James Best
Birthday: 1926-07-26 | Place of Birth: Powderly, Kentucky, USAFrom 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).
Film
Jouer
Role
jouer Paddy Kerrigan
jouer Thorne Sherman
jouer Hank Larson
jouer McClancy
jouer Rosco P. Coltrane
jouer Wilbur Johnson
jouer Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
jouer Rosco P. Coltrane
jouer Sheriff Rosco Coltrane
jouer Cully
jouer Rev. Emory Neill
jouer Texan
jouer Sheriff Bert Hamilton
jouer Henry Burroughs
jouer Drew
jouer Sergeant Carnavan
jouer Dr. Ben Mizer
jouer Ralph Elkins
jouer Scotty Wade (listed as "Scotty Grant" in end credits but named "Scotty Wade" in the film)
jouer Stuart
jouer Jericho Larkin
jouer Niergaard
jouer Billy John
jouer Sam Mullen
jouer Sgt. David Brent
jouer Thorne Sherman
jouer Kit Caswell
jouer Rhidges
jouer Tom Folliard
jouer Kermit