James Best profile
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James Best

26th July 1926 Powderly, Kentucky, USA Acting

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).

73 Movies 79 TV Shows 152 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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The End 10th May 1978 as Pacemaker Patient
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Savages 11th September 1974 as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
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Sounder 24th September 1972 as Sheriff Charlie Young
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The Rack 2nd November 1956 as Millard Chilson Cassidy
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Gaby 9th May 1956 as Jim
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Flat Top 26th October 1952 as Radio Operator
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Peggy 1st July 1950 as Frank Addison
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The Dukes 5th February 1983 as Rosco Coltrane (voice)
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Enos 12th November 1980
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Hawkins 13th March 1973 as Sheriff John Early
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Hawk 8th September 1966
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Bonanza 12th September 1959 as Sheriff Vern Schaler
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Rawhide 9th January 1959 as Brock Quade
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Gunsmoke 10th September 1955 as Charlie Noon