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Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015), 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.
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80 Photos. 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.
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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.
- July 26, 1926
- April 6, 2015
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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.”
