<Tr> <Th> Parent (s) </Th> <Td> Lena Mae (née Everly) Guy (sister of Ike Everly, father of Don and Phil Everly) and Larkin Jasper Guy </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> One of the busiest actors in Hollywood, who began his contract career with Universal Studios in 1949, Best's long career began in films in 1950, appearing 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 noted as playing bumbling Sheriff Rosco Pervis 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 & again in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000). </P> <P> James Best was born as Jewel Franklin Guy on July 26, 1926, in Powderly, Kentucky, to Lark and Lena Guy . His mother was the sister of Ike Everly, the father of the pop duo The Everly Brothers . After his mother died of tuberculosis in 1929, then three - year - old James was sent to live in an orphanage . He was later adopted by Armen Best (1897--1984) and his wife, Essa Myrtle (née Knowland; 1896--1988) and went to live with them in Corydon, Indiana . He served honorably in the United States Army in World War II, training in 1944 in Biloxi, Mississippi, as a gunner on a B - 17 bomber; but by the time he finished training the war was almost at an end and he joined the Military Police . As an MP, Best played a role in bringing stability to war - torn Germany immediately after their surrender . While stationed in Germany, Best transferred out of the MP and joined a special services unit of actors for the US Army that travelled around Europe performing plays for the troops . This was the true beginning of his acting career . </P>

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