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James Best
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James Best
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1926-07-26,Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Best (born Jewel Franklin Guy; July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015) was an American television, film, character, voice, and stage actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician, whose career spanned seven decades of television. He appeared as a guest on various country music and talk shows. One of the busiest actors in Hollywood, who began his contract career with Universal Studios in 1949, where he met unfamiliar actors Julie Adams, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson. Best's long career began in films in 1950. He appeared primarily in Westerns, playing opposite Audie Murphy in Kansas Raiders (1950), The Cimarron Kid (1952) and The Quick Gun (1964), Raymond Massey in Seven Angry Men (1955), George Montgomery in Last of the Badman (1957), Frank Lovejoy in Cole Younger Gunfighter (1958), and Randolph Scott in Ride Lonesome (1959). He also starred in the science fiction cult movie, The Killer Shrews (1959) and its sequel, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012). He is most known for playing bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action/comedy Dukes of Hazzard, a role that he revised in The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) as his character was now "boss" of Hazzard County as well as sheriff, and again in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).

Filmography

4.943

Hot Tamale
2006-04-23

6.3

Firecreek
1968-01-24

Run, Simon, Run

5.375

Run, Simon, Run
1970-12-01

7

Shenandoah
1965-06-03

Rolling Thunder

6.749

Rolling Thunder
1977-11-02

7

Shock Corridor
1963-09-25

5.556

Death Mask
1998-01-01

6.682

Ride Lonesome
1959-02-01

Moondance Alexander

6

Moondance Alexander
2007-04-22

7.3

Winchester '73
1950-07-06

The Left Handed Gun

6.038

The Left Handed Gun
1958-04-30

The Cimarron Kid

6.109

The Cimarron Kid
1952-01-13

The Killer Shrews

4.516

The Killer Shrews
1959-06-25

The Naked and the Dead

5.806

The Naked and the Dead
1958-08-06

6.3

Hooper
1978-07-28

5.617

Seminole
1953-03-20

Calling Homicide

6.091

Calling Homicide
1956-09-30

6.589

The Rack
1956-11-02

6.3

Apache Drums
1951-04-01

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

5.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02

6.646

Verboten!
1959-03-25

The Brain Machine

3.184

The Brain Machine
1972-01-01

Comanche Territory

5

Comanche Territory
1950-05-01

Hot Summer Night

5.7

Hot Summer Night
1957-02-15

6

Kansas Raiders
1950-11-15

The Mountain Road

6.9

The Mountain Road
1960-06-15

6.4

The Quick Gun
1964-04-01

7.333

Gaby
1956-05-09

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

5.4

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997-04-25

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood

6.03

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000-06-05

Man on the Prowl

3.5

Man on the Prowl
1957-12-01

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

6.571

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958-03-30

I Was a Shoplifter

5.8

I Was a Shoplifter
1950-05-13

Return of the Killer Shrews

5.24

Return of the Killer Shrews
2012-11-15

5.3

One Way Street
1950-04-01

6.141

Nickelodeon
1976-12-21

6.5

Savages
1974-09-11

Cast a Long Shadow

6.6

Cast a Long Shadow
1959-08-24

Top of the World

6.5

Top of the World
1955-05-01

The Sweeter Side of Life

5.8

The Sweeter Side of Life
2013-07-11

5.625

The End
1978-05-10

4.5

Black Gold
1962-07-21

7

Target Unknown
1951-02-08

City of Bad Men

6.214

City of Bad Men
1953-09-11

Ode to Billy Joe

6.132

Ode to Billy Joe
1976-06-04

Come Next Spring

5.875

Come Next Spring
1956-03-09

Last of the Badmen

6.75

Last of the Badmen
1957-02-17

Three on a Couch

5.385

Three on a Couch
1966-03-01

5.714

Air Cadet
1951-03-14

7.5

Sounder
1972-09-24

The Battle at Apache Pass

6.5

The Battle at Apache Pass
1952-05-09

8

Aftermath
1960-04-17

Forbidden Planet

7.2

Forbidden Planet
1956-03-23

6.5

The Raid
1954-08-04

7.9

First to Fight
1967-01-25

The Runaway Barge

0

The Runaway Barge
1975-03-24

6.278

Black Spurs
1965-05-28

The Yellow Tomahawk

6.571

The Yellow Tomahawk
1954-05-01

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

4.7

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021-02-13

The Caine Mutiny

7.2

The Caine Mutiny
1954-06-24

Return from the Sea

6

Return from the Sea
1954-07-28

Francis Goes to West Point

5.846

Francis Goes to West Point
1952-07-01

6

Peggy
1950-07-01

Seven Angry Men

6

Seven Angry Men
1955-03-27

6.167

Column South
