best played rosco p coltrane on the dukes of hazzard.
best played rosco p coltrane on the dukes of hazzard.
who played rosco p coltrane on the dukes of hazzard?
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bullet::::- sheriff rosco p. coltrane (james best) is the bumbling and corrupt sheriff of hazzard county and right-hand man and brother-in-law of its corrupt county administrator, jefferson davis "j.d." hogg ("boss hogg"), whom rosco calls his "little fat buddy", "little chrome dome", "little meadow-muffin", and several other names. in the early episodes, it is mentioned that rosco spent the first 20 years of his career as a mostly honest lawman, but after the county voted away his pension rosco joined hogg in an effort to fund his retirement in his last couple of years as sheriff. early episodes also portray him as a fairly hard-nosed, somewhat darker policeman character, who even shoots a criminal during the first season. as the series progressed and producers recognized how popular it had become with children, james best altered his portrayal into a more bumbling, comical character. by the end of the first season, his origin had been virtually forgotten (and his job as sheriff appeared to become open-ended). rosco is also the younger brother of lulu coltrane hogg (boss hogg's wife). rosco frequently initiates car chases with bo and luke duke, but the duke boys usually elude rosco by outwitting him, with rosco typically wrecking his patrol car as a result from which he would nearly always escape unscathed (only two episodes — the fourth season's "coltrane vs. duke" and the sixth season's "too many roscos" — toy with the concept of him being injured. the first episode has him faking injury so that the duke boys would lose the general lee while the latter has james best playing two characters. his normal character, rosco, is presumed drowned while a criminal that looks like rosco has a headache). these chases are often the result of rosco setting up illegal speed traps such as false or changing speed limit signs and various other trickery, which would evolve into being increasingly more cartoonish and far-fetched as the seasons passed. while he enjoys "hot pursuit" he seemingly (boss hogg as well) never intends for anyone to get seriously hurt. his middle initial, 'p', was added at the start of the second season, and only one episode (the third season's "mrs. rosco p. coltrane", in which he is subjected to a scam marriage) reveals his middle name, "purvis". rosco also has a soft spot for his basset hound flash, introduced at the start of the third season. his radio codename is "red dog". when james best briefly boycotted the show during the mid-second season, he was temporarily replaced by several "one-off" sheriffs, the longest standing being sheriff grady bird, played by dick sargent, who appeared in two episodes ("jude emery" and "officer daisy duke").
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rosco purvis coltrane is a fictional bumbling and corrupt sheriff character in the american tv series "the dukes of hazzard" along with the movie "moonrunners" and the movies that followed. he is the right-hand man of hazzard county's corrupt county commissioner, jefferson davis "j.d." hogg ("boss hogg").
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