1926 - 2015
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.
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Among actors, James Best ranks 3,991 out of 9,996. Before 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.
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 3,985
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,986
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,987
1917 - 2004
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,988
1930 - 2015
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,989
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 3,990
1926 - 2015
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,991
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,992
1925 - 2016
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,993
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,994
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,995
1941 - 2013
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 3,996
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 3,997
Among people born in 1926, James Best ranks 290. Before 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 258. Before 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.
1926 - 1998
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 284
1926 - 1996
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 285
1926 - 2016
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 286
1926 - 2000
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 287
1926 - 1992
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 288
1926 - 2010
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 289
1926 - 2015
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 290
1926 - 2012
HPI: 47.40
Rank: 291
1926 - 2013
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 292
1926 - 2014
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 293
1926 - 2017
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 294
1926 - 2016
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 295
1926 - Present
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 296
1949 - 2015
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 252
1932 - 2015
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 253
1942 - 2015
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 254
1939 - 2015
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 255
1948 - 2015
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 256
1930 - 2015
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 257
1926 - 2015
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 258
1937 - 2015
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 259
1975 - 2015
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 260
1924 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 261
1934 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 262
1931 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 263
1934 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 264
Among people born in United States, James Best ranks 6,058 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1929 - 2019
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 6,052
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 6,053
1917 - 2004
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 6,054
1930 - 2015
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 6,055
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 6,056
1857 - 1945
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 6,057
1926 - 2015
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 6,058
1925 - 2016
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 6,059
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 6,060
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 6,061
1917 - 1990
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 6,062
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 6,063
1808 - 1873
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 6,064
Among actors born in United States, James Best ranks 1,872. Before 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).
1969 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 1,866
1958 - 2020
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 1,867
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 1,868
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 1,869
1917 - 2004
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 1,870
1930 - 2015
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 1,871
1926 - 2015
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 1,872
1925 - 2016
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 1,873
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 1,874
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 1,875
1895 - 1955
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 1,876
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 1,877
1903 - 1965
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 1,878