James Best
- Interprétation
- 26 juillet 1926 · Powderly, Kentucky, USA
- 6 avril 2015
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! · En personne
- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · En personne
- Un amour de pâtisserie · Paddy Kerrigan
- Return of the Killer Shrews · Thorne Sherman, Scénario
- Moondance Alexander · McClancy
- Hot Tamale · Hank Larson
- CMT: Inside Fame
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Les Duke à Hollywood · Rosco P. Coltrane
- Shérif Réunion · Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Death Mask · Wilbur Johnson, Scénario
- Un Privé Nommé Stryker
- Dans la chaleur de la nuit
- The Dukes · Rosco Coltrane (Voix)
- Enos
- Shérif, fais-moi peur ! · Rosco P. Coltrane, Réalisation
- Colorado
- La Fureur du danger · Cully, Co-Writer
- Suicidez-moi docteur · Pacemaker Patient, Associate Producer
- Légitime violence · Texan
- Les abeilles sauvages · Pellegrino
- Nickelodeon · Jim
- Gator · Production Assistant
- Ode to Billy Joe · Dewey Barksdale
- The Runaway Barge · Bingo Washington
- Chasse tragique · Sheriff Bert Hamilton
- The Manhunter
- Hawkins · Sheriff John Early
- Sounder · Sheriff Charlie Young
- The Brain Machine · Rev. Emory Neill
- Run, Simon, Run · Henry Burroughs
- Lancer
- The Mod Squad · Clay Lynch
- Les 5 hors-la-loi · Drew
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Chef de patrouille · Sergeant Carnavan
- Brigade criminelle
- Le Frelon vert · Yale Barton
- Hawk, l'oiseau de nuit
- Trois sur un sofa · Dr. Ben Mizer
- Honey West · Vince Zale
- Les prairies de l'honneur · Carter, Rebel Soldier
- Les éperons Noirs · Ralph Elkins
- Daniel Boone · Jethro Wyatt
- Flipper le dauphin
- Feu sans sommation · Scotty Wade
- Shock Corridor · Stuart
- Redigo
- L'Homme à la Rolls · Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
- Temple Houston · Gotch
- Le Fugitif · Dan Murray
- The Gallant Men
- Combat ! · Trenton
- General Electric True
- Suspicion · Tom Carmody
- Le Virginien · Curt Westley
- Black Gold · Jericho Larkin
- Ben Casey
- Whispering Smith
- Surfside 6
- Stagecoach West
- The Andy Griffith Show · Jim Lindsey
- Michael Shayne
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show · Joe
- Le Commando de destruction · Niergaard
- Aftermath · Hardy Coulter
- Pony Express · Bart Gentry
- Overland Trail
- Hawaiian Eye
- Startime · Duke
- The Rebel · Ted Evans, Abel Waares
- La Quatrième Dimension · Jeff Myrtlebank, Billy-Ben Turner
- Men Into Space
- Lock-Up
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson · Jovan Wilanskov
- Laramie
- The Man and the Challenge
- Bonanza · Sheriff Vern Schaler
- Le Révolté · Sam Mullen