JAMES BEST
ACTING
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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.
- Hot Tamale 2006
- Firecreek 1968
- Shenandoah 1965
- Run, Simon, Run 1970
- Rolling Thunder 1977
- Shock Corridor 1963
- Death Mask 1998
- Ride Lonesome 1959
- Moondance Alexander 2007
- Winchester '73 1950
- The Left Handed Gun 1958
- The Cimarron Kid 1952
- The Killer Shrews 1959
- The Naked and the Dead 1958
- Hooper 1978
- Seminole 1953
- Calling Homicide 1956
- The Rack 1956
- Apache Drums 1951
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller 2002
- Verboten! 1959
- The Brain Machine 1972
- Comanche Territory 1950
- Hot Summer Night 1957
- Kansas Raiders 1950
- The Mountain Road 1960
- The Quick Gun 1964
- Gaby 1956
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! 1997
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood 2000
- Man on the Prowl 1957
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter 1958
- Return of the Killer Shrews 2012
- One Way Street 1950
- Nickelodeon 1976
- Cast a Long Shadow 1959
- Top of the World 1955
- The Sweeter Side of Life 2013
- The End 1978
- Target Unknown 1951
- City of Bad Men 1953
- Ode to Billy Joe 1976
- Come Next Spring 1956
- Last of the Badmen 1957
- Three on a Couch 1966
- Air Cadet 1951
- Sounder 1972
- The Battle at Apache Pass 1952
- Forbidden Planet 1956
- The Raid 1954
- First to Fight 1967
- Black Spurs 1965
- The Yellow Tomahawk 1954
- The Caine Mutiny 1954
- Return from the Sea 1954
- The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made 2004
- Francis Goes to West Point 1952
- Peggy 1950
- Seven Angry Men 1955
- Column South 1953
- Steel Town 1952
- Riders to the Stars 1954
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair 1952
- The Savage Bees 1976
- The Andy Griffith Show 1960
- Burke's Law 1963
- The Twilight Zone 1959
- Hawkins 1973
- Gunsmoke 1955
- Perry Mason 1957
- Combat! 1962
- General Electric Theater 1953
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
- Rawhide 1959
- Daniel Boone 1964
- The Dukes 1983
- The Fugitive 1963
- The Virginian 1962
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1957
- Climax! 1954
- Black Saddle 1959
- The Rebel 1959
- Wanted: Dead or Alive 1958
- Bat Masterson 1958
- Honey West 1965
- The Green Hornet 1966
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show 1960
- The Dukes of Hazzard 1979
- Bonanza 1959
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962