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The Sweeter Side of Life

as Paddy Kerrigan

2013
Return of the Killer Shrews

as Thorne Sherman

2012
Moondance Alexander

as McClancy

2007
Hot Tamale

as Hank Larson

2006
Death Mask

as Wilbur Johnson

1998
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane

1997
Hooper

as Cully

1978
Rolling Thunder

as Texan

1977
The Brain Machine

as Rev. Emory Neill

1972
The Savage Bees

as Pellegrino

1976
Savages

as Sheriff Bert Hamilton

1974
Run, Simon, Run

as Henry Burroughs

1970
Firecreek

as Drew

1968
First to Fight

as Sergeant Carnavan

1967
Three on a Couch

as Dr. Ben Mizer

1966
Black Spurs

as Ralph Elkins

1965
The Quick Gun

as Scotty Wade

1964
Shock Corridor

as Stuart

1963
Black Gold

as Jericho Larkin

1962
The Mountain Road

as Niergaard

1960
Ride Lonesome

as Billy John

1959
The Killer Shrews

as Thorne Sherman

1959
Verboten!

as Sgt. David Brent

1959
Cast a Long Shadow

as Sam Mullen

1959
The Naked and the Dead

as Rhidges

1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter

as Kit Caswell

1958
Hot Summer Night

as Kermit

1957
James Best James Best

Birthday

1926-07-26

Place of Birth

Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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).
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