James Coburn
Acting • Born 1928-08-31 – 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.
Filmography
232 credits
Digital Dreams
Movie • 1983
God's Gift to Wyman
Duck, You Sucker
Movie • 1971
John H. Mallory
The Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1960
Britt
Monsters, Inc.
Movie • 2001
Waternoose (voice)
The Player
Movie • 1992
James Coburn
Cross of Iron
Movie • 1977
Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
Charade
Movie • 1963
Tex Panthollow
The Muppet Movie
Movie • 1979
El Sleezo Cafe Owner
Looker
Movie • 1981
John Reston
The Great Escape
Movie • 1963
Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Superstunt II
Movie • 1979
Self
Hard Times
Movie • 1975
Spencer "Speed" Weed
Midway
Movie • 1976
Capt. Vinton Maddox
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie • 1973
Pat Garrett
In Like Flint
Movie • 1967
Derek Flint
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Movie • 1993
Mr. Crisp
The President's Analyst
Movie • 1967
Dr. Sidney Schaefer
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Our Man Flint
Movie • 1966
Derek Flint
Affliction
Movie • 1998
Glen Whitehouse
Snow Dogs
Movie • 2002
Thunder Jack
Hell Is for Heroes
Movie • 1962
Cpl. Frank Henshaw
The Last of Sheila
Movie • 1973
Clinton Greene
Young Guns II
Movie • 1990
John Simpson Chisum
Bite the Bullet
Movie • 1975
Luke Matthews
Eraser
Movie • 1996
WitSec Chief Beller
Hudson Hawk
Movie • 1991
George Kaplan
The Nutty Professor
Movie • 1996
Harlan Hartley
Maverick
Movie • 1994
Commodore Duvall
Ride Lonesome
Movie • 1959
Whitt
Deadfall
Movie • 1993
Mike Donan / Lou Donan
Major Dundee
Movie • 1965
Samuel Potts
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Movie • 1966
Lieutenant Christian
World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Sky Riders
Movie • 1976
Jim McCabe
Missing Pieces
Movie • 2001
Atticus Cody
The Americanization of Emily
Movie • 1964
Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Movie • 1972
Colonel Pembroke
Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
Movie • 1996
Proximity
Movie • 2001
Jim Corcoran
American Gun
Movie • 2002
Martin Tillman
The Man from Elysian Fields
Movie • 2001
Alcot
A High Wind in Jamaica
Movie • 1965
Zac
The Last Hard Men
Movie • 1976
Provo
Train to Heaven
Movie • 1989
Gregorius
The Loved One
Movie • 1965
Immigration Officer
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Candy
Movie • 1968
Dr. A.B. Krankheit
High Risk
Movie • 1981
Serrano
Face of a Fugitive
Movie • 1959
Purdy
Firepower
Movie • 1979
Jerry Fanon / Eddie
Hard Contract
Movie • 1969
John Cunningham
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Movie • 1966
Eli Kotch
Mr. Murder
Movie • 1998
Drew Oslett, Sr.
The Carey Treatment
Movie • 1972
Dr. Peter Carey
Harry in Your Pocket
Movie • 1973
Harry
Waterhole #3
Movie • 1967
Lewton Cole
The Cherokee Kid
Movie • 1996
Cyrus Bloomington
Duffy
Movie • 1968
Duffy
Kurosawa
Movie • 2000
Self
The Internecine Project
Movie • 1974
Robert Elliot
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Movie • 1993
Self
Goldengirl
Movie • 1979
Jack Dryden
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Honkers
Movie • 1972
Lew Lathrop
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
Death of a Soldier
Movie • 1986
Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
The Yellow Bird
Movie • 2002
Rev. Increase Tutwiler
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Movie • 1992
Jim Hathaway
Intrepid
Movie • 2000
Captain Hal Josephson
The Avenging Angel
Movie • 1995
Porter Rockwell
Draw!
