Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

230

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-08-31

Deathday

2002-11-18 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Laurel, Nebraska, USA

Also Known As

詹姆士·柯本
Джеймс Кобурн
جیمز کابرن

James Coburn

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.

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Known For

7.8%

Monsters, Inc.

Nov 1, 2001

5.6%

The Nutty Professor

Jun 28, 1996

7.9%

The Great Escape

Jul 3, 1963

6.1%

Eraser

Jun 21, 1996

6.8%

Payback

Feb 5, 1999

6.4%

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Dec 9, 1993

7.5%

The Magnificent Seven

Oct 12, 1960

6.9%

Maverick

May 20, 1994

7.7%

Charade

Dec 1, 1963

7.7%

Duck, You Sucker

Oct 29, 1971

5.7%

Hudson Hawk

May 23, 1991

8.4%

The Twilight Zone

Oct 2, 1959

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Acting

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Silverfox as Robert Fox

2024

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western as Self

2012

I Am Bruce Lee as Self (archive footage)

2011

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War as Self

2006

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait as Self

2005

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as Self

2004		Blood and Steel: The Making of 'Enter the Dragon' as Self
2004		Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)

2002		The Kid Stays in the Picture as Self (archive footage)
2002		American Gun as Martin Tillman
2002		The Yellow Bird as Rev. Increase Tutwiler
2002		The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones as Narrator
2002		I Love Muppets as Self
2002		Snow Dogs as Thunder Jack

2001		Texas Rangers as Narrator
2001		Monsters, Inc. as Waternoose (voice)
2001		The Man from Elysian Fields as Alcot
2001		Walter and Henry as Charlie
2001		Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days as Narrator (voice)
2001		Proximity as Jim Corcoran
2001		Missing Pieces as Atticus Cody

2000		Kurosawa as Self
2000		Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000		Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' as Self
2000		Intrepid as Captain Hal Josephson
2000		Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self (archive footage)

1999		Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero as Self
1999		Noah's Ark as The 'Peddler'
1999		Payback as Justin Fairfax
1999		World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape as Narrator (voice)
1999		Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On as Self
1999		Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998		Mr. Murder as Drew Oslett, Sr.
1998		The Heaven and Earth Show
1998		Affliction as Glen Whitehouse
1998		The Path of the Dragon as Self
1998		Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist as Self

1997		The Second Civil War as Jack Buchan
1997		The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson as Himself
1997		Scene by Scene as Self
1997		Keys to Tulsa as Harmon Shaw
1997		Skeletons as Frank Jove
1997		The Second Civil War as Jack Buchan
1997		Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years as Host

1996		The Cherokee Kid as Cyrus Bloomington
1996		Football America as Narrator
1996		Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right as Narrator
1996		E! True Hollywood Story
1996		Arliss
1996		The Nutty Professor as Harlan Hartley
1996		Eraser as WitSec Chief Beller
1996		Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

1995		The Set Up as Jeremiah Cole
1995		Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder as Jeffery Winslow
1995		The Avenging Angel as Porter Rockwell
1995		National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge as Narrator

1994		A Christmas Reunion as Santa
1994		Greyhounds as John Dolan
1994		Maverick as Commodore Duvall
1994		Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice as Jeffrey Winslow
1994		Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon as Himself (archive footage)
1994		The Life of Bruce Lee as Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee

1993		Return to 'The Great Escape' as Self
1993		Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Mr. Crisp
1993		Deadfall as Mike Donan / Lou Donan
1993		The Curse of the Dragon as Self
1993		Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1993		The Hit List as Peter Mayhew

1992		Mastergate as Major Manley Battle
1992		HBO First Look
1992		The Player as James Coburn
1992		The Fifth Corner as Dr. Grandwell
1992		Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 as Jim Hathaway
1992		True Facts

1991

Hudson Hawk as George Kaplan

1990		Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Looten Plunder (voice)
1990		Young Guns II as John Simpson Chisum
1990		Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Narrator

1989		Train to Heaven as Gregorius
1989		Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Himself
1989		Call from Space as Studio Boss

1988

Walking After Midnight as Self

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self

1986		Death of a Soldier as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
1986		The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years as Self (archive footage)
1986		Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away as Self

1985		Martin's Day as Lt. Lardner
1985		Sins of the Father

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Cyrus Ramsey
1984		Draw! as Sam Starret
1984		Pinocchio as The Gypsy
1984		Bruce Lee: The Legend as Self (archive footage)

1983		Malibu as Tom Wharton
1983		Digital Dreams as God's Gift to Wyman

1982		Faerie Tale Theatre as The Gypsy
1982		Wogan as Self

1981		Darkroom
1981		The Fall Guy as James Coburn
1981		Looker as John Reston
1981		Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls as Henry Bellamy
1981		High Risk as Serrano
1981		Mr. Patman as Patman

