Actor
· Acting
James Coburn
Born 1928-08-31
Died 2002-11-18
📍 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.
Filmography 219
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
as Self
2024
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
as Self
2011
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
2005
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)
2004
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
as Self - Host
2003
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
2002
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001
Texas Rangers
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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
2001
Kurosawa
as Self
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)
2000
Noah's Ark
as The 'Peddler'
1999
Noah's Ark
as Peddler
1999
Payback
as Justin Fairfax
1999
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
as Self
1999
Mr. Murder
as Drew Oslett, Sr.
1998
Affliction
as Glen Whitehouse
1998
The Path of the Dragon
as Self
1998
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
as Self
1998
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
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
as Host
1997
Earth's Two-Minute Warning
as Self
1997
The Cherokee Kid
as Cyrus Bloomington
1996
Football America
as Narrator
1996
Profiler
as Charles Vanderhorn
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Arli$$
as Sid Perelli
1996
The Nutty Professor
as Harlan Hartley
1996
Eraser
as WitSec Chief Beller
1996
Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
1996
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 Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
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
The Life of Bruce Lee
as Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee
1994
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
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
The Curse of the Dragon
as Self
1993
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
The Hit List
as Peter Mayhew
1993
Mastergate
as Major Manley Battle
1992
Picket Fences
as Walter Brock
1992
HBO First Look
1992
The Player
as James Coburn
1992
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
as Jim Hathaway
1992
Hudson Hawk
as George Kaplan
1991
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
1990
Train to Heaven
as Gregorius
1989
Clive James' Postcard from
as Self
1989
Call from Space
as Studio Boss
1989
Walking After Midnight
as Self
1988
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
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
1986
Martin's Day
as Lt. Lardner
1985
Sins of the Father
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Cyrus Ramsey
1984
Draw!
as Sam Starret
1984
Pinocchio
as The Gypsy
1984
Digital Dreams
as God's Gift to Wyman
1983
Malibu
as Tom Wharton
1983
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Gypsy
1982
Wogan
as Self
1982
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
1981
Loving Couples
as Walter
1980
The Baltimore Bullet
as Nick Casey
1980
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
Formula 1 - Speed fever
as Self
1978
The Dain Curse
as Hamilton Nash
1978
California Suite
as Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)
1978
White Rock
as James Coburn
1977
Cross of Iron
as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
1977
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
1976
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Bite the Bullet
as Luke Matthews
1975
Hard Times
as Spencer "Speed" Weed
1975
People's Choice Awards
as Self
1975
The Internecine Project
as Robert Elliot
1974
Harry in Your Pocket
as Harry
1973
The Last of Sheila
as Clinton Greene
1973
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Pat Garrett
1973
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
1972
Duck, You Sucker
as John H. Mallory
1971
Great Performances
as Self
1971
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
as Jeb Stuart Thornton
1970
Hard Contract
as John Cunningham
1969
The Wolf Men
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1969
Candy
as Dr. A.B. Krankheit
1968
Duffy
as Duffy
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
The President's Analyst
as Dr. Sidney Schaefer
1967
Waterhole #3
as Lewton Cole
1967
In Like Flint
as Derek Flint
1967
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
1966
The Loved One
as Immigration Officer
1965
A High Wind in Jamaica
as Zac
1965
Major Dundee
as Samuel Potts
1965
The Americanization of Emily
as Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
1964
The Man from Galveston
as Boyd Palmer
1963
Kings of the Sun
as Narrator (uncredited)
1963
Charade
as Tex Panthollow
1963
The Great Escape
as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
1963
Combat!
as Cpl. Arnold Kanger
1962
Stoney Burke
as Dr. Henry Jamison
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Hell Is for Heroes
as Cpl. Frank Henshaw
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
Cain's Hundred
as Arthur Troy
1961
The Defenders
as Earl Chafee
1961
The Murder Men
as Arthur Troy
1961
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
1960
The Detectives
1959
The Untouchables
as Dennis Garrity
1959
Bourbon Street Beat
as Buzz Griffin
1959
The Twilight Zone
as Major French
1959
Johnny Ringo
as Moss Taylor
1959
Wichita Town
1959
Men Into Space
as Dr. Narry
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Floyd
1959
The Deputy
as Coffer
1959
Bonanza
as Pete Jessup
1959
Bonanza
as Ross Marquette
1959
Bonanza
as Elmer Trace
1959
Face of a Fugitive
as Purdy
1959
Ride Lonesome
as Whitt
1959
Black Saddle
as Niles
1959
Rawhide
as Colonel Briscoe
1959
Bat Masterson
as Poke Otis
1958
Bat Masterson
as Leo Talley
1958
Lawman
1958
Lawman
as Lank Bailey
1958
Naked City
as Harry Brind
1958
The Rifleman
as Cy Parker
1958
The Rifleman
as Ambrose
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
1958
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
Wagon Train
as Ike Daggett
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
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jess Newton
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Charlie Doyle
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Andrews
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Union Sergeant
1955
Cheyenne
as Kell
1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Buckskin Frank Leslie
1955
The Millionaire
as Lew Bennett
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Jack - Outlaw Leader
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mexican Police Captain (uncredited)
1954
The Oscars
as Self
1953
General Electric Theater
as Claude Firman
1953
Death Valley Days
as Steve Barnes
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Atticus Cody
1951
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
Studio One
as Sam Chandler
1948
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944