James Best

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).

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Stage Name: James Best

Peran: Acting

Reputasi: 1.0913

Jenis Kelamin: Laki-laki

Tanggal Lahir: 1926-07-26

Lokasi Lahir: Powderly, Kentucky, USA

Riwayat Perfilman

2013

The Sweeter Side of Life

Paddy Kerrigan

2012

Return of the Killer Shrews

Thorne Sherman

2007

Moondance Alexander

McClancy

2006

Hot Tamale

Hank Larson

2004

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

Thorne Sherman (archive footage)

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998

Death Mask

Wilbur Johnson

1997

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane

1983

The Dukes

Rosco Coltrane (voice)

1980

Enos

1979

The Dukes of Hazzard

Rosco P. Coltrane

1978

Hooper

Cully

1978

The End

Pacemaker Patient

1976

Nickelodeon

Jim

1976

The Savage Bees

Pellegrino

1976

Ode to Billy Joe

Dewey Barksdale

1975

The Runaway Barge

Bingo Washington

1974

Savages

Sheriff Bert Hamilton

1973

Hawkins

Sheriff John Early

1972

Sounder

Sheriff Charlie Young

1972

The Brain Machine

Rev. Emory Neill

1970

Run, Simon, Run

Henry Burroughs

1968

Firecreek

Drew

1967

First to Fight

Sergeant Carnavan

1966

The Green Hornet

Yale Barton

1966

Hawk

1966

Three on a Couch

Dr. Ben Mizer

1965

Honey West

Vince Zale

1965

Shenandoah

Carter, Rebel Soldier

1965

Black Spurs

Ralph Elkins

1964

Daniel Boone

Jethro Wyatt

1964

The Quick Gun

Scotty Wade

1963

Shock Corridor

Stuart

1963

Burke's Law

Tucson, 'The Cowboy'

1963

The Fugitive

Dan Murray

1962

Combat!

Trenton

1962

The Virginian

Curt Westley

1962

Black Gold

Jericho Larkin

1960

The Andy Griffith Show

Jim Lindsey

1960

The Mountain Road

Niergaard

1960

Aftermath

Hardy Coulter

1960

Pony Express

Bart Gentry

1959

The Rebel

Ted Evans

1959

The Rebel

Abel Waares

1959

The Twilight Zone

Jeff Myrtlebank

1959

The Twilight Zone

Billy-Ben Turner

1959

Bonanza

Sheriff Vern Schaler

1959

Cast a Long Shadow

Sam Mullen

1959

The Killer Shrews

Thorne Sherman

1959

Verboten!

Sgt. David Brent

1959

Ride Lonesome

Billy John

1959

Black Saddle

Ben Travers

1959

Rawhide

Willie Cain

1959

Rawhide

Brock Quade

1958

Bat Masterson

Joe Best

1958

Bat Masterson

Danny Dakota

1958

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Luke Perry

1958

The Left Handed Gun

Tom Folliard

1957

Man on the Prowl

Doug Gerhardt

1957

Perry Mason

Allan Winford

1957

Perry Mason

Martin Potter

1957

Last of the Badmen

Ted Hamilton

1957

Hot Summer Night

Kermit

1956

The Rack

Millard Chilson Cassidy

1956

Calling Homicide

Det. Arnie Arnhoff

1956

Gaby

Jim

1956

Forbidden Planet

Crewman (uncredited)

1956

Come Next Spring

Bill Jackson

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Norman Frayne

1955

Gunsmoke

Beal

1955

Gunsmoke

Charlie Noon

1955

Top of the World

Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)

1955

Seven Angry Men

Jason Brown

1955

The Millionaire

Fred Morgan

1954

They Rode West

Lt. Finlay (uncredited)

1954

Climax!

Shag

1954

The Raid

Lt. Robinson

1954

The Caine Mutiny

Lt. JG Jorgensen

1954

The Yellow Tomahawk

Private Bliss

1954

Riders to the Stars

Dr. Sidney K. Fuller

1953

City of Bad Men

Deputy Gig (uncredited)

1953

Column South

Primrose

1953

Seminole

Corp. Gerad

1953

General Electric Theater

Hardy Coulter

1952

Cavalcade of America

Slate Morley

1952

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Marvin Johnson

1952

The Battle at Apache Pass

Cpl. Hassett

1952

Steel Town

Joe Rakich

1952

The Cimarron Kid

Bitter Creek Dalton

1951

Apache Drums

Bert Keon

1951

Air Cadet

Jerry Connell

1951

Target Unknown

Sgt. Ralph Phelps

1950

Kansas Raiders

Cole Younger

1950

Lux Video Theatre

Clem Wallace

1950

Winchester '73

Crater

1950

Peggy

Frank Addison

1950

One Way Street

Driver (uncredited)