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James Coburn

James Harrison Coburn, Jr. appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, playing a wide range of roles. A small sample of his work includes The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Our Man Flint, Silver Fox, The Nutty Professor and Snow Dogs.

Aliases
  • Jim Coburn
  • James H. Coburn
English
Filmography
  • Born In Laurel, Nebraska, USA
  • Born August 31, 1928
  • Died November 18, 2002
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20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years

1997
as Narrator / Host

A High Wind in Jamaica

1965
as Zac

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

1972
as Colonel Pembroke

Affliction

1997
as Glen Whitehouse

American Gun

2002
as Martin Tillman

Bite the Bullet

1975
as Luke Matthews

Blood and Steel: Making 'Enter the Dragon'

2004
as James Coburn

Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do

1995
as Self (training scenes with Bruce Lee)

Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon

1994
as James Coburn

Bruce Lee: The Legend

1984
as Himself

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

1999
as James Coburn

Call from Space

1989

Candy

1968
as Dr. A.B. Krankheit

Charade

1963
as Tex Panthollow

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

1992
as Jim Hathaway

Cross of Iron

1977
as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Crossover

1981
as Patman

Crossover

1981
as Peabody

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

1966
as Eli Kotch

Deadfall

1993
as Mike Donan / Lou Donan

Death of a Soldier

1986
as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

Deep Water

2000
as Captain Hal Josephson

Digital Dreams

1983
as God's gift to Wyman

Draw!

1984
as Sam Starret

Duffy

1968
as Duffy

Eraser

1996
as WitSec Chief Beller

Face of a Fugitive

1959
as Purdy

Firepower

1979
as Jerry Fanon / Eddie

Football America

1996
as Narrator

Giù la testa

1971
as John H. Mallory

Go West, Young Man!

2003
as James Coburn

Goldengirl

1979
as Jack Dryden

Greyhounds

1994
as John Dolan

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

2000
as Self

Hard Contract

1969
as John Cunningham

Hard Times

1975
as Spencer 'Speed' Weed

Harry in Your Pocket

1973
as Harry

Hell Is for Heroes

1962
as Cpl. Henshaw

High Risk

1981
as Serrano

Hudson Hawk

1991
as George Kaplan

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

1992
as Narrator

I Love Muppets

2002
as Himself

In Like Flint

1967
as Derek Flint

Keys to Tulsa

1997
as Harmon Shaw

Kings of the Sun

1963
as Narrator

Kurosawa

2000
as Himself

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

1970
as Jeb Stuart Thornton

Looker

1981
as John Reston

Loving Couples

1980
as Dr. Walter Kirby

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

1986
as James Coburn

Major Dundee

1965
as Samuel Potts

Malibu

1983
as Tom Wharton

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

2001
as Himself / Narrator (voice)

Martin's Day

1985

Mastergate

1992
as Major Manley Battle

Maverick

1994
as Commodore Duvall

Midway

1976
as Capt. Vinton Maddox

Missing Pieces

2000
as Atticus Cody

Monsters, Inc.

2001
as Henry J. Waternoose III

Mr. Murder

1999
as Drew Oslett, Sr.

Our Man Flint

1966
as Derek Flint

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

2013
as James Coburn

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2005
as James Coburn

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973
as Sheriff Pat Garrett

Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years

2007
as James Coburn

Payback

1999
as Justin Fairfax

Payback: Straight Up

2006
as Justin Fairfax

Pinocchio

1984
as The Gypsy

Proximity

2001
as Jim Corcoran

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995
as Jeffery Winslow

Return to The Great Escape

1993
as James Coburn

Ride Lonesome

1959
as Whitt

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004
as Himself (archive footage)

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993
as Himself

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

2006
as James Coburn

Sins of the Father

1985

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

1993
as Mr. Crisp

Skeletons

1997
as Frank Jove

Sky Riders

1976
as Jim McCabe

Snow Dogs

2002
as James 'Thunder Jack' Johnson

Speed Fever

1978
as James Coburn

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

1990
as Narrator

Superstunt II

1979
as James Coburn

Texas Rangers

2001
as Narrator

The Americanization of Emily

1964
as Lt. Cmdr. Paul 'Bus' Cummings

The Avenging Angel

1995
as Porter Rockwell

The Baltimore Bullet

1980
as Nick Casey

The Carey Treatment

1972
as Dr. Peter Carey

The Cherokee Kid

1996
as Cyrus Bloomington

The Coolest Guy Movie Ever: The Return to the Scene of The Great Escape

2018
as James Coburn

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

1997
as Himself

The Great Escape

1963
as Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer"

The Hit List

1993
as Peter Mayhew

The Honkers

1972
as Lew Lathrop

The Internecine Project

1974
as Robert Elliot

The Last Hard Men

1976
as Zach Provo

The Last of Sheila

1973
as Clinton Green

The Lees: Action Speaks Louder

1999
as James Coburn

The Life of Bruce Lee

1994
as James Coburn

The Loved One

1965
as Immigration Officer

The Magnificent Seven

1960
as Britt

The Man from Elysian Fields

2001
as Alcot

The Man from Galveston

1963
as Boyd Palmer

The Muppet Movie

1979
as El Sleezo Cafe Owner

The Nutty Professor

1996
as Harlan Hartley

The Path of the Dragon

1998
as Himself

The Player

1992
as Himself

The President's Analyst

1967
as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

2002
as Narrator

The Second Civil War

1997
as Jack Buchan

The Set Up

1995
as Jeremiah Cole

The Wolf Men

1969
as Self - Narrator

The Yellow Bird

2002
as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

True Facts

1992

Walking After Midnight

1988
as James Coburn

Walter and Henry

2001
as Charlie

Waterhole #3

1967
as Lewton Cole

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

1966
as Lieutenant Christian

White Rock

1977
as Narrator

Young Guns II

1990
as John Simpson Chisum

Writer

Movie Circle of Iron 1978