
James Coburn
Known for Acting · 221 credits
- Born
- 1928-08-31
- Died
- 2002-11-18
- Place of birth
- Laurel, Nebraska, USA
- Also known as
- 詹姆士·柯本 · Джеймс Кобурн · جیمز کابرن
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
TV Shows (81)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

Perry Mason
1957
as Donald Fletcher / General Addison Brand

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Bonanza
1959
as Pete Jessup / Ross Marquette / Elmer Trace

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Cyrus Ramsey

Wagon Train
1957
as Ike Daggett

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter

Arli$$
1996
as Sid Perelli

Great Performances
1971
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

The Twilight Zone
1959
as Major French

The Rifleman
1958
as Cy Parker / Ambrose

Wogan
1982
as Self

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Jack Harvey

The Untouchables
1959
as Dennis Garrity

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
as Buckskin Frank Leslie

Lawman
1958
as Lank Bailey

Naked City
1958
as Harry Brind

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jess Newton / Charlie Doyle

Cheyenne
1955
as Kell

Studio One
1948
as Sam Chandler

Combat!
1962
as Cpl. Arnold Kanger

Rawhide
1959
as Colonel Briscoe

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Henry Turner / Jesse Holloway / Howard Catlett

Route 66
1960

Profiler
1996
as Charles Vanderhorn

The Defenders
1961
as Earl Chafee

Peter Gunn
1958

The Fall Guy
1981
as James Coburn

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Looten Plunder (voice)

Bat Masterson
1958
as Poke Otis / Leo Talley

Tales of Wells Fargo
1957
as Idaho

People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Picket Fences
1992
as Walter Brock

The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Andrews / Union Sergeant

The Millionaire
1955
as Lew Bennett

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Victor Tavo

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Gypsy

The Deputy
1959
as Coffer

The Texan
1958

Trackdown
1957
as Joker Wells

The Detectives
1959

Bronco
1958

Black Saddle
1959
as Niles

Checkmate
1960
as Gresch

The Muppet Show
1976
as Self - Special Guest Star
State Trooper
1956
as Dobie

The Tall Man
1960
as John Miller

HBO First Look
1992

Cain's Hundred
1961
as Arthur Troy
The Heaven and Earth Show
1998

Stoney Burke
1962
as Dr. Henry Jamison

Outlaws
1960

Johnny Ringo
1959
as Moss Taylor

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Floyd

Suspicion
1957
as Matt Carson
Movies (140)

Monsters, Inc.
2001
as Waternoose (voice)

Midway
1976
as Capt. Vinton Maddox

The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Britt

Payback
1999
as Justin Fairfax

The Great Escape
1963
as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Eraser
1996
as WitSec Chief Beller

Duck, You Sucker
1971
as John H. Mallory

Young Guns II
1990
as John Simpson Chisum

The Nutty Professor
1996
as Harlan Hartley

The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Alcot

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
as Mr. Crisp

Candy
1968
as Dr. A.B. Krankheit

The Player
1992
as James Coburn

Charade
1963
as Tex Panthollow

Maverick
1994
as Commodore Duvall

Hudson Hawk
1991
as George Kaplan

Snow Dogs
2002
as Thunder Jack

The Muppet Movie
1979
as El Sleezo Cafe Owner

The Last Hard Men
1976
as Provo

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Pat Garrett

Looker
1981
as John Reston

Cross of Iron
1977
as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Hard Times
1975
as Spencer "Speed" Weed

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)

Deadfall
1993
as Mike Donan / Lou Donan

Texas Rangers
2001
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

In Like Flint
1967
as Derek Flint

Waterhole #3
1967
as Lewton Cole

Bite the Bullet
1975
as Luke Matthews

California Suite
1978
as Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)

Affliction
1998
as Glen Whitehouse

Malibu
1983
as Tom Wharton

Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
1976
as Self (archive footage)

The Life of Bruce Lee
1994
as Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee

The Last of Sheila
1973
as Clinton Greene

Intrepid
2000
as Captain Hal Josephson
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self (voice)

Major Dundee
1965
as Samuel Potts

Keys to Tulsa
1997
as Harmon Shaw

Firepower
1979
as Jerry Fanon / Eddie

Missing Pieces
2001
as Atticus Cody

Mr. Murder
1998
as Drew Oslett, Sr.

Ride Lonesome
1959
as Whitt

Goldengirl
1979
as Jack Dryden

The Avenging Angel
1995
as Porter Rockwell

The Cherokee Kid
1996
as Cyrus Bloomington

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
as Lieutenant Christian

Mastergate
1992
as Major Manley Battle

Our Man Flint
1966
as Derek Flint

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
1986
as Self (archive footage)

Hell Is for Heroes
1962
as Cpl. Frank Henshaw

Mr. Patman
1981
as Patman

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Narrator

Kurosawa
2000
as Self

The Second Civil War
1997
as Jack Buchan

The Loved One
1965
as Immigration Officer

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self

Walter and Henry
2001
as Charlie

The Carey Treatment
1972
as Dr. Peter Carey

The President's Analyst
1967
as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

Loving Couples
1980
as Walter

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
1972
as Colonel Pembroke

Pinocchio
1984
as The Gypsy

Draw!
1984
as Sam Starret

The Path of the Dragon
1998
as Self

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
as Eli Kotch

The Americanization of Emily
1964
as Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings

The Baltimore Bullet
1980
as Nick Casey

Kings of the Sun
1963
as Narrator (uncredited)

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
as Self

The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001

A High Wind in Jamaica
1965
as Zac

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994
as Jeffrey Winslow

The Yellow Bird
2002
as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

The Hit List
1993
as Peter Mayhew
Silverfox
1991
as Robert Fox

The Honkers
1972
as Lew Lathrop

Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
as Self

Sky Riders
1976
as Jim McCabe

Skeletons
1997
as Frank Jove

Proximity
2001
as Jim Corcoran

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
as Host

Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
2004
as Self

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
as Jim Hathaway

Greyhounds
1994
as John Dolan

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Set Up
1995
as Jeremiah Cole

The Curse of the Dragon
1993
as Self
Superstunt II
1979
as Self

Walking After Midnight
1988
as Self

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)

Hard Contract
1969
as John Cunningham

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970
as Jeb Stuart Thornton

High Risk
1981
as Serrano
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
1999
as Self

Duffy
1968
as Duffy

Death of a Soldier
1986
as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson
1997
as Himself

Digital Dreams
1983
as God's Gift to Wyman

The Night America Trembled
1957
as Sam (as Jim Coburn)

The Man from Galveston
1963
as Boyd Palmer

The Internecine Project
1974
as Robert Elliot

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995
as Jeffery Winslow

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

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
1999
as Self

Face of a Fugitive
1959
as Purdy

Harry in Your Pocket
1973
as Harry

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
2011
as Self

Sins of the Father
1985
as Frank Murchison

Call from Space
1989
as Studio Boss

I Love Muppets
2002
as Self

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
1981
as Henry Bellamy
Superstunt
1977
as Self

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
as Self

Noah's Ark
1999
as Peddler

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
2001
as Narrator (voice)

A Christmas Reunion
1994
as Santa

Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
1998
as Self
About James Coburn
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. With 221 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, James Coburn has appeared in 140 films and 81 TV shows.
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Most Popular James Coburn Movies
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) — as Waternoose (voice)
- Midway (1976) — as Capt. Vinton Maddox
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) — as Britt
- Payback (1999) — as Justin Fairfax
- The Great Escape (1963) — as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
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