James Best

James Best

  • Birthday: 7/26/1926
  • Deathday: 4/6/2015
  • Place of birth: Powderly, Kentucky, USA
  • Fame for: Acting
  • Also known as: Jewel Franklin Guy, James K. Best, Jimmy Best, Jim Best

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).

Filmography

Hot Tamale
Release date: 4/23/2006

Hot Tamale

Role(s): Hank Larson

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Firecreek
Release date: 1/24/1968

Firecreek

Role(s): Drew

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Run, Simon, Run
Release date: 12/1/1970

Run, Simon, Run

Role(s): Henry Burroughs

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Shenandoah
Release date: 6/3/1965

Shenandoah

Role(s): Carter, Rebel Soldier

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Rolling Thunder
Release date: 11/2/1977

Rolling Thunder

Role(s): Texan

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