James Coburn

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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

Perry Mason

Donald Fletcher

Perry Mason

General Addison Brand

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Murder, She Wrote

Cyrus Ramsey

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Bonanza

Pete Jessup

Bonanza

Ross Marquette

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western	Self
2011	Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War	Self
2006	Sam Peckinpah: Portrait	Self
2005	Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah	Self
2004	Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon	Self
2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)
2003	Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years	Self - Host
2002	Snow Dogs	Thunder Jack
2002	American Gun	Martin Tillman
2002	The Yellow Bird	Rev. Increase Tutwiler
2002	I Love Muppets	Self
2002	The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones	Narrator
2001	Monsters, Inc.	Waternoose (voice)
2001	Missing Pieces	Atticus Cody
2001	Proximity	Jim Corcoran
2001	The Man from Elysian Fields	Alcot
2001	Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days	Narrator (voice)
2001	Walter and Henry	Charlie
2001	Texas Rangers	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2000	Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone	Self (archive footage)
2000	Kurosawa	Self
2000	Intrepid	Captain Hal Josephson
2000	Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'	Self
1999	World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape	Narrator (voice)
1999	Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999	Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero	Self
1999	Payback	Justin Fairfax
1999	Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On	Self
1998	Affliction	Glen Whitehouse
1998	Mr. Murder	Drew Oslett, Sr.
1998	The Path of the Dragon	Self
1998	Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist	Self
1997	Keys to Tulsa	Harmon Shaw
1997	Skeletons	Frank Jove
1997	The Second Civil War	Jack Buchan
1997	The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson	Himself
1997	Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years	Host
1997	Earth's Two-Minute Warning	Self
1996	Eraser	WitSec Chief Beller
1996	The Nutty Professor	Harlan Hartley
1996	Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
1996	The Cherokee Kid	Cyrus Bloomington
1996	Football America	Narrator
1996	Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right	Narrator
1995	The Avenging Angel	Porter Rockwell
1995	National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge	Narrator
1995	The Set Up	Jeremiah Cole
1995	Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder	Jeffery Winslow
1994	Maverick	Commodore Duvall
1994	A Christmas Reunion	Santa
1994	The Life of Bruce Lee	Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee
1994	Greyhounds	John Dolan
1994	Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice	Jeffrey Winslow
1993	Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit	Mr. Crisp
1993	Deadfall	Mike Donan / Lou Donan
1993	Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron	Self
1993	The Hit List	Peter Mayhew
1993	Return to 'The Great Escape'	Self
1993	The Curse of the Dragon	Self
1992	The Player	James Coburn
1992	Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232	Jim Hathaway
1992	True Facts
1992	Mastergate	Major Manley Battle
1992	Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time	Narrator (voice)
1991	Hudson Hawk	George Kaplan
1991	Silverfox	Robert Fox
1990	Young Guns II	John Simpson Chisum
1990	Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge	Narrator
1989	Train to Heaven	Gregorius
1989	Call from Space	Studio Boss
1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Self (voice)
1988	Walking After Midnight	Self
1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self
1986	Death of a Soldier	Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
1986	Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away	Self
1986	The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years	Self (archive footage)
1985	Martin's Day	Lt. Lardner
1985	Sins of the Father
1984	Draw!	Sam Starret
1984	Pinocchio	The Gypsy
1983	Digital Dreams	God's Gift to Wyman
1983	Malibu	Tom Wharton
1981	Looker	John Reston
1981	High Risk	Serrano
1981	Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls	Henry Bellamy
1981	Mr. Patman	Patman
1980	The Baltimore Bullet	Nick Casey
1980	Loving Couples	Walter
1979	The Muppet Movie	El Sleezo Cafe Owner
1979	Superstunt II	Self
1979	Firepower	Jerry Fanon / Eddie
1979	Goldengirl	Jack Dryden
1979	The Muppets Go Hollywood	Self
1978	California Suite	Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited)
1978	Formula 1 - Speed fever	Self
1977	Cross of Iron	Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
1977	White Rock	James Coburn
1976	Midway	Capt. Vinton Maddox
1976	Sky Riders	Jim McCabe
1976	The Last Hard Men	Provo
1976	Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth	Self (archive footage)
1975	Hard Times	Spencer "Speed" Weed
1975	Bite the Bullet	Luke Matthews
1974	The Internecine Project	Robert Elliot
1973	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Pat Garrett
1973	The Last of Sheila	Clinton Greene
1973	Harry in Your Pocket	Harry
1972	A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die	Colonel Pembroke
1972	The Carey Treatment	Dr. Peter Carey
1972	The Honkers	Lew Lathrop
1971	Duck, You Sucker	John H. Mallory
1970	Last of the Mobile Hot Shots	Jeb Stuart Thornton
1969	Hard Contract	John Cunningham
1969	The Wolf Men	Narrator
1968	Candy	Dr. A.B. Krankheit
1968	Duffy	Duffy
1967	In Like Flint	Derek Flint
1967	The President's Analyst	Dr. Sidney Schaefer
1967	Waterhole #3	Lewton Cole
1966	Our Man Flint	Derek Flint
1966	What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?	Lieutenant Christian
1966	Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round	Eli Kotch
1965	Major Dundee	Samuel Potts
1965	A High Wind in Jamaica	Zac
1965	The Loved One	Immigration Officer
1964	The Americanization of Emily	Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings
1964	Action on the Beach	Self
1963	Charade	Tex Panthollow
1963	The Great Escape	Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
1963	The Man from Galveston	Boyd Palmer
1963	Kings of the Sun	Narrator (uncredited)
1962	Hell Is for Heroes	Cpl. Frank Henshaw
1961	The Murder Men	Arthur Troy
1960	The Magnificent Seven	Britt
1959	Ride Lonesome	Whitt
1959	Face of a Fugitive	Purdy
1957	The Night America Trembled	Sam (as Jim Coburn)

