
James Coburn
Known for Acting · 222 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 (82)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Perry Mason
1957
as Donald Fletcher / General Addison Brand

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Cyrus Ramsey

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter

The Rifleman
1958
as Cy Parker / Ambrose

Bonanza
1959
as Pete Jessup / Ross Marquette / Elmer Trace

Wogan
1982
as Self

Wagon Train
1957
as Ike Daggett

Great Performances
1971
as Self

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Jack Harvey

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

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

The Twilight Zone
1959
as Major French

Peter Gunn
1958

Rawhide
1959
as Colonel Briscoe

The Untouchables
1959
as Dennis Garrity

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

Cheyenne
1955
as Kell

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

Naked City
1958
as Harry Brind

Lawman
1958
as Lank Bailey

Arli$$
1996
as Sid Perelli

Studio One
1948
as Sam Chandler

Combat!
1962
as Cpl. Arnold Kanger

Route 66
1960

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Victor Tavo

Profiler
1996
as Charles Vanderhorn

Bat Masterson
1958
as Poke Otis / Leo Talley

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

Tales of Wells Fargo
1957
as Idaho

People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self

The Defenders
1961
as Earl Chafee

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Fall Guy
1981
as James Coburn

The Tall Man
1960
as John Miller

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Andrews / Union Sergeant

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

The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self

The Deputy
1959
as Coffer

The Millionaire
1955
as Lew Bennett

Suspicion
1957
as Matt Carson

The Texan
1958
The Heaven and Earth Show
1998
State Trooper
1956
as Dobie

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Gypsy

The Detectives
1959

Checkmate
1960
as Gresch

Picket Fences
1992
as Walter Brock

The Muppet Show
1976
as Self - Special Guest Star

HBO First Look
1992

Stoney Burke
1962
as Dr. Henry Jamison

Bronco
1958

Trackdown
1957
as Joker Wells

Black Saddle
1959
as Niles

Cain's Hundred
1961
as Arthur Troy

Johnny Ringo
1959
as Moss Taylor

Outlaws
1960

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Floyd
Movies (140)

Monsters, Inc.
2001
as Waternoose (voice)

The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Britt

The Great Escape
1963
as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Candy
1968
as Dr. A.B. Krankheit

Eraser
1996
as WitSec Chief Beller

Charade
1963
as Tex Panthollow

The Nutty Professor
1996
as Harlan Hartley

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

Duck, You Sucker
1971
as John H. Mallory

Payback
1999
as Justin Fairfax

Midway
1976
as Capt. Vinton Maddox

The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Alcot

Maverick
1994
as Commodore Duvall

The Player
1992
as James Coburn

The Muppet Movie
1979
as El Sleezo Cafe Owner

Snow Dogs
2002
as Thunder Jack

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Pat Garrett

Young Guns II
1990
as John Simpson Chisum

Cross of Iron
1977
as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Hudson Hawk
1991
as George Kaplan

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

Hard Times
1975
as Spencer "Speed" Weed

Mastergate
1992
as Major Manley Battle

Intrepid
2000
as Captain Hal Josephson

Affliction
1998
as Glen Whitehouse

Digital Dreams
1983
as God's Gift to Wyman

The Last Hard Men
1976
as Provo

Major Dundee
1965
as Samuel Potts
Action on the Beach
1964
as Self

Pinocchio
1984
as The Gypsy

Ride Lonesome
1959
as Whitt

The Carey Treatment
1972
as Dr. Peter Carey

Martin's Day
1985
as Lt. Lardner

Mr. Patman
1981
as Patman
Superstunt
1977
as Self

A High Wind in Jamaica
1965
as Zac
Silverfox
1991
as Robert Fox

The Baltimore Bullet
1980
as Nick Casey

Texas Rangers
2001
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001

Kings of the Sun
1963
as Narrator (uncredited)

Death of a Soldier
1986
as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

The Hit List
1993
as Peter Mayhew

The Second Civil War
1997
as Jack Buchan
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
2006
as Self

Looker
1981
as John Reston

Bite the Bullet
1975
as Luke Matthews

The Avenging Angel
1995
as Porter Rockwell

The Internecine Project
1974
as Robert Elliot

Our Man Flint
1966
as Derek Flint

The Path of the Dragon
1998
as Self

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

Hell Is for Heroes
1962
as Cpl. Frank Henshaw

Call from Space
1989
as Studio Boss
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
1999
as Self

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"
1981
as Henry Bellamy

The Curse of the Dragon
1993
as Self

Goldengirl
1979
as Jack Dryden

The President's Analyst
1967
as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

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

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

The Cherokee Kid
1996
as Cyrus Bloomington

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

Face of a Fugitive
1959
as Purdy

The Man from Galveston
1963
as Boyd Palmer

The Yellow Bird
2002
as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

The Last of Sheila
1973
as Clinton Greene

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self

Deadfall
1993
as Mike Donan / Lou Donan

The Loved One
1965
as Immigration Officer

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

In Like Flint
1967
as Derek Flint

Mr. Murder
1998
as Drew Oslett, Sr.

Kurosawa
2000
as Self

Keys to Tulsa
1997
as Harmon Shaw

American Gun
2002
as Martin Tillman

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

Hard Contract
1969
as John Cunningham

Harry in Your Pocket
1973
as Harry

Loving Couples
1980
as Walter

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self

Greyhounds
1994
as John Dolan

Sky Riders
1976
as Jim McCabe

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

Noah's Ark
1999
as Peddler
Superstunt II
1979
as Self

I Love Muppets
2002
as Self

A Christmas Reunion
1994
as Santa

Missing Pieces
2001
as Atticus Cody

High Risk
1981
as Serrano

Walking After Midnight
1988
as Self

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

Waterhole #3
1967
as Lewton Cole

Train to Heaven
1989
as Gregorius

Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
as Self

The Honkers
1972
as Lew Lathrop

Walter and Henry
2001
as Charlie

The Set Up
1995
as Jeremiah Cole

Proximity
2001
as Jim Corcoran

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

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970
as Jeb Stuart Thornton

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992
as Narrator (voice)

Duffy
1968
as Duffy

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

Draw!
1984
as Sam Starret
True Facts
1992

Skeletons
1997
as Frank Jove

The Wolf Men
1969
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self (voice)

Firepower
1979
as Jerry Fanon / Eddie

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

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self

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

Sins of the Father
1985
as Frank Murchison

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
as Host

Return to 'The Great Escape'
1993
as Self

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

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994
as Jeffrey Winslow

Malibu
1983
as Tom Wharton
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 222 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, James Coburn has appeared in 140 films and 82 TV shows.
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Most Popular James Coburn Movies
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) — as Waternoose (voice)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) — as Britt
- The Great Escape (1963) — as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
- Candy (1968) — as Dr. A.B. Krankheit
- Eraser (1996) — as WitSec Chief Beller
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