James Best
Nascimento : 1926-07-26, Powderly, Kentucky, USA
Morte : 2015-04-06
História
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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. Best's long career began in films in 1950. He appeared primarily in Westerns, playing opposite Audie Murphy in Kansas Raiders (1950), The Cimarron Kid (1952) and The Quick Gun (1964), Raymond Massey in Seven Angry Men (1955), George Montgomery in Last of the Badman (1957), Frank Lovejoy in Cole Younger Gunfighter (1958), and Randolph Scott in Ride Lonesome (1959). He also starred in the science fiction cult movie, The Killer Shrews (1959) and its sequel, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012). He is most known for playing bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action/comedy Dukes of Hazzard, a role that he revised in The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) as his character was now "boss" of Hazzard County as well as sheriff, and again in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).
Paddy Kerrigan
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.
Writer
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.
Thorne Sherman
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.
McClancy
Uma menina solitária encontra um cavalo que havia fugido e o leva de volta ao seu dono. Percebendo o potencial do animal, ela convence o mal-humorado dono do cavalo a treiná-la para uma prestigiada competição de saltos.
Hank Larson
A road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa band.
Sgt. David Brent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
Rosco P. Coltrane
The Duke Boys and company travel to Hollywood to sell some musical recordings in order to raise money to build a new hospital in Hazzard County. However, when their recordings and money are stolen, they wind up on the run from mysterious hitmen, sleazy record producers, Russian gangsters, and vicious loan sharks.
Wilbur Johnson
Wilbur works in an old carnival and shows some gruesome things to the public. He covers his face because he had a sadistic father who burned his face as a child. Everybody makes jokes about his scars and when the new boss fires him, he goes to an old swamp-witch who gives him a peace of wood from a hanging tree. Wilbur makes a mask from this piece of wood and puts all his anger in this mask. When he puts the mask on, everybody who looks at him commits suicide.
Writer
Wilbur works in an old carnival and shows some gruesome things to the public. He covers his face because he had a sadistic father who burned his face as a child. Everybody makes jokes about his scars and when the new boss fires him, he goes to an old swamp-witch who gives him a peace of wood from a hanging tree. Wilbur makes a mask from this piece of wood and puts all his anger in this mask. When he puts the mask on, everybody who looks at him commits suicide.
Boss / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race. Because that's how things get settled in Hazzard.
Co-Writer
Sonney Hooper é considerado por todos o melhor dublê que já apareceu. Mas ele sabe que está ficando velho. E é nesse momento que surge o novato Ski, que consegue proezas ainda mais impactantes e perigosas. Mas somente Hooper tem experiência de realizar tudo com segurança. Assim Ski une-se a Hooper para que juntos possam superar qualquer um.
Cully
Sonney Hooper é considerado por todos o melhor dublê que já apareceu. Mas ele sabe que está ficando velho. E é nesse momento que surge o novato Ski, que consegue proezas ainda mais impactantes e perigosas. Mas somente Hooper tem experiência de realizar tudo com segurança. Assim Ski une-se a Hooper para que juntos possam superar qualquer um.
Pacemaker Patient
Burt Reynolds está aqui no papel de um homem que, ao saber que tem pouco tempo de vida, procura antecipar-se ao talvez, doloroso fim. Mas tanto fracassa em todas as suas tentativas que resolve desistir. Porém, um maníaco de origem polonesa cisma de ajudá-lo a dar fim à própria vida.
Associate Producer
Burt Reynolds está aqui no papel de um homem que, ao saber que tem pouco tempo de vida, procura antecipar-se ao talvez, doloroso fim. Mas tanto fracassa em todas as suas tentativas que resolve desistir. Porém, um maníaco de origem polonesa cisma de ajudá-lo a dar fim à própria vida.
Texan
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.
Jim
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Pellegrino
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Production Assistant
After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose custody of his 9-year-old daughter unless he helps bring down local crime lord Bama McCall. McKlusky enlists the help of reporter Aggie Maybank and a few local eccentrics to bring down McCall's empire.
Dewey Barksdale
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.
Bingo Washington
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
Sheriff Bert Hamilton
Ben Campbell, a 22 year old gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money. He is surprised when Madec, a wealthy lawyer, asks him to be his guide on a hunting trip in the desert. When Madec accidentally shoots a prospector, he is fearful of what it will do his reputation and decides to eliminate the only witness, Ben, who is forced to go on the run. In addition to being hunted by Madec, Ben must also contend with the harsh desert elements. But if he does make it back to town alive, will anyone believe his story?
Sheriff Charlie Young
Na década de 1930, Nathan Lee Morgan, um negro arrendatário do estado da Louisiana, é condenado à prisão por um crime irrisório. Após alguns meses, seu filho é enviado para visitá-lo na cadeia, viagem na qual vive inúmeras aventuras.
Rev. Emory Neill
Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.
