Goodbye Roscoe P. Coltrane.

[gregintenn]

http://www.jamesbest.com/jamesbest.com/Welcome.html

He was quite a guy and a great source of entertainment to me.

Edited April 7, 2015 by gregintenn

[Hozzie]

Yep, the Duke's was on of my favorite shows growing up.  Today if would be considered racist. 

 

RIP Roscoe!

[Caster]

Rest in Peace Roscoe.  

 

 

Now he can be reunited with his best friend.   :usa:

[raildog]

Yea saw this when i got to work this morning. Made me think of waching reruns in the afternoons after school with my grandparents as a kid

[peejman]

:(

 

That stinks. Loved that show and he was my favorite character. 

[bersaguy]

He will surely be missed and he was always entertaining in what ever movie or show he performed in. RIP Mr Best (Roscoe)

[monkeylizard]

John Schneider said in an interview that Jimmy helped him and the other young actors immensley by coaching them and sharing his deep knowledge of the TV acting business with them. He had a real passion for the craft and ran an acting school in Hollywood for 25 years, then he taught drama at various universities after semi-retiring from acting.

[runco]

Very sad.  I have the complete DVD set in my ebay watching for the kids.  I want my kids to enjoy what I enjoyed growing up.

[Pete123]

I really enjoyed the show as well.  All of "The Ponderosa" folks are gone as well.

 

We lost James Arness from Gunsmoke a few years ago.

[hipower]

Indeed a loss for the acting community and us older fans. James Best  will be sorely missed.

[FUJIMO]

Like most my fondest memories of him are chasing the dukes with flash at shotgun and taking care of his little fat buddy !

But once old tv went mainstream I was blown away how many places you would see a young Best pop up.

Rifleman,Rawhide,Twilight Zone,Andy Griffith twice I think. He played an a$$hole roughneck cowboy real well and sold me as the bad guy.

Didn't occur to me until right this second but wasn't he the only Hazzard lawman that wore a cowboy hat as his uniform ? Ennis and Cletus wore the ufo stiff brim hat didn't they ? Ah, only fitting for roscoe

[Grand Torino]

RIP Roscoe....

[vontar]

RIP.

 

BTW, allot of talk is centered around the Dukes of Hazard. 

Don't forget the movie that started it. 

Moonrunners DVD- Movie That Inspired The Dukes Of Hazzard Tv Series

copy from an ebay listing.

 

 

 

Moonrunners is a 1975 film starring James Mitchum and Kiel Martin, which would be reworked several years later into the popular long-running television series The Dukes of Hazzard. The plot of the movie focused upon moonshine-running bootleggers eluding federal agents with fast cars. The story is narrated by the Balladeer (Waylon Jennings), who introduces and comments on the story of cousins, Grady and Bobby Lee Hagg, who run bootleg liquor for their Uncle Jesse of Shiloh County. Ben "Cooter" Jones himself even plays in this movie as 1 of the FBI agents, This movie is a must have for any Dukes Of Hazzard Fan to add to their Collection. This is indeed the Original Movie that started it all for The Dukes Of Hazzard 4 years earlier before the TV Series debuted in 1979

 

[Monkeyman2500]

RIP. Thanks Roscoe.

[Tncobra]

Met him at a Dukes convention. He was talking to everyone and signing everything.

The remote controlled stop sign in the middle of the woods still cracks me up.

RIP.

[rugerla1]

RIP ol feller, really enjoyed your entertainment and will continue to do my terrible impersonation of you till I die "Guu Guu Guu I love it! I love it! Come on Flash, let's get them Duke boys!"

 

Those little noises he made when he gets excited crack me up to this day "HOT PURSUIT!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPCOR1c5rzM

 

Bloopers (language warning) :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFt7HS_S1M

Edited April 8, 2015 by rugerla1

[ttocswob]

Enjoyed his role as Jim Lindsey on Andy Griffith.

 

Trivia: What does the "P" in Roscoe P. Coltrane stand for?

[monkeylizard]

Purvis.

 

And while we're on it, Rosco in this case has no "e" on the end.

Edited April 9, 2015 by monkeylizard

[ttocswob]

The internet has rendered trivia obsolete...

 

IIRC, Rosco's middle name was used once, by his wife.

[monkeylizard]

It was his mother in the episode where he was briefly married. In the 1st season he was just Rosco Coltrane. They added the P. in season 2.