James Coburn

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James Coburn

Acting August 31, 1928

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 appearan…

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Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

7.9 2001 Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.5 1962 TV Show
The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor

5.6 1996 Movie
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

7.9 1963 Movie
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

6.9 1975 TV Show
Eraser

Eraser

6.1 1996 Movie
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

7.5 1960 Movie
Payback

Payback

6.8 1999 Movie
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

6.4 1993 Movie
Maverick

Maverick

6.9 1994 Movie
The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

5.8 1961 TV Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

7.3 1993 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2024
    Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

    Movie Self

  2. 2011
    Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

    Movie Self

  3. 2006
    Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

    Movie Self

  4. 2005
    Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

    Movie Self

  5. 2004
    Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon

    Movie Self

  6. 2004
    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  7. 2003
    Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

    Movie Self - Host

  8. 2002
    American Gun

    Movie Martin Tillman

  9. 2002
    The Yellow Bird

    Movie Rev. Increase Tutwiler

  10. 2002
    The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

    Movie Narrator

  11. 2002
    I Love Muppets

    Movie Self

  12. 2002
    Snow Dogs

    Movie Thunder Jack

  13. 2001
    The Unbeatable Bruce Lee

    Movie

  14. 2001
    Texas Rangers

    Movie Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

  15. 2001
    Monsters, Inc.

    Movie Waternoose (voice)

  16. 2001
    The Man from Elysian Fields

    Movie Alcot

More credits
  1. 2001
    The Mists of Avalon

    TV show Executive Producer

  2. 2001
    Walter and Henry

    Movie Charlie

  3. 2001
    Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  4. 2001
    Proximity

    Movie Jim Corcoran

  5. 2001
    Missing Pieces

    Movie Atticus Cody

  6. 2000
    Kurosawa

    Movie Self

  7. 2000
    Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

    Movie Self

  8. 2000
    Intrepid

    Movie Captain Hal Josephson

  9. 2000
    Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  10. 1999
    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero

    Movie Self

  11. 1999
    Noah's Ark

    TV show The 'Peddler'

  12. 1999
    Payback

    Movie Justin Fairfax

  13. 1999
    Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  14. 1999
    Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

    Movie Self

  15. 1999
    World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  16. 1998
    Mr. Murder

    Movie Drew Oslett, Sr.

  17. 1998
    The Heaven and Earth Show

    TV show

  18. 1998
    Affliction

    Movie Glen Whitehouse

  19. 1998
    The Path of the Dragon

    Movie Self

  20. 1998
    Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist

    Movie Self

  21. 1997
    The Second Civil War

    Movie Jack Buchan

  22. 1997
    The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

    Movie Himself

  23. 1997
    Scene by Scene

    TV show Self

  24. 1997
    Keys to Tulsa

    Movie Harmon Shaw