James Best
Known for Acting · 152 credits
- Born
- 1926-07-26
- Died
- 2015-04-06
- Place of birth
- Powderly, Kentucky, USA
- Also known as
- Jewel Franklin Guy · James K. Best · Jimmy Best · Jim 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).
Known For
TV Shows (79)
Perry Mason
1957
as Allan Winford / Martin Potter
Bonanza
1959
as Sheriff Vern Schaler
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Jim Lindsey
The Fugitive
1963
as Dan Murray
The Rifleman
1958
The Virginian
1962
as Curt Westley
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Jeff Myrtlebank / Billy-Ben Turner
Climax!
1954
as Shag
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Tom Carmody
Combat!
1962
as Trenton
Ben Casey
1961
Rawhide
1959
as Willie Cain / Brock Quade
Daniel Boone
1964
as Jethro Wyatt
Cheyenne
1955
Burke's Law
1963
as Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Stoner / Luke Perry
Gunsmoke
1955
as Beal / Charlie Noon
Bat Masterson
1958
as Joe Best / Danny Dakota
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979
as Rosco P. Coltrane
Hawaiian Eye
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958
In the Heat of the Night
1988
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Jack Milhoan
The Rebel
1959
as Ted Evans / Abel Waares
Surfside 6
1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Norman Frayne / Hennessy / Bish Darby
The Millionaire
1955
as Fred Morgan
Lancer
1968
Laramie
1959
The Texan
1958
Felony Squad
1966
Trackdown
1957
The Mod Squad
1968
as Clay Lynch
The Gene Autry Show
1950
Flipper
1964
Bronco
1958
Lock-Up
1959
Startime
1959
as Duke
Black Saddle
1959
as Ben Travers
Honey West
1965
as Vince Zale
Cavalcade of America
1952
as Harry / Slate Morley
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Tombstone Territory
1957
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Joe
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Clem Wallace
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Jovan Wilanskov
The Green Hornet
1966
as Yale Barton
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
Stagecoach West
1960
Hawkins
1973
as Sheriff John Early
Centennial
1978
Behind Closed Doors
1958
as Webb
Frontier
1955
The Gallant Men
1962
Men Into Space
1959
The Manhunter
1974
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Stories of the Century
1954
Movies (73)
Forbidden Planet
1956
as Crewman (uncredited)
The Caine Mutiny
1954
as Lt. JG Jorgensen
Air Cadet
1951
as Jerry Connell
Peggy
1950
as Frank Addison
Winchester '73
1950
as Crater
Rolling Thunder
1977
as Texan
Black Gold
1962
as Jericho Larkin
Apache Drums
1951
as Bert Keon
Hooper
1978
as Cully
Shenandoah
1965
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
Hot Tamale
2006
as Hank Larson
Calling Homicide
1956
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Firecreek
1968
as Drew
Sounder
1972
as Sheriff Charlie Young
Seminole
1953
as Corp. Gerad
The End
1978
as Pacemaker Patient
Nickelodeon
1976
as Jim
Ride Lonesome
1959
as Billy John
The Rack
1956
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
Shock Corridor
1963
as Stuart
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
as Self
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000
as Rosco P. Coltrane
Target Unknown
1951
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
The Left Handed Gun
1958
as Tom Folliard
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
as Sam Mullen
Comanche Territory
1950
as Sam
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Moondance Alexander
2007
as McClancy
Black Spurs
1965
as Ralph Elkins
Column South
1953
as Primrose
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kansas Raiders
1950
as Cole Younger
First to Fight
1967
as Sergeant Carnavan
The Killer Shrews
1959
as Thorne Sherman
The Quick Gun
1964
as Scotty Wade
Ode to Billy Joe
1976
as Dewey Barksdale
Francis Goes to West Point
1952
as Corporal Ransom
Return from the Sea
1954
as Barr
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
as Cpl. Hassett
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012
as Thorne Sherman
The Savage Bees
1976
as Pellegrino
The Naked and the Dead
1958
as Rhidges
One Way Street
1950
as Driver (uncredited)
The Cimarron Kid
1952
as Bitter Creek Dalton
The Mountain Road
1960
as Niergaard
They Rode West
1954
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958
as Kit Caswell
The Raid
1954
as Lt. Robinson
City of Bad Men
1953
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
Verboten!
1959
as Sgt. David Brent
The Yellow Tomahawk
1954
as Private Bliss
Gaby
1956
as Jim
Three on a Couch
1966
as Dr. Ben Mizer
Flat Top
1952
as Radio Operator
Steel Town
1952
as Joe Rakich
Last of the Badmen
1957
as Ted Hamilton
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Top of the World
1955
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
as Marvin Johnson
The Runaway Barge
1975
as Bingo Washington
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
The Sweeter Side of Life
2013
as Paddy Kerrigan
Savages
1974
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Seven Angry Men
1955
as Jason Brown
Hot Summer Night
1957
as Kermit
Run, Simon, Run
1970
as Henry Burroughs
The Brain Machine
1972
as Rev. Emory Neill
Riders to the Stars
1954
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Aftermath
1960
as Hardy Coulter
Death Mask
1998
as Wilbur Johnson
Come Next Spring
1956
as Bill Jackson
Man on the Prowl
1957
as Doug Gerhardt
Skip Taylor
1953
About 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 an… With 152 credits spanning from 1950 to 2021, James Best has appeared in 73 films and 79 TV shows.
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- The Caine Mutiny (1954) — as Lt. JG Jorgensen
- Air Cadet (1951) — as Jerry Connell
- Peggy (1950) — as Frank Addison
- Winchester '73 (1950) — as Crater
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