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James Best


James Best

Birthday:

07/26/1926

Place of birth:

Powderly, Kentucky, USA:

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).


Credits

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021)
as Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)
as Paddy Kerrigan
Return of the Killer Shrews (2012)
as Thorne Sherman
Moondance Alexander (2007)
as McClancy
Hot Tamale (2006)
as Hank Larson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)
as Rosco P. Coltrane
Death Mask (1998)
as Wilbur Johnson
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997)
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Hooper (1978)
as Cully
The End (1978)
as Pacemaker Patient
Rolling Thunder (1977)
as Texan
Nickelodeon (1976)
as Jim
The Savage Bees (1976)
as Pellegrino
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
as Dewey Barksdale
The Runaway Barge (1975)
as Bingo Washington
Savages (1974)
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Sounder (1972)
as Sheriff Charlie Young
The Brain Machine (1972)
as Rev. Emory Neill
Run, Simon, Run (1970)
as Henry Burroughs
Firecreek (1968)
as Drew
First to Fight (1967)
as Sergeant Carnavan
Three on a Couch (1966)
as Dr. Ben Mizer
Shenandoah (1965)
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
Black Spurs (1965)
as Ralph Elkins
The Quick Gun (1964)
as Scotty Wade
Shock Corridor (1963)
as Stuart
Black Gold (1962)
as Jericho Larkin
The Mountain Road (1960)
as Niergaard
Aftermath (1960)
as Hardy Coulter
Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Sam Mullen
The Killer Shrews (1959)
as Thorne Sherman
Verboten! (1959)
as Sgt. David Brent
Ride Lonesome (1959)
as Billy John
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as Rhidges
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
as Tom Folliard
Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958)
as Kit Caswell
Man on the Prowl (1957)
as Doug Gerhardt
Last of the Badmen (1957)
as Ted Hamilton
Hot Summer Night (1957)
as Kermit
The Rack (1956)
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
Calling Homicide (1956)
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Gaby (1956)
as Jim
Forbidden Planet (1956)
as Crewman (uncredited)
Come Next Spring (1956)
as Bill Jackson
Top of the World (1955)
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Seven Angry Men (1955)
as Jason Brown
They Rode West (1954)
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
The Raid (1954)
as Lt. Robinson
Return from the Sea (1954)
as Barr
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
as Lt. JG Jorgensen
The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
as Private Bliss
Riders to the Stars (1954)
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Skip Taylor (1953)
as
City of Bad Men (1953)
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
Column South (1953)
as Primrose
Seminole (1953)
as Corp. Gerad
Flat Top (1952)
as Radio Operator
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
as Marvin Johnson
Francis Goes to West Point (1952)
as Corporal Ransom
Steel Town (1952)
as Joe Rakich
The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
as Cpl. Hassett
The Cimarron Kid (1952)
as Bitter Creek Dalton
Apache Drums (1951)
as Bert Keon
Air Cadet (1951)
as Jerry Connell
Target Unknown (1951)
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
Kansas Raiders (1950)
as Cole Younger
Winchester '73 (1950)
as Crater
Peggy (1950)
as Frank Addison
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
as
Comanche Territory (1950)
as Sam
One Way Street (1950)
as Driver (uncredited)
Return of the Killer Shrews (2012)
Writer
Death Mask (1998)
Writer
Hooper (1978)
Co-Writer
The End (1978)
Associate Producer
Gator (1976)
Production Assistant