James Coburn

Acting · Born 1928-08-31 · Laurel, Nebraska, USA

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

• Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western (2024)
• Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011)
• Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
• Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
• Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon (2004)
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
• Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2003)
• Snow Dogs (2002)
• American Gun (2002)
• The Yellow Bird (2002)
• I Love Muppets (2002)
• The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones (2002)
• Missing Pieces (2001)
• Proximity (2001)
• The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
• Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001)
• Walter and Henry (2001)
• Texas Rangers (2001)
• The Unbeatable Bruce Lee (2001)
• Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone (2000)
• Kurosawa (2000)
• Intrepid (2000)
• Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000)
• World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape (1999)