James Best
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1926-07-26
- Falecimento:
- 2015-04-06
- Local de nascimento:
- Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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!
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
The Sweeter Side of Life
Return of the Killer Shrews
Moondance Alexander: Superando Limites
Mulheres e Diamantes
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
Máscara da Morte
B.L. Stryker
In the Heat of the Night
The Dukes
Enos
Os Gatões
A Saga do Colorado
Hooper, o Homem das Mil Façanhas
Se Não Me Mato, Morro!
A Outra Face da Violência
The Savage Bees
Nickelodeon
A Ponte do Desejo
Uma Embarcação Para o Inferno
Savages
The Manhunter
Hawkins
Lágrimas de Esperança
The Brain Machine
Run, Simon, Run
Lancer
The Mod Squad
Firecreek
The Guns of Will Sonnett
First to Fight
Felony Squad
O Besouro Verde
Hawk
Três em um Sofá
Honey West
Shenandoah
O Pistoleiro De Esporas Negras
Daniel Boone
Flipper
Pistoleiro Relâmpago
Paixões que Alucinam
Redigo
Burke's Law
Temple Houston
O Fugitivo
The Gallant Men
Combate
General Electric True
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
Black Gold
Ben Casey
Whispering Smith
Surfside 6
Stagecoach West
The Andy Griffith Show
Michael Shayne
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Mountain Road
Aftermath
Pony Express
Overland Trail
Hawaiian Eye
Startime
The Rebel
Além da Imaginação
Men Into Space
Lock-Up
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Laramie
The Man and the Challenge
Bonanza
Um Homem Contra o Destino
The Killer Shrews
The David Niven Show
Verboten!
O Homem Que Luta Só
Black Saddle
Couro Cru
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
Behind Closed Doors
O Homem do Rifle
The Texan
Bronco
Wanted: Dead or Alive
A Morte Tem Seu Preço
Um de Nós Morrerá
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
Deus é Meu Juiz
West Point
Calling Homicide
Gaby
Planeta Proibido
Quando a Primavera Voltar
Alfred Hitchcock Apresenta
Frontier
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Top of the World
Seven Angry Men
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
The Millionaire
Traição Heróica
Climax!
The Lineup
The Raid
Return from the Sea
A Nave da Revolta
O Machado Sangrento
Stories of the Century
A Caminho das Estrelas
Skip Taylor
Cidade do Mal
Jornada Sangrenta
Seminole
General Electric Theater
Águias da Armada
Cavalcade of America
Hopalong Cassidy
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Francis Goes to West Point
O Levante dos Apaches
Steel Town
O Último Duelo
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Flechas da Vingança
Escola de Bravos
Target Unknown
Cavaleiros da Bandeira Negra
Lux Video Theatre
The Gene Autry Show
Winchester '73
Peggy
Larápios
Território Comanche
Nem o Céu Perdoa