1980		Loving Couples as Walter
1980		The Baltimore Bullet as Nick Casey

1979		Goldengirl as Jack Dryden
1979		The Muppet Movie as El Sleezo Cafe Owner
1979		The Muppets Go Hollywood as Self
1979		Firepower as Jerry Fanon / Eddie
1979		Superstunt II as Self

1978		California Suite as Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)
1978		Formula 1 - Speed fever as Self
1978		The Dain Curse as Hamilton Nash

1977		Cross of Iron as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
1977		White Rock as James Coburn

1976		Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth as Self (archive footage)
1976		The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
1976		Midway as Capt. Vinton Maddox
1976		The Last Hard Men as Provo
1976		Sky Riders as Jim McCabe

1975		Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975		Bite the Bullet as Luke Matthews
1975		Hard Times as Spencer "Speed" Weed

1974

The Internecine Project as Robert Elliot

1973		Harry in Your Pocket as Harry
1973		The Last of Sheila as Clinton
1973		Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Pat Garrett

1972		A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die as Colonel Pembroke
1972		The Honkers as Lew Lathrop
1972		The Carey Treatment as Dr. Peter Carey

1971		Duck, You Sucker as John H. Mallory
1971		Great Performances as Self

1970

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots as Jeb Stuart Thornton

1969		Hard Contract as John Cunningham
1969		The Wolf Men as Narrator

1968		Candy as Dr. A.B. Krankheit
1968		Duffy as Duffy
1968		The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967		The President's Analyst as Dr. Sidney Schaefer
1967		Waterhole #3 as Lewton Cole
1967		In Like Flint as Derek Flint

1966		Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Eli Kotch
1966		What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? as Lieutenant Christian
1966		Our Man Flint as Derek Flint

1965		The Loved One as Immigration Officer
1965		A High Wind in Jamaica as Zac
1965		Major Dundee as Samuel Potts

1964		The Americanization of Emily as Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
1964		Action on the Beach as Self

1963		Kings of the Sun as Narrator (uncredited)
1963		The Man from Galveston as Boyd Palmer
1963		Charade as Tex Panthollow
1963		The Greatest Show on Earth as Kelly
1963		The Great Escape as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

1962		Combat! as Cpl. Arnold Kanger
1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		Stoney Burke as Dr. Henry Jamison
1962		Hell Is for Heroes as Cpl. Frank Henshaw

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		Cain's Hundred as Arthur Troy
1961		The Defenders as Earl Chafee
1961		Acapulco as Gregg Miles
1961		The Murder Men as Arthur Troy

1960		The Magnificent Seven as Britt
1960		Klondike as Jeff Durain
1960		Route 66
1960		Stagecoach West as Sam Murdock
1960		Outlaws
1960		Checkmate as Gresch
1960		The Aquanauts as Joe Casey
1960		The Tall Man as John Miller
1960		Tate

1959		The Detectives
1959		The Untouchables as Dennis Garrity
1959		Bourbon Street Beat
1959		The Twilight Zone as Major French
1959		Johnny Ringo as Moss Taylor
1959		Men Into Space as Dr. Narry
1959		Wichita Town
1959		The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Floyd
1959		Bonanza as Pete Jessup
1959		Bonanza as Ross Marquette
1959		Bonanza as Elmer Trace
1959		The Deputy as Coffer
1959		Face of a Fugitive as Purdy
1959		Ride Lonesome as Whitt
1959		Black Saddle as Niles
1959		Rawhide as Colonel Briscoe

1958		Bat Masterson as Poke Otis
1958		Bat Masterson as Leo Talley
1958		Lawman
1958		Lawman as Lank Bailey
1958		The Rifleman as Cy Parker
1958		The Rifleman as Ambrose
1958		Naked City as Harry Brind
1958		The Texan
1958		Bronco
1958		Peter Gunn
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Henry Turner
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jesse Holloway
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Howard Catlett

1957		Trackdown as Joker Wells
1957		Suspicion as Matt Carson
1957		The Californians as Anthony Wayne
1957		The Californians as Deputy Anthony Wayne
1957		Perry Mason as Donald Fletcher
1957		Perry Mason as General Addison Brand
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel as Jack Harvey
1957		The Night America Trembled as Sam (as Jim Coburn)
1957		Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Victor Tavo
1957		Tales of Wells Fargo as Idaho

1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jess Newton
1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Charlie Doyle
1956		State Trooper as Dobie

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Andrews
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Union Sergeant
1955		Cheyenne as Kell
1955		The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955		The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Buckskin Frank Leslie
1955		The Millionaire as Lew Bennett