If, when I was 7 years old, I was asked to make a list of my favorite fictional characters, it would have looked something like: In the mid-‘90s, Country Music Television started airing repeats of The ...

James Best, the actor who played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, passed away Monday night. He was 88. Born Jewel Franklin Guy in Powderly, KY, in 1926, the actor was adopted after ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The prolific actor best known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard” has died. James Best was 88. His wife, Dorothy Best, said Tuesday that Best died ...

HICKORY, N.C. -- Prolific character actor James Best, best known for playing the giggling and inept Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on "The Dukes of Hazzard," has died. He was 88. His wife of 29 years, ...

Kevin Lang remembers his earliest encounter with his hero. He was 9 years old. Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, accompanied by his basset hound, “Flash,” was in Detroit, signing autographs. Lang didn’t meet ...

Remember Bo and Luke Duke, the General Lee, and Rosco P. Coltrane? The "Dukes of Hazzard" TV series ran for seven years onCBS. Now, it is the subject of a new computer game called "Dukes of Hazzard, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HICKORY, N.C. — Actor James Best, who is ...

James Best played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, the bumbling minion of Jefferson Davis ‘Boss’ Hogg, a corrupt county commissioner and the show's bad guy. CBS Getty Images James Best, whose prolific ...

"The Dukes of Hazzard" actor James Best has died at the age of 88, according to multiple reports. His website announced Tuesday that he died Monday night in Hickory, North Carolina, after a brief ...

James Best, who played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on "The Dukes of Hazzard," died Monday night at the age of 88, according to The Charlotte Observer. He died from complications of pneumonia, according ...

James Best, known for playing the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on the 1980s comedy “The Dukes of Hazzard,” has died. He was 88. Best died Monday night at a hospice center in Hickory, N.C., after ...