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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), …
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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).
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BODY OF WORK
James Best's Filmography
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
The Sweeter Side of Life
as Paddy Kerrigan
Return of the Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
Moondance Alexander
as McClancy
Hot Tamale
as Hank Larson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Rosco P. Coltrane
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Death Mask
as Wilbur Johnson
Hooper
as Cully
The End
as Pacemaker Patient
Rolling Thunder
as Texan
The Savage Bees
as Pellegrino
Nickelodeon
as Jim
Ode to Billy Joe
as Dewey Barksdale
The Runaway Barge
as Bingo Washington
Savages
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Sounder
as Sheriff Charlie Young
The Brain Machine
as Rev. Emory Neill
Run, Simon, Run
as Henry Burroughs
Firecreek
as Drew
First to Fight
as Sergeant Carnavan
Three on a Couch
as Dr. Ben Mizer
Shenandoah
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
Black Spurs
as Ralph Elkins
The Quick Gun
as Scotty Wade
Shock Corridor
as Stuart
Black Gold
as Jericho Larkin
The Mountain Road
as Niergaard
No Poster
Aftermath
as Hardy Coulter
Cast a Long Shadow
as Sam Mullen
The Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
Verboten!
as Sgt. David Brent
Ride Lonesome
as Billy John
The Naked and the Dead
as Rhidges
The Left Handed Gun
as Tom Folliard
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
as Kit Caswell
Man on the Prowl
as Doug Gerhardt
Last of the Badmen
as Ted Hamilton
Hot Summer Night
as Kermit
The Rack
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
Calling Homicide
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Gaby
as Jim
Forbidden Planet
as Crewman (uncredited)
Come Next Spring
as Bill Jackson
Top of the World
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Seven Angry Men
as Jason Brown
They Rode West
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
The Raid
as Lt. Robinson
Return from the Sea
as Barr
The Caine Mutiny
as Lt. JG Jorgensen
The Yellow Tomahawk
as Private Bliss
Riders to the Stars
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Skip Taylor
City of Bad Men
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
Column South
as Primrose
Seminole
as Corp. Gerad
Flat Top
as Radio Operator
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Marvin Johnson
Francis Goes to West Point
as Corporal Ransom
The Battle at Apache Pass
as Cpl. Hassett
Steel Town
as Joe Rakich
The Cimarron Kid
as Bitter Creek Dalton
Apache Drums
as Bert Keon
Air Cadet
as Jerry Connell
Target Unknown
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
Kansas Raiders
as Cole Younger
Winchester '73
as Crater
Peggy
as Frank Addison
I Was a Shoplifter
Comanche Territory
as Sam
One Way Street
as Driver (uncredited)