
James Coburn
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 31, 1928
- Died
- November 18, 2002 (aged 74)
- Birthplace
- Laurel, Nebraska, USA
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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Filmography

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
Movie · as Self

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Movie · as Self
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Movie · as Self

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Movie · as Self

Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
Movie · as Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
Movie · as Self - Host

Snow Dogs
Movie · as Thunder Jack

American Gun
Movie · as Martin Tillman

The Yellow Bird
Movie · as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

I Love Muppets
Movie · as Self

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones
Movie · as Narrator

Monsters, Inc.
Movie · as Waternoose (voice)

Missing Pieces
Movie · as Atticus Cody

Proximity
Movie · as Jim Corcoran

The Man from Elysian Fields
Movie · as Alcot

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Walter and Henry
Movie · as Charlie

Texas Rangers
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
Movie

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Kurosawa
Movie · as Self

Intrepid
Movie · as Captain Hal Josephson

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie · as Self
World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
Movie · as Self

Payback
Movie · as Justin Fairfax

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
Movie · as Self

Noah's Ark
TV · as The 'Peddler' · 2 eps

Affliction
Movie · as Glen Whitehouse

Mr. Murder
Movie · as Drew Oslett, Sr.

The Path of the Dragon
Movie · as Self

Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
Movie · as Self
The Heaven and Earth Show
TV · 1 ep

Keys to Tulsa
Movie · as Harmon Shaw

Skeletons
Movie · as Frank Jove

The Second Civil War
Movie · as Jack Buchan

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson
Movie · as Himself

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Movie · as Host

Earth's Two-Minute Warning
Movie · as Self

Scene by Scene
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Eraser
Movie · as Beller

The Nutty Professor
Movie · as Harlan Hartley

Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
Movie

The Cherokee Kid
Movie · as Cyrus Bloomington

Football America
Movie · as Narrator
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
Movie · as Narrator

Arli$$
TV · as Sid Perelli · 1 ep

E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep

Profiler
TV · as Charles Vanderhorn · 2 eps

The Avenging Angel
Movie · as Porter Rockwell

National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Set Up
Movie · as Jeremiah Cole

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Movie · as Jeffery Winslow

Maverick
Movie · as Commodore Duvall

A Christmas Reunion
Movie · as Santa

The Life of Bruce Lee
Movie · as Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee

Greyhounds
Movie · as John Dolan

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Movie · as Jeffrey Winslow

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Movie · as Mr. Crisp

Deadfall
Movie · as Mike Donan / Lou Donan

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Movie · as Self

The Hit List
Movie · as Peter Mayhew

Return to 'The Great Escape'
Movie · as Self

The Curse of the Dragon
Movie · as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

The Player
Movie · as James Coburn

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Movie · as Jim Hathaway
National Lampoon's True Facts
Movie · as Self

Mastergate
Movie · as Major Manley Battle

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Fifth Corner
TV · as Dr. Grandwell · 6 eps

HBO First Look
TV · 1 ep

Picket Fences
TV · as Walter Brock · 1 ep

Hudson Hawk
Movie · as George Kaplan
Silverfox
Movie · as Robert Fox

Young Guns II
Movie · as John Simpson Chisum

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie · as Narrator

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
TV · as Looten Plunder (voice) · 13 eps

Train to Heaven
Movie · as Gregorius

Call from Space
Movie · as Studio Boss
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie · as Self (voice)

Clive James' Postcard from
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Walking After Midnight
Movie · as Self

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie · as Self

Death of a Soldier
Movie · as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Movie · as Self

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Martin's Day
Movie · as Lt. Lardner

Sins of the Father
Movie · as Frank Murchison

Draw!
Movie · as Sam Starret

Pinocchio
Movie · as The Gypsy

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Cyrus Ramsey · 1 ep

Digital Dreams
Movie · as God's Gift to Wyman

Malibu
Movie · as Tom Wharton

Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as The Gypsy · 1 ep

Wogan
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Looker
Movie · as John Reston

High Risk
Movie · as Serrano

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"
Movie · as Henry Bellamy

Mr. Patman
Movie · as Patman

Darkroom
TV · as Host · 16 eps

The Fall Guy
TV · as James Coburn · 1 ep

The Baltimore Bullet
Movie · as Nick Casey

Loving Couples
Movie · as Walter

The Muppet Movie
Movie · as El Sleezo Cafe Owner
Superstunt II
Movie · as Self

Firepower
Movie · as Jerry Fanon / Eddie

Goldengirl
Movie · as Jack Dryden

The Muppets Go Hollywood
Movie · as Self (uncredited)

California Suite
Movie · as Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)

Formula 1 - Speed fever
Movie · as Self

The Dain Curse
TV · as Hamilton Nash · 3 eps

Cross of Iron
Movie · as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

White Rock
Movie · as James Coburn
Superstunt
Movie · as Self

Midway
Movie · as Capt. Vinton Maddox

Sky Riders
Movie · as Jim McCabe

The Last Hard Men
Movie · as Provo

Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Muppet Show
TV · as Self - Special Guest Star · 1 ep

