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).
★4.9
MOVIE2006
Hot Tamale
as Hank Larson
★7.2
MOVIE1956
Forbidden Planet
as Crewman (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1954
The Caine Mutiny
as Lt. JG Jorgensen
★6.7
MOVIE1959
Verboten!
as Sgt. David Brent
★7.3
MOVIE1950
Winchester '73
as Crater
★6.8
MOVIE1977
Rolling Thunder
as Texan
★6.7
MOVIE1959
Ride Lonesome
as Billy John
★6.2
MOVIE1976
Nickelodeon
as Jim
★6.3
MOVIE1978
Hooper
as Cully
★7.5
MOVIE1972
Sounder
as Sheriff Charlie Young
★5.7
MOVIE1957
Hot Summer Night
as Kermit
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Kansas Raiders
as Cole Younger
★6.3
MOVIE1968
Firecreek
as Drew
★6.9
MOVIE1965
Shenandoah
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
★6.6
MOVIE1954
The Yellow Tomahawk
as Private Bliss
★6.2
MOVIE1953
City of Bad Men
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1958
The Naked and the Dead
as Rhidges
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Shock Corridor
as Stuart
★6.6
MOVIE1960
The Mountain Road
as Niergaard
★6.1
MOVIE1952
The Cimarron Kid
as Bitter Creek Dalton
★5.6
MOVIE1978
The End
as Pacemaker Patient
★6.0
MOVIE1958
The Left Handed Gun
as Tom Folliard
★6.4
MOVIE1964
The Quick Gun
as Scotty Wade
★6.6
MOVIE1956
The Rack
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
MOVIE1975
The Runaway Barge
as Bingo Washington
★6.5
MOVIE1954
The Raid
as Lt. Robinson
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Top of the World
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE2000
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Rosco P. Coltrane
★6.0
MOVIE2007
Moondance Alexander
as McClancy
★5.9
MOVIE1954
Riders to the Stars
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
★5.4
MOVIE1966
Three on a Couch
as Dr. Ben Mizer
★4.5
MOVIE1959
The Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
★5.3
MOVIE1950
One Way Street
as Driver (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE2012
Return of the Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
★5.3
MOVIE1976
The Savage Bees
as Pellegrino
★6.5
MOVIE1954
They Rode West
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE2013
The Sweeter Side of Life
as Paddy Kerrigan
★5.8
MOVIE1950
I Was a Shoplifter
★7.9
MOVIE1967
First to Fight
as Sergeant Carnavan
★6.0
MOVIE1955
Seven Angry Men
as Jason Brown
★6.3
MOVIE1965
Black Spurs
as Ralph Elkins
★6.3
MOVIE1951
Apache Drums
as Bert Keon
★3.2
MOVIE1972
The Brain Machine
as Rev. Emory Neill
★6.6
MOVIE1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
as Kit Caswell
★5.4
MOVIE1997
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
★7.7
MOVIE2013
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
★5.4
MOVIE1970
Run, Simon, Run
as Henry Burroughs
★4.6
MOVIE1952
Flat Top
as Radio Operator
★5.0
MOVIE1950
Comanche Territory
as Sam
★7.3
MOVIE1956
Gaby
as Jim
★5.7
MOVIE1951
Air Cadet
as Jerry Connell
★5.8
MOVIE2002
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1952
Francis Goes to West Point
as Corporal Ransom
★6.6
MOVIE1952
The Battle at Apache Pass
as Cpl. Hassett
★6.1
MOVIE1956
Calling Homicide
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
★6.6
MOVIE1959
Cast a Long Shadow
as Sam Mullen
★5.6
MOVIE1995
Death Mask
as Wilbur Johnson
★6.1
MOVIE1976
Ode to Billy Joe
as Dewey Barksdale
★5.6
MOVIE1953
Seminole
as Corp. Gerad
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Column South
as Primrose
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Marvin Johnson
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Target Unknown
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
★6.5
MOVIE1974
Savages
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Peggy
as Frank Addison
★6.8
MOVIE1957
Last of the Badmen
as Ted Hamilton
★5.9
MOVIE1956
Come Next Spring
as Bill Jackson
★4.7
MOVIE2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1954
Return from the Sea
as Barr
★9.0
MOVIE1953
Skip Taylor
★3.5
MOVIE1957
Man on the Prowl
as Doug Gerhardt
★4.5
MOVIE1962
Black Gold
as Jericho Larkin
★8.0
MOVIE1960
Aftermath
as Hardy Coulter
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Steel Town
as Joe Rakich