Movie • 1984
Sam Starret
The Man from Galveston
Movie • 1963
Boyd Palmer
Keys to Tulsa
Movie • 1997
Harmon Shaw
Martin's Day
Movie • 1985
Lt. Lardner
Sins of the Father
Movie • 1985
The Baltimore Bullet
Movie • 1980
Nick Casey
National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge
Movie • 1995
Narrator
The Hit List
Movie • 1993
Peter Mayhew
Loving Couples
Movie • 1980
Walter
I Love Muppets
Movie • 2002
Self
The Set Up
Movie • 1995
Jeremiah Cole
Skeletons
Movie • 1997
Frank Jove
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Movie • 1970
Jeb Stuart Thornton
The Second Civil War
Movie • 1997
Jack Buchan
The Murder Men
Movie • 1961
Arthur Troy
Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
Movie • 2004
Self
California Suite
Movie • 1978
Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson
Movie • 1997
Himself
Walking After Midnight
Movie • 1988
Self
Football America
Movie • 1996
Narrator
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Movie • 1981
Henry Bellamy
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie • 1990
Narrator
A Christmas Reunion
Movie • 1994
Santa
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
Movie • 1999
Self
Action on the Beach
Movie • 1964
Self
Mr. Patman
Movie • 1981
Patman
White Rock
Movie • 1977
James Coburn
True Facts
Movie • 1992
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
Movie • 2024
Self
Walter and Henry
Movie • 2001
Charlie
Silverfox
Movie • 1991
Robert Fox
Call from Space
Movie • 1989
Studio Boss
Pinocchio
Movie • 1984
The Gypsy
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Movie • 1986
Self
The Life of Bruce Lee
Movie • 1994
Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie • 2000
Self
Payback
Movie • 1999
Justin Fairfax
Mastergate
Movie • 1992
Major Manley Battle
The Wolf Men
Movie • 1969
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
Movie • 1999
Self
The Path of the Dragon
Movie • 1998
Self
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Movie • 1995
Jeffery Winslow
Kings of the Sun
Movie • 1963
Narrator (uncredited)
Texas Rangers
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Malibu
Movie • 1983
Tom Wharton
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Movie • 1978
Self
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
Movie • 1998
Self
Greyhounds
Movie • 1994
John Dolan
The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Return to 'The Great Escape'
Movie • 1993
Self
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Movie • 2005
Self
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Movie • 2006
Self
The Curse of the Dragon
Movie • 1993
Self
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Movie • 2011
Self
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Movie • 1979
Self
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Movie • 1997
Host
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Movie • 1994
Jeffrey Winslow
The Night America Trembled
Movie • 1957
Sam (as Jim Coburn)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie • 1989
Self (voice)
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
Movie • 1996
Narrator
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie • 1987
Self
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
Movie • 2003
Self - Host
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Earth's Two-Minute Warning
Movie • 1997
Self
Superstunt
Movie • 1977
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Cyrus Ramsey
Arli$$
TV • 1996
Sid Perelli
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Arthur Troy
Route 66
TV • 1960
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Naked City
TV • 1958
Harry Brind
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Donald Fletcher
Studio One
TV • 1948
Sam Chandler
Combat!
TV • 1962
Cpl. Arnold Kanger
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
The Gypsy
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Claude Firman
Darkroom
TV • 1981
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Major French
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Atticus Cody
The Fall Guy
TV • 1981
James Coburn
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Andrews
Klondike
TV • 1960
Jeff Durain
Acapulco
TV • 1961
Gregg Miles
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Colonel Briscoe
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Lew Bennett
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
Joe Casey
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Victor Tavo
Bronco
TV • 1958
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Niles
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Henry Turner
Lawman
TV • 1958
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Poke Otis
The Texan
TV • 1958
The Detectives
TV • 1959
Wichita Town
TV • 1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Jess Newton
The Fifth Corner
TV • 1992
Dr. Grandwell
Tate
TV • 1960
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Moss Taylor
The Heaven and Earth Show
TV • 1998
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Earl Chafee
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Floyd
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Jack - Outlaw Leader
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Deputy
TV • 1959
Coffer
The Californians
TV • 1957
Anthony Wayne
The Californians
TV • 1957
Deputy Anthony Wayne
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Sam Murdock
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Cy Parker
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Kell
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Jack Harvey
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Charlie Doyle
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
Men Into Space
TV • 1959
Dr. Narry
The Dain Curse
TV • 1978
Hamilton Nash
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Jesse Holloway
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Gresch
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Howard Catlett
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
General Addison Brand
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
TV • 1990
Looten Plunder (voice)
Noah's Ark
TV • 1999
The 'Peddler'
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Leo Talley
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Union Sergeant
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Pete Jessup
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Ross Marquette
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
Kelly
Scene by Scene
TV • 1997
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Elmer Trace
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Dr. Henry Jamison
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Dennis Garrity
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Tales of Wells Fargo
TV • 1957
Idaho
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Ambrose
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mexican Police Captain (uncredited)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Buckskin Frank Leslie
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Steve Barnes
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Matt Carson
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
John Miller
Lawman
TV • 1958
Lank Bailey
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Dobie
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Joker Wells
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Ike Daggett
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
Buzz Griffin
Profiler
TV • 1996
Charles Vanderhorn
Clive James' Postcard from
TV • 1989
Self
Picket Fences
TV • 1992
Walter Brock
People's Choice Awards
TV • 1975
Self