8.0
8.0
Aftermath
1960
as Hardy Coulter
James Best
Acting
Born:July 26, 1926
Died:April 6, 2015(aged 88)
Birthplace:Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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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).
Filmography (69 movies)
7.9
7.9
First to Fight
1967
as Sergeant Carnavan
7.8
7.8
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
as Self (archive footage)
7.5
7.5
Sounder
1972
as Sheriff Charlie Young
7.3
7.3
Winchester '73
1950
as Crater
7.3
7.3
Forbidden Planet
1956
as Crewman (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Gaby
1956
as Jim
7.0
7.0
Shock Corridor
1963
as Stuart
6.9
6.9
Shenandoah
1965
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
6.8
6.8
Rolling Thunder
1977
as Texan
6.7
6.7
The Mountain Road
1960
as Niergaard
6.7
6.7
Ride Lonesome
1959
as Billy John
6.6
6.6
The Rack
1956
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
6.5
6.5
The Raid
1954
as Lt. Robinson
6.4
6.4
Verboten!
1959
as Sgt. David Brent
6.4
6.4
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
as Sam Mullen
6.4
6.4
They Rode West
1954
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
as Cpl. Hassett
6.3
6.3
Firecreek
1968
as Drew
6.3
6.3
The Quick Gun
1964
as Scotty Wade
6.3
6.3
Top of the World
1955
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Apache Drums
1951
as Bert Keon
6.3
6.3
Savages
1974
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
6.3
6.3
Hooper
1978
as Cully
6.2
6.2
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958
as Kit Caswell
6.2
6.2
Ode to Billy Joe
1976
as Dewey Barksdale
6.1
6.1
The Left Handed Gun
1958
as Tom Folliard
6.1
6.1
Black Spurs
1965
as Ralph Elkins
6.1
6.1
The Cimarron Kid
1952
as Bitter Creek Dalton
6.0
6.0
Steel Town
1952
as Joe Rakich
6.0
6.0
Column South
1953
as Primrose
6.0
6.0
The Yellow Tomahawk
1954
as Private Bliss
6.0
6.0
Moondance Alexander
2007
as McClancy
5.9
5.9
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000
as Rosco P. Coltrane
5.9
5.9
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
as Marvin Johnson
5.8
5.8
The Sweeter Side of Life
2013
as Paddy Kerrigan
5.8
5.8
Francis Goes to West Point
1952
as Corporal Ransom
5.8
5.8
City of Bad Men
1953
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
5.8
5.8
The Naked and the Dead
1958
as Rhidges
5.8
5.8
Kansas Raiders
1950
as Cole Younger
5.7
5.7
Last of the Badmen
1957
as Ted Hamilton
5.7
5.7
Calling Homicide
1956
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
5.6
5.6
Hot Summer Night
1957
as Kermit
5.6
5.6
Come Next Spring
1956
as Bill Jackson
5.5
5.5
The End
1978
as Pacemaker Patient
5.5
5.5
Riders to the Stars
1954
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
5.4
5.4
Seminole
1953
as Corp. Gerad
5.3
5.3
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012
Writer
5.3
5.3
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
5.3
5.3
Three on a Couch
1966
as Dr. Ben Mizer
5.2
5.2
Seven Angry Men
1955
as Jason Brown
5.2
5.2
One Way Street
1950
as Driver (uncredited)
5.2
5.2
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
5.0
5.0
Death Mask
1998
Writer
5.0
5.0
Air Cadet
1951
as Jerry Connell
5.0
5.0
The Savage Bees
1976
as Pellegrino
4.9
4.9
Hot Tamale
2006
as Hank Larson
4.9
4.9
Comanche Territory
1950
as Sam
4.7
4.7
Peggy
1950
as Frank Addison
4.7
4.7
Run, Simon, Run
1970
as Henry Burroughs
4.7
4.7
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
as Self
4.5
4.5
Return from the Sea
1954
as Barr
4.4
4.4
The Killer Shrews
1959
as Thorne Sherman
2.7
2.7
The Brain Machine
1972
as Rev. Emory Neill
2.3
2.3
Man on the Prowl
1957
as Doug Gerhardt
1.0
1.0
Black Gold
1962
as Jericho Larkin
The Runaway Barge
1975
as Bingo Washington
Target Unknown
1951
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
Skip Taylor
1953
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