James Best
Acting
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 the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
The Sweeter Side of Life
Paddy Kerrigan
Return of the Killer Shrews
Thorne Sherman
Moondance Alexander
McClancy
Hot Tamale
Hank Larson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Rosco P. Coltrane
Death Mask
Wilbur Johnson
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Hooper
Cully
The End
Pacemaker Patient
Rolling Thunder
Texan
Nickelodeon
Jim
The Savage Bees
Pellegrino
Ode to Billy Joe
Dewey Barksdale
The Runaway Barge
Bingo Washington
Savages
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Sounder
Sheriff Charlie Young
The Brain Machine
Rev. Emory Neill
Run, Simon, Run
Henry Burroughs
Firecreek
Drew
First to Fight
Sergeant Carnavan
Three on a Couch
Dr. Ben Mizer
Shenandoah
Carter, Rebel Soldier
Black Spurs
Ralph Elkins
The Quick Gun
Scotty Wade
Shock Corridor
Stuart
Black Gold
Jericho Larkin
The Mountain Road
Niergaard
Aftermath
Hardy Coulter
Cast a Long Shadow
Sam Mullen
The Killer Shrews
Thorne Sherman
Verboten!
Sgt. David Brent
Ride Lonesome
Billy John
The Naked and the Dead
Rhidges
The Left Handed Gun
Tom Folliard
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Kit Caswell
Man on the Prowl
Doug Gerhardt
Last of the Badmen
Ted Hamilton
Hot Summer Night
Kermit
The Rack
Millard Chilson Cassidy
Calling Homicide
Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Gaby
Jim
Forbidden Planet
Crewman (uncredited)
Come Next Spring
Bill Jackson
Top of the World
Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Seven Angry Men
Jason Brown
They Rode West
Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
The Raid
Lt. Robinson
Return from the Sea
Barr
The Caine Mutiny
Lt. JG Jorgensen
The Yellow Tomahawk
Private Bliss
Riders to the Stars
Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Skip Taylor
City of Bad Men
Deputy Gig (uncredited)
Column South
Primrose
Seminole
Corp. Gerad
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Marvin Johnson
Francis Goes to West Point
Corporal Ransom
Steel Town
Joe Rakich
The Battle at Apache Pass
Cpl. Hassett
The Cimarron Kid
Bitter Creek Dalton
Apache Drums
Bert Keon
Air Cadet
Jerry Connell
Target Unknown
Sgt. Ralph Phelps
Kansas Raiders
Cole Younger
Winchester '73
Crater
Peggy
Frank Addison
I Was a Shoplifter
Comanche Territory
Sam
One Way Street
Driver (uncredited)