James Best
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1926-07-26
- Fallecimiento:
- 2015-04-06
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Biografía
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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Filmografía
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
El lado más dulce de la vida
Return of the Killer Shrews
La leyenda de Moondance Alexander
Al rojo vivo
CMT: Inside Fame
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
E! True Hollywood Story
Death Mask
B.L. Stryker
In the Heat of the Night
The Dukes
Enos
The Dukes of Hazzard
Centennial
Hooper, el increíble
De miedo también se muere
El ex-preso de Corea
Abejas salvajes
Así empezó Hollywood
Ode to Billy Joe
The Runaway Barge
Savages
The Manhunter
Hawkins
Sounder
The Brain Machine
Run, Simon, Run
Lancer
Patrulla juvenil
Los malvados de Firecreek
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Línea de fuego
Felony Squad
El avispón verde
Hawk
Tres en un sofá
La rubia peligrosa
El valle de la violencia
Espuelas negras
Daniel Boone
Flipper
La revancha de Clint Cooper
Corredor sin retorno
Redigo
El agente Burke
Temple Houston
El fugitivo
The Gallant Men
Combat
General Electric True
La hora de Alfred Hitchcock
El Virginiano
Black Gold
Ben Casey
Whispering Smith
Rompeolas
Stagecoach West
The Andy Griffith Show
Michael Shayne
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Sendero de furia
Aftermath
Pony Express
Overland Trail
Intriga en Hawai (Serie de TV)
Startime
The Rebel
La dimensión desconocida
Men Into Space
Lock-Up
El Show de June Allyson
Laramie
The Man and the Challenge
Bonanza
La sombra de un titán
Musarañas asesinas
The David Niven Show
Verboten!
Cabalgar en solitario
Black Saddle
Cuero crudo
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
Behind Closed Doors
El hombre del rifle
The Texan
Bronco
Randall, el justiciero
Los desnudos y los muertos
El zurdo
El desesperado
Man on the Prowl
Tombstone Territory
Trackdown
Perry Mason
Have Gun, Will Travel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Last of the Badmen
Hot Summer Night
Traidor a su patria
West Point
Calling Homicide
Gaby
Planeta prohibido
Come Next Spring
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Frontier
Cheyenne
La ley del revólver
Top of the World
Seven Angry Men
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
The Millionaire
Rumbo al Oeste
Climax!
The Lineup
Fugitivos rebeldes
Return from the Sea
El motín del Caine
El hacha de guerra
Stories of the Century
Riders to the Stars
Skip Taylor
Forajidos en Carson City
Columna al Sur
Traición en Fort King
General Electric Theater
Flat Top
Cavalcade of America
Hopalong Cassidy
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
La Mula Francis va a West Point
Paz Rota
Steel Town
Cimarron Kid
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Tambores apaches
Air Cadet
Target Unknown
Los asaltantes de Kansas
Lux Video Theatre
The Gene Autry Show
Winchester 73
Peggy
I Was a Shoplifter
Orgullo de comanche
Murallas de silencio