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).

Фільмографія

• 2013The Sweeter Side of Life — Paddy Kerrigan
• 2012Return of the Killer Shrews — Thorne Sherman, Writer
• 2007Moondance Alexander — McClancy
• 2006Гаряча Тамале — Hank Larson
• CMT: Inside Fame
• 2002The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2000The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood — Rosco P. Coltrane
• 1997The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! — Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1995Death Mask — Wilbur Johnson, Writer
• B.L. Stryker
• In the Heat of the Night
• The Dukes — Rosco Coltrane (voice)
• Enos
• The Dukes of Hazzard — Rosco P. Coltrane, Director
• Centennial
• 1978Hooper — Cully, Co-Writer
• 1978The End — Pacemaker Patient, Associate Producer
• 1977Rolling Thunder — Texan
• 1977The Savage Bees — Pellegrino
• 1976Gator — Production Assistant
• 1976Nickelodeon — Jim
• 1976Ode to Billy Joe — Dewey Barksdale
• 1975The Runaway Barge — Bingo Washington
• 1974Savages — Sheriff Bert Hamilton
• The Manhunter
• Hawkins — Sheriff John Early
• 1972Sounder — Sheriff Charlie Young
• 1972The Brain Machine — Rev. Emory Neill
• 1970Run, Simon, Run — Henry Burroughs
• 1968Firecreek — Drew
• Lancer
• The Mod Squad — Clay Lynch
• 1967First to Fight — Sergeant Carnavan
• The Guns of Will Sonnett
• Felony Squad
• Hawk
• 1966Three on a Couch — Dr. Ben Mizer
• Зелений Шершень — Yale Barton
• 1965Black Spurs — Ralph Elkins
• Honey West — Vince Zale
• 1965Shenandoah — Carter, Rebel Soldier
• Daniel Boone — Jethro Wyatt
• 1964The Quick Gun — Scotty Wade
• Фліппер
• Burke's Law — Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
• Redigo
• 1963Shock Corridor — Stuart
• Temple Houston — Gotch
• The Fugitive — Dan Murray
• 1962Black Gold — Jericho Larkin
• Combat! — Trenton
• General Electric True
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Tom Carmody
• The Gallant Men
• The Virginian — Curt Westley
• Ben Casey
• Whispering Smith
• 1960Aftermath — Hardy Coulter
• Michael Shayne
• Overland Trail
• Pony Express — Bart Gentry
• Stagecoach West
• Surfside 6
• The Andy Griffith Show — Jim Lindsey
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show — Joe
• 1960The Mountain Road — Niergaard
• Black Saddle — Ben Travers
• Bonanza — Sheriff Vern Schaler
• 1959Cast a Long Shadow — Sam Mullen
• Hawaiian Eye
• Laramie
• Lock-Up
• Men Into Space
• Rawhide — Willie Cain, Brock Quade
• 1959Ride Lonesome — Billy John
• Startime — Duke
• The David Niven Show — Boland
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — Jovan Wilanskov
• 1959The Killer Shrews — Thorne Sherman
• The Man and the Challenge
• The Rebel — Ted Evans, Abel Waares
• 1959Verboten! — Sgt. David Brent
• Сутінкова зона — Jeff Myrtlebank, Billy-Ben Turner
• 77 Sunset Strip
• Bat Masterson — Joe Best, Danny Dakota
• Behind Closed Doors — Webb
• Bronco
• 1958Cole Younger, Gunfighter — Kit Caswell
• 1958The Left Handed Gun — Tom Folliard
• 1958The Naked and the Dead — Rhidges
• The Rifleman
• The Texan
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Stoner, Luke Perry
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• 1957Hot Summer Night — Kermit
• 1957Last of the Badmen — Ted Hamilton
• 1957Man on the Prowl — Doug Gerhardt
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective — Jack Milhoan
• Tombstone Territory
• Trackdown
• Перрі Мейсон — Allan Winford, Martin Potter
• 1956Calling Homicide — Det. Arnie Arnhoff
• 1956Come Next Spring — Bill Jackson
• 1956Gaby — Jim
• 1956The Rack — Millard Chilson Cassidy
• West Point
• 1956Заборонена планета — Crewman (uncredited)
• Buffalo Bill Jr.
• Cheyenne
• Frontier
• 1955Seven Angry Men — Jason Brown
• The Millionaire — Fred Morgan
• 1955Top of the World — Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
• Альфред Гічкок представляє — Norman Frayne, Hennessy, Bish Darby
• Дим зі ствола — Beal, Charlie Noon
• Climax! — Shag
• 1954Return from the Sea — Barr
• 1954Riders to the Stars — Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
• Stories of the Century
• The Lineup
• 1954The Raid — Lt. Robinson
• 1954The Yellow Tomahawk — Private Bliss
• 1954They Rode West — Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
• 1954Заколот на "Кейні" — Lt. JG Jorgensen
• 1953City of Bad Men — Deputy Gig (uncredited)
• 1953Column South — Primrose
• General Electric Theater — Hardy Coulter
• 1953Seminole — Corp. Gerad
• 1953Skip Taylor
• Cavalcade of America — Harry, Slate Morley
• 1952Flat Top — Radio Operator
• 1952Francis Goes to West Point — Corporal Ransom
• Hopalong Cassidy
• 1952Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair — Marvin Johnson
• 1952Steel Town — Joe Rakich
• 1952The Battle at Apache Pass — Cpl. Hassett
• 1952The Cimarron Kid — Bitter Creek Dalton
• 1951Air Cadet — Jerry Connell
• 1951Apache Drums — Bert Keon
• Hallmark Hall of Fame
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
• 1951Target Unknown — Sgt. Ralph Phelps
• The Adventures of Kit Carson
• 1950Comanche Territory — Sam
• 1950I Was a Shoplifter
• 1950Kansas Raiders — Cole Younger
• Lux Video Theatre — Clem Wallace
• 1950One Way Street — Driver (uncredited)
• 1950Peggy — Frank Addison
• The Gene Autry Show
• 1950Winchester '73 — Crater

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2021Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! — Self
• 2013Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia — Self (archive footage)