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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).
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1926-07-26
- event Death Date 2015-04-06
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 13.1
- info Birth Place Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by James Best
5.4
Hot Tamale
2006-04-23
6.4
Firecreek
1968-01-24
5.2
Run, Simon, Run
1970-12-01
6.8
Shenandoah
1965-06-03
6.9
Rolling Thunder
1977-11-02
7
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
6.3
Death Mask
1998-01-01
6.6
Ride Lonesome
1959-02-01
6
Moondance Alexander
2007-04-22
7.3
Winchester '73
1950-07-12
6
The Left Handed Gun
1958-05-07
6.1
The Cimarron Kid
1952-01-13
4.4
The Killer Shrews
1959-06-25
5.9
The Naked and the Dead
1958-08-06
6.3
Hooper
1978-07-28
5.2
Seminole
1953-03-20
5.6
Calling Homicide
1956-09-30
6.6
The Rack
1956-11-02
6.2
Apache Drums
1951-04-01
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02
6.4
Verboten!
1959-03-25
2.9
The Brain Machine
1972-01-01
4.8
Comanche Territory
1950-05-01
5.6
Hot Summer Night
1957-02-15
5.9
Kansas Raiders
1950-11-15
6.3
The Mountain Road
1960-06-15
6.1
The Quick Gun
1964-04-01
7
Gaby
1956-05-09
5.4
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997-04-25
5.9
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000-06-05
2.3
Man on the Prowl
1957-12-01
6.2
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958-03-30
5.3
I Was a Shoplifter
1950-05-13
5.4
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012-11-15
5.2
One Way Street
1950-04-01
6
Nickelodeon
1976-12-21
6.4
Savages
1974-09-11
6.4
Cast a Long Shadow
1959-08-24
6.3
Top of the World
1955-05-01
5.8
The Sweeter Side of Life
2013-07-11
5.4
The End
1978-05-10
1
Black Gold
1962-07-21
0
Target Unknown
1951-02-08
5.8
City of Bad Men
1953-09-11
6.4
Ode to Billy Joe
1976-06-04
6
Come Next Spring
1956-03-09
5
Last of the Badmen
1957-02-17
5.4
Three on a Couch
1966-03-01
5
Air Cadet
1951-03-14
7.5
Sounder
1972-09-24
6.3
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952-05-09
8
Aftermath
1960-04-17
7.3
Forbidden Planet
1956-03-23
6.5
The Raid
1954-08-04
7.8
First to Fight
1967-01-25
0
The Runaway Barge
1975-03-24
6
Black Spurs
1965-05-28
6
The Yellow Tomahawk
1954-05-01
4
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021-02-13
7.2
The Caine Mutiny
1954-06-24
4.5
Return from the Sea
1954-07-28
4.7
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004-07-13
5.8
Francis Goes to West Point
1952-07-01
4.7
Peggy
1950-07-01
5.2
Seven Angry Men
1955-03-27
6
Column South
1953-05-20
6
Steel Town
1952-05-09
5.6
Riders to the Stars
1954-01-14
5.9
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952-07-11
4.9
The Savage Bees
1976-11-22
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-10-03
7.5
In the Heat of the Night
1988-03-06
6
The Gallant Men
1962-10-05
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
6
Burke's Law
1963-09-20
5.8
Cheyenne
1955-09-20
6.5
Trackdown
1957-10-04
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21
8.4
The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02
7.2
Hawkins
1973-03-13
6.2
Flipper
1964-09-19
5
Surfside 6
1960-10-06
6.5
The Mod Squad
1968-09-24
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
7.7
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
7.6
Combat!
1962-10-02
5.5
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01
5
Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07
7.7
Centennial
1978-10-01
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
8.4
The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
5
Redigo
1963-09-24
0
The Man and the Challenge
1959-09-12
7
Felony Squad
1966-09-12
7
Rawhide
1959-01-09
7.4
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14
6.9
Daniel Boone
1964-09-24
3.7
The Dukes
1983-02-05
7.3
The Fugitive
1963-09-17
5
The Millionaire
1955-01-19
6.5
The Virginian
1962-09-19
4.7
Lancer
1968-09-24
5.5
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
5
West Point
1956-10-05
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
4.8
The Gene Autry Show
1950-07-23
6
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01
2.7
Climax!
1954-10-07
7
Men into Space
1959-09-30
6
Enos
1980-11-12
4.8
Bronco
1958-09-23
5
The Lineup
1954-10-01
5.7
Black Saddle
1959-01-10
6.2
Lock-Up
1959-09-28
6.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06
5.3
The Rebel
1959-10-04
7
The Rifleman
1958-09-30
6.4
Bat Masterson
1958-10-08
5.7
Ben Casey
1961-10-02
6.5
Laramie
1959-09-15
5.7
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967-09-08
5.5
The Texan
1958-09-29
6
Stagecoach West
1960-10-04
5
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955-03-01
5
The Manhunter
1974-09-11
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01
7
Honey West
1965-09-17
6.4
Tombstone Territory
1957-10-16
0
General Electric True
1962-09-30
0
The David Niven Show
1959-04-07
5.3
Overland Trail
1960-02-07
5.7
Stories of the Century
1954-01-23
7
CMT: Inside Fame
2005-05-13
5
Frontier
1955-09-25
5.3
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951-08-11
6.5
Pony Express
1960-03-09
5.3
Whispering Smith
1961-05-08
6.3
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959-09-21
6
Hopalong Cassidy
1952-09-19
6
Startime
1959-10-06
5
Michael Shayne
1960-09-30
0
Hawk
1966-09-08
0
Behind Closed Doors
1958-10-02
7.1
The Green Hornet
1966-09-09
6
B.L. Stryker
1989-02-13
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960-09-19
7.3
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979-01-26
7
Rawhide
1959-01-09
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01
6.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06
5.3
The Rebel
1959-10-04
7.7
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
6.4
Bat Masterson
1958-10-08
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.5
Bonanza
1959-09-12
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20
