
James Best
Known for: Acting
Born: July 26, 1926
Died: April 6, 2015
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 unfamili…
Known for

Death Mask
1995

The Killer Shrews
1959

Verboten!
1959

The Brain Machine
1972

Man on the Prowl
1957

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958

The Sweeter Side of Life
2013
Aftermath
1960
Skip Taylor
1953

The Cimarron Kid
1952

The Quick Gun
1964

Return of the Killer Shrews
2012

Black Gold
1962

Last of the Badmen
1957

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952

Run, Simon, Run
1970

Rolling Thunder
1977

Shock Corridor
1963

Ride Lonesome
1959

Moondance Alexander
2007

The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000

Savages
1974

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021

Hot Summer Night
1957

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997

Cast a Long Shadow
1959

The Runaway Barge
1975

Hot Tamale
2006

The Left Handed Gun
1958

The Mountain Road
1960

Ode to Billy Joe
1976

Three on a Couch
1966

Seven Angry Men
1955

Hooper
1978

Sounder
1972

First to Fight
1967

Black Spurs
1965

The Savage Bees
1976

The Naked and the Dead
1958

Kansas Raiders
1950

Steel Town
1952

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013

Firecreek
1968

Comanche Territory
1950

Target Unknown
1951

Air Cadet
1951

Francis Goes to West Point
1952

Seminole
1953

Calling Homicide
1956

Apache Drums
1951

Gaby
1956

City of Bad Men
1953

The Raid
1954

Return from the Sea
1954

Column South
1953

The Rack
1956

Flat Top
1952

Come Next Spring
1956

The Battle at Apache Pass
1952

The Yellow Tomahawk
1954

Riders to the Stars
1954

Shenandoah
1965

I Was a Shoplifter
1950

Top of the World
1955

Peggy
1950

They Rode West
1954

One Way Street
1950

Winchester '73
1950

The End
1978

Forbidden Planet
1956

The Caine Mutiny
1954

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002

Nickelodeon
1976

The Andy Griffith Show
1960

In the Heat of the Night
1988

The Gallant Men
1962

77 Sunset Strip
1958

Burke's Law
1963

Cheyenne
1955

Trackdown
1957

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

The Twilight Zone
1959

Hawkins
1973

Flipper
1964

Surfside 6
1960

Gunsmoke
1955

Perry Mason
1957

Combat!
1962

General Electric Theater
1953

Hawaiian Eye
1959

Centennial
1978

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Redigo
1963

The Man and the Challenge
1959

Felony Squad
1966

Rawhide
1959

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Daniel Boone
1964

The Dukes
1983

The Fugitive
1963

The Millionaire
1955

The Virginian
1962

Lancer
1968

West Point
1956
Lux Video Theatre
1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

The Gene Autry Show
1950

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957

Climax!
1954

Men Into Space
1959

Enos
1980

Bronco
1958

The Lineup
1954

Black Saddle
1959

Lock-Up
1959

The Rebel
1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958

The Rifleman
1958

Bat Masterson
1958

Laramie
1959

Ben Casey
1961

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967

The Texan
1958

Stagecoach West
1960

Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955

Cavalcade of America
1952

The Manhunter
1974

Honey West
1965

Tombstone Territory
1957

General Electric True
1962

The David Niven Show
1959

Overland Trail
1960

Stories of the Century
1954

CMT: Inside Fame
2005

Frontier
1955

The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
Pony Express
1960

Whispering Smith
1961

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959

Hopalong Cassidy
1952

Michael Shayne
1960

Hawk
1966

Behind Closed Doors
1958

The Green Hornet
1966

B.L. Stryker
1989

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960

The Dukes of Hazzard
1979

Bonanza
1959

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

The Mod Squad
1968

Startime
1959

Temple Houston
1963