James Coburn
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 31, 1928
- Died
- Nov 18, 2002 (aged 74)
- Place of birth
- Laurel, Nebraska, USA
- Credits
- 221
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
Monsters, Inc.
2001Movie
Waternoose (voice)
The Nutty Professor
1996Movie
Harlan Hartley
The Great Escape
1963Movie
Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Eraser
1996Movie
Beller
Payback
1999Movie
Justin Fairfax
The Magnificent Seven
1960Movie
Britt
Filmography
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024Movie
Self
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
2011Movie
Self
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
2006Movie
Self
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005Movie
Self
Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
2004Movie
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
2003Movie
Self - Host
American Gun
2002Movie
Martin Tillman
The Yellow Bird
2002Movie
Rev. Increase Tutwiler
The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones
2002Movie
Narrator
I Love Muppets
2002Movie
Self
Snow Dogs
2002Movie
Thunder Jack
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001Movie
Texas Rangers
2001Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Monsters, Inc.
2001Movie
Waternoose (voice)
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001Movie
Alcot
Walter and Henry
2001Movie
Charlie
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
2001Movie
Narrator (voice)
Proximity
2001Movie
Jim Corcoran
Missing Pieces
2001Movie
Atticus Cody
Kurosawa
2000Movie
Self
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000Movie
Self
Intrepid
2000Movie
Captain Hal Josephson
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000Movie
Self (archive footage)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
1999Movie
Self
Noah's Ark
1999TV
The 'Peddler'
Payback
1999Movie
Justin Fairfax
World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape
1999Movie
Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
1999Movie
Self
Mr. Murder
1998Movie
Drew Oslett, Sr.
The Heaven and Earth Show
1998TV
Affliction
1998Movie
Glen Whitehouse
The Path of the Dragon
1998Movie
Self
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
1998Movie
Self
The Second Civil War
1997Movie
Jack Buchan
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson
1997Movie
Himself
Scene by Scene
1997TV
Self
Keys to Tulsa
1997Movie
Harmon Shaw
Skeletons
1997Movie
Frank Jove
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997Movie
Host
Earth's Two-Minute Warning
1997Movie
Self
The Cherokee Kid
1996Movie
Cyrus Bloomington
Football America
1996Movie
Narrator
Profiler
1996TV
Charles Vanderhorn
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
1996Movie
Narrator
E! True Hollywood Story
1996TV
Arli$$
1996TV
Sid Perelli
The Nutty Professor
1996Movie
Harlan Hartley
Eraser
1996Movie
Beller
Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
1996Movie
The Set Up
1995Movie
Jeremiah Cole
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995Movie
Jeffery Winslow
The Avenging Angel
1995Movie
Porter Rockwell
National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge
1995Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Christmas Reunion
1994Movie
Santa
Greyhounds
1994Movie
John Dolan
Maverick
1994Movie
Commodore Duvall
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994Movie
Jeffrey Winslow
The Life of Bruce Lee
1994Movie
Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee
Return to 'The Great Escape'
1993Movie
Self
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993Movie
Mr. Crisp
Deadfall
1993Movie
Mike Donan / Lou Donan
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
The Curse of the Dragon
1993Movie
Self
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993Movie
Self
The Hit List
1993Movie
Peter Mayhew
Mastergate
1992Movie
Major Manley Battle
Picket Fences
1992TV
Walter Brock
HBO First Look
1992TV
The Player
1992Movie
James Coburn
The Fifth Corner
1992TV
Dr. Grandwell
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992Movie
Jim Hathaway
National Lampoon's True Facts
1992Movie
Self
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992Movie
Narrator (voice)
Silverfox
1991Movie
Robert Fox
Hudson Hawk
1991Movie
George Kaplan
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990TV
Looten Plunder (voice)
Young Guns II
1990Movie
John Simpson Chisum
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990Movie
Narrator
Train to Heaven
1989Movie
Gregorius
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989Movie
Self (voice)
Clive James' Postcard from
1989TV
Self
Call from Space
1989Movie
Studio Boss
Walking After Midnight
1988Movie
Self
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987Movie
Self
Death of a Soldier
1986Movie
Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
1986Movie
Self (archive footage)
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
1986Movie
Self
Martin's Day
1985Movie
Lt. Lardner
Sins of the Father
1985Movie
Frank Murchison
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Cyrus Ramsey
Draw!
