James Best, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Best

American actor, musician, artist

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1926

Place of Birth: Powderly, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 06-Apr-2015

Profession: screenwriter, actor, voice actor, film producer, television actor, film actor, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015), known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician.
During a career that spanned more than 60 years, he performed not only in feature films but also in scores of television series, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows.
Television audiences, however, perhaps most closely associate Best with his role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P.
Coltrane in the action-comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard, which originally aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985.
He reprised the role in 1997 and 2000 for the made-for-television movies The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! and The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).