James Best
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1926-07-26
- Décès:
- 2015-04-06
- Lieu de naissance:
- Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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!
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Un amour de pâtisserie
Return of the Killer Shrews
Moondance Alexander
Hot Tamale
CMT: Inside Fame
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Les Duke à Hollywood
Shérif Réunion
E! True Hollywood Story
Death Mask
Un Privé Nommé Stryker
Dans la chaleur de la nuit
The Dukes
Enos
Shérif, fais-moi peur !
Colorado
La Fureur du danger
Suicidez-moi docteur
Légitime violence
Les abeilles sauvages
Nickelodeon
Ode to Billy Joe
The Runaway Barge
Chasse tragique
The Manhunter
Hawkins
Sounder
The Brain Machine
Run, Simon, Run
Lancer
The Mod Squad
Les 5 hors-la-loi
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Chef de patrouille
Brigade criminelle
Le Frelon vert
Hawk, l'oiseau de nuit
Trois sur un sofa
Honey West
Les prairies de l'honneur
Les éperons Noirs
Daniel Boone
Flipper le dauphin
Feu sans sommation
Shock Corridor
Redigo
L'Homme à la Rolls
Temple Houston
Le Fugitif
The Gallant Men
Combat !
General Electric True
Suspicion
Le Virginien
Black Gold
Ben Casey
Whispering Smith
Surfside 6
Stagecoach West
The Andy Griffith Show
Michael Shayne
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Le Commando de destruction
Aftermath
Pony Express
Overland Trail
Hawaiian Eye
Startime
The Rebel
La Quatrième Dimension
Men Into Space
Lock-Up
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Laramie
The Man and the Challenge
Bonanza
Le Révolté
The Killer Shrews
The David Niven Show
Ordres secrets aux espions nazis
La Chevauchée de la vengeance
Black Saddle
Rawhide
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
Behind Closed Doors
The Rifleman
The Texan
Bronco
Au nom de la loi
Les Nus et les Morts
Le Gaucher
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Man on the Prowl
Tombstone Territory
Trackdown
Perry Mason
Have Gun, Will Travel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Last of the Badmen
Hot Summer Night
Le supplice des aveux
Les cadets de West-Point
Calling Homicide
Gaby
Planète interdite
Come Next Spring
Alfred Hitchcock présente
Frontier
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke Police Des Plaines
Top of the World
Seven Angry Men
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
The Millionaire
La Ruée sanglante
Climax!
The Lineup
Le Raid
Return from the Sea
Ouragan sur le Caine
The Yellow Tomahawk
Stories of the Century
Riders to the Stars
Skip Taylor
La Cité des Tueurs
L'Héroïque Lieutenant
L'expédition du Fort King
General Electric Theater
L'escadrille de l'enfer
Cavalcade of America
Hopalong Cassidy
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Francis Goes to West Point
Au mépris des lois
Steel Town
À feu et à sang
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Quand les tambours s'arrêteront
Air Cadet
Raid secret
Kansas en feu
Lux Video Theatre
The Gene Autry Show
Winchester '73
Peggy
I Was a Shoplifter
Sur le territoire des Comanches
L'Impasse maudite