CTVA Profile - Actor - Claude Akins
Profile - TV Actor - Claude Akins
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THERE WERE MANY LIKEABLE ACTORS THAT APPEARED
IN FILMS AND EARLY TELEVISION.
THE ONE THAT WAS THE FAVORITE OF MANY FILM FANS WAS CLAUDE AKINS. WHEN YOU
LOOK BACK AT HIS ACTING CAREER, THE ONE THING THAT STANDS OUT IS, CLAUDE
AKINS WAS ALWAYS WORKING. ONE OF HIS EARLIEST TV APPEARANCES WAS ON THE
POPULAR 'JACK WEBB' POLICE DRAMA: "DRAGNET"(1952-1959). FROM THEN ON
CLAUDE AKINS ACTING CAREER WAS STARTING TO MOVE IN ONE DIRECTION-FORWARD.
HIS VERSATILITY AS AN ACTOR BROUGHT HIM MANY DIFFERENT KIND'S OF ROLES,
THAT RANGED FROM COPS, HOODLEMS, SOLDIERS, TO A VARIETY OF WESTERN
CHARACTERS.
CLAUDE'S EARLIER TV CREDITS INCLUDED:
"GUNSMOKE"(1955-1975),
"SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE"(1955-1957),
"STATE TROOPER"(1957-1959),
"I LOVE LUCY"(1951-1957),
"ZANE GREY THEATER"(1956-1961),
"THE RESTLESS GUN"(1957-1959),
"PERRY MASON"(1957-1966),
"WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE"(1958-1961),
"RIVERBOAT"(1959-1961),
"NORTHWEST PASSAGE"(1958-1959),
"YANCY DERRINGER"(1958-1959).
HIS LATER TV CREDITS INCLUDED:
GARRISON'S GORILLA'S"(1967-1968),
"LONGSTREET"(1971-1972),
"HEC RAMSEY"(1972-1974),
"MCCLOUD"(1971-1977),
"MATLOCK"(1986-1995),
AN IMPRESSIVE 139 PLUS TV GUEST APPEARANCES.
CLAUDE ALSO HAD A CONTINUOUS ROLE ON THE SERIES:
"B.J. AND THE BEAR"(1979-1981), PLAYING SHERIFF ELROY S. LOBO.
IN 1980 CLAUDE PLAYED THE SAME CHARACTER IN THE LEAD ROLE FOR THE TV
SERIES: "MISADVENTURES OF SHERIFF LOBO",(A.K.A. "LOBO)(1980).
BESIDES TELEVISION CLAUDE AKINS ALSO APPEARED IN SOME 90 FULL-LENGTH
MOVIES. HIS FIRST WAS AN UNCREDITED ROLE IN
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY"(1953),
FOLLOWED BY:
"THE CAINE MUTINY"(1954),
"THE BURNING HILLS"(1956),
"THE DIFIANT ONES"(1958),
"COMANCHE STATION"(1960),
"BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES"(1973).
CLAUDE AKINS ACTING CAREER LASTED SOME 42 YEARS, AND WITH THE MANY
CHARACTORIZATIONS TO HIS CREDIT, THE PART OF 'SHERIFF LOBO' WILL
ALWAYS BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE THE ACTOR FROM NELSON, GEORGIA.
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