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Biography

James Best is familiar to audiences as Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane on the television series Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 through 1985. Best was born…more

Born

7/26/1926, Powderly, Kentucky, USA

Birth Name

Jules Guy

Gender

Male

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Star (6)

Role
- The Dukes of Hazzard
  Sheriff Rosco P. Coltraine
  - S 8: Ep 2 Hazzard in Hollywood
    5/19/00
  - S 8: Ep 1 The Reunion!
    4/25/97
  - S 7: Ep 17 Opening Night at the Boar's Nest
    2/8/85
  - S 7: Ep 16 Enos and Daisy's Wedding
    2/1/85
  - S 7: Ep 15 Strange Visitor to Hazzard
    1/25/85
  - + 140 More Credits
- The Dukes
  voice of Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
  - S 2: Ep 7 A Hogg in the Foggy Bogg
    10/29/83
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Dukes in Hollywood
    10/22/83
  - S 2: Ep 5 The Canadian Caper
    10/15/83
  - S 2: Ep 4 A Dickens of a Christmas
    10/8/83
  - S 2: Ep 3 The Kid From Madrid
    10/1/83
  - + 15 More Credits
- Temple Houston
  Gotch
  - S 1: Ep 26 Miss Katherine
    4/2/64
  - S 1: Ep 25 The Town That Trespassed
    3/26/64
  - S 1: Ep 24 Do Unto Others, Then Gallop
    3/19/64
  - S 1: Ep 23 The Gun That Swept the West
    3/5/64
  - S 1: Ep 22 Last Full Moon
    2/27/64
  - + 21 More Credits
- The Twilight Zone
  Billy-Ben Turner
  - S 4: Ep 7 Jess-Belle
    2/14/63
- The Twilight Zone
  Jeff Myrtlebank
  - S 3: Ep 23 The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
    2/23/62
- The Twilight Zone
  Johnny Rob
  - S 3: Ep 7 The Grave
    10/27/61
Guest Star (119)

