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, where he met unfamiliar actors Julie Adams, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson. Best's long career began in films in 1950. He appeared primarily in Westerns, playing opposite Audie Murphy in Kansas Raiders (1950), The Cimarron Kid (1952) and The Quick Gun (1964), Raymond Massey in Seven Angry Men (1955), George Montgomery in Last of the Badman (1957), Frank Lovejoy in Cole Younger Gunfighter (1958), and Randolph Scott in Ride Lonesome (1959). He also starred in the science fiction cult movie, The Killer Shrews (1959) and its sequel, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012). He is most known for playing bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action/comedy Dukes of Hazzard, a role that he revised in The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) as his character was now "boss" of Hazzard County as well as sheriff, and again in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000). James Best(1926년생, Powderly, Kentucky, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 핫 터말리, 왼손잡이 건맨, 외로이 달리다가 있으며, 그 외에도 Perry Mason, The Andy Griffith Show, 보난자, The Rifleman, The Fugitive, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 환상특급, The Virginian, Rawhide, Have Gun, Will Travel, Cheyenne, 전투 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2021년 Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!에 출연했다. 2013년 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia에 출연했다. 2013년 The Sweeter Side of Life에서 Paddy Kerrigan 역을 맡았다.