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James Best

Actor

James Best

Acting
1958 — 1978 · 11 films
Lived
26 July 1926 — d. 2015
From
Powderly, Kentucky, USA

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Career Signature

How James Best’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.

anxious dread
emotionally restrained
bittersweet
grainy 70s grit
heavy emotional

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every acted-in film.

Tonal kin

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Filmography

Hooper

1978

Rolling Thunder

1977

Ode to Billy Joe

1976

Sounder

1972

Three on a Couch

1966

Shock Corridor

1963

Ride Lonesome

1959

The Killer Shrews

1959

Verboten!

1959

The Left Handed Gun

1958

The Naked and the Dead

1958