James Coburn

Born Aug 31, 1928 in Laurel, Nebraska, USA

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.

Filmography

Shows & movies

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

2018

Documentary | 58m

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie as James Coburn

2013

Documentary | 1h 10m

Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years as James Coburn

2007

Musical, Documentary | 6h 17m

Payback: Straight Up as Justin Fairfax

2006

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 1h 30m

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait as James Coburn

2006

Documentary | 1h 20m

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as James Coburn

2005

Documentary | 1h 55m

Blood and Steel: Making 'Enter the Dragon' as James Coburn

2007

Documentary | 30m

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Himself (archive footage)

2004

Documentary | 1h 23m

Go West, Young Man! as James Coburn

2004

Documentary, Western | 1h 24m

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones as Narrator

2002

Documentary | 25m

I Love Muppets as Himself

2002

Comedy, Family | 1h

The Yellow Bird as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

2002

Drama | 18m

American Gun as Martin Tillman

2002

Drama | 1h 29m

Snow Dogs as Thunder Jack

2002

Adventure, Comedy, Family | 1h 39m

Walter and Henry as Charlie

2006

Drama | 1h 30m

Proximity as Jim Corcoran

2001

Action, Thriller | 1h 26m

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days as Himself / Narrator (voice)

2001

Comedy, Documentary | 1h 57m

The Man from Elysian Fields as Alcot

2001

Drama | 1h 46m

Texas Rangers as Narrator

2001

Action, Western | 2h

Monsters, Inc. as Waternoose

2002

Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 1h 32m

Missing Pieces as Atticus Cody

2000

Drama | 1h 36m

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

2000

Documentary | 45m

Deep Water as Captain Hal Josephson

2000

Action, Drama, Thriller | 1h 30m

Kurosawa as Himself

2000

Documentary | 1h 55m

The Lees: Action Speaks Louder as James Coburn

1999

Documentary | 1h

Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On as James Coburn

1999

| 1h 10m

Noah's Ark (1999) as The 'Peddler'

1 season • 1999 • Ended

Mini-Series, Fantasy, Drama, Adventure, Romance | 1h 25m

Mr. Murder as Drew Oslett, Sr.

1999

Science Fiction, Thriller | 2h 12m

Payback as Justin Fairfax

1999

Crime | 1h 40m

The Path of the Dragon as Himself

1998

Documentary | 44m

20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years as Narrator / Host

1997

Documentary | 2h 30m

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson as Himself

1997

Comedy | 1h 45m

Skeletons as Frank Jove

1997

Horror, Thriller, Drama | 1h 27m

Keys to Tulsa as Harmon Shaw

1997

Crime, Drama, Thriller | 1h 53m

The Second Civil War as Jack Buchan

1997

Drama, Comedy | 1h 37m

Affliction as Glen Whitehouse

1997

Drama, Thriller | 1h 54m

Football America as Narrator

1996

Documentary | 1h 35m

The Cherokee Kid as Cyrus Bloomington

1996

Western, Action, Comedy, Family | 1h 31m

Eraser as WitSec Chief Beller

1996

Action, Crime, Thriller | 1h 54m

The Nutty Professor as Harlan Hartley

1996

Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 1h 35m

Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do as Self (training scenes with Bruce Lee)

2003

Documentary | 56m

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder as Jeffery Winslow

1995

Mystery, Crime, Drama | 1h 40m

The Avenging Angel as Porter Rockwell

1995

Western | 1h 31m

The Set Up as Jeremiah Cole

1995

Action, Thriller | 1h 33m

Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon as James Coburn

2009

Documentary | 45m

Greyhounds as John Dolan

1995

Comedy, Crime, Drama | 1h 32m

The Life of Bruce Lee as James Coburn

1994

Documentary | 1h 8m

Maverick as Commodore Duvall

1994

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 2h 7m

Return to The Great Escape as James Coburn

2006

Documentary | 24m

The Hit List as Peter Mayhew

1993

Action, Thriller | 1h 33m

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Himself

1993

Documentary | 1h 30m

Deadfall as Mike Donan / Lou Donan

1993

Crime, Drama, Thriller | 1h 38m

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Mr. Crisp

1993

Comedy | 1h 47m

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time as Narrator

1993

Documentary | 1h 31m

Mastergate as Major Manley Battle

1992

Comedy | 1h 30m

True Facts

1992

Comedy | 1h

The Fifth Corner

1 season • 1992 • Ended

Drama, Suspense | 45m

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 as Jim Hathaway

1992

Thriller | 1h 35m

The Player as Himself

1992

Comedy, Crime, Drama | 2h 4m

Hudson Hawk as George Kaplan

1991

Action, Adventure, Comedy | 1h 40m

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Narrator

1990

Documentary | 1h

Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Looten Plunder (seasons 1-3)

