James Best
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).
Known for
ActingBirthday
July 26, 1926Deathday
April 6, 2015Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
75Place of birth
Powderly, Kentucky, USAAlso known as
Jewel Franklin Guy, James K. Best, Jimmy Best, Jim BestCast credits
Hot Tamale
Hank LarsonFirecreek
DrewRun, Simon, Run
Henry BurroughsShenandoah
Carter, Rebel SoldierRolling Thunder
TexanShock Corridor
StuartDeath Mask
Wilbur JohnsonRide Lonesome
Billy JohnMoondance Alexander
McClancyWinchester '73
CraterThe Left Handed Gun
Tom FolliardThe Cimarron Kid
Bitter Creek DaltonThe Killer Shrews
Thorne ShermanThe Naked and the Dead
RhidgesHooper
CullySeminole
Corp. GeradCalling Homicide
Det. Arnie ArnhoffThe Rack
Millard Chilson CassidyApache Drums
Bert KeonThe Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)Verboten!
Sgt. David Brent