James Coburn

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1928-08-31

Place of Birth

Laurel, Nebraska, USA
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James Coburn

Biography

James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.

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Acting History

2024
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western as Self
2011
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War as Self
2006
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait as Self
2005
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as Self
2004
Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon as Self
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
2003
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years as Self - Host
2002
American Gun as Martin Tillman
2002
The Yellow Bird as Rev. Increase Tutwiler
2002
The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones as Narrator
2002
I Love Muppets as Self
2002
Snow Dogs as Thunder Jack
2001
Texas Rangers as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2001
Monsters, Inc. as Waternoose (voice)
2001
The Man from Elysian Fields as Alcot
2001
Walter and Henry as Charlie
2001
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days as Narrator (voice)
2001
Proximity as Jim Corcoran
2001
Missing Pieces as Atticus Cody
2000
Kurosawa as Self
2000
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' as Self
2000
Intrepid as Captain Hal Josephson
2000
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self (archive footage)
1999
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero as Self
1999
Noah's Ark as The 'Peddler'
1999
Payback as Justin Fairfax
1999
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On as Self
1999
World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape as Narrator (voice)
1999
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Mr. Murder as Drew Oslett, Sr.
1998
The Heaven and Earth Show
1998
Affliction as Glen Whitehouse
1998
The Path of the Dragon as Self
1998
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist as Self
1997
The Second Civil War as Jack Buchan
1997
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson as Himself
1997
Scene by Scene as Self
1997
Keys to Tulsa as Harmon Shaw
1997
Skeletons as Frank Jove
1997
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years as Host
1997
Earth's Two-Minute Warning as Self
1996
The Cherokee Kid as Cyrus Bloomington
1996
Football America as Narrator
1996
Profiler as Charles Vanderhorn
1996
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right as Narrator
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Arli$$
1996
The Nutty Professor as Harlan Hartley
1996
Eraser as WitSec Chief Beller
1996
Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
1995
The Set Up as Jeremiah Cole
1995
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder as Jeffery Winslow
1995
The Avenging Angel as Porter Rockwell
1995
National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge as Narrator
1994
A Christmas Reunion as Santa
1994
Greyhounds as John Dolan
1994
Maverick as Commodore Duvall
1994
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice as Jeffrey Winslow
1994
The Life of Bruce Lee as Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee
1993
Return to 'The Great Escape' as Self
1993
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Mr. Crisp
1993
Deadfall as Mike Donan / Lou Donan
1993
The Curse of the Dragon as Self
1993
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1993
The Hit List as Peter Mayhew
1992
Mastergate as Major Manley Battle
1992
Picket Fences as Walter Brock
1992
HBO First Look
1992
The Player as James Coburn
1992
The Fifth Corner as Dr. Grandwell
1992
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 as Jim Hathaway
1992
True Facts
1992
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time as Narrator (voice)
1991
Silverfox as Robert Fox
1991
Hudson Hawk as George Kaplan
1990
Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Looten Plunder (voice)
1990
Young Guns II as John Simpson Chisum
1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Narrator
1989
Train to Heaven as Gregorius
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
1989
Clive James' Postcard from as Self
1989
Call from Space as Studio Boss
1988
Walking After Midnight as Self
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1986
Death of a Soldier as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
1986
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years as Self (archive footage)
1986
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away as Self
1985
Martin's Day as Lt. Lardner
1985
Sins of the Father
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Cyrus Ramsey
1984
Draw! as Sam Starret
1984
Pinocchio as The Gypsy
1983
Malibu as Tom Wharton
1983
Digital Dreams as God's Gift to Wyman
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre as The Gypsy
1982
Wogan as Self
1981
Darkroom
1981
The Fall Guy as James Coburn
1981
Looker as John Reston
1981
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls as Henry Bellamy
1981
High Risk as Serrano
1981
Mr. Patman as Patman
1980
