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[[Category:Characters|Coltrane, Rosco]]
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'''Played by:''' [[James Best]]

Law enforcement's answer to Dopey. He tried, but like [[the Balladeer]] once said, "Rosco's a good sheriff. He's just got too much on his mind." [[Boss Hogg|Boss]], however, would debate how much of a mind Rosco actually had. Rosco's daily routine wouldn't be complete without chasin' after General Lee and sending his patrol car into Hazzard Lake or wrapping it around a tree. Every time though, he would walk away, get a new patrol car and do it all over again the following week. 99.9% of the time he was seen wearing his Sheriff's uniform with black cowboy hat. The first two seasons or so he wore a black jacket with it, but that disappeared at some point. Drove several different makes and models of patrol cars in the first season til finally settling with white 1977-78 Plymouth Fury police packages. Yup, he had a CB handle too: Bear. And that too was only mentioned in one episode.

== Other Portrayals ==
=== Moonrunners ===
In Dukes precursor [[Moonrunners]], the sheriff had an "e" on his name. Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane was played by Bruce Atkins.

=== 2005 Movie ===
In [[The Dukes of Hazzard (Movie)|the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie]], the part of Rosco P. Coltrane was played by M.C. Gainey.

=== 2007 Movie ===
In [[The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (Movie)|the 2007 Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning movie]], the part of Rosco P. Coltrane was played by Harland Williams.