargo
Barnaby Jones
Police Story
The Streets of San Francisco
Daniel Boone
How the West Was Won
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Rookies
The Killers
Maverick
Flap
Mannix
Route 66
Comanche Station
Laramie
Gunsmoke
Shield for Murder
Lux Video Theatre
The Great Bank Robbery
Adventures of Superman
Letter to Loretta
Seasons of the Heart
The Virginian
The Proud and Profane
Bitter Creek