James Best
James Best was born in Powderly, Kentucky, United States on July 26th, 1926 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 88, James Best biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926-1926) – commonly known as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor as well as a writer, producer, actor, college professor, and singer.
He appeared in more than 60 films but also in scores of television series, as well as appearing on various country music websites and talk shows.
However, television viewers may be more familiar with Best's role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action-comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard, which first aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985.
In 1997 and 2000, he appeared in the made-for-television film The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! Hazzard, The Dukes of Hazzard (2000): In Hollywood, the Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard's Hazzard.
Early years
Best was born in Powderly, Kentucky, on July 26, 1926, to Lark and Lena (née Everly) Guy. Ike Everly, the father of the pop pair the Everly Brothers, was Lena Guy's brother. After his mother died of tuberculosis in 1929, three-year-old James was sent to live in an orphanage. He was later adopted by Armen Best and his partner, Essa Myrtle (née Knowland), and moved to Corydon, Indiana, where they lived.
Best served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, serving as a gunner on a B-17 bomber in Biloxi, Mississippi; but by the time he finished his service, the war had almost ended, so he was posted to the army's law enforcement section. Best served in war-torn Germany immediately after the Nazi government's dissolution in May 1945, as an "MP." While stationed in Germany, Best soon transitioned from the military police to an army unit of soldiers who travelled around Europe delivering troops. Those experiences influenced his acting career from the start.
Personal life
Gary Best's first wife and his son Gary. Best married Jobee Ayers in 1959, his second wife. Before divorcing in 1977, the couple had two daughters, Janeen and JoJami. Janeen Best, then Janeen Damian, became an actress, screenwriter, and producer after her 1998 marriage to actor and producer Michael Damian. In 1986, Best married Dorothy Collier, his third wife. He had three grandchildren.
He had a wide variety of hobbies and interests. He was a natural painter, a guitarist, and a black belt in karate; loved writing; and ran his own acting school. Lindsay Wagner, Roger Miller, Glen Campbell, Quentin Tarantino, and Regis Philbin were among his students. He was also an animal rights activist.
Film career
Best began his work at Universal Studios in 1949, where he met Julie Adams, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis, Mamie Van Doren, and Rock Hudson. He appeared in many uncredited roles for Universal, including in the 1950 film One Way Street, but credited performances followed that year in the Westerns Comanche Territory, Winchester '73, and the Kansas Raiders. Cole Younger Gunfighter (1959), Firecreek (1968), and The Cimarron Kid (1952), which included scenes in The Cimarron Kid (1952), Seven Angry Men (1956), and Firecreek (1968). However, Best's film careers were not limited to Westerns. In the 1961 film adaptation of Norman Mailer's The Killer Shrews as an army medic Rhidges, as the cross-dressing Dewey Barksdale in the 1976 drama Ode to Billy Joe, he appeared in the 1959 science fiction film The Killer Shrews and in its 2012 sequel Return of the Killer Shrews. In the 1978 film "Hooper," he appeared alongside Burt Reynolds' partner Cully.