Claude Akins

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Broad-shouldered and beefy Claude Akins had wavy black hair, a deep booming voice and was equally adept at playing sneering cowardly villains as he was at portraying hard-nosed cops. The son of a police officer, Akins never seemed short of work and appeared in nearly 100 films and 180+ TV episodes in a career spanning over 40 years. He originally attended Northwestern University, and went on to serve with the US Army Signal Corps in World War II in Burma and the Phillipines. Upon returning, he reignited his interest in art and drama and first appeared in front of the camera in 1953 in From Here to Eternity (1953). He quickly began notching up roles in such TV shows as Dragnet (1951), My Friend Flicka (1955), Gunsmoke (1955) and Zane Grey Theater (1956). He also turned in several strong cinematic performances, such as gunfighter Joe Burdette in the landmark western Rio Bravo (1959), Mack in the excellent The Defiant Ones (1958), Sgt. Kolwicz in Merrill's Marauders (1962) and Earl Sylvester in the gripping The Killers (1964). In the early 1970s Akins turned up in several supernatural TV films playing "no-nonsense" sheriffs in both The Night Stalker (1972) and The Norliss Tapes (1973), and was unrecognizable underneath his simian make-up as war-mongering Gen. Aldo in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). Akins continued starring in films and TV right up until the time of his death from cancer in 1994. By all reports a very gregarious, likable and friendly person off screen, Akins was married for over 40 years to Theresa "Pie" Fairfield, and had three children, Claude Marion Jr., Michele & Wendy. - IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Claude Akins’s flixes, followed by Fandango At Home compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Claude Akins on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 1994. See the full graphs of the number of Claude Akins movies released per year from 1980 till 1994.

Top Genres

Claude Akins works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 39% of Claude Akins movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Claude Akins worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Claude Akins has worked on is 6.0.

6.0 / 10

Claude Akins's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Drama
Movin' On (1974)

A crusty old veteran big-rig trucker teams up with a college-educated youngster to haul cargo across the country.

7.4/1090 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Fantasy,Horror,Mystery
Darkroom (1981)

An anthology horror/thriller series, along the same lines as "Twilight Zone" or "Night Gallery." Each week features a new story and a new cast.

7.3/1060 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Western
Lock, Stock and Barrel (1971)

A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preacher.

6.9/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Western
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991)

The Gambler Brady Hawkes is back and he's about to lose his primary means of livelihood, when a law banning gambling is about to be passed. But in honor of that there's going to be one last...

6.5/10240 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Drama,Family
Seasons of the Heart (1993)

Martha and Jed Richards live in Oregon in 1862. They and their two daughters moved there to make a new life, but the daughters died of cholera along the way. This has left Martha an ...

6.4/1099 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Horror
The Norliss Tapes (1973)

An investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.

6.3/1072 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Thriller
The Concrete Cowboys (1979)

5.9/1090 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Western
A Man Called Sledge (1970)

In the Old West, a gunfighting outlaw connives his way into a prison in hopes of getting his hands on a large shipment of gold stored there.

5.9/1093 min

Available in 5 platform(s).