
James Best
Oyuncu · 1926 – 2015 · Powderly, Kentucky, USA
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 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 known for playing bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. 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, and again in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).
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Film7.3Bilim KurguMaceraDünyadan 17 ışık yılı uzaktaki bir koloniden gelen sinyaller kesildiğinde Kumandan John J. Adams yönetiminde bir uzay gemisi durumu araştırmak üzere bu uzak gezegene yollanır. Burada, görünmez bir canavarın saldırısı sonrasında hayatta kalmış tek insanlar olan dahi bilim adamı Dr. Morbius ve güzel kızı Altaira ile karşılaşırlar.Doktorun müthiş icatlarından biri olan Robot Robby neredeyse her tür işin üstesinden kolaylıkla gelmekte ve ikilinin güvenliğini de bir yere kadar sağlamaktadır. Bulundukları gezegen 200 bin yıl önce Krell isminde esrarengiz bir uzaylı ırkına da ev sahipliği yapmıştır. Krell medeniyetinin gücünü ortaya koyan çeşitli kalıntıların yanısıra bir de Dr. Morbius'un üzerinde oynamaktan zevk aldığı gizemli Krell Laboratuarı vardır. Saldırılar tekrar başladığında Kaptan Adams durumu araştırmaya başlamıştır bile.Fred M. Wilcox'in klasikler arasına geçmiş bu filmi bilim kurgu, romantizm, korku ve hatta mizahı başarılı bir şekilde birbiri içinde eritmeyi başarmış bir yapım.
Film4.9AksiyonKomediA road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa band.
Hot Tamale
2006 · 35 votes
Film7.2DramSavaşİkinci Dünya Savaşı'nın en ateşli zamanlarında, Caine'in kitabına göre davranması yüzünden ikinci kaptan Maryk (Van Johnson) ve tayfası isyana başlarlar. Ancak asıl kırılma noktası bir çok sorgulanan emirinden sonra kaptanın tüm tayfayı Ölüm Tayfunu'na yöneltme emri olur.
Film6.3AksiyonKomediLegendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Hooper
1978 · 147 votes
Film6.0WesternWhen a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
The Left Handed Gun
1958 · 122 votes
Film6.7WesternBir ödül avcısı, katilin kardeşinin peşinde olduğu bir katilin cinayetten yargılanması için ona eşlik eder.
Film7.3WesternKlasik Amerikan sinemasını ve Westerni sevenler, Anthony Mann'ın, John Ford'un hemen yanına konması gereken bir usta olduğunu bilirler. Bu film, iki düşman kardeşin öldürülmüş bir baba ve çalınmış çok değerli bir eski silah çerçevesinde gelişen mücadelesini anlatır. Bu şiddet yüklü intikam öyküsünün sinema tarihi açısından önemi, Mann'ı ilk kez James Stewart'la buluşturmasıdır.
Winchester '73
1950 · 421 votes
Film6.6WesternMajor Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.
Film6.8DramGerilimVietnam gazisi Charles Rane, yıllarca esir kampında kaldıktan sonra evine döner ve bir kahraman gibi karşılanır. Serseriler, hizmeti karşılığında aldığı gümüş paraları çalmak için evine girdiğinde, elini parçalayıp onu ve ailesini ölüme terk ederler. Rane hayatta kalır ve intikam alma takıntısı edinir. Sadık dostu Johnny Vohden'in yardımıyla, artık bir el yerine bir kanca kullanan Rane, intikam görevine koyulur.
Rolling Thunder
1977 · 272 votes
Film5.4KomediRomantikAn artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.
Three on a Couch
1966 · 27 votes
Film5.7DramSavaşÇıplak ve Ölü, Raoul Walsh'un yönettiği ve Norman Mailer'in 1948 tarihli aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan, 1958 yapımı bir İkinci Dünya Savaşı filmidir. Senaryoyu Denis ve Terry Sanders kardeşler yazdı ve film Panama'da Technicolor filmiyle çekildi. Film, romandaki hikayeye bir striptiz ve aksiyon sahnesi katıyor.
Film6.0KomediIn the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Nickelodeon
1976 · 60 votes
Film6.6WesternA young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.
Cast a Long Shadow
1959 · 13 votes
Film7.0DramGerilimAkıllı gazeteci Johnny Barrett, akıl hastanesinde işlenen bir cinayeti çözüp Pulitzer Ödülünü kazanmayı kafaya koymuştur. Yapılacak en kurnaz hareket de deli numarası yaparak akıl hastanesine girmektir. Johnny’nin hastanedekilerle iletişime geçmesi çok zor olmaz, ancak hiçbir şey göründüğü gibi değildir. Ortada içinden çıkılması güç bir durum vardır, dahası yavaş yavaş kendisinde de delilik emareleri görünmeye başlamıştır.
