James Best

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 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: Acting
Birthday: 1926-07-26
Place of Birth: Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As: Jewel Franklin Guy, James K. Best, Jimmy Best, Jim Best

Movies List of James Best

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Hot Tamale

2006 Movie
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Firecreek

1968 Movie
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Run, Simon, Run

1970 Movie
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Shenandoah

1965 Movie
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Rolling Thunder

1977 Movie
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Shock Corridor

1963 Movie
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Death Mask

1998 Movie
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Ride Lonesome

1959 Movie
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Moondance Alexander

2007 Movie
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Winchester '73

1950 Movie
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The Left Handed Gun

1958 Movie
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The Cimarron Kid

1952 Movie
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The Killer Shrews

1959 Movie
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Hooper

1978 Movie
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Seminole

1953 Movie
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Calling Homicide

1956 Movie
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The Rack

1956 Movie
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Apache Drums

1951 Movie
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Verboten!

1959 Movie
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The Brain Machine

1972 Movie
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Comanche Territory

1950 Movie
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Hot Summer Night

1957 Movie
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Kansas Raiders

1950 Movie
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The Mountain Road

1960 Movie
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The Quick Gun

1964 Movie
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Gaby

1956 Movie
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Man on the Prowl

1957 Movie
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I Was a Shoplifter

1950 Movie
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One Way Street

1950 Movie
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Nickelodeon

1976 Movie
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Savages

1974 Movie
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Cast a Long Shadow

1959 Movie
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Top of the World

1955 Movie
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The End

1978 Movie
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Black Gold

1962 Movie
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Target Unknown

1951 Movie
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City of Bad Men

1953 Movie
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Ode to Billy Joe

1976 Movie
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Come Next Spring

1956 Movie
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Last of the Badmen

1957 Movie
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Three on a Couch

1966 Movie
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Air Cadet

1951 Movie
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Sounder

1972 Movie
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Aftermath

1960 Movie
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Forbidden Planet

1956 Movie
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The Raid

1954 Movie
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First to Fight

1967 Movie
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The Runaway Barge

1975 Movie
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Black Spurs

1965 Movie
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The Yellow Tomahawk

1954 Movie
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The Caine Mutiny

1954 Movie
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Return from the Sea

1954 Movie
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Peggy

1950 Movie
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Seven Angry Men

1955 Movie
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Column South

1953 Movie
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Steel Town

1952 Movie
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Riders to the Stars

1954 Movie
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The Savage Bees

1976 Movie