1984Movie
Sam Starret
Pinocchio
1984Movie
The Gypsy
Digital Dreams
1983Movie
God's Gift to Wyman
Malibu
1983Movie
Tom Wharton
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982TV
The Gypsy
Wogan
1982TV
Self
Darkroom
1981TV
Host
The Fall Guy
1981TV
James Coburn
Looker
1981Movie
John Reston
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"
1981Movie
Henry Bellamy
High Risk
1981Movie
Serrano
Mr. Patman
1981Movie
Patman
Loving Couples
1980Movie
Walter
The Baltimore Bullet
1980Movie
Nick Casey
Goldengirl
1979Movie
Jack Dryden
The Muppet Movie
1979Movie
El Sleezo Cafe Owner
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979Movie
Self (uncredited)
Firepower
1979Movie
Jerry Fanon / Eddie
Superstunt II
1979Movie
Self
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978Movie
Self
The Dain Curse
1978TV
Hamilton Nash
California Suite
1978Movie
Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)
Superstunt
1977Movie
Self
White Rock
1977Movie
James Coburn
Cross of Iron
1977Movie
Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
1976Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Muppet Show
1976TV
Self - Special Guest Star
Midway
1976Movie
Capt. Vinton Maddox
The Last Hard Men
1976Movie
Provo
Sky Riders
1976Movie
Jim McCabe
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host
Bite the Bullet
1975Movie
Luke Matthews
Hard Times
1975Movie
Spencer "Speed" Weed
People's Choice Awards
1975TV
Self
The Internecine Project
1974Movie
Robert Elliot
Harry in Your Pocket
1973Movie
Harry
The Last of Sheila
1973Movie
Clinton Greene
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973Movie
Pat Garrett
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
1972Movie
Colonel Pembroke
The Honkers
1972Movie
Lew Lathrop
The Carey Treatment
1972Movie
Dr. Peter Carey
Duck, You Sucker
1971Movie
John H. Mallory
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970Movie
Jeb Stuart Thornton
Hard Contract
1969Movie
John Cunningham
The Wolf Men
1969Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Candy
1968Movie
Dr. A.B. Krankheit
Duffy
1968Movie
Duffy
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
The President's Analyst
1967Movie
Dr. Sidney Schaefer
Waterhole #3
1967Movie
Lewton Cole
In Like Flint
1967Movie
Derek Flint
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966Movie
Eli Kotch
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966Movie
Lieutenant Christian
Our Man Flint
1966Movie
Derek Flint
The Loved One
1965Movie
Immigration Officer
A High Wind in Jamaica
1965Movie
Zac
Major Dundee
1965Movie
Samuel Potts
The Americanization of Emily
1964Movie
Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
Action on the Beach
1964Movie
Self
The Man from Galveston
1963Movie
Boyd Palmer
Kings of the Sun
1963Movie
Narrator (uncredited)
Charade
1963Movie
Tex Panthollow
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963TV
Kelly
The Great Escape
1963Movie
Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Combat!
1962TV
Cpl. Arnold Kanger
Stoney Burke
1962TV
Dr. Henry Jamison
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Hell Is for Heroes
1962Movie
Cpl. Frank Henshaw
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
Cain's Hundred
1961TV
Arthur Troy
The Defenders
1961TV
Earl Chafee
Acapulco
1961TV
Gregg Miles
The Murder Men
1961Movie
Arthur Troy
The Magnificent Seven
1960Movie
Britt
Klondike
1960TV
Jeff Durain
Route 66
1960TV
Stagecoach West
1960TV
Sam Murdock
Outlaws
1960TV
Checkmate
1960TV
Gresch
The Aquanauts
1960TV
Joe Casey
The Tall Man
1960TV
John Miller
Tate
1960TV
The Detectives
1959TV
The Untouchables
1959TV
Dennis Garrity
Bourbon Street Beat
1959TV
Buzz Griffin
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Major French
Johnny Ringo
1959TV
Moss Taylor
Wichita Town
1959TV
Men Into Space
1959TV
Dr. Narry
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959TV
Floyd
The Deputy
1959TV
Coffer
Bonanza
1959TV
Pete Jessup, Ross Marquette, Elmer Trace
Face of a Fugitive
1959Movie
Purdy
Ride Lonesome
1959Movie
Whitt
Black Saddle
1959TV
Niles
Rawhide
1959TV
Colonel Briscoe
Bat Masterson
1958TV
Poke Otis, Leo Talley
Lawman
1958TV
Lank Bailey
Naked City
1958TV
Harry Brind
The Rifleman
1958TV
Cy Parker, Ambrose
The Texan
1958TV
Bronco
1958TV
Peter Gunn
1958TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958TV
Henry Turner, Jesse Holloway, Howard Catlett
Trackdown
1957TV
Joker Wells
Suspicion
1957TV
Matt Carson
The Californians
1957TV
Anthony Wayne, Deputy Anthony Wayne
The Restless Gun
1957TV
Perry Mason
1957TV
Donald Fletcher, General Addison Brand
Wagon Train
1957TV
Ike Daggett
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957TV
Jack Harvey
The Night America Trembled
1957Movie
Sam (as Jim Coburn)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957TV
Victor Tavo
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957TV
Idaho
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Jess Newton, Charlie Doyle
State Trooper
1956TV
Dobie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Andrews, Union Sergeant
Cheyenne
1955TV
Kell
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955TV
Buckskin Frank Leslie
The Millionaire
1955TV
Lew Bennett
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954TV
Jack - Outlaw Leader, Mexican Police Captain (uncredited)
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Claude Firman
Death Valley Days
1952TV
Steve Barnes
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Atticus Cody
The Bob Hope Show
1950TV
Self
Studio One
1948TV
Sam Chandler
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self, Self - Presenter