Henry Burroughs
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
Drew
Cinco perigosos foragidos chegam a uma insignificante localidade do Arizona. E, enquanto o seu chefe recebe tratamento a um ferimento no peito, os seus apaniguados entregam-se aos prazeres da bebida, acabando por molestar a pacífica população da terra. O que esgota a paciência do inexperiente xerife local e provoca a sua intervenção...
Sergeant Carnavan
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
Dr. Ben Mizer
Christopher Pride (Jerry Lewis) é um pintor que foi recentemente premiado e vai viajar para Paris. Planejando matar dois coelhos com uma só cajadada, ele planeja ir com Elizabeth Acord (Janet Leigh), sua noiva, uma psicanalista, pois se casarão no navio e terão sua lua-de-mel em Paris. Mas ela se recusa a partir, pois tem três jovens pacientes que tiveram desilusões com os homens e passaram a ter problemas de relacionamento com o sexo oposto, se tornando dependentes da sua terapeuta. Assim o artista se faz passar por homens que preenchem os requisitos das moças, pois quando sua noiva as ver recuperadas viajará. Mas nem tudo sai como o planejado.
Carter, Rebel Soldier
Charlie Anderson é um rico fazendeiro que mantém sua fazenda com a ajuda de sua família em Shenandoah, Virgínia. Ele tenta manter sua mulher a salvo da Guerra Civil Americana mantendo-se em paz e isolamento. Apesar de fortemente contrário à escravidão, sua relutância em relação à batalha o impede de se aliar a qualquer um dos lados. Mas quando seu filho é sequestrado pelas forças do Norte, ele terá de repensar todas as suas crenças se quiser tê-lo de volta vivo...
Ralph Elkins
Quando Santee (Rory Calhoun) descobre que a mulher que ama se casou com o xerife de uma cidade, ele se une a um desonesto latifundiário e faz de tudo para destruir a reputação do lugar, impedindo que uma nova ferrovia seja construída por lá.
Scotty Wade
Pistoleiro retorna à cidade natal para assumir os bens de seu pai. Ao chegar, percebe que os moradores o evitam por conta de seu passado. Só que ele tenta se redimir para cumprir a sua missão.
Stuart
Um jornalista ambicioso se compromete a resolver um assassinato cometido dentro de um asilo, o que ele considera uma grande chance para conquistar o Prêmio Pulitzer.
Jericho Larkin
Two friends join together to strike oil during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s, and wind up fighting over the same oil wells and the same girl.
Niergaard
In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.
Sam Mullen
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.
Thorne Sherman
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans....
Sgt. David Brent
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
Billy John
Caçador de recompensas, para vingar-se, captura irmão de fora da lei, como isca pra atraí-lo, a ele se juntam outros dois caçadores de recompensa e uma mulher.
Rhidges
Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.
Tom Folliard
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - arruma emprego com um criador de gado conhecido como 'The Englishman', e fica amigo desse homem pacífico e religioso. Mas quando um desonesto xerife e seus homens matam o inglês porque ele planeja abastecer o forte do exército com sua carne, Billy decide vingar essa morte matando os quatro homens responsáveis mas acaba envolvendo nesse tumulto a vida de todos ao seu redor - Tom e Charlie, dois parceiros com as quais ele trabalhou; Pat Garret, que está prestes a se casar; E o gentil casal mexicano que o abriga quando está com problemas. Para piorar isso está ameaçando a Anistia Geral criada pelo governador Wallace para trazer a paz ao território do Novo México. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Kit Caswell
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
Doug Gerhardt
A neglected wife (Mala Powers) unknowingly places her family in danger when she becomes friends with a psychologically disturbed deliveryman (James Best).
Ted Hamilton
Chicago detectives in the 1880s head west to find the killers of their colleague.
Kermit
An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
Millard Chilson Cassidy
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
Jim
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
Crewman (uncredited)
Uma expedição liderada pelo Comandante John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) viaja rumo a um planeta distante para descobrir o que aconteceu com os cientistas que foram para lá iniciar uma colônia. Apenas um é encontrado: O arrogante Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), que vive em companhia da filha, Altaira (Anne Francis) e de um prestativo robô.
Bill Jackson
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
Col. French's Orderly (uncredited)
A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska.
Jason Brown
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Lt. Robinson
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Barr
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
Lt. JG Jorgensen
Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial Willie Keith (Robert Francis), um jovem oficial, se incorpora à tripulação do Caine, um navio de menor porte que funciona como caça-minas. O imediato Steve Maryk (Van Johnson) e o tenente Tom Keefer (Fred MacMurray) também fazem parte do staff. Logo depois da chegada de Willie, o capitão DeVriess (Tom Tully) é substituído pelo capitão Philip Francis Queeg (Humphrey Bogart), que logo impõe sua autoridade e sua neurose acerca de limpeza, pois é de seu intento comandar um navio imaculado, onde até uma camisa fora de calça é motivo de séria advertência. Esta neurose faz com que ele se distraia e navegue em círculos, além de cortar seu próprio cabo de reboque. Incidentes adicionais indicam que Queeg está sofrendo de stress. Maryk acha estranho o comportamento do capitão e Keefer insidiosamente planta a semente, dizendo que Queeg está próximo de um colapso nervoso. e 10.
