Biography
James Best
Acting
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, w…
Career works
152
Movies
73
Series
79
Career average
6.5/10
Birth date
07/26/1926
Place of birth
Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Date of death
04/06/2015
Filmography highlights
Movies
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021 · 4.7
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013 · 7.8
The Sweeter Side of Life
2013 · 5.8
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012 · 5.2
Moondance Alexander
2007 · 6.0
Hot Tamale
2006 · 4.9
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · 5.8
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000 · 6.0
Death Mask
1998 · 5.6
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997 · 5.4
Hooper
1978 · 6.3
The End
1978 · 5.6
Rolling Thunder
1977 · 6.7
Nickelodeon
1976 · 6.1
The Savage Bees
1976 · 5.3
Series
CMT: Inside Fame
2005 · 7.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · 8.2
B.L. Stryker
1989 · 6.1
In the Heat of the Night
1988 · 7.6
The Dukes
1983 · 4.5
Enos
1980 · 7.2
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979 · 7.3
Centennial
1978 · 7.7
The Manhunter
1974 · 7.0
Hawkins
1973 · 7.8
The Mod Squad
1968 · 6.1
Lancer
1968 · 5.6
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · 6.3
Felony Squad
1966 · 6.5
The Green Hornet
1966 · 7.3