James Best

Person · Open Library

Works

7

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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…

Known for

• Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! — Self2021
• The Sweeter Side of Life — Paddy Kerrigan2013
• Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia — Self (archive footage)2013
• Return of the Killer Shrews — Thorne Sherman2012
• Moondance Alexander — McClancy2007
• Hot Tamale — Hank Larson2006
• CMT: Inside Fame2005
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)2002
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood — Rosco P. Coltrane2000
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! — Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane1997

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

720

Total plays

2,303

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jules

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Powderly

Place of death

Hickory

Employer

University of Mississippi

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Genre

Western

Conflict

World War II

Official website

jamesbest.com

Image

James Best Frontier Return of Jubal Dolan.JPG

Number of children

3

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