Private Bliss
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
Dr. Sidney K. Fuller
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Deputy Gig
Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
Primrose
Estamos às vésperas da Guerra de Secessão, no Forte Union, território do Novo México. O tenente da União Jed Sayre, simpático à causa dos Navajos, luta para manter a paz entre brancos e índios. Mas o novo comandante, Capitão Lee Whitlock, pai da bela Marcy, acha que índio bom é índio morto. Escaramuças de ambos os lados sucedem-se num crescendo, com o renegado Menguito à frente dos nativos. As hostilidades são incentivadas pelo General Storey, cujo fim é fazer com que os soldados desertem em favor dos confederados.
Corp. Gerad
Um tenente da cavalaria relata seus esforços para fazer as pazes com a tribo indígena Seminole. Tendo uma experiência estratégica bem-vinda nos pântanos quentes e úmidos da Flórida e na tribo local dos índios Seminole, o brilhante e ético graduado de West Point, Segundo Tenente Lance Caldwell, é transferido para o perigoso posto avançado de Everglades, em 1835. Supostamente impedindo o desenvolvimento da civilização branca, os Seminoles devem ser expulsos de suas terras nativas a todo custo; tudo o que existe entre as aspirações do comandante venenoso e o último dos clãs indianos é Caldwell. Mais cedo ou mais tarde, um sentinela morto e um confronto violento com os homens do poderoso líder Seminole, Chefe Osceola, mancharão os vastos e intransitáveis pântanos com sangue, enquanto uma linda mulher com muita força de vontade fica no meio da disputa. Poderá Caldwell ser a voz da razão e do compromisso?
Cpl. Ransom
Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.
Cpl. Hassett
O oficial da cavalaria dos EUA, major Jim Colton (John Lund), é um líder compreensivo que tem um relacionamento de trabalho com o líder do Apache Cochise ( Jeff Chandler). O major Colton é prejudicado pelo agente indiano corrupto e politicamente ambicioso Neil Baylor (Bruce Cowling), que inicia um ataque falso e o sequestro do filho de um fazendeiro local. Enquanto Colton está investigando o assunto, Baylor convence o tenente George Bascom (John Hudson) de que a banda de Cochise é a culpada e o incita a liderar uma expedição contra a banda Apache para devolver o garoto. A expedição termina em desastre, com reféns executados de ambos os lados. Os Apaches e Cavalaria mais tarde se encontram em uma batalha no Apache Pass, a primeira vez que os índios encontram artilharia moderna (para a época)
Joe Rakich
Steve Kostain (Lund), nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the daughter, "Red" (Sheridan), who is already involved with another steelworker, Jim (Duff.) Although he is at first has a hard time with his co-workers, he eventually wins them over, and also wins the girl.
Bitter Creek Dalton
Bill Doolin injustamente acusado por funcionários da estrada de ferro de ajudar um assalto de trem por seus antigos amigos, os Daltons, ele se junta a sua gangue e torna-se um participante ativo em outros roubos.
Marvin Johnson
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Bert Keon
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Jerry Connell
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
Sgt. Ralph Phelps
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
Cole Younger
Os irmãos Jesse e Frank James, além de Cole e James Younger e ainda Kit Dalton, juntam-se ao bando de Quantrill, um Confederado que após a Guerra de Secessão dedica-se a saquear e matar civis, pretensamente em nome da causa. Quando percebe que todos não passam de simples bandidos, Jesse tenta ir embora, mas é convencido a ficar por Kate, a amante de Quantrill. Entre um ataque e outro, os passos da quadrilha são descobertos pelos soldados Ianques, que se aprontam para desbaratá-la.
Crater
A trajetória de um rifle dado como premio, de um malfadada proprietário para outro, em paralelo a busca de um cowboy por um fugitivo assassino. Em um concurso de tiro ao alvo, Lin McAdam ganha um famoso rifle Winchester, que é imediatamente roubada pelo vice-campeão, Dutch Henry Brown. Esta "história de um rifle" prossegue contando a busca de McAdams, e como o rifle muda de mãos, até o um confronto final em um precipício numa montanha rochosa.
Frank Addison
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Sam
Irmãos e vilões, Maureen O'Hara e Charles Drake vão perturbar o sossego dos comanches para garimpar prata. É então que surge o simpático desbravador MacDonald Carey, que, ao som de um beijo estalado, traz a moça de volta ao bom caminho. Mas o irmão dela é mau de nascença e a luta será cruenta.