1953-05-20

7

Steel Town
1952-05-09

Riders to the Stars

5.853

Riders to the Stars
1954-01-14

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

6.5

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952-07-11

The Savage Bees

5.333

The Savage Bees
1976-11-22

9

Skip Taylor
1953-12-16

6.5

They Rode West
1954-12-04

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

7.8

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013-08-04

4.607

Flat Top
1952-10-26

The Andy Griffith Show

7.6

The Andy Griffith Show
1960-10-03

In the Heat of the Night

7.552

In the Heat of the Night
1988-03-06

The Gallant Men

8

The Gallant Men
1962-10-05

77 Sunset Strip

7.1

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

6.25

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

6.1

Cheyenne
1955-09-20

6.875

Trackdown
1957-10-04

E! True Hollywood Story

8.15

E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21

The Twilight Zone

8.495

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02

7.8

Hawkins
1973-03-13

6.2

Flipper
1964-09-19

6.333

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

6.679

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.8

Combat!
1962-10-02

General Electric Theater

6.833

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

5.6

Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07

7.7

Centennial
1978-10-01

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.75

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

The Twilight Zone

8.495

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

6.333

Redigo
1963-09-24

The Man and the Challenge

9

The Man and the Challenge
1959-09-12

6.5

Felony Squad
1966-09-12

7.224

Rawhide
1959-01-09

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.314

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

7.03

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

4.5

The Dukes
1983-02-05

7.3

The Fugitive
1963-09-17

The Millionaire

5.75

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

6.514

The Virginian
1962-09-19

5.583

Lancer
1968-09-24

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

7.5

West Point
1956-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

The Gene Autry Show

4.667

The Gene Autry Show
1950-07-23

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

3.833

Climax!
1954-10-07

7.4

Men Into Space
1959-09-30

7.2

Enos
1980-11-12

6

Bronco
1958-09-23

7

The Lineup
1954-10-01

6.2

Black Saddle
1959-01-10

6.429

Lock-Up
1959-09-28

Wanted: Dead or Alive

7.014

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06

5.091

The Rebel
1959-10-04

7.1

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

6.133

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

5.867

Ben Casey
1961-10-02

6.694

Laramie
1959-09-15

The Guns of Will Sonnett

6.333

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967-09-08

6

The Texan
1958-09-29

Stagecoach West

6.667

Stagecoach West
1960-10-04

Buffalo Bill Jr.

6

Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955-03-01

7

The Manhunter
1974-09-11

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

7.235

Honey West
1965-09-17

Tombstone Territory

6.8

Tombstone Territory
1957-10-16

General Electric True

0

General Electric True
1962-09-30

The David Niven Show

8

The David Niven Show
1959-04-07

6.25

Overland Trail
1960-02-07

Stories of the Century

7.2

Stories of the Century
1954-01-23

CMT: Inside Fame

7

CMT: Inside Fame
2005-05-13

7.5

Frontier
1955-09-25

The Adventures of Kit Carson

6

The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951-08-11

7.667

Pony Express
1960-03-09

Whispering Smith

5.75

Whispering Smith
1961-05-08

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

6.75

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959-09-21

Hopalong Cassidy

5.375

Hopalong Cassidy
1952-09-19

6.5

Michael Shayne
1960-09-30

8

Hawk
1966-09-08

Behind Closed Doors

8

Behind Closed Doors
1958-10-02

The Green Hornet

7.343

The Green Hornet
1966-09-09

6.111

B.L. Stryker
1989-02-13

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

6.4

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960-09-19

The Dukes of Hazzard

7.3

The Dukes of Hazzard
1979-01-26

7.224

Rawhide
1959-01-09

6.679

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America

4.6

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

Wanted: Dead or Alive

7.014

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06

5.091

The Rebel
1959-10-04

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

6.133

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

7.521

Bonanza
1959-09-12

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20

6.074

The Mod Squad
1968-09-24

6.75

Startime
1959-10-06