FrameThrower · Actors · Claude Akins
Claude Akins
3 films · 251 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1959–1964
Born 25 May 1926 · Nelson, Georgia, USA · died 27 January 1994
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Claude Marion Akins was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen and television. Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series B. J. and the Bear, and later The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off series, with Ben Cooper appearing as Waverly.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 251 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Claude takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 74% of their frames are day, 68% natural — the look of the work Claude takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 251 frames from Claude Akins's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.