Year	TV Show	Role
1999	Noah's Ark	The 'Peddler'
1998	The Heaven and Earth Show
1997	Scene by Scene	Self
1996	Arli$$
1996	E! True Hollywood Story
1996	Profiler	Charles Vanderhorn
1992	The Fifth Corner	Dr. Grandwell
1992	HBO First Look
1992	Picket Fences	Walter Brock
1990	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Looten Plunder (voice)
1989	Clive James' Postcard from	Self
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Cyrus Ramsey
1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	The Gypsy
1982	Wogan	Self
1981	Darkroom
1981	The Fall Guy	James Coburn
1978	The Dain Curse	Hamilton Nash
1976	The Muppet Show	Self - Special Guest Star
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1971	Great Performances	Self
1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest
1963	The Greatest Show on Earth	Kelly
1962	Combat!	Cpl. Arnold Kanger
1962	Stoney Burke	Dr. Henry Jamison
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self
1961	Cain's Hundred	Arthur Troy
1961	Acapulco	Gregg Miles
1961	The Defenders	Earl Chafee
1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self
1960	Route 66
1960	Klondike	Jeff Durain
1960	Outlaws
1960	The Aquanauts	Joe Casey
1960	Tate
1960	Stagecoach West	Sam Murdock
1960	Checkmate	Gresch
1960	The Tall Man	John Miller
1959	The Twilight Zone	Major French
1959	Rawhide	Colonel Briscoe
1959	Black Saddle	Niles
1959	Wichita Town
1959	The Detectives
1959	Johnny Ringo	Moss Taylor
1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Floyd
1959	The Deputy	Coffer
1959	Men Into Space	Dr. Narry
1959	Bonanza	Pete Jessup
1959	Bonanza	Ross Marquette
1959	Bonanza	Elmer Trace
1959	The Untouchables	Dennis Garrity
1959	Bourbon Street Beat	Buzz Griffin
1958	Naked City	Harry Brind
1958	Peter Gunn
1958	Bronco
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Henry Turner
1958	Lawman
1958	Bat Masterson	Poke Otis
1958	The Texan
1958	The Rifleman	Cy Parker
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Jesse Holloway
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Howard Catlett
1958	Bat Masterson	Leo Talley
1958	The Rifleman	Ambrose
1958	Lawman	Lank Bailey
1957	Perry Mason	Donald Fletcher
1957	Have Gun, Will Travel
1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Victor Tavo
1957	The Californians	Anthony Wayne
1957	The Californians	Deputy Anthony Wayne
1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Jack Harvey
1957	Perry Mason	General Addison Brand
1957	Tales of Wells Fargo	Idaho
1957	Suspicion	Matt Carson
1957	Trackdown	Joker Wells
1957	Wagon Train	Ike Daggett
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Jess Newton
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Charlie Doyle
1956	State Trooper	Dobie
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Andrews
1955	The Millionaire	Lew Bennett
1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955	Cheyenne	Kell
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Union Sergeant
1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Buckskin Frank Leslie
1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Jack - Outlaw Leader
1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Mexican Police Captain (uncredited)
1953	General Electric Theater	Claude Firman
1953	The Oscars	Self
1952	Death Valley Days	Steve Barnes
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Atticus Cody
1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self
1948	Studio One	Sam Chandler
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter