James Coburn

Acting

Born: 1928-08-31 in Laurel, Nebraska, USA

Died: 2002-11-18

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.

Acting

Digital Dreams

God's Gift to Wyman

Duck, You Sucker

John H. Mallory

The Magnificent Seven

Britt

Monsters, Inc.

Waternoose (voice)

The Player

James Coburn

Cross of Iron

Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Charade

Tex Panthollow

The Muppet Movie

El Sleezo Cafe Owner

Looker

John Reston

The Great Escape

Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Superstunt II

Self

Hard Times

Spencer "Speed" Weed

Midway

Capt. Vinton Maddox

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett

In Like Flint

Derek Flint

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Mr. Crisp

The President's Analyst

Dr. Sidney Schaefer

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Self (archive footage)

Our Man Flint

Derek Flint

Affliction

Glen Whitehouse

Snow Dogs

Thunder Jack

Hell Is for Heroes

Cpl. Frank Henshaw

The Last of Sheila

Clinton Greene

Young Guns II

John Simpson Chisum

Bite the Bullet

Luke Matthews

Eraser

WitSec Chief Beller

Hudson Hawk

George Kaplan

The Nutty Professor

Harlan Hartley

Maverick

Commodore Duvall

Ride Lonesome

Whitt

Deadfall

Mike Donan / Lou Donan

Major Dundee

Samuel Potts

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Lieutenant Christian

World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape

Narrator (voice)

Sky Riders

Jim McCabe

Missing Pieces

Atticus Cody

The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

Colonel Pembroke

Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

Proximity

Jim Corcoran

American Gun

Martin Tillman

The Man from Elysian Fields

Alcot

A High Wind in Jamaica

Zac

The Last Hard Men

Provo

Train to Heaven

Gregorius

The Loved One

Immigration Officer

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

Narrator (voice)

Candy

Dr. A.B. Krankheit

High Risk

Serrano

Face of a Fugitive

Purdy

Firepower

Jerry Fanon / Eddie

Hard Contract

John Cunningham

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Eli Kotch

Mr. Murder

Drew Oslett, Sr.

The Carey Treatment

Dr. Peter Carey

Harry in Your Pocket

Harry

Waterhole #3

Lewton Cole

The Cherokee Kid

Cyrus Bloomington

Duffy

Kurosawa

Self

The Internecine Project

Robert Elliot

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Self

Goldengirl

Jack Dryden

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Honkers

Lew Lathrop

Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth

Self (archive footage)

Death of a Soldier

Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

The Yellow Bird

Rev. Increase Tutwiler

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Jim Hathaway

Intrepid

Captain Hal Josephson

The Avenging Angel

Porter Rockwell

Draw!

Sam Starret

The Man from Galveston

Boyd Palmer

Keys to Tulsa

Harmon Shaw

Martin's Day

Lt. Lardner

Sins of the Father

The Baltimore Bullet

Nick Casey

National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge

Narrator

The Hit List

Peter Mayhew

Loving Couples

Walter

I Love Muppets

Self

The Set Up

Jeremiah Cole

Skeletons

Frank Jove

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

Jeb Stuart Thornton

The Second Civil War

Jack Buchan

The Murder Men

Arthur Troy

Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon

Self

California Suite

Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

Himself

Walking After Midnight

Self

Football America

Narrator

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Henry Bellamy

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

Narrator

A Christmas Reunion

Santa

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero

Self

Action on the Beach

Self

Mr. Patman

Patman

White Rock

James Coburn

True Facts

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

Self

Walter and Henry

Charlie

Silverfox

Robert Fox

Call from Space

Studio Boss

Pinocchio

The Gypsy

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

Self

The Life of Bruce Lee

Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

Self

Payback

Justin Fairfax

Mastergate

Major Manley Battle

The Wolf Men

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

Self

The Path of the Dragon

Self

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Jeffery Winslow

Kings of the Sun

Narrator (uncredited)

Texas Rangers

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Malibu

Tom Wharton

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Self

Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist

Self

Greyhounds

John Dolan

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

Narrator

Return to 'The Great Escape'

Self

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

Self (archive footage)

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Self

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

Self

The Curse of the Dragon

Self

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

Self

The Muppets Go Hollywood

Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

Host

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Jeffrey Winslow

The Night America Trembled

Sam (as Jim Coburn)

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self (voice)

Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right

Narrator

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

Self - Host

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

Narrator (voice)

Earth's Two-Minute Warning

Self

Superstunt

Self

Digital Dreams

God's Gift to Wyman

Duck, You Sucker

John H. Mallory

The Magnificent Seven

Britt

Monsters, Inc.

