Job Film, television, voice actor, artist, acting coach, college professor, singer and songwriter, guitarist
Years active 1950-present
Top Roles Lt. JG Jorgensen, Crater, Tom Folliard, Crewman, Carter, Rebel Soldier
Top GenresDrama, Western, War, Action, Comedy, Adventure
Top TopicsWorld War II, Civil War, True Story (based on)
Top Collaborators , , (Director),
Shares birthday with Stanley Kubrick, Gracie Allen, John Foreman  see more..

James Best Overview:

Actor, James Best, was born Jewel Franklin Guy on Jul 26, 1926 in Powderly, KY. As of December 2023, James Best was 97 years old.

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on Apr 29, 2014 From Comet Over Hollywood

in The Cimarron Kid (1952). He said he always died in his movies. Known for his role as Roscoe P. Coltrane on ?Dukes of Hazzard,? I interviewed actor last week about his Hollywood career. Best came to Shelby, NC last week to the Don Gibson Theatre with his one man show, “... Read full article


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James Best Quotes:

Cole Younger: Like my old pappy used to say, 'A hog that straddles a fence ain't likely to wind up no place.


Sam Mullen: By the time those cattle get through stomping Matt, nobody is going to notice he was shot.


[picking up a torn jacket]
Thorne Sherman: They don't leave much, do they?


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Father of Janeen Damian.

The sixth of seven children, his mother died when he was 3 and he was taken to an orphanage when his Kentucky-born coal-mining father, an alcoholic, could no longer keep the family together. He was adopted at age 5 by Armen and Essa Best of Indiana.

A former military policeman, served in Germany after the end of WWII.

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