# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-best
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:23:53.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-best"
name: "James Best"
slug: "james-best"
description: "Jewel Franklin Guy, known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, Best, who was known for his high-pitched, exasperated voice, performed not only in feature films, but also in scores of television series."
tagline: "American actor, musician, artist (1926-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Best_Frontier_Return_of_Jubal_Dolan.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-07-26"
deathDate: "2015-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.05
  momentum:             0.1801833321670982
  historical:           21.647492
  currentAttention:     11.72
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078940/"
    handle:    "nm0078940"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://jamesbest.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس بيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس بيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جەیمز بێست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Τζέημς Μπεστ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "제임스 베스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز بیسٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q268084"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40185"
    title: "James Best"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump