James Best
Age: 88 | From: Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1926-07-26 23:01:38
Death: 2015-04-06 23:01:38
Aliases: Jewel Franklin Guy , James K. Best , Jimmy Best , Jim Best
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 64
TV Involvements: 39
Most Famous Work
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).
Most Famous Work
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Clem Wallace
Bat Masterson
(1958) Danny Dakota
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Jeff Myrtlebank
Rawhide
(1959) Brock Quade
Climax!
(1954) Shag
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Tom Carmody
The Fugitive
(1963) Dan Murray
The Rebel
(1959) Abel WaaresActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Self | |
| 2013 | Paddy Kerrigan | |
| 2012 | Thorne Sherman | |
| 2007 | McClancy | |
| 2006 | Hank Larson | |
| 2005 | N/A | |
| 2004 | Thorne Sherman (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2000 | Rosco P. Coltrane | |
| 1998 | Wilbur Johnson | |
| 1997 | Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane | |
| 1996 | N/A | |
| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1988 | N/A | |
| 1983 | Rosco Coltrane (voice) | |
| 1980 | N/A | |
| 1979 | Rosco P. Coltrane | |
| 1978 | N/A | |
| Cully | ||
| Pacemaker Patient | ||
| 1977 | Texan | |
| N/A | ||
| 1976 | Jim | |
| Pellegrino | ||
| Dewey Barksdale | ||
| 1975 | Bingo Washington | |
| 1974 | N/A | |
| Sheriff Bert Hamilton | ||
| 1973 | Sheriff John Early | |
| 1972 | Sheriff Charlie Young | |
| Rev. Emory Neill | ||
| 1970 | Henry Burroughs | |
| 1968 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Drew | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Sergeant Carnavan | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| Yale Barton | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Ben Mizer | ||
| 1965 | Vince Zale | |
| Carter, Rebel Soldier | ||
| Ralph Elkins | ||
| 1964 | Jethro Wyatt | |
| N/A | ||
| Scotty Wade | ||
| 1963 | Stuart | |
| N/A | ||
| Tucson, 'The Cowboy' | ||
| Dan Murray | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
| Trenton | ||
| N/A | ||
| Tom Carmody | ||
| Curt Westley | ||
| Jericho Larkin | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
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| 1960 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Jim Lindsey | ||
| N/A | ||
| Joe | ||
| Niergaard | ||
| Hardy Coulter | ||
| Bart Gentry | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Ted Evans | ||
| Abel Waares | ||
| Billy-Ben Turner | ||
| Jeff Myrtlebank | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jovan Wilanskov | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sheriff Vern Schaler | ||
| Sam Mullen | ||
| Thorne Sherman | ||
| Boland | ||
| Sgt. David Brent | ||
| Billy John | ||
| Ben Travers | ||
| Willie Cain | ||
| Brock Quade | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Joe Best | ||
| Danny Dakota | ||
| Webb | ||
| N/A | ||
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| N/A | ||
| Stoner | ||
| Luke Perry | ||
| Rhidges | ||
| Tom Folliard | ||
| Kit Caswell | ||
| 1957 | Doug Gerhardt | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Allan Winford | ||
| Martin Potter | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jack Milhoan | ||
| Ted Hamilton | ||
| Kermit | ||
| 1956 | Millard Chilson Cassidy | |
| N/A | ||
| Det. Arnie Arnhoff | ||
| Jim | ||
| Crewman | ||
| Bill Jackson | ||
| 1955 | Norman Frayne | |
| Hennessy | ||
| Bish Darby | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Beal | ||
| Charlie Noon | ||
| Col. French's Orderly (uncredited) | ||
| Jason Brown | ||
| N/A | ||
| Fred Morgan | ||
| 1954 | Shag | |
| N/A | ||
| Lt. Robinson | ||
| Barr | ||
| Lt. JG Jorgensen | ||
| Private Bliss | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Sidney K. Fuller | ||
| 1953 | Deputy Gig (uncredited) | |
| Primrose | ||
| Corp. Gerad | ||
| Hardy Coulter | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
| Harry | ||
| Slate Morley | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marvin Johnson | ||
| Cpl. Ransom | ||
| Joe Rakich | ||
| Cpl. Hassett | ||
| Bitter Creek Dalton | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bert Keon | ||
| Jerry Connell | ||
| Sgt. Ralph Phelps | ||
| 1950 | Cole Younger | |
| Clem Wallace | ||
| N/A | ||
| Crater | ||
| Frank Addison | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sam | ||
| Driver | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Writer | |
| 1998 | Writer | |
| 1978 | Co-Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Associate Producer | |
| 1976 | Production Assistant | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
