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James Best

James Best

Actor · Born 1926-07-26 · Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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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 …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Forbidden Planet (1956) — Crewman (uncredited)
  2. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Jeff Myrtlebank
  3. Bonanza (1959) — Sheriff Vern Schaler
  4. Winchester '73 (1950) — Crater
  5. The Caine Mutiny (1954) — Lt. JG Jorgensen
  6. The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) — Rosco P. Coltrane
  7. Shock Corridor (1963) — Stuart
  8. Rolling Thunder (1977) — Texan
  9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Norman Frayne
  10. The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — Jim Lindsey
  11. Ride Lonesome (1959) — Billy John
  12. Shenandoah (1965) — Carter, Rebel Soldier
  13. Hooper (1978) — Cully
  14. Perry Mason (1957) — Allan Winford
  15. The Left Handed Gun (1958) — Tom Folliard
  16. Combat! (1962) — Trenton
  17. Gunsmoke (1955) — Beal
  18. The Killer Shrews (1959) — Thorne Sherman
  19. The Green Hornet (1966) — Yale Barton
  20. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) — Tom Carmody
  21. Firecreek (1968) — Drew
  22. E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
  23. The End (1978) — Pacemaker Patient
  24. In the Heat of the Night (1988)
  25. The Fugitive (1963) — Dan Murray
  26. Moondance Alexander (2007) — McClancy
  27. Sounder (1972) — Sheriff Charlie Young
  28. Flipper (1964)
  29. Nickelodeon (1976) — Jim
  30. The Rifleman (1958)
  31. Return of the Killer Shrews (2012) — Thorne Sherman
  32. Rawhide (1959) — Willie Cain
  33. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
  34. The Sweeter Side of Life (2013) — Paddy Kerrigan
  35. Centennial (1978)
  36. The Naked and the Dead (1958) — Rhidges
  37. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) — Stoner
  38. Hot Tamale (2006) — Hank Larson
  39. The Virginian (1962) — Curt Westley
  40. Ode to Billy Joe (1976) — Dewey Barksdale

Directed

  1. The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) — Director