James Best
- Atuação
- 26 de julho de 1926 · Powderly, Kentucky, USA
- 6 de abril de 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! · Em pessoa
- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · Em pessoa
- The Sweeter Side of Life · Paddy Kerrigan
- Return of the Killer Shrews · Thorne Sherman, Roteiro
- Moondance Alexander: Superando Limites · McClancy
- Mulheres e Diamantes · Hank Larson
- CMT: Inside Fame
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood · Rosco P. Coltrane
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! · Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Máscara da Morte · Wilbur Johnson, Roteiro
- B.L. Stryker
- In the Heat of the Night
- The Dukes · Rosco Coltrane (Voz)
- Enos
- Os Gatões · Rosco P. Coltrane, Direção
- A Saga do Colorado
- Hooper, o Homem das Mil Façanhas · Cully, Co-Writer
- Se Não Me Mato, Morro! · Pacemaker Patient, Associate Producer
- A Outra Face da Violência · Texan
- The Savage Bees · Pellegrino
- Nickelodeon · Jim
- Gator, O Implacável · Production Assistant
- A Ponte do Desejo · Dewey Barksdale
- Uma Embarcação Para o Inferno · Bingo Washington
- Savages · Sheriff Bert Hamilton
- The Manhunter
- Hawkins · Sheriff John Early
- Lágrimas de Esperança · Sheriff Charlie Young
- The Brain Machine · Rev. Emory Neill
- Run, Simon, Run · Henry Burroughs
- Lancer
- The Mod Squad · Clay Lynch
- Firecreek · Drew
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- First to Fight · Sergeant Carnavan
- Felony Squad
- O Besouro Verde · Yale Barton
- Hawk
- Três em um Sofá · Dr. Ben Mizer
- Honey West · Vince Zale
- Shenandoah · Carter, Rebel Soldier
- O Pistoleiro De Esporas Negras · Ralph Elkins
- Daniel Boone · Jethro Wyatt
- Flipper
- Pistoleiro Relâmpago · Scotty Wade
- Paixões que Alucinam · Stuart
- Redigo
- Burke's Law · Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
- Temple Houston · Gotch
- O Fugitivo · Dan Murray
- The Gallant Men
- Combate · Trenton
- General Electric True
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · Tom Carmody
- The Virginian · 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
- The Mountain Road · Niergaard
- Aftermath · Hardy Coulter
- Pony Express · Bart Gentry
- Overland Trail
- Hawaiian Eye
- Startime · Duke
- The Rebel · Ted Evans, Abel Waares
- Além da Imaginação · 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
- Um Homem Contra o Destino · Sam Mullen