Loving Couples as Walter
1980
The Baltimore Bullet as Nick Casey
1979
Goldengirl as Jack Dryden
1979
The Muppet Movie as El Sleezo Cafe Owner
1979
The Muppets Go Hollywood as Self
1979
Firepower as Jerry Fanon / Eddie
1979
Superstunt II as Self
1978
Formula 1 - Speed fever as Self
1978
The Dain Curse as Hamilton Nash
1978
California Suite as Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)
1977
Cross of Iron as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
1977
White Rock as James Coburn
1976
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth as Self (archive footage)
1976
The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
1976
Midway as Capt. Vinton Maddox
1976
The Last Hard Men as Provo
1976
Sky Riders as Jim McCabe
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975
Bite the Bullet as Luke Matthews
1975
Hard Times as Spencer "Speed" Weed
1974
The Internecine Project as Robert Elliot
1973
Harry in Your Pocket as Harry
1973
The Last of Sheila as Clinton Greene
1973
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Pat Garrett
1972
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die as Colonel Pembroke
1972
The Honkers as Lew Lathrop
1972
The Carey Treatment as Dr. Peter Carey
1971
Duck, You Sucker as John H. Mallory
1971
Great Performances as Self
1970
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots as Jeb Stuart Thornton
1969
Hard Contract as John Cunningham
1969
The Wolf Men as Narrator
1968
Candy as Dr. A.B. Krankheit
1968
Duffy as Duffy
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1967
The President's Analyst as Dr. Sidney Schaefer
1967
Waterhole #3 as Lewton Cole
1967
In Like Flint as Derek Flint
1966
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Eli Kotch
1966
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? as Lieutenant Christian
1966
Our Man Flint as Derek Flint
1965
The Loved One as Immigration Officer
1965
A High Wind in Jamaica as Zac
1965
Major Dundee as Samuel Potts
1964
The Americanization of Emily as Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
1964
Action on the Beach as Self
1963
The Man from Galveston as Boyd Palmer
1963
Kings of the Sun as Narrator (uncredited)
1963
Charade as Tex Panthollow
1963
The Greatest Show on Earth as Kelly
1963
The Great Escape as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
1962
Combat! as Cpl. Arnold Kanger
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962
Stoney Burke as Dr. Henry Jamison
1962
Hell Is for Heroes as Cpl. Frank Henshaw
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961
Cain's Hundred as Arthur Troy
1961
The Defenders as Earl Chafee
1961
Acapulco as Gregg Miles
1961
The Murder Men as Arthur Troy
1960
The Magnificent Seven as Britt
1960
Klondike as Jeff Durain
1960
Route 66
1960
Stagecoach West as Sam Murdock
1960
Outlaws
1960
Checkmate as Gresch
1960
The Aquanauts as Joe Casey
1960
The Tall Man as John Miller
1960
Tate
1959
The Detectives
1959
The Untouchables as Dennis Garrity
1959
Bourbon Street Beat as Buzz Griffin
1959
The Twilight Zone as Major French
1959
Johnny Ringo as Moss Taylor
1959
Men Into Space as Dr. Narry
1959
Wichita Town
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Floyd
1959
Bonanza as Pete Jessup
1959
Bonanza as Ross Marquette
1959
Bonanza as Elmer Trace
1959
The Deputy as Coffer
1959
Face of a Fugitive as Purdy
1959
Ride Lonesome as Whitt
1959
Black Saddle as Niles
1959
Rawhide as Colonel Briscoe
1958
Bat Masterson as Poke Otis
1958
Bat Masterson as Leo Talley
1958
Lawman
1958
Lawman as Lank Bailey
1958
The Rifleman as Cy Parker
1958
The Rifleman as Ambrose
1958
Naked City as Harry Brind
1958
The Texan
1958
Bronco
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Henry Turner
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jesse Holloway
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Howard Catlett
1957
Trackdown as Joker Wells
1957
Suspicion as Matt Carson
1957
The Californians as Anthony Wayne
1957
The Californians as Deputy Anthony Wayne
1957
Perry Mason as Donald Fletcher
1957
Perry Mason as General Addison Brand
1957
Wagon Train as Ike Daggett
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel as Jack Harvey
1957
The Night America Trembled as Sam (as Jim Coburn)
1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Victor Tavo
1957
Tales of Wells Fargo as Idaho
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jess Newton
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Charlie Doyle
1956
State Trooper as Dobie
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Andrews
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Union Sergeant
1955
Cheyenne as Kell
1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Buckskin Frank Leslie
1955
The Millionaire as Lew Bennett
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney as Jack - Outlaw Leader
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney as Mexican Police Captain (uncredited)
1953
The Oscars as Self
1953
General Electric Theater as Claude Firman
1952
Death Valley Days as Steve Barnes
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Atticus Cody
1950
The Bob Hope Show as Self
1948
Studio One as Sam Chandler
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter