Claude Akins

Claude Akins

Date of Birth: 25 May 1926

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 67 (Actor)

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    The Devil\
    During World War II a special fighting unit is formed combining a crack Canadian outfit and a conglomeration... (imdb)
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    Inherit the Wind
    Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. (imdb)
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    The Killers
    Supposedly based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. In this film noir, two hitmen want to find out why their latest victim (a race car driver!) "just stood there and took it" when they came to shoot him (imdb)
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    Rio Bravo
    A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter... (imdb)
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    The Caine Mutiny
    When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. (imdb)
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    Battle for the Planet of the Apes
    Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaves humans to live in peace. But warning factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general as well as various human groups threaten the stability. (imdb)
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    The Night Stalker
    A reporter hunts down a vampire in modern-day Las Vegas. (imdb)
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    Monster in the Closet
    Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic. (imdb)
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    Merrill\
    Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point. (imdb)
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    Flap
    Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations. (imdb)
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    The Norliss Tapes
    A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss (Roy Thinnes), who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow (Angie Dickenson) whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead. (imdb)
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    The Sea Chase
    As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships. (imdb)
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    Porgy and Bess
    In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life - and the threatened return of Crown. (imdb)
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    Comanche Station
    Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released. He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns. (imdb)
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    Falling from Grace
    Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins) (imdb)
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    Timber Tramps
    Claude Akins plays a tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman, who likes fighting only slightly less than working. (imdb)
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    Return of the Magnificent Seven
    Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico. (imdb)
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    The Concrete Cowboys
    Ex-cowboy and his side kick travel the highways and byways of America in search of adventure. Along with Morgan Fairchild they find plenty of it. (imdb)
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    Skyjacked
    A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia. (imdb)
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    Waterhole #3
    Some renegade Army men steal a cachet of gold and hide it in the desert for later use until a lone cowboy gets wind of it and wants it for himself. (TCM.com)
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    Don\
    John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Now years latter, no one knows where the ship is. He has a choice. Find the ship, or pay for it, Now! If only Prudence, to whom he just got married, could understand why he isn't there for his Honeymoon. (imdb)
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    The Curse
    A farmhouse family gets their water supply contaminated. This causes Mom to grow huge welts on her face (which no one seems to notice). Soon the contaminated become homicidal. (Chas. Balun)
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    Man with the Gun
    A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out. (imdb)
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    The Lonely Man
    Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past. (imdb)
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    A Man Called Sledge
    Sledge, a stagecoach robber, is told by an old man about $ 300.000 in gold, kept in a vault in the heart of a prison fortress. Sledge becomes obsessed by stealing the gold, even though his girlfriend tells him they don't need the money to be happy. He comes up with the very daring plan to let himself lock up as a prisoner, start a riot, and use the disarray to open the vault. The plan succeeds but he and his men soon fall out over the loot ... (imdb)
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    Ride Beyond Vengeance
    Buffalo hunter Jonahs Trapp returns to claim the woman he left behind-10 years ago. On his way into town he is robbed of his fortune, and there are several suspects Trapp will have to investigate. One of them is his estranged wife's suitor. (TCM.com)
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    Yellowstone Kelly
    A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her. (imdb)
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    The Great Bank Robbery
    Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880. (imdb)
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    A Distant Trumpet
    Lt. Hazard, fresh out of West Point, arrives in Arizona Territory at hot, dusty, Fort Delivery. Appalled by the lax discipline of its troops, he restricts their privileges and subjects them to arduous drills. At the same time, he finds himself falling in love with Kitty, the wife of his commanding officer. This romance is complicated when his fiancee from Back East decides to pay a visit... (imdb)
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    Down Three Dark Streets
    An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer. (TCM.com)
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls
    Holmes is about to retire to Sussex and keep bees when the king sends him on a mission to South Africa to retrieve the Star of Africa diamond. Complications arise and Holmes meets several historical characters including ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, portrayed by Claude Akins, and Lillie Langtry, played by Jenny Seagrove. He also encounters the fictional character A. J. Raffles. (wikipedia.org)
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    The Burning Hills
    Trace discovers the body of his brother, Jerry and confronts Mr. Sutton the crook responsible for his brother's death. In self-defence Trace shoots Mr. Sutton. Sutton sends his henchmen to hunt and kill a wounded and fleeing Trace. Maria a half-breed Mexican girl, who's father was murdered by Sutton, becomes Trace's companion in flight. (imdb)
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    Joe Dakota
    Joe, searching for his friend stumbles upon a seemingly abandoned town. Searching near the town he discovers people digging an oil well who get angry at his inquisitiveness.
