James Best

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jul 26, 1926 (98 years old)
Death date
Apr 06, 2015

James Best

Known For

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
1h 58m
Movie 2021

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
1h 29m
Movie 2013

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining tribute to the iconic Gore Vidal. Commentary by those who knew him best—including filmmaker/nephew Burr Steers and the late Christopher Hitchens—blends with footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time.

Moondance Alexander
1h 34m
Movie 2007

Moondance Alexander

Curiously named teen Moondance Alexander lives with her eccentric mother, and is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential.

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
1h 0m
Movie 2004

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
1h 28m
Movie 2000

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood

The Duke Boys and company travel to Hollywood to sell some musical recordings in order to raise money to build a new hospital in Hazzard County. However, when their recordings and money are stolen, they wind up on the run from mysterious hitmen, sleazy record producers, Russian gangsters, and vicious loan sharks.

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1h 30m
Movie 1997

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race. Because that's how things get settled in Hazzard.

Biography

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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