Cast: Claude Akins

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Claude Akins. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Rio Bravo

1959 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Ricky Nelson · Angie Dickinson

Plot John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him...

8.0

22K votes

8.0

22K votes

Inherit the Wind

1960 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York

Plot Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Ron Winston

Cast Claude Akins · Barry Atwater · Jack Weston · Jan Handzlik

Plot On a pleasant day, the residents of Maple Street feel something akin to a tremor and hear a loud noise. Steve Brand thinks it's a meteorite though they didn't hear...

7.5

280 votes

7.5

280 votes

The Killers

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Lee Marvin · Angie Dickinson · John Cassavetes · Ronald Reagan

Plot Ernest Hemingway's short story THE KILLERS was turned into two memorable films noir at the beginning and the end of the high period of the genre. The original 1946, directed...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

The Caine Mutiny

1954 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Humphrey Bogart · José Ferrer · Van Johnson · Fred MacMurray

Plot During the Second World War, onboard a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A Ship's...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Defiant Ones

1958 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw

Plot This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

A Distant Trumpet

1964 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Troy Donahue · Suzanne Pleshette · Diane McBain · James Gregory

Plot Lt. Hazard (Troy Donahue), 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...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Twilight Zone: The Little People (TV)

1962 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction William F. Claxton

Cast Joe Maross · Claude Akins · Michael Ford · Robert Eaton

Plot On a desolate planet, two astronauts discover an entire society populated by incredibly small beings. One of them decides to rule the society as god.

6.9

78 votes

6.9

78 votes

Comanche Station

1960 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Nancy Gates · Claude Akins · Skip Homeier

Plot In this western, a loner puts aside a ten year search for his kidnapped wife to help rescue another settler and is lead into an ambush staged by a vicious...

6.7

823 votes

6.7

823 votes

6.6

55 votes

Merrill's Marauders

1962 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

6.5

799 votes

6.5

799 votes

Shield for Murder

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch · Edmond O'Brien

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Marla English · John Agar · Emile Meyer

Plot A vicious cop kills a bookie's 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...

6.5

73 votes

6.5

73 votes

Down Three Dark Streets

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ruth Roman · Martha Hyer · Marisa Pavan

Plot When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster...

6.2

90 votes

6.2

90 votes

The Devil's Brigade

1968 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

6.2

972 votes

6.2

972 votes

The Sea Chase

1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast John Wayne · Lana Turner · David Farrar · Lyle Bettger

Plot As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships.

6.1

540 votes

6.1

540 votes

The Night Stalker (TV)

1972 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast Darren McGavin · Carol Lynley · Simon Oakland · Ralph Meeker

Plot An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

6.1

191 votes

6.1

191 votes

Longstreet (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall · James H. Brown · David Lowell Rich · Paul Krasny

Cast James Franciscus · Marlyn Mason · Peter Mark Richman · Ann Doran

Plot Mike Longstreet was an insurance investigator who was blinded in an explosion. His wife was killed by the same blast. With the aid of braille teacher Nikki and guide dog...

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

Yellowstone Kelly

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Clint Walker · Edd Byrnes · John Russell · Ray Danton

Plot 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...

5.7

188 votes

5.7

188 votes

The Burning Hills

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Tab Hunter · Natalie Wood · Skip Homeier · Eduard Franz

Plot Trace Jordan's brother has been killed by a group of outlaws and they are now closing in on her. But little do they suspect that she is leading them to...

5.6

209 votes

5.6

209 votes

Joe Dakota

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Richard Bartlett

Cast Jock Mahoney · Luana Patten · Charles McGraw · Barbara Lawrence

Plot A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true...

5.6

65 votes

5.6

65 votes