James Best
Birthday
1926/07/26
Day of death
2015/04/06 (88 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Also know as
Jewel Franklin Guy, James K. Best, Jimmy Best, Jim Best
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 unfamili...Read more
Acting
(2006) Hot Tamale
as Hank Larson
(1968) Firecreek
as Drew
(1970) Run, Simon, Run
as Henry Burroughs
(1965) Shenandoah
as Carter, Rebel Soldier
(1977) Rolling Thunder
as Texan
(1963) Shock Corridor
as Stuart
(1998) Death Mask
as Wilbur Johnson
(1959) Ride Lonesome
as Billy John
(2007) Moondance Alexander
as McClancy
(1950) Winchester '73
as Crater
(1958) The Left Handed Gun
as Tom Folliard
(1952) The Cimarron Kid
as Bitter Creek Dalton
(1959) The Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
(1958) The Naked and the Dead
as Rhidges
(1978) Hooper
as Cully
(1953) Seminole
as Corp. Gerad
(1956) Calling Homicide
as Det. Arnie Arnhoff
(1956) The Rack
as Millard Chilson Cassidy
(1951) Apache Drums
as Bert Keon
(2002) The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1959) Verboten!
as Sgt. David Brent
(1972) The Brain Machine
as Rev. Emory Neill
(1950) Comanche Territory
as Sam
(1957) Hot Summer Night
as Kermit
(1950) Kansas Raiders
as Cole Younger
(1960) The Mountain Road
as Niergaard
(1964) The Quick Gun
as Scotty Wade
(1956) Gaby
as Jim
(1997) The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
(2000) The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Rosco P. Coltrane
(1957) Man on the Prowl
as Doug Gerhardt
(1958) Cole Younger, Gunfighter
as Kit Caswell
(1950) I Was a Shoplifter
as ---
(2012) Return of the Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
(1950) One Way Street
as Driver (uncredited)
(1976) Nickelodeon
as Jim
(1974) Savages
as Sheriff Bert Hamilton
(1959) Cast a Long Shadow
as Sam Mullen
(1955) Top of the World
as Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
(2013) The Sweeter Side of Life
as Paddy Kerrigan
(1978) The End
as Pacemaker Patient
(1962) Black Gold
as Jericho Larkin
(1951) Target Unknown
as Sgt. Ralph Phelps
(1953) City of Bad Men
as Deputy Gig (uncredited)
(1976) Ode to Billy Joe
as Dewey Barksdale
(1956) Come Next Spring
as Bill Jackson
(1957) Last of the Badmen
as Ted Hamilton
(1966) Three on a Couch
as Dr. Ben Mizer
(1951) Air Cadet
as Jerry Connell
(1972) Sounder
as Sheriff Charlie Young
(1952) The Battle at Apache Pass
as Cpl. Hassett
(1960) Aftermath
as Hardy Coulter
(1956) Forbidden Planet
as Crewman (uncredited)
(1954) The Raid
as Lt. Robinson
(1967) First to Fight
as Sergeant Carnavan
(1975) The Runaway Barge
as Bingo Washington
(1965) Black Spurs
as Ralph Elkins
(1954) The Yellow Tomahawk
as Private Bliss
(2021) Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
(1954) The Caine Mutiny
as Lt. JG Jorgensen
(1954) Return from the Sea
as Barr
(1952) Francis Goes to West Point
as Corporal Ransom
(1950) Peggy
as Frank Addison
(1955) Seven Angry Men
as Jason Brown
(1953) Column South
as Primrose
(1952) Steel Town
as Joe Rakich
(1954) Riders to the Stars
as Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
(1952) Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Marvin Johnson
(1976) The Savage Bees
as Pellegrino
(1953) Skip Taylor
as ---
(1954) They Rode West
as Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
(2013) Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Jim Lindsey
(1988) In the Heat of the Night
as ---
(1962) The Gallant Men
as ---
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1963) Burke's Law
as Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
(1955) Cheyenne
as ---
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1996) E! True Hollywood Story
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Jeff Myrtlebank
(1973) Hawkins
as Sheriff John Early
(1964) Flipper
as ---
(1960) Surfside 6
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Beal
(1957) Perry Mason
as Allan Winford
(1962) Combat!
as Trenton
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Hardy Coulter
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as ---
(1978) Centennial
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Billy-Ben Turner
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Norman Frayne
(1963) Redigo
as ---
(1959) The Man and the Challenge
as ---
(1966) Felony Squad
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Willie Cain
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1983) The Dukes
as Rosco Coltrane (voice)
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Jethro Wyatt
(1963) The Fugitive
as Dan Murray
(1955) The Millionaire
as Fred Morgan
(1962) The Virginian
as Curt Westley
(1968) Lancer
as ---
(1956) West Point
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Clem Wallace
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1950) The Gene Autry Show
as ---
(1957) Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Jack Milhoan
(1954) Climax!
as Shag
(1959) Men Into Space
as ---
(1980) Enos
as ---
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1954) The Lineup
as ---
(1959) Black Saddle
as Ben Travers
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Stoner
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1959) The Rebel
as Ted Evans
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Joe Best
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1959) Laramie
as ---
(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as ---
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1960) Stagecoach West
as ---
(1955) Buffalo Bill Jr.
as ---
(1974) The Manhunter
as ---
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1965) Honey West
as Vince Zale
(1957) Tombstone Territory
as ---
(1962) General Electric True
as ---
(1959) The David Niven Show
as Boland
(1960) Overland Trail
as ---
(1954) Stories of the Century
as ---
(2005) CMT: Inside Fame
as ---
(1955) Frontier
as ---
(1951) The Adventures of Kit Carson
as ---
(1960) Pony Express
as Bart Gentry
(1961) Whispering Smith
as ---
(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Jovan Wilanskov
(1952) Hopalong Cassidy
as ---
(1959) Startime
as ---
(1960) Michael Shayne
as ---
(1966) Hawk
as ---
(1958) Behind Closed Doors
as Webb
(1966) The Green Hornet
as Yale Barton
(1989) B.L. Stryker
as ---
(1960) The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Joe
(1979) The Dukes of Hazzard
as Rosco P. Coltrane
(1959) Rawhide
as Brock Quade
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Charlie Noon
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Harry
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Slate Morley
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Luke Perry
(1959) The Rebel
as Abel Waares
(1957) Perry Mason
as Martin Potter
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Danny Dakota
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Hennessy
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bish Darby
(1959) Bonanza
as Sheriff Vern Schaler
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Tom Carmody
(1968) The Mod Squad
as Clay Lynch