James Best has died.

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He played Roscoe P. Coltrane on the Dukes of Hazzard.

Article here.

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My beloved childhood dog was called Rosco after that character.

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…used to have the Dukes of Hazard album. This was my favourite song:

RIP

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Horrendous!

I blame Sheriff Little of Chickasaw County.

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So I guess there won’t be a Killer Shrews III
Three years ago, James best wrote and starred in a sequel to his old 1959 movie the Killer Shrews. His wife co-produced. This time they had CGI shrews, instead of dogs in carpet-based costumes.

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I remember him from occasional appearances on The Twilight Zone and The Andy Griffith Show.

And I should have known that it would be Cal who brought up The Killer Shrews. K-I-Double L-E-R shrews!

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He’ll never get those Duke boys now.

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It’s that cursed Jess-Belle’s fault.

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Oh, man, Mayberry lost its best guitarist.

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I always got him confused with James Hampton, the guy who played Dobbs on “F Troop”.

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“Enos, yeeeeeew dipstick!”

Hope he’s playing fetch with Flash, up in Heaven.

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To me he’ll always be Jim Lindsey, Andy Griffith’s guitar-playing friend on “The Andy Griffith Show”. He appeared as the character in two episodes.

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Of course, there was also his greatest movie role, one he deserved an Oscar for.

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He made a sequel – wrote and starred in it… His wife was a co-producer. See #5 above.

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I have a genuine and wholly unironic desire to see this movie.

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As noted above, he was in Twilight Zone. Not just once, but three times: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank, Jesse-Belle, and, one of my personal favorites, The Grave, with Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, and Lee van Cleef.

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I’ve seen him in a lot of westerns made in the 50’s. I think he, Deforest Kelly or Lee van Cleef were in every crowd scene. He had a few speaking lines with the young Tony Curtis in Winchester '73. As army troopers they were attacked by Indian chief, Rock Hudson.

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“The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” Is the best TZ episode ever made. And James was great in it.