James Coburn

Born 1928 • Laurel, Nebraska, USA

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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Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

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2024

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

as Self

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2011

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

as Self

N/A

2006

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

as Self

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

N/A

2005

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

as Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

N/A

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

as Self (archive footage)

Blood and Steel: The Making of 'Enter the Dragon'

N/A

2004

Blood and Steel: The Making of 'Enter the Dragon'

as Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

N/A

2003

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

as Self - Host

N/A

2002

American Gun

as Martin Tillman

N/A

2002

I Love Muppets

as Self

N/A

2002

Snow Dogs

as Thunder Jack

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

N/A

2002

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

as Narrator

N/A

2002

The Yellow Bird

as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

N/A

2001

The Man from Elysian Fields

as Alcot

N/A

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Waternoose (voice)

N/A

2001

Proximity

as Jim Corcoran

N/A

2001

Walter and Henry

as Charlie

N/A

2001

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2001

Missing Pieces

as Atticus Cody

N/A

2000

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

2000

Kurosawa

as Self

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

N/A

2000

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

as Self

N/A

2000

Intrepid

as Captain Hal Josephson

N/A

1999

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero

as Self

N/A

1999

Payback

as Justin Fairfax

N/A

1999

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

as Self

N/A

1999

World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

1998

Mr. Murder

as Drew Oslett, Sr.

N/A

1998

The Path of the Dragon

as Self

N/A

1998

Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist

as Self

N/A

1997

Skeletons

as Frank Jove

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

N/A

1997

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

as Host

N/A

1997

Keys to Tulsa

as Harmon Shaw

N/A

1997

Affliction

as Glen Whitehouse

N/A

1997

The Second Civil War

as Jack Buchan

N/A

1997

Earth's Two-Minute Warning

as Self

N/A

1996

The Nutty Professor

as Harlan Hartley

N/A

1996

Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

as —

N/A

1996

The Cherokee Kid

as Cyrus Bloomington

N/A

1996

Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right

as Narrator

N/A

1996

Football America

as Narrator

N/A

1996

Eraser

as WitSec Chief Beller

National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge

N/A

1995

National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge

as Narrator

N/A

1995

The Set Up

as Jeremiah Cole

N/A

1995

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

as Jeffery Winslow

N/A

1995

The Avenging Angel

as Porter Rockwell

N/A

1994

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

as Jeffrey Winslow

N/A

1994

Greyhounds

as John Dolan

N/A

1994

A Christmas Reunion

as Santa

N/A

1994

Maverick

as Commodore Duvall

N/A

1994

The Life of Bruce Lee

as Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee

N/A

1993

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

as Self

N/A

1993

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

as Mr. Crisp

N/A

1993

The Curse of the Dragon

as Self

N/A

1993

Return to 'The Great Escape'

as Self

N/A

1993

The Hit List

as Peter Mayhew

N/A

1993

Deadfall

as Mike Donan / Lou Donan

N/A

1992

True Facts

as —

N/A

1992

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

as Jim Hathaway

N/A

1992

The Player

as James Coburn

N/A

1992

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

1992

Mastergate

as Major Manley Battle

N/A

1991

Silverfox

as Robert Fox

N/A

1991

Hudson Hawk

as George Kaplan

N/A

1990

Young Guns II

as John Simpson Chisum

N/A

1990

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

as Narrator

N/A

1989

Call from Space

as Studio Boss

N/A

1989

Train to Heaven

as Gregorius

N/A

1989

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

as Self (voice)

N/A

1988

Walking After Midnight

as Self

N/A

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

as Self

N/A

1986

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

1986

Death of a Soldier

as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

N/A

1986

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

as Self

N/A

1985

Martin's Day

as Lt. Lardner

N/A

1985

Sins of the Father

as —

N/A

1984

Draw!

as Sam Starret

N/A

1984

Pinocchio

as The Gypsy

N/A

1983

Digital Dreams

as God's Gift to Wyman

N/A

1983

Malibu

as Tom Wharton

N/A

1981

Looker

as John Reston

N/A

1981

High Risk

as Serrano

N/A

1981

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

as Henry Bellamy

N/A

1981

Mr. Patman

as Patman

N/A

1980

Loving Couples

as Walter

N/A

1980

The Baltimore Bullet

as Nick Casey

N/A

1979

Goldengirl

as Jack Dryden

N/A

1979

Superstunt II

as Self

N/A

1979

The Muppet Movie

as El Sleezo Cafe Owner

N/A

1979

Firepower

as Jerry Fanon / Eddie

N/A

1979

The Muppets Go Hollywood

as Self

N/A

1978

Formula 1 - Speed fever

as Self

N/A

1977

Cross of Iron

as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

N/A

1977

White Rock

as James Coburn

N/A

1976

Midway

as Capt. Vinton Maddox

N/A

1976

Sky Riders

as Jim McCabe

N/A

1976

The Last Hard Men

as Provo

N/A

1976

Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

1975

Bite the Bullet

as Luke Matthews

N/A

1975

Hard Times

as Spencer "Speed" Weed

N/A

1974

The Internecine Project

as Robert Elliot

N/A

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

as Pat Garrett

N/A

1973

The Last of Sheila

as Clinton Greene

N/A

1973

Harry in Your Pocket

as Harry

N/A

1972

The Carey Treatment

as Dr. Peter Carey

N/A

1972

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

as Colonel Pembroke

N/A

1972

The Honkers

as Lew Lathrop

N/A

1971

Duck, You Sucker

as John H. Mallory

N/A

1970

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

as Jeb Stuart Thornton

N/A

1969

Hard Contract

as John Cunningham

N/A

1969

The Wolf Men

as Narrator

N/A

1968

Candy

as Dr. A.B. Krankheit

N/A

1968

Duffy

as Duffy

N/A

1967

Waterhole #3

as Lewton Cole

N/A

1967

The President's Analyst

as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

N/A

1967

In Like Flint

as Derek Flint

N/A

1966

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

as Eli Kotch

N/A

1966

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

as Lieutenant Christian

N/A

1966

Our Man Flint

as Derek Flint

N/A

1965

The Loved One

as Immigration Officer

N/A

1965

A High Wind in Jamaica

as Zac

N/A

1965

Major Dundee

as Samuel Potts

N/A

1964

Action on the Beach

as Self

N/A

1964

The Americanization of Emily

as Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings

N/A

1963

The Man from Galveston

as Boyd Palmer

N/A

1963

The Great Escape

as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

N/A

1963

Charade

as Tex Panthollow

N/A

1962

Hell Is for Heroes

as Cpl. Frank Henshaw

N/A

1961

The Murder Men

as Arthur Troy

N/A

1960

The Magnificent Seven

as Britt

N/A

1959

Face of a Fugitive

as Purdy

N/A

1959

Ride Lonesome

as Whitt

N/A

1957

The Night America Trembled

as Sam (as Jim Coburn)