Hard Times
Movie · as Spencer "Speed" Weed

Bite the Bullet
Movie · as Luke Matthews

Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep

People's Choice Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Internecine Project
Movie · as Robert Elliot

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie · as Pat Garrett

The Last of Sheila
Movie · as Clinton Greene

Harry in Your Pocket
Movie · as Harry

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Movie · as Colonel Pembroke

The Carey Treatment
Movie · as Dr. Peter Carey

The Honkers
Movie · as Lew Lathrop

Duck, You Sucker
Movie · as John H. Mallory

Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Movie · as Jeb Stuart Thornton

Hard Contract
Movie · as John Cunningham

The Wolf Men
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

Bracken's World
TV · as Cameo · 1 ep

Candy
Movie · as Dr. A.B. Krankheit

Duffy
Movie · as Duffy

The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

In Like Flint
Movie · as Derek Flint

The President's Analyst
Movie · as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

Waterhole #3
Movie · as Lewton Cole

Our Man Flint
Movie · as Derek Flint

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Movie · as Lieutenant Christian

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Movie · as Eli Kotch

Major Dundee
Movie · as Samuel Potts

A High Wind in Jamaica
Movie · as Zac

The Loved One
Movie · as Immigration Officer

The Americanization of Emily
Movie · as Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
Action on the Beach
Movie · as Self

Charade
Movie · as Tex Panthollow

The Great Escape
Movie · as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

The Man from Galveston
Movie · as Boyd Palmer

Kings of the Sun
Movie · as Narrator (uncredited)
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV · as Kelly · 1 ep

Hell Is for Heroes
Movie · as Cpl. Frank Henshaw

Combat!
TV · as Cpl. Arnold Kanger · 1 ep

Stoney Burke
TV · as Dr. Henry Jamison · 1 ep

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Murder Men
Movie · as Arthur Troy

Cain's Hundred
TV · as Arthur Troy · 1 ep

Acapulco
TV · as Gregg Miles · 8 eps

The Defenders
TV · as Earl Chafee · 1 ep

The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Magnificent Seven
Movie · as Britt

Route 66
TV · 1 ep

Klondike
TV · as Jeff Durain · 17 eps

Outlaws
TV · 1 ep

The Aquanauts
TV · as Joe Casey · 1 ep

Tate
TV · 1 ep

Stagecoach West
TV · as Sam Murdock · 1 ep

Checkmate
TV · as Gresch · 1 ep

The Tall Man
TV · as John Miller · 1 ep

Ride Lonesome
Movie · as Whitt

Face of a Fugitive
Movie · as Purdy

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Major French · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as Colonel Briscoe · 1 ep

Black Saddle
TV · as Niles · 1 ep

The Detectives
TV · as Duke Hawkins

Wichita Town
TV · 2 eps

Johnny Ringo
TV · as Moss Taylor · 1 ep

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV · as Floyd · 1 ep

The Deputy
TV · as Coffer · 1 ep

Men Into Space
TV · as Dr. Narry · 1 ep

Bonanza
TV · as Pete Jessup, Ross Marquette, Elmer Trace · 1 ep

The Untouchables
TV · as Dennis Garrity · 1 ep

Bourbon Street Beat
TV · as Buzz Griffin · 1 ep

Naked City
TV · as Harry Brind · 1 ep

Peter Gunn
TV · 1 ep

Bronco
TV · 2 eps

Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Henry Turner, Jesse Holloway, Howard Catlett · 1 ep

Lawman
TV · as Lank Bailey · 1 ep

Bat Masterson
TV · as Poke Otis, Leo Talley · 1 ep

The Texan
TV · 1 ep

The Rifleman
TV · as Cy Parker, Ambrose · 1 ep

The Night America Trembled
Movie · as Sam (as Jim Coburn)

Perry Mason
TV · as Donald Fletcher, General Addison Brand · 1 ep

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Jack Harvey · 1 ep

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV · as Victor Tavo · 1 ep

The Californians
TV · as Anthony Wayne, Deputy Anthony Wayne · 1 ep

Tales of Wells Fargo
TV · as Idaho · 1 ep

Suspicion
TV · as Matt Carson · 1 ep

Trackdown
TV · as Joker Wells · 1 ep

Wagon Train
TV · as Ike Daggett · 1 ep

The Restless Gun
TV · 1 ep

Tombstone Territory
TV · as Chuck Ashley · 1 ep

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Jess Newton, Charlie Doyle · 1 ep

State Trooper
TV · as Dobie · 1 ep

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Andrews, Union Sergeant · 1 ep

The Millionaire
TV · as Lew Bennett · 1 ep

Cheyenne
TV · as Kell · 1 ep

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · as Buckskin Frank Leslie · 1 ep

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Jack - Outlaw Leader, Mexican Police Captain (uncredited) · 1 ep

General Electric Theater
TV · as Claude Firman · 1 ep

The Oscars
TV · as Self · 3 eps

Death Valley Days
TV · as Steve Barnes · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Atticus Cody · 1 ep

The Bob Hope Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Studio One
TV · as Sam Chandler · 1 ep

Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self, Self - Presenter · 1 ep



