James Best
Acting
Born 1926-07-26
Died 2015-04-06
Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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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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Acting
32 credits
Perry Mason
The Fugitive
Bonanza
The Andy Griffith Show
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
Rawhide
Climax!
Daniel Boone
Burke's Law
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Combat!
The Dukes of Hazzard
Gunsmoke
Bat Masterson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Millionaire
The Rebel
The Mod Squad
Honey West
The Green Hornet
Startime
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Black Saddle
Cavalcade of America
Forbidden Planet
Lux Video Theatre
Hot Tamale
Temple Houston
Other credits
28 credits
The Rifleman
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
Ben Casey
Hawaiian Eye
In the Heat of the Night
Laramie
Surfside 6
77 Sunset Strip
The Texan
Felony Squad
Tombstone Territory
Bronco
Trackdown
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Flipper
Lancer
The Gene Autry Show
Centennial
Lock-Up
The Adventures of Kit Carson
The Manhunter
Men Into Space
Stagecoach West
The Gallant Men
Frontier
B.L. Stryker
West Point
Directing
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