Fictional American Sheriffs
Many Western movies feature sheriffs of frontier towns who are either corrupt weaklings or glorious heroes who eventually rid their towns of all their mean elements. See Destry Rides Again and Dodge City for two examples of the latter type. Fictional sheriffs include:
- Sheriff Andy Taylor of The Andy Griffith Show
- Sheriff J.W. Pepper of the James Bond film Live and Let Die
- Buford T. Justice of the Smokey and the Bandit films
- Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard
- Hildy Granger, played by Suzanne Somers, in She's the Sheriff
- Elroy P. Lobo, played by Claude Akins, in B. J. and the Bear and the The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
- Roy Mobey, played by Victor French, in Carter Country
- Don Lamb in Veronica Mars
- Sheriff Jack Carter in Eureka
- Sheriff Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks
- Sheriff Walt Bannerman in The Dead Zone.
- Sheriff Sara Breaker in the Alan Wake Video Game. Breaker is the Sheriff of Bright Falls, Washington
- Sheriff Albert Earp, played by Jon Pertwee, in the 1966 comedy film Carry On Cowboy
- Sheriff Wyner, played by George Wallace - The lazy sheriff of Saucier in the movie Ladykillers
- The characters of Comedy Central's hit show Reno 911! revolve around the scenario of a mediocre (yet humorous) look at the fictional Reno, Nevada Sheriff's Department (NOT the real-life Washoe County Sheriff's Department), and the crazy deputies who serve the area.
- Sheriff Leigh Brackett from the Halloween films
- Sheriff Bart in the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles.
- Sheriff Emma Swan in Once upon a time
- Lex from The Tribe was appointed the 'City Sheriff' in Season 4.
- Sheriff Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, is a sheriff in the Toy Story franchise.
- Sheriff Stilinski, played by Linden Ashby, is the sheriff of fictional Beacon Hills, California in the TV show Teen Wolf (2011 TV series).
Other important representations of fictional sheriffs have been Collie Entragian (Desperation and The Regulators), Alan Pangborn in The Dark Half and Needful Things, and Edgler Vess in Dean Koontz's novel, Intensity.
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