James Best
Acting
Born: 1926-07-26 · Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Died: 2015-04-06
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 unfamili
🎬 Movies (30)
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Self
The Sweeter Side of Life
2013
Paddy Kerrigan
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Self (archive footage)
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012
Thorne Sherman
Moondance Alexander
2007
McClancy
Hot Tamale
2006
Hank Larson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000
Rosco P. Coltrane
Death Mask
1998
Wilbur Johnson
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Hooper
1978
Cully
The End
1978
Pacemaker Patient
Rolling Thunder
1977
Texan
Nickelodeon
1976
Jim
Ode to Billy Joe
1976
Dewey Barksdale
The Savage Bees
1976
Pellegrino
Gator
1976
Production Assistant
The Runaway Barge
1975
Bingo Washington
Savages
1974
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
The Brain Machine
1972
Rev. Emory Neill
Sounder
1972
Sheriff Charlie Young
Run, Simon, Run
1970
Henry Burroughs
Firecreek
1968
Drew
First to Fight
1967
Sergeant Carnavan
Three on a Couch
1966
Dr. Ben Mizer
Shenandoah
1965
Carter, Rebel Soldier
Black Spurs
1965
Ralph Elkins
The Quick Gun
1964
Scotty Wade
Shock Corridor
1963
Stuart
Black Gold
1962
Jericho Larkin
📺 TV Shows (30)
CMT: Inside Fame
2005
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
B.L. Stryker
1989
In the Heat of the Night
1988
The Dukes
1983
Rosco Coltrane (voice)
Enos
1980
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979
Rosco P. Coltrane
Centennial
1978
The Manhunter
1974
Hawkins
1973
Sheriff John Early
Lancer
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
Clay Lynch
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Felony Squad
1966
Hawk
1966
The Green Hornet
1966
Yale Barton
Honey West
1965
Vince Zale
Flipper
1964
Daniel Boone
1964
Jethro Wyatt
Burke's Law
1963
Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
Redigo
1963
The Fugitive
1963
Dan Murray
Temple Houston
1963
Gotch
The Gallant Men
1962
Combat!
1962
Trenton
The Virginian
1962
Curt Westley
General Electric True
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Tom Carmody
Ben Casey
1961
Whispering Smith
1961