Role
- Barely Famous
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 1 The New Dukes of Hazzard
    8/24/05
- CMT Insider
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 30 Dukes of Hazzard
    8/1/05
- CMT Music Awards
  Presenter
  - S 1: Ep 4 2005 CMT Music Awards
    4/11/05
- In the Heat of the Night
  Nathan
  - S 5: Ep 8 Sweet, Sweet Blues
    11/26/91
- B.L. Stryker
  Unknown
  - S 2: Ep 7 Night Train
    5/5/90
- The Dukes of Hazzard
  Woody
  - S 6: Ep 3 Too Many Rosco's
    10/7/83
- The Midnight Special
  Himself
  - S 9: Ep 23 Host: John Schneider
    3/13/81
- Enos
  Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
  - S 1: Ep 9 Horse Cops
    1/28/81
- How the West Was Won
  Sheriff Gruner
  - S 3: Ep 9 Luke
    4/2/79
- Centennial
  Hank Garvey
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Scream of Eagles (3 hr)
    2/4/79
- Hawkins
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 5 Blood Feud
    12/4/73
- Dan August
  Wiley
  - S 1: Ep 4 In The Eyes Of God
    10/21/70
- Lancer
  Clay
  - S 2: Ep 23 Goodbye, Lizzie
    4/28/70
- Gunsmoke
  Charlie Noon
  - S 15: Ep 7 Charlie Noon
    11/3/69
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
  Harley Brass
  - S 2: Ep 15 Robber's Roost
    1/17/69
- The Felony Squad
  George "Lucky" Collins
  - S 3: Ep 11 The Distant Shore
    12/2/68
- The Mod Squad
  Frank Lynch
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Price of Terror
    11/26/68
- I Spy
  The Doctor
  - S 3: Ep 23 Suitable for Framing
    3/25/68
- Bonanza
  Sheriff Vern Shaler
  - S 9: Ep 19 The Price of Salt
    2/4/68
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
  Rake Hanley
  - S 1: Ep 8 Meeting at Devil's Fork
    10/27/67
- Hawk
  Emile
  - S 1: Ep 17 Blind Man's Bluff
    12/29/66
- I Spy
  Sam
  - S 2: Ep 13 Lisa
    12/7/66
- The Green Hornet
  Yale Barton
  - S 1: Ep 12 Deadline for Death
    12/2/66
- The Felony Squad
  Arnold Wyatt
  - S 1: Ep 6 Flame Out
    10/17/66
- The Iron Horse
  Chico
  - S 1: Ep 3 High Devil
    9/26/66
- Perry Mason
  Alan Winford
  - S 9: Ep 25 The Case of the Unwelcome Well
    4/3/66
- The Virginian
  Curt Westley
  - S 4: Ep 14 Letter of the Law
    12/22/65
- Honey West
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 4 A Matter of Wife and Death
    10/8/65
- Amos Burke: Secret Agent
  Tucson, "The Cowboy"
  - S 1: Ep 3 Steam Heat
    9/29/65
- Flipper
  Dr. Peter Kellwin
  - S 1: Ep 29 The Call of the Dolphin
    4/3/65
- Ben Casey
  Dr. Joe Sullivan
  - S 4: Ep 22 A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow
    3/8/65
- Daniel Boone
  Jethroe Wyatt
  - S 1: Ep 21 The Devil's Four
    3/4/65
- Death Valley Days
  Jim Campbell
  - S 13: Ep 6 The Hero of Fort Halleck
    10/9/64
- Rawhide
  Art Fuller
  - S 6: Ep 26 Incident of El Toro
    4/9/64
- Destry
  Curly Beamer
  - S 1: Ep 7 Go Away, Little Sheba
    3/27/64
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  Tom Carmody
  - S 2: Ep 17 The Jar
    2/14/64
- Temple Houston
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 20 The Case For William Gotch
    2/6/64
- Death Valley Days
  Jimmy Burns
  - S 12: Ep 14 Sixty-Seven Miles of Gold
    1/14/64
- Gunsmoke
  Beal
  - S 9: Ep 14 The Glory and the Mud
    1/4/64
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Dan
  - S 1: Ep 13 Terror at High Point
    12/17/63
- Bonanza
  Page
  - S 5: Ep 11 The Legacy
    12/15/63
- Ben Casey
  Simon Waller
  - S 3: Ep 10 Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
    11/13/63
- Redigo
  Les Fay
  - S 1: Ep 6 Little Angel Blue Eyes
    10/29/63
- Gunsmoke
  Dal
  - S 8: Ep 29 With a Smile
    3/30/63
- Perry Mason
  Martin Potter
  - S 6: Ep 19 The Case of the Surplus Suitor
    2/28/63
- The Gallant Men
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 20 The Warriors
    2/23/63
- Rawhide
  Willie Cain
  - S 5: Ep 16 Incident at Spider Rock
    1/18/63
- General Electric True
  Ernie Swift
  - S 1: Ep 14 Open Season
    1/6/63
- Hawaiian Eye
  Johnny Olin
  - S 4: Ep 1 Day in the Sun
    10/2/62
- Bronco
  Banton
  - S 4: Ep 18 Then the Mountains
    4/30/62
- The Rifleman
  Bob Barrett
  - S 4: Ep 29 The Day the Town Slept
    4/16/62
- 77 Sunset Strip
  Babe Mackie
  - S 4: Ep 27 The Long Shot Caper
    3/23/62
- Laramie
  Johnny
  - S 3: Ep 17 The Runaway
    1/23/62
- SurfSide 6
  Ernie Jordan
  - S 2: Ep 3 One for the Road
    10/2/61
- Whispering Smith
  Hemp Reeger
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Hemp Reeger Case
    7/17/61
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Bish Darby
  - S 6: Ep 37 Make My Death Bed
    6/27/61
- The Andy Griffith Show
  Jim Lindsey
  - S 1: Ep 31 The Guitar Player Returns
    5/15/61
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Guitar Player
    10/17/60
- Stagecoach West
  Mike Pardee
  - S 1: Ep 30 The Dead Don't Cry
    5/2/61
- Barbara Stanwyck Show
  Jack
  - S 1: Ep 28 The Choice
    4/17/61
- Michael Shayne
  Danny
  - S 1: Ep 23 Strike Out
    3/10/61
- Stagecoach West
  Jack Craig
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Arsonist
    2/14/61
- Bonanza
  Carl Reagan
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Fugitive
    2/4/61
- Have Gun - Will Travel
  Roy Smith
  - S 4: Ep 18 A Quiet Night in Town - Part II
    1/14/61
  - S 4: Ep 17 A Quiet Night in Town - Part I
    1/7/61
- Bat Masterson
  Danny
  - S 3: Ep 8 Dakota Showdown
    11/17/60
- The June Allyson Show
  Jovan Wilanskov
  - S 2: Ep 8 Love On Credit
    11/17/60
