Personal Info
Jewel Franklin Guy
James K. Best
Jimmy Best
Jim Best
James Best
Acting
Biography
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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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
The Sweeter Side of Life
as Paddy Kerrigan
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
Return of the Killer Shrews
as Thorne Sherman
Moondance Alexander
as McClancy
Hot Tamale
as Hank Larson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Rosco P. Coltrane
Death Mask
as Wilbur Johnson
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
TV Shows
CMT: Inside Fame
1 ep.
E! True Hollywood Story
1 ep.
B.L. Stryker
1 ep.
In the Heat of the Night
1 ep.
The Dukes
as Rosco Coltrane (voice) · 20 ep.
Enos
1 ep.
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Rosco P. Coltrane · 147 ep.
Centennial
1 ep.
The Manhunter
1 ep.
Hawkins
as Sheriff John Early · 1 ep.
