
James Coburn
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Digital Dreams
1983

Duck, You Sucker
1971

The Magnificent Seven
1960

Monsters, Inc.
2001

The Player
1992

Cross of Iron
1977

Charade
1963

The Muppet Movie
1979

Looker
1981

The Great Escape
1963

Superstunt II
1979

Hard Times
1975

Midway
1976

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973

In Like Flint
1967

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993

The President's Analyst
1967

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000

Our Man Flint
1966

Affliction
1998

Snow Dogs
2002

Hell Is for Heroes
1962

The Last of Sheila
1973

Young Guns II
1990

Bite the Bullet
1975

Eraser
1996

Hudson Hawk
1991

The Nutty Professor
1996

Maverick
1994

Ride Lonesome
1959

Deadfall
1993

Major Dundee
1965

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966

World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape
1999

Sky Riders
1976

Missing Pieces
2001

The Americanization of Emily
1964

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
1972

Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
1996

Proximity
2001

American Gun
2002

The Man from Elysian Fields
2001

A High Wind in Jamaica
1965

The Last Hard Men
1976

Train to Heaven
1989

The Loved One
1965

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
2001

Candy
1968

High Risk
1981

Face of a Fugitive
1959

Firepower
1979

Hard Contract
1969

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966

Mr. Murder
1998

The Carey Treatment
1972

Harry in Your Pocket
1973

Waterhole #3
1967

The Cherokee Kid
1996

Duffy
1968

Kurosawa
2000

The Internecine Project
1974

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993

Goldengirl
1979

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999

The Honkers
1972

Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
1976

Death of a Soldier
1986

The Yellow Bird
2002

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992

Intrepid
2000

The Avenging Angel
1995

Draw!
1984

The Man from Galveston
1963

Keys to Tulsa
1997

Martin's Day
1985

Sins of the Father
1985

The Baltimore Bullet
1980

National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge
1995

The Hit List
1993

Loving Couples
1980

I Love Muppets
2002

The Set Up
1995

Skeletons
1997

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970

The Second Civil War
1997

The Murder Men
1961

Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
2004

California Suite
1978

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson
1997

Walking After Midnight
1988

Football America
1996

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
1981

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990

A Christmas Reunion
1994

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
1999

Action on the Beach
1964

Mr. Patman
1981

White Rock
1977

True Facts
1992

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024

Walter and Henry
2001

Silverfox
1991

Call from Space
1989

Pinocchio
1984

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
1986

The Life of Bruce Lee
1994

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000

Payback
1999

Mastergate
1992

The Wolf Men
1969

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
1999

The Path of the Dragon
1998

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995

Kings of the Sun
1963

Texas Rangers
2001

Malibu
1983

Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978

Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
1998

Greyhounds
1994

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones
2002

Return to 'The Great Escape'
1993

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
1986

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
2006

The Curse of the Dragon
1993

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
2011

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994

The Night America Trembled
1957

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989

Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
1996

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
2003

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992

Earth's Two-Minute Warning
1997

Superstunt
1977

The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001

Noah's Ark
1999

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Arli$$
1996

Cain's Hundred
1961

Route 66
1960

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Naked City
1958

Perry Mason
1957

Studio One
1948

Combat!
1962

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

General Electric Theater
1953

Darkroom
1981

The Muppet Show
1976

The Twilight Zone
1959

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Fall Guy
1981

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Klondike
1960

Acapulco
1961

Outlaws
1960

Rawhide
1959

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

The Millionaire
1955

Peter Gunn
1958

The Aquanauts
1960

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957

Bronco
1958

Black Saddle
1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958

Bat Masterson
1958

Lawman
1958

The Texan
1958

The Detectives
1959

Wichita Town
1959

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

The Fifth Corner
1992

Tate
1960

Johnny Ringo
1959

The Heaven and Earth Show
1998

The Defenders
1961

The Oscars
1953

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Deputy
1959

The Californians
1957

The Californians
1957

Stagecoach West
1960

The Rifleman
1958

Cheyenne
1955

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

The Bob Hope Show
1950

Men Into Space
1959

The Dain Curse
1978

Wogan
1982

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958

Checkmate
1960

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958

Perry Mason
1957

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990

Noah's Ark
1999

Bat Masterson
1958

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Bonanza
1959

Bonanza
1959

The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

Scene by Scene
1997

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Bonanza
1959

Stoney Burke
1962

The Untouchables
1959

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Tales of Wells Fargo
1957

The Rifleman
1958

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955

Death Valley Days
1952

Suspicion
1957

HBO First Look
1992

Great Performances
1971

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Tall Man
1960

Lawman
1958

State Trooper
1956

Trackdown
1957

Wagon Train
1957

Bourbon Street Beat
1959

Profiler
1996

Clive James' Postcard from
1989

Picket Fences
1992

People's Choice Awards
1975

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993