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    Ebony, Ivory and Jade
    Mick Jade, a former tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory, in which the trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hit-men as she heads for Washington D.C. from the Middle East with her super-secret formulas. (imdb)
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    Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
    An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst... (imdb)
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    The Kettles on Old MacDonald\
    Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad. (imdb)
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    Hound-Dog Man
    Two young boys spend the summer of 1912 having fun and games instead of working on the farm. (TCM)
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    Battle Stations
    The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet. (imdb)
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    Hot Summer Night
    A big-city reporter between jobs is traveling with his wife through a small Ozarks town and gets a lead on a bank robbery. He tracks down the brutal gang that committed the robbery, only to discover that they are something of a source of pride to the locals. His hopes of getting back into the big time with this story are dashed when his "interview" with the gang leader goes awry and he and his wife find themselves hostages. (imdb)
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    Lock, Stock and Barrel
    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. (imdb)
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    The Sharkfighters
    Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the lives of WWII military personnel stranded in shark-infested waters. His zeal for completing the project as fast as possible is explained by his having lost a large percentage of his crew to sharks when his ship was sunk by the Japanese. Against the advice of the others on the project, Staves demands that the new repellent be te (imdb)
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    The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
    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 great poker game and all what one needs to join is one hundred thousand dollars. A madame named Burgundy Jones along with four other madames is willing to put up the money for Brady but first he has to compete against four other gamblers in the end it comes down to Brady and a man named Cantrell. (imdb)
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    Incident at Phantom Hill
    At the end of the Civil War, a million-dollar gold shipment is hijacked and buried in the desert. One man who knows where it is hidden sets out to get it, but he must fight off outlaws who are also after it and rampaging Apaches. (imdb)
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    Bitter Creek
    As Clay Tindall (Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Elliott), comes to a town in a search for the killer of his brother and quickly becomes unpopular with the townspeople who are unwillingly but submissive subjects to the whims of local cattleman Quentin Allen (Carleton Young) and his motley gang of hired hands and henchies. (imdb)
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    Black Gold
    Two friends join together to strike oil during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s, and wind up fighting over the same oil wells and the same girl. (imdb)
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    Claudelle Inglish
    She liked boys looking at her...and thinking...and then she'd take her delicious kind of revenge on them all! The author of 'God's Little Acre,' Erskine Caldwell, brings you his most misbehavin' female...the child-woman called Claudelle Inglish. (imdb)
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    First to Fight
    Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead. (imdb)
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    The Baron and the Kid
    The "Baron", played by Johnny Cash, is a legendary pool shark. The "Cajun Kid", played by Greg Webb, is the Baron's long-lost son. Once they're reunited, the Baron and the Kid embark upon numerous adventures, each exploit bringing them closer. Based on Johnny Cash's hit song "The Baron", this made-for-TV endeavor is a blatant attempt to rope the fans of Kenny Rogers' similar TV-movie project The Gambler. (allmovie.com)
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    The Death Squad
    When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts. (imdb)
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    Killer on Board
    The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew. (imdb)
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    Kiss Me, Kill Me
    A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher. (imdb)
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    The Restless Gun
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    Movin\
    Movin' On (1974) - TV Series
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    The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
    Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of B.J. and the Bear (1978), as B.J.'s occasional nemesis. He now stars in his own series. He is not as corrupt as he was on B.J.'s show, but he is still trying to make a buck by cooking up schemes or hoping to be given the reward money for property he recovers or criminals he apprehends.
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    Johnny Moccasin
    Johnny Moccasin is a white teenage boy who has been raised by an Indian tribe after his parents were killed in a Wagon Train massacre.
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    Grass Roots
    Grass Roots (1992) - TV Movie
    A respected lawyer/politician about to undertake a campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate is forced to defend a young white man for the brutal murder of a black activist.
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    From Here to Eternity
    In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. (imdb)
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    Desperate Intruder
    A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.
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    Johnny Concho
    he townsfolk of Cripple Creek fear Johnny Concho, who acts tough and takes advantage of the populace because his brother is a notorious gunfighter. But when a stranger arrives in town, claiming to have killed his brother and treating people worse than Johnny, he's forced to face his fears and stand up for himself and the town. (imdb)
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    Murder, She Wrote
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    The Twilight Zone
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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    Combat!
    Combat! (1962) - TV Series
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    Kraft Suspense Theatre
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    The Guns of Will Sonnett
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    The Fugitive
    The Fugitive (1963) - TV Series
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    Shield for Murder
    A vicious cop (Edmond O'Brien) kills a drug runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model home for his tarty girl friend. Copying "Kiss of Death," he even flings a man down a flight of stairs. (imdb)
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