James Best
Acting
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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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Filmography of
James Best
Self (archive footage)
... 2013
Paddy Kerrigan
... 2013
Thorne Sherman
... 2012
McClancy
... 2007
Hank Larson
... 2006
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 2002
Rosco P. Coltrane
... 2000
Wilbur Johnson
... 1998
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
... 1997
Cully
... 1978
Pacemaker Patient
... 1978
Texan
... 1977
Jim
... 1976
Pellegrino
... 1976
Dewey Barksdale
... 1976
Bingo Washington
... 1975
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
... 1974
Sheriff Charlie Young
... 1972
Rev. Emory Neill
... 1972
Henry Burroughs
... 1970
Drew
... 1968
Sergeant Carnavan
... 1967
Dr. Ben Mizer
... 1966
Carter, Rebel Soldier
... 1965
Ralph Elkins
... 1965
Scotty Wade
... 1964
Stuart
... 1963
Jericho Larkin
... 1962
Niergaard
... 1960
Hardy Coulter
... 1960
Sam Mullen
... 1959
Thorne Sherman
... 1959
Sgt. David Brent
... 1959
Billy John
... 1959
Rhidges
... 1958
Tom Folliard
... 1958
Kit Caswell
... 1958
Doug Gerhardt
... 1957
Ted Hamilton
... 1957
Kermit
... 1957
Millard Chilson Cassidy
... 1956
Det. Arnie Arnhoff
... 1956
Jim
... 1956
Bill Jackson
... 1956
Crewman (uncredited)
... 1956
Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
... 1955
Jason Brown
... 1955
Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
... 1954
Lt. Robinson
... 1954
Barr
... 1954
Lt. JG Jorgensen
... 1954
Private Bliss
... 1954
Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
... 1954
... 1953
Deputy Gig (uncredited)
... 1953
Primrose
... 1953
Corp. Gerad
... 1953
Marvin Johnson
... 1952
Corporal Ransom
... 1952
Cpl. Hassett
... 1952
Joe Rakich
... 1952
Bitter Creek Dalton
... 1952
Bert Keon
... 1951
Jerry Connell
... 1951
Sgt. Ralph Phelps
... 1951
Cole Younger
... 1950
Crater
... 1950
Frank Addison
... 1950
... 1950
... 1950
Driver (uncredited)
... 1950