Film6.9WesternSavaşCharlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.
Shenandoah
1965 · 166 votes
Film7.5DramThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Sounder
1972 · 58 votes
Film6.2WesternOutlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
City of Bad Men
1953 · 7 votes
Film5.6KomediWendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
The End
1978 · 73 votes
Film5.8TV MovieKomediDesiree Harper’ın trajikomik hayatını farklı bakış açılarından görebilmenin hissiyatını yaşayacağınız bu fimde kocasından ayrılan bir kadının hayatını izleyeceksiniz. Mutlu olabilmenin sadece paraya bağlı olmadığını, aksine mutluluk için aile, dost, samimiyet ve kanaat gibi erdemlerin yeterli olduğunu anlatan güzel bir film.
Film5.2BelgeselTarihA comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
Film7.6BelgeselAnchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining tribute to the iconic Gore Vidal. Commentary by those who knew him best—including filmmaker/nephew Burr Steers and the late Christopher Hitchens—blends with footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time.
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013 · 34 votes
Film6.2WesternA peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
Firecreek
1968 · 83 votes
Film5.8BelgeselTV MovieSamuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · 4 votes
Film5.4TV MovieAksiyonMama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race. Because that's how things get settled in Hazzard.
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997 · 28 votes
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Dizi7.7GizemDramThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
1957 · 140 votes
Dizi7.5WesternAksiyon ve MaceraThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Bonanza
1959 · 500 votes
Dizi7.6KomediAileAndy Taylor is the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · 175 votes
Dizi7.3Aksiyon ve MaceraDramRichard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
The Fugitive
1963 · 63 votes
Dizi7.9SuçGizemA continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · 85 votes
Dizi7.3WesternAksiyon ve MaceraHave Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · 44 votes
Dizi3.8DramGizemClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
Climax!
1954 · 12 votes
Dizi7.1Aksiyon ve MaceraWesternThe Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
The Rifleman
1958 · 54 votes
Dizi8.5Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikGizem"İnsanoğlunun bildiğinin ötesinde beşinci bir boyut vardır. Uzay kadar geniş ve sonsuzluk kadar zamansız bir boyut. Işık ile gölge, bilim ile hurafe arasındaki orta yoldur ve insanın korku çukuru ile bilgisinin zirvesi arasında yer alır. Bu, hayal gücünün boyutudur. Alacakaranlık Kuşağı dediğimiz bir alandır." Her bölümde farklı oyuncularla, farklı konuların işlendiği, bilim kurgu, korku ve gerilim öğelerini barındıran beş sezonluk dizi, bu türdeki dizilerin öncülüğünü yapmaktadır.
Dizi6.5WesternDramThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
The Virginian
1962 · 35 votes
Dizi6.2WesternDramCheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Cheyenne
1955 · 26 votes
Dizi5.9DramBen Casey
1961 · 15 votes
Dizi7.0Aksiyon ve MaceraWesternDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
Daniel Boone
1964 · 34 votes
Dizi7.9Savaş ve PolitikaDramCombat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
Combat!
1962 · 120 votes
Dizi6.7WesternAksiyon ve MaceraGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Gunsmoke
1955 · 119 votes
Dizi7.1WesternAksiyon ve MaceraWanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · 38 votes
Dizi7.3WesternDramThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Rawhide
1959 · 50 votes
Dizi6.2DramBurke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Burke's Law
1963 · 12 votes
Dizi7.4Aksiyon ve MaceraDramCousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979 · 364 votes
Dizi6.4WesternDramBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
Bat Masterson
1958 · 16 votes
Dizi7.8GizemDramFarklı geçmişlerden cinayetler, intiharlar, hırsızlıklar ve algılanan veya algılanamayan belirli motivasyonların neden olduğu diğer suç türlerine ilişkin suç, korku, drama ve komedi unsurlarını kapsayan ilgisiz kısa öyküler dizisi.
Dizi7.2SuçDramStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · 26 votes
Dizi7.6SuçDramIn the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and Carroll O'Connor. TGG Direct released the first season of the series to DVD on August 28, 2012.
In the Heat of the Night
1988 · 69 votes
Dizi5.6SuçDramPrivate Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · 10 votes