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person_profile-James Best

James Best Died at age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

James Best

Date of Birth:

Jul 26, 1926

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 06, 2015

Biography of

James Best

    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).

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Filmography of

James Best

Found 71 Movies in total

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

The Sweeter Side of Life

Paddy Kerrigan ( Actor )

... 2013

Return of the Killer Shrews

Thorne Sherman ( Actor )

Writer

... 2012

Moondance Alexander

McClancy ( Actor )

... 2007

Hot Tamale

Hank Larson ( Actor )

... 2006

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

Thorne Sherman (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2002

... 2000

Death Mask

Wilbur Johnson ( Actor )

Writer

... 1998

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane ( Actor )

... 1997

Hooper

Cully ( Actor )

Co-writer

... 1978

The End

Pacemaker Patient ( Actor )

Associate Producer

... 1978

Rolling Thunder

Texan ( Actor )

... 1977

Nickelodeon

Jim ( Actor )

... 1976

The Savage Bees

Pellegrino ( Actor )

... 1976

Ode to Billy Joe

Dewey Barksdale ( Actor )

... 1976

The Runaway Barge

Bingo Washington ( Actor )

... 1975

Savages

Sheriff Bert Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1974

Sounder

Sheriff Charlie Young ( Actor )

... 1972

The Brain Machine

Rev. Emory Neill ( Actor )

... 1972

Run, Simon, Run

Henry Burroughs ( Actor )

... 1970

Firecreek

Drew ( Actor )

... 1968

First to Fight

Sergeant Carnavan ( Actor )

... 1967

Three on a Couch

Dr. Ben Mizer ( Actor )

... 1966

Shenandoah

Carter, Rebel Soldier ( Actor )

... 1965

Black Spurs

Ralph Elkins ( Actor )

... 1965

The Quick Gun

Scotty Wade ( Actor )

... 1964

Shock Corridor

Stuart ( Actor )

... 1963

Black Gold

Jericho Larkin ( Actor )

... 1962

The Mountain Road

Niergaard ( Actor )

... 1960

Cast a Long Shadow

Sam Mullen ( Actor )

... 1959

The Killer Shrews

Thorne Sherman ( Actor )

... 1959

Verboten!

Sgt. David Brent ( Actor )

... 1959

Ride Lonesome

Billy John ( Actor )

... 1959

The Naked and the Dead

Rhidges ( Actor )

... 1958

The Left Handed Gun

Tom Folliard ( Actor )

... 1958

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Kit Caswell ( Actor )

... 1958

Man on the Prowl

Doug Gerhardt ( Actor )

... 1957

Last of the Badmen

Ted Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1957

Hot Summer Night

Kermit ( Actor )

... 1957

The Rack

Millard Chilson Cassidy ( Actor )

... 1956

Calling Homicide

Det. Arnie Arnhoff ( Actor )

... 1956

Gaby

Jim ( Actor )

... 1956

Forbidden Planet

Crewman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

Come Next Spring

Bill Jackson ( Actor )

... 1956

Top of the World

Col. French's Orderly (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1955

Seven Angry Men

Jason Brown ( Actor )

... 1955

They Rode West

Lt. Finlay (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

The Raid

Lt. Robinson ( Actor )

... 1954

Return from the Sea

Barr ( Actor )

... 1954

The Caine Mutiny

Lt. JG Jorgensen ( Actor )

... 1954

The Yellow Tomahawk

Private Bliss ( Actor )

... 1954

Riders to the Stars

Dr. Sidney K. Fuller ( Actor )

... 1954

City of Bad Men

Deputy Gig ( Actor )

... 1953

Column South

Primrose ( Actor )

... 1953

Seminole

Corp. Gerad ( Actor )

... 1953

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Marvin Johnson ( Actor )

... 1952

Francis Goes to West Point

Cpl. Ransom ( Actor )

... 1952

Steel Town

Joe Rakich ( Actor )

... 1952

The Battle at Apache Pass

Cpl. Hassett ( Actor )

... 1952

The Cimarron Kid

Bitter Creek Dalton ( Actor )

... 1952

Apache Drums

Bert Keon ( Actor )

... 1951

Air Cadet

Jerry Connell ( Actor )

... 1951

Target Unknown

Sgt. Ralph Phelps ( Actor )

... 1951

Kansas Raiders

Cole Younger ( Actor )

... 1950

Winchester '73

Crater ( Actor )

... 1950

Peggy

Frank Addison ( Actor )

... 1950

... 1950

Comanche Territory

Sam ( Actor )

... 1950

One Way Street

Driver ( Actor )

... 1950