James Best
male
Born on July 26, 1926 (99 years old)
Passed Away on April 06, 2015
From Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Known for Acting
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).
Cast Credits
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- 2013
- 2012
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- 1989
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- 1959
Ride Lonesome
as
Billy John
1959
The Killer Shrews
as
Thorne Sherman
1959
Verboten!
as
Sgt. David Brent
1959
Cast a Long Shadow
as
Sam Mullen
1959
The Twilight Zone
as
Jeff Myrtlebank
1959
Hawaiian Eye
1959
The Twilight Zone
as
Billy-Ben Turner
1959
The Man and the Challenge
1959
Rawhide
as
Willie Cain
1959
Men Into Space
1959
Black Saddle
as
Ben Travers
1959
Lock-Up
1959
The Rebel
as
Ted Evans
1959
Laramie
1959
The David Niven Show
as
Boland
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as
Jovan Wilanskov
1959
Startime
1959
Rawhide
as
Brock Quade
1959
The Rebel
as
Abel Waares
1959
Bonanza
as
Sheriff Vern Schaler
1959
- 1958
The Left Handed Gun
as
Tom Folliard
1958
The Naked and the Dead
as
Rhidges
1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
as
Kit Caswell
1958
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Bronco
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as
Stoner
1958
The Rifleman
1958
Bat Masterson
as
Joe Best
1958
The Texan
1958
Behind Closed Doors
as
Webb
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as
Luke Perry
1958
Bat Masterson
as
Danny Dakota
1958
- 1957
- 1956
- 1955
Top of the World
as
Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
1955
Seven Angry Men
as
Jason Brown
1955
Cheyenne
1955
Gunsmoke
as
Beal
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as
Norman Frayne
1955
The Millionaire
as
Fred Morgan
1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Frontier
1955
Gunsmoke
as
Charlie Noon
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as
Hennessy
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as
Bish Darby
1955
- 1954
- 1953
- 1952
The Cimarron Kid
as
Bitter Creek Dalton
1952
The Battle at Apache Pass
as
Cpl. Hassett
1952
Francis Goes to West Point
as
Cpl. Ransom
1952
Steel Town
as
Joe Rakich
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as
Marvin Johnson
1952
Cavalcade of America
1952
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Cavalcade of America
as
Harry
1952
Cavalcade of America
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Slate Morley
1952
- 1951
- 1950
