James Best
Born in Powderly, Kentucky, USA — Jul 26 1926• Died Apr 06 2015
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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 Hu…
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Perry Mason
Allan Winford
Bonanza
Sheriff Vern Schaler
The Andy Griffith Show
Jim Lindsey
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Fugitive
Dan Murray
The Virginian
Curt Westley
The Twilight Zone
Jeff Myrtlebank
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Tom Carmody
Climax!
Shag
The Rifleman
Ben Casey
Burke's Law
Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
Hawaiian Eye
Cheyenne
Combat!
Trenton
Daniel Boone
Jethro Wyatt
Rawhide
Willie Cain
77 Sunset Strip
The Dukes of Hazzard
Rosco P. Coltrane
Felony Squad
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Stoner
Bat Masterson
Joe Best
Gunsmoke
Beal
The Mod Squad
Clay Lynch
Surfside 6
Bronco
Laramie
Lancer
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Jack Milhoan
In the Heat of the Night
The Gene Autry Show
Trackdown
The Texan
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Norman Frayne
The Rebel
Ted Evans
Black Saddle
Ben Travers
The Millionaire
Fred Morgan
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Jovan Wilanskov
Honey West
Vince Zale
Tombstone Territory
Cavalcade of America
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Lock-Up
Flipper
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Joe
Lux Video Theatre
Clem Wallace
The Green Hornet
Yale Barton
Startime
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Centennial
Behind Closed Doors
Webb
Hopalong Cassidy
Stagecoach West
The Manhunter
B.L. Stryker
West Point
Hawkins
Sheriff John Early
The Gallant Men
Frontier
Enos
General Electric True
Men Into Space
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hawk
Forbidden Planet
Crewman (uncredited)
Redigo
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Stories of the Century
Whispering Smith
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
General Electric Theater
Hardy Coulter
Michael Shayne
The Caine Mutiny
Lt. JG Jorgensen
The Dukes
Rosco Coltrane (voice)
Winchester '73
Crater
The Lineup
Firecreek
Drew
Overland Trail
Hooper
Cully
Gator
Production
Sounder
Sheriff Charlie Young
E! True Hollywood Story
CMT: Inside Fame
The Man and the Challenge
The End
Pacemaker Patient
Rolling Thunder
Texan
Hot Tamale
Hank Larson
The Rack
Millard Chilson Cassidy
The Raid
Lt. Robinson
Nickelodeon
Jim
Verboten!
Sgt. David Brent
The Left Handed Gun
Tom Folliard
Ride Lonesome
Billy John
Peggy
Frank Addison
Cast a Long Shadow
Sam Mullen
The Savage Bees
Pellegrino
The Naked and the Dead
Rhidges
Kansas Raiders
Cole Younger
Column South
Primrose
First to Fight
Sergeant Carnavan
One Way Street
Driver (uncredited)
Shenandoah
Carter, Rebel Soldier
Air Cadet
Jerry Connell
The Mountain Road
Niergaard
The Yellow Tomahawk
Private Bliss
Apache Drums
Bert Keon
Seminole
Corp. Gerad
The David Niven Show
Boland
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Savages
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gaby
Jim
Shock Corridor
Stuart
Target Unknown
Sgt. Ralph Phelps
They Rode West
Lt. Finlay (uncredited)
The Quick Gun
Scotty Wade
City of Bad Men
Deputy Gig (uncredited)
I Was a Shoplifter
Black Spurs
Ralph Elkins
The Battle at Apache Pass
Cpl. Hassett
The Killer Shrews
Thorne Sherman
Comanche Territory
Sam
Steel Town
Joe Rakich
Return of the Killer Shrews
Thorne Sherman
Run, Simon, Run
Henry Burroughs
Seven Angry Men
Jason Brown
Riders to the Stars
Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Three on a Couch
Dr. Ben Mizer
Pony Express
Bart Gentry
Hot Summer Night
Kermit
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Marvin Johnson
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Kit Caswell
Aftermath
Hardy Coulter
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Rosco P. Coltrane
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Self
Moondance Alexander
McClancy
The Runaway Barge
Bingo Washington
The Cimarron Kid
Bitter Creek Dalton
Black Gold
Jericho Larkin
Calling Homicide
Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Last of the Badmen
Ted Hamilton
Top of the World
Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
Return from the Sea
Barr
Come Next Spring
Bill Jackson
Ode to Billy Joe
Dewey Barksdale
Death Mask
Wilbur Johnson
Francis Goes to West Point
Corporal Ransom
The Sweeter Side of Life
Paddy Kerrigan
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
The Brain Machine
Rev. Emory Neill
Man on the Prowl
Doug Gerhardt
Skip Taylor