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James Best

1926 - 2015

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Best has received more than 3,379,886 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). James Best is the 3,991st most popular actor (down from 3,515th in 2019), the 6,058th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,554th in 2019) and the 1,872nd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Best ranks 3,991 out of 9,996Before her are Bernadette Peters, Ronee Blakley, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Virginia Grey, Grace Lee Whitney, and Ikue Ōtani. After her are Lucía Méndez, Anne Jackson, Ewa Aulin, Mark Gatiss, Valeri Zolotukhin, and William Sanderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, James Best ranks 290Before her are Héctor Vilches, Raaj Kumar, Fritz Stern, Rodolfo Pini, Jean Poiret, and Anneliese Rothenberger. After her are Andy Griffith, Bill Sharman, Bernard Agré, Abdur Rahman Biswas, Ali Javan, and René Depestre. Among people deceased in 2015, James Best ranks 258Before her are Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Mario Cuomo, Jaroslav Holík, Oʻtkir Sultonov, Galina Prozumenshchikova, and Grace Lee Whitney. After her are Jackie Collins, Jonah Lomu, Ron Moody, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Klaus Rifbjerg, and Jayakanthan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Best ranks 6,058 out of 18,182Before her are Henry E. Holt (1929), Ronee Blakley (1945), Virginia Grey (1917), Grace Lee Whitney (1930), Leonard Peltier (1944), and Milton S. Hershey (1857). After her are Anne Jackson (1925), Rick Perry (1950), William Sanderson (1944), Larry O'Brien (1917), Tabitha King (1949), and Salmon P. Chase (1808).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, James Best ranks 1,872Before her are Michael Kelly (1969), Tom Lister Jr. (1958), Bernadette Peters (1948), Ronee Blakley (1945), Virginia Grey (1917), and Grace Lee Whitney (1930). After her are Anne Jackson (1925), William Sanderson (1944), Patti LuPone (1949), Shemp Howard (1895), Kevin Dunn (1956), and Nancy Carroll (1903).

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