Biografia

27 maggio 1916 · Sunflower, Mississippi, Stati Uniti

27 febbraio 1962 · Hollywood, California, Stati Uniti (cancro)

1,83 m

Bob Hope referred to Best, as his comedic co-star in La donna e lo spettro (1940), as one of the finest talents he had ever worked with.

He came to Hollywood serving as a chauffeur for a Mississippi white couple on vacation, and decided to stay and seek a career in show business.

In his earliest film appearances, in the early 1930s, if he was given screen credit he was billed as "Sleep 'n' Eat".

Perhaps best remembered as Algernon, the comic relief who introduces Humphrey Bogart to the bad luck dog, Pard, in Bogart's star-making role, Una pallottola per Roy (1941).

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"I often think about these roles I have to play. Most of them are pretty broad. Sometimes I tell the director and he cuts out the real bad parts... But what's an actor going to do? Either you do it or get out." Interview, 1934.