6 seasons • 1990 • Ended

Science Fiction, Family, Comedy, Children, Animation | 25m

Young Guns II as John Simpson Chisum

1990

Western, Adventure | 2h 12m

Call from Space

1989

Adventure, Science Fiction | 29m

Walking After Midnight as James Coburn

1988

Documentary | 1h 32m

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away as James Coburn

1986

Documentary | 45m

Death of a Soldier as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

1986

War, Crime, Drama | 1h 33m

Martin's Day

1985

| 1h 38m

Sins of the Father

1985

| 1h 36m

Pinocchio as The Gypsy

1984

Fantasy | 52m

Draw! as Sam Starret

1984

Comedy, Western | 1h 38m

Bruce Lee: The Legend as Himself

1984

Documentary | 1h 28m

Digital Dreams as God's gift to Wyman

1983

Musical, Fantasy | 1h 12m

Malibu as Tom Wharton

1983

Drama | 3h 10m

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls as Henry Bellamy

1 season • 1981 • Ended

Mini-Series, Drama | 2h

Darkroom

1 season • 1981 • Ended

Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Thriller | 45m

Crossover as Peabody

1981

| 1h 37m

High Risk as Serrano

1981

Action, Thriller, Adventure | 1h 34m

Looker as John Reston

1981

Science Fiction, Thriller | 1h 34m

Loving Couples as Dr. Walter Kirby

1980

| 1h 37m

The Baltimore Bullet as Nick Casey

1980

Comedy, Crime, Drama | 1h 43m

Superstunt II as James Coburn

1983

Documentary

Firepower as Jerry Fanon / Eddie

1979

Action, Adventure | 1h 44m

Goldengirl as Jack Dryden

1979

Science Fiction, Drama | 1h 44m

The Muppet Movie as El Sleezo Cafe Owner

1979

Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical | 1h 37m

Speed Fever as James Coburn

1978

Documentary | 1h 41m

The Dain Curse as Hamilton Nash

1 season • 1978 • Ended

Mini-Series, Drama, Crime, Suspense, Thriller | 1h 25m

White Rock as Narrator

1978

Documentary, Sport | 1h 17m

Cross of Iron as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

1977

Drama, Action | 2h 12m

Sky Riders as Jim McCabe

1976

Action, Adventure | 1h 31m

The Last Hard Men as Zach Provo

1976

Western | 1h 38m

Midway as Capt. Vinton Maddox

1976

Action, Drama | 2h 12m

Bite the Bullet as Luke Matthews

1975

Action, Western, Adventure | 2h 12m

Hard Times as Spencer 'Speed' Weed

1975

Drama, Action | 1h 33m

The Internecine Project as Robert Elliot

1974

Action, Thriller | 1h 29m

Harry in Your Pocket as Harry

1973

Comedy, Crime, Drama | 1h 43m

The Last of Sheila as Clinton Green

1973

Crime, Drama, Mystery | 2h

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Sheriff Pat Garrett

1973

Western, Drama | 1h 46m

The Carey Treatment as Dr. Peter Carey

1972

Crime, Thriller | 1h 41m

The Honkers as Lew Lathrop

1972

Comedy, Western, Action | 1h 42m

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die as Colonel Pembroke

1972

Western | 1h 19m

Duck, You Sucker as John H. Mallory

1971

Western | 2h 37m

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots as Jeb Stuart Thornton

1970

Drama | 1h 40m

The Wolf Men as Self - Narrator

1969

Documentary | 52m

Hard Contract as John Cunningham

1969

Crime | 1h 46m

Duffy as Duffy

1968

Crime, Comedy | 1h 41m

Candy as Dr. A.B. Krankheit

1968

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 2h 4m

The President's Analyst as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

1967

Comedy, Science Fiction | 1h 43m

Waterhole #3 as Lewton Cole

1967

Comedy, Western | 1h 35m

In Like Flint as Derek Flint

1967

Action, Adventure, Comedy | 1h 54m

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? as Lieutenant Christian

1966

Comedy | 1h 56m

Our Man Flint as Derek Flint

1966

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 1h 48m

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Eli Kotch

1966

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 1h 44m

The Loved One as Immigration Officer

1965

Comedy | 2h 2m

A High Wind in Jamaica as Zac

1965

Action, Drama, Adventure | 1h 43m

Major Dundee as Samuel Potts

1965

Western | 2h 3m

The Americanization of Emily as Lt. Cmdr. Paul 'Bus' Cummings

1964

Comedy | 1h 55m

The Man from Galveston as Boyd Palmer

1963

Western | 57m

Kings of the Sun as Narrator

1963

Adventure | 1h 48m

Charade as Tex Panthollow

1963

Comedy, Thriller | 1h 53m

The Great Escape as Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer"

1963

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, War | 2h 45m

Hell Is for Heroes as Cpl. Henshaw

1962

Action | 1h 30m

Klondike as Jeff Durain

1 season • 1960 • Ended

Adventure, Western | 25m

The Magnificent Seven as Britt

1960

Western | 2h 8m

Face of a Fugitive as Purdy

1959

Action, Western | 1h 21m

Ride Lonesome as Whitt

1959

Action, Western | 1h 13m

Wanted: Dead or Alive

3 seasons • 1958 • Ended

Western | 25m