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Apr 6, 2015 · James Best was an actor best known for his role as the bumbling but endearing Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard. For the full series run, from 1979 to 1985, Best played the sheriff as he attempted to enforce the law and outwit the “Duke boys.”. The actor got his start during World War II in the military theatrical company ...
Jewel Franklin Guy, known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, he performed not only in feature films but also in scores of television series, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk ...
James Best. Actor: The Dukes of Hazzard. American character actor and teacher. Born Jewel Guy in Powderly, Kentucky, on July 26, 1926, he was orphaned at three and adopted by Armen and Essa Knowland Best, who renamed him James Knowland Best and raised him in Corydon, Indiana. Following high school he worked briefly as a metalworker before joining the Army during World War II in July 1944. The ...
Apr 7, 2015 · April 7, 2015. Actor James Best, who played hapless Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane for six seasons on the hit CBS series The Dukes of Hazzard, died Monday, April 6th, in hospice care in Hickory, North ...
Dorothy Best will be at the Celebration! Hard to imagine it's been 25 years since Ben and Alma opened the very first Cooters Place - and James and Dorothy Best were the FIRST GUESTS! So of course Dorothy is going to be at the Celebration - and she is bringing some special artwork of Jimmie's that will be available for sale. July 19th - 21st, 2024.
Remembering actor James Best
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Biography. Despite having played some of the orneriest bad guys in films and on television for over four decades, actor James Best was forever ingrained in the minds of audiences as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on "The Dukes of Hazzard" (CBS, 1979-1985). A World War II veteran, he fell in love with acting while serving in Europe, and ...
