James Best, a character actor best known for playing the giggling and inept Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” died April 6 in Hickory, N.C. He was 88. His wife of 29 years ...

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 ...

Actor James Best, who is best known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” died Monday night. He was 88 years old. Best died in Hickory, North Carolina after ...

Rosco P. Coltrane. To be fair, since then, I’m not certain this list as changed that much. (In college, I somehow wound up playing both Jack Tripper and Rosco P. Coltrane in an auditorium in ...

Actor James Best died last week at age 88. He was best known for playing Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard." NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with him in 2013.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The prolific character 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 ...

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. L… ...

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.

The prolific actor was best known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on the CBS comedy that ran from 1979 to 1985 Latest U.S.