James Best

James Best

Birthday: 1926-07-26

Deathday: 2015-04-06

Place of birth: Powderly, Kentucky, USA

Also known as: Jewel Franklin Guy, James K. Best, Jimmy Best, Jim Best

imdb_id: nm0078940

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).

Played in movies:

Aftermath

Score: 8.0

First to Fight

Score: 7.9

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Score: 7.8

Sounder

Score: 7.5

Winchester '73

Score: 7.3

Forbidden Planet

Score: 7.2

The Caine Mutiny

Score: 7.2

Gaby

Score: 7.0

Shock Corridor

Score: 7.0

Shenandoah

Score: 6.9

Rolling Thunder

Score: 6.8

Ride Lonesome

Score: 6.7

The Mountain Road

Score: 6.7

The Rack

Score: 6.6

The Raid

Score: 6.5

Verboten!

Score: 6.5

Firecreek

Score: 6.4

Cast a Long Shadow

Score: 6.4

The Battle at Apache Pass

Score: 6.4

They Rode West

Score: 6.4

Hooper

Score: 6.3

Ode to Billy Joe

Score: 6.3

Top of the World

Score: 6.3

Savages

Score: 6.3

The Quick Gun

Score: 6.3

Apache Drums

Score: 6.3

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Score: 6.2

Nickelodeon

Score: 6.1

The Cimarron Kid

Score: 6.1

The Left Handed Gun

Score: 6.1

Black Spurs

Score: 6.1

Steel Town

Score: 6.0

Column South

Score: 6.0

The Yellow Tomahawk

Score: 6.0

Come Next Spring

Score: 6.0

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Score: 5.9

The Naked and the Dead

Score: 5.9

Moondance Alexander

Score: 5.9

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood

Score: 5.8

Francis Goes to West Point

Score: 5.8

City of Bad Men

Score: 5.8

The Sweeter Side of Life

Score: 5.8

Kansas Raiders

Score: 5.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Score: 5.8

Last of the Badmen

Score: 5.7

Calling Homicide

Score: 5.7

Hot Summer Night

Score: 5.6

Death Mask

Score: 5.6

The End

Score: 5.5

Riders to the Stars

Score: 5.5

Three on a Couch

Score: 5.4

Seminole

Score: 5.4

I Was a Shoplifter

Score: 5.3

Return of the Killer Shrews

Score: 5.3

Seven Angry Men

Score: 5.2

One Way Street

Score: 5.2

Run, Simon, Run

Score: 5.2

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

Score: 5.2

The Savage Bees

Score: 5.0

Air Cadet

Score: 5.0

Hot Tamale

Score: 5.0

Comanche Territory

Score: 4.8

Peggy

Score: 4.7

Return from the Sea

Score: 4.5

The Killer Shrews

Score: 4.4

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

Score: 4.0

The Brain Machine

Score: 2.7

Man on the Prowl

Score: 2.3

Black Gold

Score: 1.0

Skip Taylor

Score: 0.0

The Runaway Barge

Score: 0.0

Target Unknown

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Combat!

Score: 7.7

Centennial

Score: 7.7

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

In the Heat of the Night

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

The Dukes of Hazzard

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

Hawkins

Score: 7.2

The Green Hornet

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

CMT: Inside Fame

Score: 7.0

Honey West

Score: 7.0

Enos

Score: 7.0

Men Into Space

Score: 7.0

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Pony Express

Score: 6.5

Laramie

Score: 6.4

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Score: 6.3

Tombstone Territory

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.2

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Score: 6.2

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Score: 6.2

Lock-Up

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Flipper

Score: 6.1

B.L. Stryker

Score: 6.0

Startime

Score: 6.0

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

The Gallant Men

Score: 6.0

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Stories of the Century

Score: 5.7

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

The Texan

Score: 5.5

Whispering Smith

Score: 5.3

The Adventures of Kit Carson

Score: 5.3

Overland Trail

Score: 5.3

Bronco

Score: 5.2

Hawaiian Eye

Score: 5.2

Hopalong Cassidy

Score: 5.1

The Rebel

Score: 5.1

The Rebel

Score: 5.1

Michael Shayne

Score: 5.0

Frontier

Score: 5.0

The Manhunter

Score: 5.0

Buffalo Bill Jr.

Score: 5.0

The Lineup

Score: 5.0

West Point

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Redigo

Score: 5.0

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

Lancer

Score: 4.7

The Gene Autry Show

Score: 4.2

The Dukes

Score: 3.7

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Behind Closed Doors

Score: 0.0

Hawk

Score: 0.0

The David Niven Show

Score: 0.0

General Electric True

Score: 0.0

The Man and the Challenge

Score: 0.0