James Best

My Stats

Total Watched: 0 / 23 (Ranked #0)

Average Grade: 0 (Ranked #0)

Top 250 Movies: 0

General Info

Date of Birth: 26/07/1926

Date of Death: 06/04/2015 (89 years old)

Place of Birth: Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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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).

Movies:

Director
0/3 (3 unseen)

Name Grade

The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)
(3 episodes) (Not seen)

The End (1978) (Not seen)

Gator (1976) (Not seen)

	Name	Grade
	The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) (3 episodes)	(Not seen)
	The End (1978)	(Not seen)
	Gator (1976)	(Not seen)

Actor

0/23 (23 unseen)

	Name	Grade
	Because This Is My First Life (2017) (AKA "이번 생은 처음이라") As Lt. Robinson	(Not seen)
	It Came from Hollywood (1982)	(Not seen)
	The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) As Rosco P. Coltrane (147 episodes)	(Not seen)
	The End (1978) As Pacemaker Patient	(Not seen)
	Rolling Thunder (1977) As Texan	(Not seen)
	Nickelodeon (1976) As Jim	(Not seen)
	The Savage Bees (1976) As Pellegrino	(Not seen)
	Ode to Billy Joe (1976) As Dewey Barksdale	(Not seen)
	Gator (1976)	(Not seen)
	Sounder (1972) As Sheriff Charlie Young	(Not seen)
	Shenandoah (1965) As Carter, Rebel Soldier	(Not seen)
	Flipper (1964) (1 episode)	(Not seen)
	The Fugitive (1963) As Dan Murray (1 episode)	(Not seen)
	Shock Corridor (1963) As Stuart	(Not seen)
	The Twilight Zone (1959) As Jeff Myrtlebank (3 episodes)	(Not seen)
	The Killer Shrews (1959) As Thorne Sherman	(Not seen)
	Ride Lonesome (1959) As Billy John	(Not seen)
	The Naked and the Dead (1958) As Rhidges	(Not seen)
	The Left Handed Gun (1958) As Tom Folliard	(Not seen)
	Forbidden Planet (1956) As Crewman (uncredited)	(Not seen)
	The Caine Mutiny (1954) (AKA "Authority and Rebellion") As Lt. JG Jorgensen	(Not seen)
	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) As Charlie - Radar Man	(Not seen)
	Winchester '73 (1950) As Crater	(Not seen)

Producer
0/1 (1 unseen)

Name Grade

The End (1978) (Not seen)