The 1977 film "Inherit the Wind" is the one where Claude Akins didn't have an acting role. Claude Akins (May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994) was an American character actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television. He was best known as Sheriff Lobo on the 1979–1981 television series B. J. and the Bear", and later "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo", a spin-off series.

Akins was born in Nelson, Georgia, and grew up in Bedford, Indiana, the son of Maude and Ernest Akins. Film reference works said he was born in 1918, making his age at death 75; however, Akins' son said his father was 67 at the time of his death, and he is listed as Aubrey Akins in the 1940 Census, age 13. He served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II in Burma and the Philippines.

After the war, he graduated in 1949 from Northwestern University, where he had majored in theatre.

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