Cast
James Best
Acting
Cast
James Best
Known for
Acting
Born
1926-07-26
From
Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Died
2015-04-06
Also known as Jewel Franklin Guy, James K. Best, Jimmy Best
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).
Forbidden Planet
as Crewman (uncredited)
The Caine Mutiny
as Lt. JG Jorgensen
Shenandoah
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
Hooper
as Cully
Winchester '73
as Crater
Hot Tamale
as Hank Larson
Rolling Thunder
as Texan
Sounder
as Sheriff Charlie Young
The Left Handed Gun
as Tom Folliard
Air Cadet
as Jerry Connell
The Rack
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
The End
as Pacemaker Patient
Firecreek
as Drew
Seminole
as Corp. Gerad
Ride Lonesome
as Billy John
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
Nickelodeon
as Jim
Comanche Territory
as Sam
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Rosco P. Coltrane
Peggy
as Frank Addison
The Battle at Apache Pass
as Cpl. Hassett
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Shock Corridor
as Stuart
Black Gold
as Jericho Larkin
Column South
as Primrose
The Quick Gun
as Scotty Wade
Kansas Raiders
as Cole Younger
First to Fight
as Sergeant Carnavan
Moondance Alexander
as McClancy
City of Bad Men
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
The Cimarron Kid
as Bitter Creek Dalton
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Target Unknown
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
The Raid
as Lt. Robinson
Cast a Long Shadow
as Sam Mullen
Steel Town
as Joe Rakich
The Naked and the Dead
as Rhidges
Francis Goes to West Point
as Corporal Ransom
Apache Drums
as Bert Keon
The Sweeter Side of Life
as Paddy Kerrigan
The Yellow Tomahawk
as Private Bliss
Black Spurs
as Ralph Elkins
Gaby
as Jim
One Way Street
as Driver (uncredited)
Last of the Badmen
as Ted Hamilton
They Rode West
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
Three on a Couch
as Dr. Ben Mizer
Verboten!
as Sgt. David Brent
The Savage Bees
as Pellegrino
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
as Kit Caswell
The Runaway Barge
as Bingo Washington
The Brain Machine
as Rev. Emory Neill
The Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
Flat Top
as Radio Operator
The Mountain Road
as Niergaard
I Was a Shoplifter
Aftermath
as Hardy Coulter
Return of the Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
Savages
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Return from the Sea
as Barr
Seven Angry Men
as Jason Brown
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
Hot Summer Night
as Kermit
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Marvin Johnson
Top of the World
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Riders to the Stars
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Calling Homicide
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Ode to Billy Joe
as Dewey Barksdale
Run, Simon, Run
as Henry Burroughs
Come Next Spring
as Bill Jackson
Man on the Prowl
as Doug Gerhardt
Death Mask
as Wilbur Johnson