Posted on 04/07/2015 12:38:32 PM PDT by cotton1706
James Best, whose prolific career included 83 movies and 600 TV shows but is best remembered for his role as Rosco P. Coltrane, the bumbling sheriff of Hazzard, died Monday night in Hickory.
Best was 88. He died in hospice after a brief illness of complications from pneumonia, said Steve Latshaw, a longtime friend and Hollywood colleague.
Best’s career included roles in such movies as “The Caine Mutiny” with Humphrey Bogart and “Shenandoah” with Jimmy Stewart. After television came to the fore in the 1950s, Best found roles on popular shows like “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “The Andy Griffith Show.”
But it was in “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a rural comedy that ran on CBS from 1979 to 1985, that Best became a national figure. As Hazzard’s ever-frustrated lawman catching the dickens from a demanding Boss Hogg, he found himself constantly in pursuit – and ever outwitted – by Luke and Bo Duke in their Dodge Charger “General Lee.”
“I acted the part as good as I could,” said Best in a 2009 interview with The Charlotte Obsserer. “Rosco – let’s face it – was a charmer. It was a fun thing.”
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I’ve seen him in episodes of the Twilight Zone. R.I.P.
I met him in 1982. Of course, I was 7.
I thought he died months ago
I wonder if Daisy will need some comforting tonight.
I thought he died months ago
A few years ago
“Twilight Zone” was the first thing I thought of. He was on one just a few days ago. Also in one with the girl from “Forbidden Planet”.
Probably other episodes too.
Yes, we've been told AG was liberal but this is about James Best, rest in peace. On the AG show he played a guitar in a few of those episodes.
Born in Kentucky.
I’ll always remember him as the leading actor in “The Killer Shrews”.
Never saw Dukes of Hazard.
Never heard of him til MeTV.
He was on Andy Griffith as a guitar player.
He was on Twilight Zone (one just on Sunday).
RIP Mr. Best. 88 years is a long life..... I hope he made it a life worthwhile and fun.
Da da da dag gum them Dukes!
One thing about the Dukes which did not make sense is they could not carry guns because they were on probation for moon shining.
So what do they do? They use bows and arrows with dynamite attached to the arrows.
“The Last Rights of Jeff Myrtlebank”
[[I wonder if Daisy will need some comforting tonight.]]
I’m sure she’d love some company at the nursing home she lives in lol- j/k She was a hottie
Makes sense to me.
Well thank you very much !!!
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