James Best

Known for ActingBorn 1926-07-26Died 2015-04-06Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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).Read more

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The Man and the Challenge

Skip Taylor

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Twilight Zone

E! True Hollywood Story

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Hawk

The Gallant Men

Aftermath

The David Niven Show

Behind Closed Doors

Combat!

First to Fight

Hawkins

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

In the Heat of the Night

Centennial

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Pony Express

Perry Mason

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Andy Griffith Show

Sounder

Bonanza

West Point

CMT: Inside Fame

Frontier

The Green Hornet

Enos

Men Into Space

The Fugitive

Rawhide

Honey West

Have Gun, Will Travel

Forbidden Planet

Winchester '73

The Caine Mutiny

77 Sunset Strip

The Manhunter

Stories of the Century

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Rifleman

Shenandoah

Daniel Boone

Shock Corridor

Gaby

Rolling Thunder