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).

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Poster movie Hot Tamale

Hot Tamale

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Poster movie Firecreek

Firecreek

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Poster movie Shenandoah

Shenandoah

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Poster movie Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

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Poster movie Winchester '73

Winchester '73

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Poster movie Hooper

Hooper

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Poster movie Seminole

Seminole

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Poster movie Comanche Territory

Comanche Territory

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Poster movie Hot Summer Night

Hot Summer Night

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Poster movie The Mountain Road

The Mountain Road

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Poster movie The Quick Gun

The Quick Gun

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Poster movie The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood

The Dukes of Hazzard: Haz

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Poster movie Man on the Prowl

Man on the Prowl

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Poster movie Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon

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Poster movie Cast a Long Shadow

Cast a Long Shadow

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Poster movie The Sweeter Side of Life

The Sweeter Side of Life

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Poster movie Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring

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Poster movie Air Cadet

Air Cadet

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Poster movie The Yellow Tomahawk

The Yellow Tomahawk

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Poster movie The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny

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Poster movie Peggy

Peggy

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Poster movie The Dukes

The Dukes

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Poster movie The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard

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Movies unavailable from James Best

Run, Simon, Run

Henry Burroughs

Movie 1970

Shock Corridor

Stuart

Movie 1963

Death Mask

Wilbur Johnson

Movie 1998

Ride Lonesome

Billy John

Movie 1959

Moondance Alexander

McClancy

Movie 2007

The Left Handed Gun

Tom Folliard

Movie 1958

The Cimarron Kid

Bitter Creek Dalton

Movie 1952

The Killer Shrews

Thorne Sherman

Movie 1959

The Naked and the Dead

Rhidges

Movie 1958

Calling Homicide

Det. Arnie Arnhoff

Movie 1956

The Rack

Millard Chilson Cassidy

Movie 1956

Apache Drums

Bert Keon

Movie 1951

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie 2002

Verboten!

Sgt. David Brent

Movie 1959

The Brain Machine

Rev. Emory Neill

Movie 1972

Kansas Raiders

Cole Younger

Movie 1950

Gaby

Jim

Movie 1956

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane

Movie 1997

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Kit Caswell

Movie 1958

I Was a Shoplifter

Movie 1950

Return of the Killer Shrews

Thorne Sherman

Movie 2012

One Way Street

Driver (uncredited)

Movie 1950

Savages

Sheriff Bert Hamilton

Movie 1974

Top of the World

Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)

Movie 1955

The End

Pacemaker Patient

Movie 1978

Black Gold

Jericho Larkin

Movie 1962

Target Unknown

Sgt. Ralph Phelps

Movie 1951

City of Bad Men

Deputy Gig (uncredited)

Movie 1953

Ode to Billy Joe

Dewey Barksdale

Movie 1976

Last of the Badmen

Ted Hamilton

Movie 1957

Three on a Couch

Dr. Ben Mizer

Movie 1966

Sounder

Sheriff Charlie Young

Movie 1972

The Battle at Apache Pass

Cpl. Hassett

Movie 1952

Aftermath

Hardy Coulter

Movie 1960

Forbidden Planet

Crewman (uncredited)

Movie 1956

The Raid

Lt. Robinson

Movie 1954

First to Fight

Sergeant Carnavan

Movie 1967

The Runaway Barge

Bingo Washington

Movie 1975

Black Spurs

Ralph Elkins

Movie 1965

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

Self

Movie 2021

Return from the Sea

Barr

Movie 1954

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

Thorne Sherman (archive footage)

