James Best

Actor

Born: July 26, 1926
Died: April 6, 2015 (age 88)
From: Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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…

Filmography (73)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021)
Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
Self (archive footage)
The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)
Paddy Kerrigan
Return of the Killer Shrews (2012)
Thorne Sherman
Moondance Alexander (2007)
McClancy
Hot Tamale (2006)
Hank Larson
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)
Rosco P. Coltrane
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997)
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Death Mask (1995)
Wilbur Johnson
Hooper (1978)
Cully
The End (1978)
Pacemaker Patient
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Texan
Nickelodeon (1976)
Jim
The Savage Bees (1976)
Pellegrino
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
Dewey Barksdale
The Runaway Barge (1975)
Bingo Washington
Savages (1974)
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Sounder (1972)
Sheriff Charlie Young
The Brain Machine (1972)
Rev. Emory Neill
Run, Simon, Run (1970)
Henry Burroughs
Firecreek (1968)
Drew
First to Fight (1967)
Sergeant Carnavan
Three on a Couch (1966)
Dr. Ben Mizer
Shenandoah (1965)
Carter, Rebel Soldier
Black Spurs (1965)
Ralph Elkins
The Quick Gun (1964)
Scotty Wade
Shock Corridor (1963)
Stuart
Black Gold (1962)
Jericho Larkin
The Mountain Road (1960)
Niergaard