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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.
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Hot Tamale
As Hank Larson
Firecreek
As Drew
Run, Simon, Run
As Henry Burroughs
Shenandoah
As Carter, Rebel Soldier
Rolling Thunder
As Texan
Shock Corridor
As Stuart
Death Mask
As Wilbur Johnson
Ride Lonesome
As Billy John
Moondance Alexander
As McClancy
Winchester '73
As Crater
The Left Handed Gun
As Tom Folliard
The Cimarron Kid
As Bitter Creek Dalton
The Killer Shrews
As Thorne Sherman
The Naked and the Dead
As Rhidges
Hooper
As Cully
Seminole
As Corp. Gerad
Calling Homicide
As Det. Arnie Arnhoff
The Rack
As Millard Chilson Cassidy
Apache Drums
As Bert Keon
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
As Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Verboten!
As Sgt. David Brent
The Brain Machine
As Rev. Emory Neill
Comanche Territory
As Sam
Hot Summer Night
As Kermit
Kansas Raiders
As Cole Younger
The Mountain Road
As Niergaard
The Quick Gun
As Scotty Wade
Gaby
As Jim
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
As Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
As Rosco P. Coltrane
Man on the Prowl
As Doug Gerhardt
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
As Kit Caswell
I Was a Shoplifter
Return of the Killer Shrews
As Thorne Sherman
One Way Street
As Driver (uncredited)
Nickelodeon
As Jim
Savages
As Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Cast a Long Shadow
As Sam Mullen
Top of the World
As Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
The Sweeter Side of Life
As Paddy Kerrigan
The End
As Pacemaker Patient
Black Gold
As Jericho Larkin
Target Unknown
As Sgt. Ralph Phelps
City of Bad Men
As Deputy Gig (uncredited)
Ode to Billy Joe
As Dewey Barksdale
Come Next Spring
As Bill Jackson
Last of the Badmen
As Ted Hamilton
Three on a Couch
As Dr. Ben Mizer
Air Cadet
As Jerry Connell
Sounder
As Sheriff Charlie Young
The Battle at Apache Pass
As Cpl. Hassett
Aftermath
As Hardy Coulter
Forbidden Planet
As Crewman (uncredited)
The Raid
As Lt. Robinson
First to Fight
As Sergeant Carnavan
The Runaway Barge
As Bingo Washington
Black Spurs
As Ralph Elkins
The Yellow Tomahawk
As Private Bliss
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
As Self
The Caine Mutiny
As Lt. JG Jorgensen
Return from the Sea
As Barr
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
As Thorne Sherman (archive footage)
Francis Goes to West Point
As Cpl. Ransom
Peggy
As Frank Addison
Seven Angry Men
As Jason Brown
Column South
As Primrose
Steel Town
As Joe Rakich
Riders to the Stars
As Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
As Marvin Johnson
The Savage Bees
As Pellegrino
Skip Taylor
The Andy Griffith Show
As Jim Lindsey
In the Heat of the Night
The Gallant Men
77 Sunset Strip
Burke's Law
As Tucson, 'The Cowboy'
Cheyenne
Trackdown
E! True Hollywood Story
The Twilight Zone
As Jeff Myrtlebank
Hawkins
As Sheriff John Early
Flipper
Surfside 6
The Mod Squad
Gunsmoke
As Beal
Perry Mason
As Allan Winford
Combat!
As Trenton
General Electric Theater
As Hardy Coulter
Hawaiian Eye
Centennial
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As Norman Frayne
Redigo
The Man and the Challenge
Felony Squad
Rawhide
As Willie Cain
Have Gun, Will Travel
Daniel Boone
As Jethro Wyatt
The Dukes
As Rosco Coltrane (voice)
The Fugitive
As Dan Murray
The Millionaire
As Fred Morgan
The Virginian
As Curt Westley
Lancer
Lux Video Theatre
As Clem Wallace
West Point
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Gene Autry Show
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
As Jack Milhoan
Climax!
As Shag
Men into Space
Enos
Bronco
The Lineup
Black Saddle
As Ben Travers
Lock-Up
Wanted: Dead or Alive
As Stoner
The Rebel
As Ted Evans
The Rifleman
Bat Masterson
As Joe Best
Ben Casey
Laramie
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Texan
Stagecoach West
Buffalo Bill Jr.
The Manhunter
Cavalcade of America
Honey West
As Vince Zale
Tombstone Territory
General Electric True
The David Niven Show
As Boland
Overland Trail
Stories of the Century
CMT: Inside Fame
Frontier
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Pony Express
As Bart Gentry
Whispering Smith
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
As Jovan Wilanskov
Hopalong Cassidy
Startime
Michael Shayne
Hawk
Behind Closed Doors
As Webb
The Green Hornet
As Yale Barton
B.L. Stryker
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
As Joe
The Dukes of Hazzard
As Rosco P. Coltrane
Bonanza
As Sheriff Vern Schaler
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
As Tom Carmody