Waternoose (voice)

The Player

James Coburn

Cross of Iron

Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Charade

Tex Panthollow

The Muppet Movie

El Sleezo Cafe Owner

Looker

John Reston

The Great Escape

Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Superstunt II

Self

Hard Times

Spencer "Speed" Weed

Midway

Capt. Vinton Maddox

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett

In Like Flint

Derek Flint

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Mr. Crisp

The President's Analyst

Dr. Sidney Schaefer

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Self (archive footage)

Our Man Flint

Derek Flint

Affliction

Glen Whitehouse

Snow Dogs

Thunder Jack

Hell Is for Heroes

Cpl. Frank Henshaw

The Last of Sheila

Clinton Greene

Young Guns II

John Simpson Chisum

Bite the Bullet

Luke Matthews

Eraser

WitSec Chief Beller

Hudson Hawk

George Kaplan

The Nutty Professor

Harlan Hartley

Maverick

Commodore Duvall

Ride Lonesome

Whitt

Deadfall

Mike Donan / Lou Donan

Major Dundee

Samuel Potts

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Lieutenant Christian

World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape

Narrator (voice)

Sky Riders

Jim McCabe

Missing Pieces

Atticus Cody

The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

Colonel Pembroke

Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

Proximity

Jim Corcoran

American Gun

Martin Tillman

The Man from Elysian Fields

Alcot

A High Wind in Jamaica

Zac

The Last Hard Men

Provo

Train to Heaven

Gregorius

The Loved One

Immigration Officer

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

Narrator (voice)

Candy

Dr. A.B. Krankheit

High Risk

Serrano

Face of a Fugitive

Purdy

Firepower

Jerry Fanon / Eddie

Hard Contract

John Cunningham

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Eli Kotch

Mr. Murder

Drew Oslett, Sr.

The Carey Treatment

Dr. Peter Carey

Harry in Your Pocket

Harry

Waterhole #3

Lewton Cole

The Cherokee Kid

Cyrus Bloomington

Duffy

Kurosawa

Self

The Internecine Project

Robert Elliot

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Self

Goldengirl

Jack Dryden

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Honkers

Lew Lathrop

Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth

Self (archive footage)

Death of a Soldier

Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

The Yellow Bird

Rev. Increase Tutwiler

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Jim Hathaway

Intrepid

Captain Hal Josephson

The Avenging Angel

Porter Rockwell

Draw!

Sam Starret

The Man from Galveston

Boyd Palmer

Keys to Tulsa

Harmon Shaw

Martin's Day

Lt. Lardner

Sins of the Father

The Baltimore Bullet

Nick Casey

National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge

Narrator

The Hit List

Peter Mayhew

Loving Couples

Walter

I Love Muppets

Self

The Set Up

Jeremiah Cole

Skeletons

Frank Jove

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

Jeb Stuart Thornton

The Second Civil War

Jack Buchan

The Murder Men

Arthur Troy

Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon

Self

California Suite

Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

Himself

Walking After Midnight

Self

Football America

Narrator

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Henry Bellamy

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

Narrator

A Christmas Reunion

Santa

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero

Self

Action on the Beach

Self

Mr. Patman

Patman

White Rock

James Coburn

True Facts

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

Self

Walter and Henry

Charlie

Silverfox

Robert Fox

Call from Space

Studio Boss

Pinocchio

The Gypsy

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

Self

The Life of Bruce Lee

Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

Self

Payback

Justin Fairfax

Mastergate

Major Manley Battle

The Wolf Men

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

Self

The Path of the Dragon

Self

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Jeffery Winslow

Kings of the Sun

Narrator (uncredited)

Texas Rangers

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Malibu

Tom Wharton

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Self

Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist

Self

Greyhounds

John Dolan

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

Narrator

Return to 'The Great Escape'

Self

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

Self (archive footage)

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Self

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

Self

The Curse of the Dragon

Self

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

Self

The Muppets Go Hollywood

Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

Host

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Jeffrey Winslow

The Night America Trembled

Sam (as Jim Coburn)

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self (voice)

Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right

Narrator

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

Self - Host

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

Narrator (voice)

Earth's Two-Minute Warning

Self

Superstunt

Self

Other Credits

Circle of Iron

Story

Convoy

Second Unit Director

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

In Memory Of

Circle of Iron

Story

Convoy

Second Unit Director

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

In Memory Of