From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJames 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. Bests 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).
Henry Burroughs
Film 1970
Stuart
Film 1963
Wilbur Johnson
Film 1998
Billy John
Film 1959
McClancy
Film 2007
Tom Folliard
Film 1958
Bitter Creek Dalton
Film 1952
Thorne Sherman
Film 1959
Rhidges
Film 1958
Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Film 1956
Millard Chilson Cassidy
Film 1956
Bert Keon
Film 1951
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 2002
Sgt. David Brent
Film 1959
Rev. Emory Neill
Film 1972
Cole Younger
Film 1950
Jim
Film 1956
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Film 1997
Kit Caswell
Film 1958
Film 1950
Thorne Sherman
Film 2012
Driver (uncredited)
Film 1950
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Film 1974
Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Film 1955
Pacemaker Patient
Film 1978
Jericho Larkin
Film 1962
Sgt. Ralph Phelps
Film 1951
Deputy Gig (uncredited)
Film 1953
Dewey Barksdale
Film 1976
Ted Hamilton
Film 1957
Dr. Ben Mizer
Film 1966
Sheriff Charlie Young
Film 1972
Cpl. Hassett
Film 1952
Hardy Coulter
Film 1960
Crewman (uncredited)
Film 1956
Lt. Robinson
Film 1954
Sergeant Carnavan
Film 1967
Bingo Washington
Film 1975
Ralph Elkins
Film 1965
Self
Film 2021
Barr
Film 1954
Thorne Sherman (archive footage)
Film 2004
Cpl. Ransom
Film 1952
Jason Brown
Film 1955
Primrose
Film 1953
Joe Rakich
Film 1952
Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Film 1954
Marvin Johnson
Film 1952
Pellegrino
Film 1976
Film 1953
Jim Lindsey
Tv 1960
Tv 1988
Tv 1962
Tv 1958
Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
Tv 1963
Tv 1955
Tv 1957
Tv 1996
Jeff Myrtlebank
Tv 1959
Sheriff John Early
Tv 1973
Tv 1964
Tv 1960
Tv 1968
Beal
Tv 1955
Allan Winford
Tv 1957
Trenton
Tv 1962
Hardy Coulter
Tv 1953
Tv 1959
Tv 1978
Tv 1951
Billy-Ben Turner
Tv 1959
Norman Frayne
Tv 1955
Tv 1963
Tv 1959
Tv 1966
Willie Cain
Tv 1959
Tv 1957
Jethro Wyatt
Tv 1964
Dan Murray
Tv 1963
Fred Morgan
Tv 1955
Curt Westley
Tv 1962
Tv 1968
Clem Wallace
Tv 1950
Tv 1956
Tv 1951
Tv 1950
Jack Milhoan
Tv 1957
Shag
Tv 1954
Tv 1959
Tv 1980
Tv 1958
Tv 1954
Ben Travers
Tv 1959
Tv 1959
Stoner
Tv 1958
Ted Evans
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Joe Best
Tv 1958
Tv 1961
Tv 1959
Tv 1967
Tv 1958
Tv 1960
Tv 1955
Tv 1974
Tv 1952
Vince Zale
Tv 1965
Tv 1957
Tv 1962
Boland
Tv 1959
Tv 1960
Tv 1954
Tv 2005
Tv 1955
Tv 1951
Bart Gentry
Tv 1960
Tv 1961
Jovan Wilanskov
Tv 1959
Tv 1952
Tv 1959
Tv 1960
Tv 1966
Webb
Tv 1958
Yale Barton
Tv 1966
Tv 1989
Joe
Tv 1960
Brock Quade
Tv 1959
Charlie Noon
Tv 1955
Harry
Tv 1952
Slate Morley
Tv 1952
Luke Perry
Tv 1958
Abel Waares
Tv 1959
Martin Potter
Tv 1957
Danny Dakota
Tv 1958
Hennessy
Tv 1955
Bish Darby
Tv 1955
Sheriff Vern Schaler
Tv 1959
Tom Carmody
Tv 1962