James Best [40185] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.2149 Birthplace: Powderly, Kentucky, USA Birthday: 1926-07-26 Deathday: 2015-04-06 Age: 88 years Movies: 72 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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 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). Hollywood in the2021-02-13 Gore Vidal: The 2013-08-04 The Sweeter Side2013-07-11 Return of the Ki2012-11-15 Moondance Alexan2007-04-22 Hot Tamale2006-04-23 The 50 Worst Mov2004-07-13 The Men Who Made2002-07-02 The Dukes of Haz2000-06-05 Death Mask1998-01-01 The Dukes of Haz1997-04-25 Hooper1978-07-28 The End1978-05-10 Rolling Thunder1977-11-02 Nickelodeon1976-12-21 The Savage Bees1976-11-22 Ode to Billy Joe1976-06-04 Savages1974-09-11 Sounder1972-09-24 The Brain Machin1972-01-01 Run, Simon, Run1970-12-01 Firecreek1968-01-24 First to Fight1967-01-25 Three on a Couch1966-03-01 Shenandoah1965-06-03 Black Spurs1965-05-28 The Quick Gun1964-04-01 Shock Corridor1963-09-25 Black Gold1962-07-21 The Mountain Roa1960-06-15 Aftermath1960-04-17 Cast a Long Shad1959-08-24 The Killer Shrew1959-06-25 Verboten!1959-03-25 Ride Lonesome1959-02-01 The Naked and th1958-08-06 The Left Handed 1958-04-30 Cole Younger, Gu1958-03-30 Man on the Prowl1957-12-01 Last of the Badm1957-02-17 Hot Summer Night1957-02-15 The Rack1956-11-02 Calling Homicide1956-09-30 Gaby1956-05-09 Forbidden Planet1956-03-23 Come Next Spring1956-03-09 Top of the World1955-05-01 Seven Angry Men1955-03-27 They Rode West1954-12-04 The Raid1954-08-04 Return from the 1954-07-28 The Caine Mutiny1954-06-24 The Yellow Tomah1954-05-01 Riders to the St1954-01-14 Skip Taylor1953-12-16 City of Bad Men1953-09-11 Column South1953-05-20 Seminole1953-03-20 Ma and Pa Kettle1952-07-11 Francis Goes to 1952-07-01 Steel Town1952-05-09 The Battle at Ap1952-05-09 The Cimarron Kid1952-01-13 Apache Drums1951-04-01 Air Cadet1951-03-14 Target Unknown1951-02-08 Kansas Raiders1950-11-15 Peggy1950-07-01 Winchester '731950-07-12 I Was a Shoplift1950-05-13 Comanche Territo1950-05-01 One Way Street1950-04-01