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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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...
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Perry MasonSeries • 1957
BonanzaSeries • 1959
The Andy Griffith ShowSeries • 1960
The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries • 1962
The FugitiveSeries • 1963
The VirginianSeries • 1962
The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1959
Have Gun, Will TravelSeries • 1957
Combat!Series • 1962
The RiflemanSeries • 1958
Climax!Series • 1954
CheyenneSeries • 1955
Daniel BooneSeries • 1964
Ben CaseySeries • 1961
RawhideSeries • 1959
Wanted: Dead or AliveSeries • 1958
Burke's LawSeries • 1963
The Dukes of HazzardSeries • 1979
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries • 1955
GunsmokeSeries • 1955
77 Sunset StripSeries • 1958
Hawaiian EyeSeries • 1959
Bat MastersonSeries • 1958
LaramieSeries • 1959