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Acting

Claude Akins

Career: Active from 1954 to 1994, busiest in 1977 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 26
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Comanche Station
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 135 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Claude Akins Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Cringe Humor
1.0, average 2.2
Psychological
4.4, average 5.5
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Setting 6
Western 4
Character-Driven 4
Historical Drama 4
Classic Western 4
Action-Packed 3
Character Study 3
Bleak Outlook 3
Revenge 3
Social Commentary 3
1950s 2
Tension & Intrigue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

198

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

as Steve Brand (archive footage)

1990s

9 titles · average score 64

Twisted Fear

as Detective Lucky Douglas

Seasons of the Heart

65

as Pastor William Clay

Falling from Grace

55

as Speck Parks

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

55

as Theodore Roosevelt

Grass Roots

as Sheriff Cox

Computeritis: The High-Tech Hazard

as Narrator

Where Evil Lives

as Jack Devlin

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

56

as President Theodore Roosevelt

Eerie, Indiana

88

TV show · as Bank Robber / Grungy Bill

1980s

21 titles · average score 61

Pushed Too Far

as Sheriff Jim Forrest

The Curse

42

as Nathan Crane

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

as Bill Pogue

Monster in the Closet

44

as Sheriff Sam Ketchem

Matlock

54

TV show · as Sam Taylor

Legmen

TV show · as Tom Bannon

Celebrity

71

TV show · as Uncle Bun Luther

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Ethan Cragg

Hunter

70

TV show · as Andy Polanski

Master Ninja

as Mr. Trumbull

Hotel

65

TV show

Bus Stop

as Sheriff Will

1970s

39 titles · average score 59

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

60

TV show · as Elroy Lobo

B.J. and the Bear

76

as Sheriff Lobo

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

36

as Bert Springer

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Cappy

Nashville 99

TV show · as Det. Lt. Stonewall Jackson 'Stoney' Huff

Eric

as Stanley 'Stan' Swenson

Movin' On

67

TV show · as Sonny Pruitt

The Death Squad

as Connie Brennan

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

42

as Aldo

The Night Stalker

80

as Sheriff Warren A. Butcher

A Man Called Sledge

56

as Hooker

Flap

53

as Lobo Jackson

1960s

49 titles · average score 65

The Great Bank Robbery

50

as Slade

The Devil's Brigade

61

as Pvt. Rocky Rockman

Waterhole #3

59

as Sgt. Henry Foggers

Return of the Seven

32

as Frank

Incident at Phantom Hill

61

as Krausman

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show

The Killers

73

as Earl Sylvester

A Distant Trumpet

51

as Seely Jones

The Fugitive

84

TV show · as Ralph Simmons

Merrill's Marauders

65

as Sgt. Kolowicz

Comanche Station

84

as Ben Lane

Inherit the Wind

82

as Rev. Jeremiah Brown

1950s

79 titles · average score 66

Yellowstone Kelly

56

as Sergeant

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Steve Brand

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Sam Hill / Col. Edward J. Dunwoody

The Defiant Ones

78

as Mack

The Rifleman

77

TV show · as Floyd Doniger

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Detective Sgt. Phillip Dix

The Lonely Man

62

as Blackburn

Have Gun, Will Travel

78

TV show · as Dever

Maverick

75

TV show · as Paisley Briggs

The Burning Hills

54

as Ben Hindeman

Shield for Murder

64

as Fat Michaels

I Love Lucy

81

TV show · as Claude Akins (uncredited)