- The Rebel
  Abel Wares
  - S 2: Ep 6 Deathwatch
    10/23/60
- Lock-Up
  Roy Duggan
  - S 2: Ep 5 Beau and Arrow Case
    10/22/60
- Stagecoach West
  Les Hardee
  - S 1: Ep 1 High Lonesome
    10/4/60
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Hennessy
  - S 5: Ep 34 Cell 227
    6/5/60
- The Rebel
  Ted Evans
  - S 1: Ep 34 Night on a Rainbow
    5/29/60
- The Overland Trail
  Frank Cullen
  - S 1: Ep 15 Escort Detail
    5/22/60
- Men into Space
  Lt. John Leonard
  - S 1: Ep 31 Beyond The Stars
    5/11/60
- General Electric Theater
  Hardy Coulter
  - S 8: Ep 28 Aftermath
    4/17/60
- Pony Express
  Bart Gentry
  - S 1: Ep 0 The Story Of Julesburg
    3/9/60
- Wagon Train
  Art Bernard
  - S 3: Ep 18 The Clayton Tucker Story
    2/10/60
- Laramie
  Ben Leach
  - S 1: Ep 21 Company Man
    2/9/60
- Wagon Train
  Bowman Lewis
  - S 3: Ep 15 The Colonel Harris Story
    1/13/60
- Ford Startime
  The Rancher's Son
  - S 1: Ep 11 Cindy's Fella
    12/15/59
- The Lineup (1954)
  Guest Star
  - S 6: Ep 8 Lonesome as Midnight
    11/18/59
- Laramie
  Dallas
  - S 1: Ep 6 The Lawbreakers
    10/20/59
- The Man and the Challenge
  David Mallory
  - S 1: Ep 2 Maximum Capacity
    9/19/59
- David Niven Show
  Frank Simms
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Good Deed
    7/7/59
- Frontier Justice
  Pyke Dillon
  - S 2: Ep 1 The Three Graves
    7/6/59
- David Niven Show
  Private Boland
  - S 1: Ep 10 Portrait
    6/16/59
- Wagon Train
  Garth English
  - S 2: Ep 35 The Andrew Hale Story
    6/3/59
- Black Saddle
  Ben Travers
  - S 1: Ep 16 Client: Nelson
    5/2/59
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
  Luke Perry
  - S 1: Ep 19 Six-Up to Bannach
    1/10/59
- Behind Closed Doors
  Webb
  - S 1: Ep 9 The Enemy On The Flank
    12/4/58
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
  Stoner
  - S 1: Ep 13 Sheriff of Red Rock
    11/29/58
- Trackdown
  Joe Sunday
  - S 2: Ep 12 Sunday's Child
    11/21/58
- Bat Masterson
  Joe Best
  - S 1: Ep 4 Stampede at Tent City
    10/29/58
- The Restless Gun
  Jim Kenyon
  - S 2: Ep 1 Jebediah Bonner
    9/22/58
- The Millionaire
  Fred Morgan
  - S 5: Ep 3 The Fred Morgan Story
    9/17/58
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Norman Frayne
  - S 3: Ep 30 Death Sentence
    4/27/58
- Trackdown
  Bud
  - S 1: Ep 27 The Mistake
    4/18/58
- Climax!
  Shag
  - S 4: Ep 22 The Secret Love of Johnny Spain
    2/20/58
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
  Guest Star
  - S 7: Ep 15 Guys Like O'Malley
    1/10/58
- Have Gun - Will Travel
  Andy Fisher
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Long Night
    11/16/57
- Trackdown
  Rand Marple
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Marple Brothers
    10/4/57
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective
  Jack Milhoan
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Merry-Go-Round Case
    9/23/57
- West Point Story
  William Purdom
  - S 1: Ep 40 Dragoon Patrol
    7/5/57
- The People's Choice
  Mr. Hunnicut
  - S 2: Ep 24 One-Ring Circus
    3/28/57
- Sheriff of Cochise
  Mike Norris
  - S 1: Ep 19 Lynching Party
    2/1/57
- Zane Grey Theater
  Pyke Dillon
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Three Graves
    1/4/57
- Cavalcade of America
  Guest Star
  - S 5: Ep 8 Woman's Work
    11/20/56
  - S 1: Ep 16 Night Strike
    4/29/53
- Frontier
  Jason Cartwright
  - S 1: Ep 29 Out From Texas
    6/24/56
- The Adventures of Champion
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 15 Andrew And The Deadly Double
    2/13/56
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Stone Heart
    12/13/55
- Frontier
  Ben Reed
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Texicans
    1/8/56
- Cavalcade of America
  Harry
  - S 4: Ep 7 One Day At A Time
    11/15/55
- The Lone Ranger
  Jim Blake
  - S 4: Ep 47 Framed for Murder
    7/28/55
- Buffalo Bill Jr.
  Larry Martin
  - S 1: Ep 6 The Death Of Johnny Ringo
    3/22/55
- Death Valley Days
  "Tiny" Stoker
  - S 3: Ep 12 Million Dollar Wedding
    3/1/55
- The Gene Autry Show
  Ray Saunders
  - S 4: Ep 7 Hoodoo Canyon
    8/17/54
- The Gene Autry Show
  Bank Teller
  - S 4: Ep 3 The Hold-up
    7/20/54
- Annie Oakley
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 26 Annie and the Outlaw's Son
    7/3/54
  - S 1: Ep 25 Outlaw Mesa
    6/26/54
- Stories of the Century
  Dave Ridley
  - S 1: Ep 22 Little Britches
    6/17/54
- Hopalong Cassidy
  Rick Ashton
  - S 2: Ep 20 Silent Testimony
    2/19/54
- The Lux Video Theatre
  Clem Wallace
  - S 4: Ep 14 Three Just Men
    12/10/53
- Hallmark Hall Of Fame
  Guest Star
  - S 3: Ep 4 McCoy of Abilene
    10/18/53
Director (1)

Role
- The Dukes of Hazzard
  Director
  - S 7: Ep 9 Cale Yarborough Comes to Hazzard
    11/23/84
  - S 6: Ep 14 Dead and Alive
    1/20/84
  - S 4: Ep 3 Diamonds in the Rough
    10/23/81

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- His character on The Dukes of Hazzard used to be an honest cop who turned crooked after getting cheated out of his pension.
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- Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane was his most visible role.
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- James is semi-retired.
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- James Best: That's why you wanted to go to work in the morning, to watch Daisy Duke run around in those shorts.
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