Editing Pete Best (section)

== Portrayals in media ==
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===Film and television===
Best is portrayed in several films about the Beatles. In the 1979 biopic ''[[Birth of the Beatles]]'', for which Best was a technical advisor, he is played by Ryan Michael. In both the 1994 film ''[[Backbeat (film)|Backbeat]]''<ref name="Womack2014">{{cite book |first=Kenneth |last=Womack |title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 |date=30 June 2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-39172-9 |pages=68, 150}}</ref> and in the 2000 television biopic ''[[In His Life: The John Lennon Story]]'', Best is played by Liverpool native [[Scot Williams]]. The 2008 [[Rainn Wilson]] film ''[[The Rocker (film)|The Rocker]]'', about a drummer kicked out of a [[glam metal]] band through no fault of his own, was inspired by Best's termination. Best had a cameo in the movie.<ref name="The Rocker">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031969/fullcredits#cast |title=The Rocker |publisher=20th Century Fox |date=17 October 2008 |access-date=8 May 2011}}</ref> In ''[[Midas Man]]'', a 2024 biopic about Brian Epstein, Best is played by Adam Lawrence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Travis |first=Ben |date=12 October 2024 |title=Midas Man Tells The Story Of The ‘Fifth Beatle’, Brian Epstein – Watch An Exclusive Clip |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/midas-man-fifth-beatle-brian-epstein-fires-pete-best-exclusive-clip/ |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=Empire |language=en}}</ref>

===Theatre===
''BEST!'', a comedy play written by [[Liverpool]] playwright [[Fred Lawless]], was staged at the Liverpool [[Everyman Theatre, Liverpool|Everyman Theatre]] and the [[Dublin Theatre Festival]] in 1995 and 1996. The play, which was mainly fiction, showed an alternate history scenario where after Pete Best's sacking, he went on to become a world-famous rock superstar while his ex-group struggled as [[one hit wonders]]. The play was critically acclaimed in both the ''[[Liverpool Echo]]'' and also in Spencer Leigh's 1998 book ''Drummed Out: The Sacking of Pete Best''.{{sfn|Leigh|1998}}
Pete Best is a main character in [[David Harrower]]'s 2001 play ''[[Presence (play)|Presence]]'', premiered at the [[Royal Court Theatre]], London, dramatising the Beatles' time in Hamburg.

Andrew Games portrayed Pete Best in BestBeat, which was performed at the [[Unity Theatre, Liverpool|Unity Theatre]] in 2018. The play depicted Best's dismissal in 1962.