Forbidden Planet1956
As Crewman (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
James Best
Born
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 (73)
Shenandoah1965
As Carter, Rebel Soldier
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Hot Tamale2006
As Hank Larson
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The Caine Mutiny1954
As Lt. JG Jorgensen
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Ride Lonesome1959
As Billy John
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Winchester '731950
As Crater
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Hooper1978
As Cully
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Left Handed Gun1958
As Tom Folliard
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The End1978
As Pacemaker Patient
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Three on a Couch1966
As Dr. Ben Mizer
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Rolling Thunder1977
As Texan
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Shock Corridor1963
As Stuart
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Cast a Long Shadow1959
As Sam Mullen
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Sounder1972
As Sheriff Charlie Young
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Moondance Alexander2007
As McClancy
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Nickelodeon1976
As Jim
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Rack1956
As Millard Chilson Cassidy
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Return of the Killer Shrews2012
As Thorne Sherman
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Raid1954
As Lt. Robinson
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!1997
As Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Quick Gun1964
As Scotty Wade
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Comanche Territory1950
As Sam
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Last of the Badmen1957
As Ted Hamilton
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Firecreek1968
As Drew
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!2021
As Self
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Naked and the Dead1958
As Rhidges
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Savage Bees1977
As Pellegrino
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood2000
As Rosco P. Coltrane
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Column South1953
As Primrose
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia2013
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Seminole1953
As Corp. Gerad
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Verboten!1959
As Sgt. David Brent
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Top of the World1955
As Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Cimarron Kid1952
As Bitter Creek Dalton
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Battle at Apache Pass1952
As Cpl. Hassett
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Run, Simon, Run1970
As Henry Burroughs
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Hot Summer Night1957
As Kermit
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Black Spurs1965
As Ralph Elkins
TMDb 6.3 / 10
City of Bad Men1953
As Deputy Gig (uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
One Way Street1950
As Driver (uncredited)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Killer Shrews1959
As Thorne Sherman
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Riders to the Stars1954
As Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Seven Angry Men1955
As Jason Brown
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller2002
As Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Francis Goes to West Point1952
As Corporal Ransom
TMDb 5.7 / 10
I Was a Shoplifter1950
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Flat Top1952
As Radio Operator
TMDb 4.6 / 10
Skip Taylor
Skip Taylor1953
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Apache Drums1951
As Bert Keon
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Kansas Raiders1950
As Cole Younger
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Ode to Billy Joe1976
As Dewey Barksdale
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Yellow Tomahawk1954
As Private Bliss
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair1952
As Marvin Johnson
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Sweeter Side of Life2013
As Paddy Kerrigan
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Mountain Road1960
As Niergaard
TMDb 6.6 / 10
First to Fight1967
As Sergeant Carnavan
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Return from the Sea1954
As Barr
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Gaby1956
As Jim
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Peggy1950
As Frank Addison
TMDb 6.0 / 10
They Rode West1954
As Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Death Mask1995
As Wilbur Johnson
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Man on the Prowl1957
As Doug Gerhardt
TMDb 3.5 / 10
The Brain Machine1972
As Rev. Emory Neill
TMDb 3.0 / 10
Steel Town1952
As Joe Rakich
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Air Cadet1951
As Jerry Connell
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Come Next Spring1956
As Bill Jackson
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Calling Homicide1956
As Det. Arnie Arnhoff
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Runaway Barge1975
As Bingo Washington
Savages1974
As Sheriff Bert Hamilton
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Cole Younger, Gunfighter1958
As Kit Caswell
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Target Unknown1951
As Sgt. Ralph Phelps
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Black Gold1962
As Jericho Larkin
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Aftermath
Aftermath1960
As Hardy Coulter
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb