Claude Marion Akins was a Cherokee-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. His film debut was as Sergeant Baldy Thom in From Here to Eternity (1953) and he went on to appear in The Caine Mutiny (1954), How The West Was Won (1962) and The Devil's Brigade (1968)
