James Best
- Recitazione
- 26 luglio 1926 · Powderly, Kentucky, USA
- 6 aprile 2015
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! · In persona
- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · In persona
- Il lato dolce della vita · Paddy Kerrigan
- Return of the Killer Shrews · Thorne Sherman, Sceneggiatura
- Moondance Alexander · McClancy
- Hot Tamale · Hank Larson
- CMT: Inside Fame
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hazzard: Bo e Luke vanno ad Hollywood · Rosco P. Coltrane
- Hazzard 20 anni dopo · Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Death Mask · Wilbur Johnson, Sceneggiatura
- B.L. Stryker
- L'ispettore Tibbs
- Hazzard · Rosco Coltrane (Voce)
- Enos
- Hazzard · Rosco P. Coltrane, Regia
- Colorado
- Collo d'acciaio · Cully, Co-Writer
- La fine... della fine · Pacemaker Patient, Associate Producer
- Rolling Thunder · Texan
- Bees - Lo sciame che uccide · Pellegrino
- Vecchia America · Jim
- Gator · Production Assistant
- Ode to Billy Joe · Dewey Barksdale
- The Runaway Barge · Bingo Washington
- Savages · 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
- Mod Squad, i ragazzi di Greer · Clay Lynch
- L'ora della furia · Drew
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- First to Fight · Sergeant Carnavan
- Squadra speciale anticrimine
- Il Calabrone Verde · Yale Barton
- Hawk
- 3 sul divano · Dr. Ben Mizer
- Honey West · Vince Zale
- Shenandoah - La valle dell'onore · Carter, Rebel Soldier
- Black Spurs · Ralph Elkins
- Daniel Boone · Jethro Wyatt
- Flipper
- Pistola veloce · Scotty Wade
- Il corridoio della paura · Stuart
- Redigo
- La legge di Burke · Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
- La legge del Far West · Gotch
- The Fugitive · Dan Murray
- The Gallant Men
- Combat! · Trenton
- General Electric True
- L'ora di Hitchcock · Tom Carmody
- Il virginiano · 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
- Tempesta sulla Cina · Niergaard
- Aftermath · Hardy Coulter
- Pony Express · Bart Gentry
- Overland Trail
- Hawaiian Eye
- Startime · Duke
- The Rebel · Ted Evans, Abel Waares
- Ai confini della realtà · Jeff Myrtlebank, Billy-Ben Turner
- Men Into Space
- Lock-Up
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson · Jovan Wilanskov
- Laramie
- L'uomo e la sfida
- Bonanza · Sheriff Vern Schaler
- Fermati cow-boy! · Sam Mullen