James Best
Born July 26, 1926 (Age: 99)
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Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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).
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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Filmography
Moondance Alexander
2007
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as McClancy
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Age: 80
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
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as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 75
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000
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as Rosco P. Coltrane
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Age: 73
Death Mask
1998
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as Wilbur Johnson
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Age: 71
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997
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as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
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Age: 70
Hooper
1978
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as Cully
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Age: 52
The End
1978
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as Pacemaker Patient
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Age: 51
Ode to Billy Joe
1976
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as Dewey Barksdale
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Age: 49
Savages
1974
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as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
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Age: 48
Sounder
1972
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as Sheriff Charlie Young
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Age: 46
The Brain Machine
1972
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as Rev. Emory Neill
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Age: 45
Shenandoah
1965
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as Carter, Rebel Soldier
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Age: 38
Black Spurs
1965
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as Ralph Elkins
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Age: 38
The Quick Gun
1964
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as Scotty Wade
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Age: 37
Shock Corridor
1963
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as Stuart
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Age: 37
Black Gold
1962
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as Jericho Larkin
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Age: 35
The Mountain Road
1960
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as Niergaard
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Age: 33
No Image
Aftermath
1960
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as Hardy Coulter
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Age: 33
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
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as Sam Mullen
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Age: 33
The Killer Shrews
1959
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as Thorne Sherman
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Age: 32
Verboten!
1959
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as Sgt. David Brent
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Age: 32
Ride Lonesome
1959
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as Billy John
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Age: 32
The Naked and the Dead
1958
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as Rhidges
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Age: 32
The Left Handed Gun
1958
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as Tom Folliard
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Age: 31
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958
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as Kit Caswell
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Age: 31
The Rack
1956
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as Millard Chilson Cassidy
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Age: 30
Calling Homicide
1956
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as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
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Age: 30
Gaby
1956
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as Jim
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Age: 29
Come Next Spring
1956
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as Bill Jackson
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Age: 29
Forbidden Planet
1956
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as Crewman (uncredited)
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Age: 29
Top of the World
1955
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as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
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Age: 28
Seven Angry Men
1955
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as Jason Brown
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Age: 28
They Rode West
1954
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as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
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Age: 28
The Raid
1954
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as Lt. Robinson
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Age: 28
Return from the Sea
1954
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as Barr
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Age: 28
The Caine Mutiny
1954
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as Lt. JG Jorgensen
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Age: 27
The Yellow Tomahawk
1954
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as Private Bliss
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Age: 27
Riders to the Stars
1954
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as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
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Age: 27
No Image
Skip Taylor
1953
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as
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Age: 27
City of Bad Men
1953
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as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
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Age: 27
Column South
1953
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as Primrose
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Age: 26
Seminole
1953
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as Corp. Gerad
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Age: 26
Kansas Raiders
1950
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as Cole Younger
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Age: 24
Winchester '73
1950
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as Crater
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Age: 23
Peggy
1950
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as Frank Addison
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Age: 23
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
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as
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Age: 23
Comanche Territory
1950
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as Sam
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Age: 23
One Way Street
1950
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as Driver (uncredited)
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Age: 23