10 Famous people you didn’t know passed away in 2015 (With Pictures)

4. James Best

He’d had a long and successful career before taking on his defining role, but James Best will always be known as the bumbling right hand man to Boss Hog, Sherriff Roscoe P. Coltraine in the early 1980s television show The Dukes of Hazzard. His antics of always falling short in catching “them Duke boys” doing something illegal was the comic engine for the CBS comedy. Best continued to act after that show and actually and recieved the highest critical praise of his career with a guest spot in 1991 on In The Heat of the Night, garnering awards. In his later life, Best taught acting and was an artist. He died from complications of pneumonia on April 6, 2015.