RT22306 Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Age 88, from complications of pneumonia at a hospice in North Carolina. RIP, Sheriff Rosco and thanks for the many laughs. A class act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerDuke Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 I'm shocked. I don't even know what to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerDuke Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 It's still sinking in. I was lucky enough to have met him once in person and talk to him a couple times in the chat room here on the HazzardNet! He was truly one of a kind. My condolences go out to his family and fans, especially you Meadowmufn. There will never be another James Best. I love him and will miss him forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadowmufn Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Thanks, Roger. He was quite a character, definitely one of a kind. I was fortunate to spend a lot of personal time with him, fishing, talking, joking, discussing creative endeavors, and just plain carrying on. Jimmie would still tear up when he talked about Sorrell. I know they're together once again and that makes me smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaak Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I was saddened to hear this. James Best was a great actor. He and Sorrell were a great comedy team on the Dukes of Hazzard (which he and Sorrell took very seriously)... I think their act was very much as part of the success of the show as the car chases and stunts.Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie Hartkins Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 I was saddened to hear this. James Best was a great actor. He and Sorrell were a great comedy team on the Dukes of Hazzard (which he and Sorrell took very seriously)... I think their act was very much as part of the success of the show as the car chases and stunts.JasonMost definitely! if you ask me Sorrell and Jimmy made the show, which is strange, because the first two you think of are Bo and Luke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerDuke Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Most definitely! if you ask me Sorrell and Jimmy made the show, which is strange, because the first two you think of are Bo and Luke!I agree. In my opinion they were the best comedy duo in history. People who aren't Dukes fans might disagree but the fact that they're not Dukes fans is proof right there that their opinions are a little confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie Hartkins Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 I even heard one of them ( can't remember John or Tom, or where I saw it!) say that they had the look but the only real actors were Jimmy, Sorrell and Denver and that they learned a lot about acting from them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadowmufn Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 I even heard one of them ( can't remember John or Tom, or where I saw it!) say that they had the look but the only real actors were Jimmy, Sorrell and Denver and that they learned a lot about acting from them!I got to see Jimmie in action on the Dukes reunion set. Not only was he amazing in front of the camera, but I swear he knew more about the workings BEHIND the camera than anyone else on the set. His knowledge was amazing, such a talent. I'm so grateful he invited me to see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie Hartkins Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 I got to see Jimmie in action on the Dukes reunion set. Not only was he amazing in front of the camera, but I swear he knew more about the workings BEHIND the camera than anyone else on the set. His knowledge was amazing, such a talent. I'm so grateful he invited me to see that.You don't run in to that kind of talent in actors, much today! He and sorrell were a vanishing breed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerDuke Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 I guess I'll have to start accepting that Jimmie is gone but part of me doesn't have to believe it at all. I watched the reunion movie once but I'll never see it again. Besides things like the General Lee being forgotten in a chicken coup and a frail Jesse being abandoned by Bo, Luke and Daisy the other thing that bothered me was the scene where Rosco did a tribute to Boss, who had passed on. I couldn't handle that. I'm sure the writers had good intentions but that is not the Hazzard County that I have known and loved these past 36 years. My Hazzard County hasn't changed a bit. In my Hazzard County Boss is still scheming in his office at the Boar's Nest. Jesse is out plowing the back 40 with Maudeen the mule right now. Miz Tisdale is admiring him from afar as she sits on her dirt bike at the mailbox. And Rosco is yelling at his dipstick deputies on the CB because they let the Duke boys past the speed trap. To me that's reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie Hartkins Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 I guess I'll have to start accepting that Jimmie is gone but part of me doesn't have to believe it at all. I watched the reunion movie once but I'll never see it again. Besides things like the General Lee being forgotten in a chicken coup and a frail Jesse being abandoned by Bo, Luke and Daisy the other thing that bothered me was the scene where Rosco did a tribute to Boss, who had passed on. I couldn't handle that. I'm sure the writers had good intentions but that is not the Hazzard County that I have known and loved these past 36 years. My Hazzard County hasn't changed a bit. In my Hazzard County Boss is still scheming in his office at the Boar's Nest. Jesse is out plowing the back 40 with Maudeen the mule right now. Miz Tisdale is admiring him from afar as she sits on her dirt bike at the mailbox. And Rosco is yelling at his dipstick deputies on the CB because they let the Duke boys past the speed trap. To me that's reality.AMEN!!! This is a BIG +1!!! ( They made one reunion movie after Boss died....made another one after Uncle Jesse died.......nah....surely not!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerDuke Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Thanks Hobie. I don't even like the new Auto Trader commercials. Okay, I have to admit I do love seeing Bo and Luke in the General Lee. What's not to love about that? It doesn't bother me that they look older. What I don't like is that they trade in their 1969 Charger. That would be like trading in Uncle Jesse for Willie Robertson. I love Willie and everybody on Duck Dynasty but Jesse can't be replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie Hartkins Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Right on Roger! I feel the same way about those commercials...I like seeing Bo n luke, but they would NEVER trade the General for another car! Remember this line?......" It wouldn't seem right not having a General in the family".......when Luke was hypnotized into believing the General was a piece of junk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.J. Gathergood Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Hi folks, I haven't been on the forum much in recent months (as I've mentioned previously, I work and often live on the canal, so often don't have regular internet, and am always on the move to bother about it much anyway - in fact, I don't even own a TV now). But just had to pitch in and say what a shame we lost James Best, and relatively suddenly, too. The day the news broke, I had rode up the canal into Camden Market in London (a 40-mile odd round trip). Ironically it was my Dad who text to tell me (""Rosco P. Coltrane has died"), after he heard it on the news. Sadly most of my family members are now gone and things with my parents aren't too great, but sitting with my Dad watching "Dukes" with my Dad each week is actually my first memory in life, so the fact that it was my Dad that, despite all differences, messaged to tell me, still from that early bond of watching Dukes all those years ago... I hope that would have somehow meant something to Jimmy. I have had a little "Best of Rosco" mini-marathon, with "Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane", "Coltrane Vs. Duke" and "Too Many Roscos" (guess I could have had "10 Million Dollar Sheriff" too, but always found that a bit awkwardly paced in parts due to the double length format). Anybody else done similar?BTW, with Best's passing, am I alone in having a little bit of my heart sink, where I'd been hoping there might be one last 'Dukes' reunion. Of course, we lost Sorrel Booke and Denver Pyle some years ago, but with James Best gone, there would seem little point in a reunion any more, the core element of "the Sheriff chasing the Duke boys" is now gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie Hartkins Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 I feel the same way PJ! I think now that Jimmy Best is gone...it's over! They had a reunion movie when Sorrell died, another when Denver died, but I don't see another one coming now!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eschoendorff Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 That is such sad news. I had always hoped to meet Mr. Best someday. I pray for his soul and the comfort of his family. RIP Mr. Best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerDuke Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Wow PJ, what an awesome post. I suspect you're right, that definitely would have meant something to him. It's starting to sink in but it's still hard to believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyDuke Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 I miss James Best so much.... Unfortunately I never met him in person but we were facebook friends. We talked a couple of times on there. I build model cars and about 5 years ago, I built the police cars from MPC that Enos and Rosco drove and I sent him a photo of his (Rosco's) cruiser and he loved it! He said "I love it, I love it, I love it" it made my day. He was a very nice person with a big heart, but I find comfort in knowing that he's reunited with his "little fat buddy" Boss Hogg, Uncle Jesse and Lulu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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