James Best

James Best

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).

Place of Birth: Not available

Birthday: July 26, 1926

Deathday: April 06, 2015

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Known For

Hot Tamale
Hot Tamale

2006-04-23

Firecreek
Firecreek

1968-01-24

Run, Simon, Run
Run, Simon, Run

1970-12-01

Shenandoah
Shenandoah

1965-06-03

Rolling Thunder
Rolling Thunder

1977-11-02

Shock Corridor
Shock Corridor

1963-09-25

Death Mask
Death Mask

1998-01-01

Ride Lonesome
Ride Lonesome

1959-02-01

Moondance Alexander
Moondance Alexander

2007-04-22

Winchester '73
Winchester '73

1950-07-12

The Left Handed Gun
The Left Handed Gun

1958-05-07

The Cimarron Kid
The Cimarron Kid

1952-01-13

The Killer Shrews
The Killer Shrews

1959-06-25

The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead

1958-08-06

Hooper
Hooper

1978-07-28

Seminole
Seminole

1953-03-20

Calling Homicide
Calling Homicide

1956-09-30

The Rack
The Rack

1956-11-02

Apache Drums
Apache Drums

1951-04-01

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002-07-02

Verboten!
Verboten!

1959-03-25

The Brain Machine
The Brain Machine

1972-01-01

Comanche Territory
Comanche Territory

1950-05-01

Hot Summer Night
Hot Summer Night

1957-02-15

Kansas Raiders
Kansas Raiders

1950-11-15

The Mountain Road
The Mountain Road

1960-06-15

The Quick Gun
The Quick Gun

1964-04-01

Gaby
Gaby

1956-05-09

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

1997-04-25

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood

2000-06-05

Man on the Prowl
Man on the Prowl

1957-12-01

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Cole Younger, Gunfighter

1958-03-30

I Was a Shoplifter
I Was a Shoplifter

1950-05-13

Return of the Killer Shrews
Return of the Killer Shrews

2012-11-15

One Way Street
One Way Street

1950-04-01

Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon

1976-12-21

Savages
Savages

1974-09-11

Cast a Long Shadow
Cast a Long Shadow

1959-08-24

Top of the World
Top of the World

1955-05-01

The Sweeter Side of Life
The Sweeter Side of Life

2013-07-11

The End
The End

1978-05-10

Black Gold
Black Gold

1962-07-21

Target Unknown
Target Unknown

1951-02-08

City of Bad Men
City of Bad Men

1953-09-11

Ode to Billy Joe
Ode to Billy Joe

1976-06-04

Come Next Spring
Come Next Spring

1956-03-09

Last of the Badmen
Last of the Badmen

1957-02-17

Three on a Couch
Three on a Couch

1966-03-01

Air Cadet
Air Cadet

1951-03-14

Sounder
Sounder

1972-09-24

The Battle at Apache Pass
The Battle at Apache Pass

1952-05-09

Aftermath
Aftermath

1960-04-17

Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet

1956-03-23

The Raid
The Raid

1954-08-04

First to Fight
First to Fight

1967-01-25

The Runaway Barge
The Runaway Barge

1975-03-24

Black Spurs
Black Spurs

1965-05-28

The Yellow Tomahawk
The Yellow Tomahawk

1954-05-01

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

2021-02-13

The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny

1954-06-24

Return from the Sea
Return from the Sea

1954-07-28

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

2004-07-13

Francis Goes to West Point
Francis Goes to West Point

1952-07-01

Peggy
Peggy

1950-07-01

Seven Angry Men
Seven Angry Men

1955-03-27

Column South
Column South

1953-05-20

Steel Town
Steel Town

1952-05-09

Riders to the Stars
Riders to the Stars

1954-01-14

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

1952-07-11

The Savage Bees
The Savage Bees

1976-11-22

Skip Taylor
Skip Taylor

1953-12-16