Movie 2004

Francis Goes to West Point

Cpl. Ransom

Movie 1952

Seven Angry Men

Jason Brown

Movie 1955

Column South

Primrose

Movie 1953

Steel Town

Joe Rakich

Movie 1952

Riders to the Stars

Dr. Sidney K. Fuller

Movie 1954

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Marvin Johnson

Movie 1952

The Savage Bees

Pellegrino

Movie 1976

Skip Taylor

Movie 1953

Tv series unavailable from James Best

The Andy Griffith Show

Jim Lindsey

Tv 1960

In the Heat of the Night

Tv 1988

The Gallant Men

Tv 1962

77 Sunset Strip

Tv 1958

Burke's Law

Tucson, 'The Cowboy'

Tv 1963

Cheyenne

Tv 1955

Trackdown

Tv 1957

E! True Hollywood Story

Tv 1996

The Twilight Zone

Jeff Myrtlebank

Tv 1959

Hawkins

Sheriff John Early

Tv 1973

Flipper

Tv 1964

Surfside 6

Tv 1960

The Mod Squad

Tv 1968

Gunsmoke

Beal

Tv 1955

Perry Mason

Allan Winford

Tv 1957

Combat!

Trenton

Tv 1962

General Electric Theater

Hardy Coulter

Tv 1953

Hawaiian Eye

Tv 1959

Centennial

Tv 1978

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Tv 1951

The Twilight Zone

Billy-Ben Turner

Tv 1959

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Norman Frayne

Tv 1955

Redigo

Tv 1963

The Man and the Challenge

Tv 1959

Felony Squad

Tv 1966

Rawhide

Willie Cain

Tv 1959

Have Gun, Will Travel

Tv 1957

Daniel Boone

Jethro Wyatt

Tv 1964

The Fugitive

Dan Murray

Tv 1963

The Millionaire

Fred Morgan

Tv 1955

The Virginian

Curt Westley

Tv 1962

Lancer

Tv 1968

Lux Video Theatre

Clem Wallace

Tv 1950

West Point

Tv 1956

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Tv 1951

The Gene Autry Show

Tv 1950

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Jack Milhoan

Tv 1957

Climax!

Shag

Tv 1954

Men into Space

Tv 1959

Enos

Tv 1980

Bronco

Tv 1958

The Lineup

Tv 1954

Black Saddle

Ben Travers

Tv 1959

Lock-Up

Tv 1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Stoner

Tv 1958

The Rebel

Ted Evans

Tv 1959

The Rifleman

Tv 1958

Bat Masterson

Joe Best

Tv 1958

Ben Casey

Tv 1961

Laramie

Tv 1959

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Tv 1967

The Texan

Tv 1958

Stagecoach West

Tv 1960

Buffalo Bill Jr.

Tv 1955

The Manhunter

Tv 1974

Cavalcade of America

Tv 1952

Honey West

Vince Zale

Tv 1965

Tombstone Territory

Tv 1957

General Electric True

Tv 1962

The David Niven Show

Boland

Tv 1959

Overland Trail

Tv 1960

Stories of the Century

Tv 1954

CMT: Inside Fame

Tv 2005

Frontier

Tv 1955

The Adventures of Kit Carson

Tv 1951

Pony Express

Bart Gentry

Tv 1960

Whispering Smith

Tv 1961

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Jovan Wilanskov

Tv 1959

Hopalong Cassidy

Tv 1952

Startime

Tv 1959

Michael Shayne

Tv 1960

Hawk

Tv 1966

Behind Closed Doors

Webb

Tv 1958

The Green Hornet

Yale Barton

Tv 1966

B.L. Stryker

Tv 1989

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Joe

Tv 1960

Rawhide

Brock Quade

Tv 1959

Gunsmoke

Charlie Noon

Tv 1955

Cavalcade of America

Harry

Tv 1952

Cavalcade of America

Slate Morley

Tv 1952

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Luke Perry

Tv 1958

The Rebel

Abel Waares

Tv 1959

Perry Mason

Martin Potter

Tv 1957

Bat Masterson

Danny Dakota

Tv 1958

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Hennessy

Tv 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Bish Darby

Tv 1955

Bonanza

Sheriff Vern Schaler

Tv 1959

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Tom Carmody

Tv 1962