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Real name: |
James Harrison Coburn, Jr. |
Birthdate: |
August 31, 1928 |
Date of death: |
November 18, 2002 |
Age: |
73 years |
Country: |
United States
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Horoscope: |
Virgo |
Stature: |
1,88 m |
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James Coburn Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
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- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG)
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
Independent Spirit
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
James Harrison Coburn, Jr., better known as James Coburn, was an American Actor. He has won an Academy Awards. He's known for Monsters, Inc. (2001), Affliction (1997) and The Muppet Movie (1979).
All Movies of James Coburn
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Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
Character:
Justin Fairfax
(archive footage)
2006
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The life and times of maverick filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (1925 - 1984)
Character:
Self
2005
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2004
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When Miami dentist (Gooding, Jr.) finds out that he's been named in a will, he travels to Alaska thinking he's going to be rich. Soon, his dream of wealth turns to mush when he finds out he has been left a team of racing dogs. As ...
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Thunder Jack
2002
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Character:
Martin Tillman
2002
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Documentary about the moviestar's last months including her tumultuous love affairs, drug and alcohol dependency, depression and eventual firing from her final film, 20th Century Fox's "Something's Got To Give". Features...
Character:
Narrator
(voice)
2001
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George Hickenlooper directs this psychological drama about an impoverished writer lost in a world of money, power, and male escorts. Though happily married with a young child, Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) is struggling to make ends ...
Character:
Alcott
2001
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Monsters, Inc. is a factory which sends monsters around the world to scare kids who are trying to sleep. It's nothing personal, in fact the screams are used to power Monstropolis where the monsters live. This job isn't easy for th...
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Waternoose
2001
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Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and B) goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the crui...
Character:
Captain Hal Josephson
2000
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Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes...
Character:
Justin Fairfax
1999
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Character:
Drew Oslett, Sr.
1998
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A heart attack moves Pulitzer winning journalist Peter Crane (Ron Silver) to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade...
Character:
Frank Jove
1997
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A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer.
Character:
Jack Buchan
1997
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Based on the novel by Russell Banks, AFFLICTION is a sobering, absorbing psychological study of the precarious relationship between an abusive father and his two sons. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a middle-aged ineffectual sher...
Character:
Glen Whitehouse
1997
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Mockumentary about the unexplained disappearance of a fictitious up-and-coming movie producer.
Character:
James Coburn
1996
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Character:
Cyrus B. Bloomington
1996
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Richter Boudreau is a son of local celebrity Cynthia who is not very successful and works as a film critic for local newspaper. In a short time he loses his job, heritage, and one of his "friends" starts to blackmail him...
Character:
Harmon Shaw
1996
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John Kruger works for the witness relocation program as a U.S. Marshal. His job is to remove all traces of the identity of any witness in the program and to, as called for, eliminate threats against any of those witnesses. John wo...
Character:
WitSec Chief Beller
1996
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Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is a pleasant but hugely corpulent university professor doing genetic research into metabolism and weight loss. Rather incompetent in daily life, he is at least an expert in his field of scie...
Character:
Harlan Hartley
1996
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Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool proof system during the refurbishing of a bank. But shortly after it's finished he...
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Jeremiah Cole
1995
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Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Character:
Porter Rockwell
1995
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Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which in the end may not be that different.
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Santa
1994
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Bret Maverick is a superb professional poker gambler, as handy with the handgun as he handles the cards, but also a master at avoiding violence by deception. Like all great poker layers, he's on his way to a winner take all champi...
Character:
Commodore Duvall
1994
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Documentary of the life of actor Bruce Lee, with interviews with cast members and crews who worked with him.
Character:
Self
1993
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After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, a...
Character:
Mike Donan /
Lou Donan
1993
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Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students w...
Character:
Mr. Crisp
1993
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Character:
Jim Hathaway
1992
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Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous ac...
Character:
James Coburn
1992
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Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has done his time. The infamous cat burglar is released from prison and plans to pursue an honest life. Some of his cronies, however, feel differently and coerce him back into a life of crime. With his b...
Character:
George Kaplan
1991
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Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines, but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting - and the woman who would be with...
Character:
Narrator
1990
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The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick ...
Character:
John Chisum
1990
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1989
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Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 ...
Character:
Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
1986
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Fresh out of law school, Kevan Harris is hired by her dead father's ex-partner, Frank Murchison, and immediately 'falls into bed' with him. She then falls in love with his son, Gregory, who is fighting his father over his mother's...
1985
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Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Steckert grabs a 12-year-old kid as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too - a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, which life has given only disma...
1985
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In this made-for-cable TV movie set in the final days of the Old West, the death of a lawman at the hands of an old outlaw (James Coburn) causes an old gunslinging enemy (Kirk Douglas) to challenge him to a duel.
Character:
Sam Starret
1984
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He might be made out of wood, but Pinocchio (Pee Wee's Playhouse's Paul Reubens) proves that puppets have hearts of gold in this retelling of the well-loved tale Pinocchio.
A lonely puppet maker named Geppetto (Ocean's Eleven's...
1984
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The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.
Character:
Himself
(archive footage)
1984
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TV Series (1981-1982). An anthology horror/thriller series, along the same lines as "Twilight Zone". Each week features a new story and a new cast. Hosted by James Coburn. The 60-minute episodes feature two or three shor...
Character:
Self - Host
16 episodes, 1981-1982
1981
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Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American country and steal $5 million from the hacienda of an American-born drug dealer who lives there. The four Americans then succeed ...
Character:
Serrano
1981
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Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts bec...
Character:
John Reston
1981
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Character:
Nick Casey
1980
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When Greg crashes his sports car, doctor Evelyn comes to his rescue, and the two soon are engaged in an affair. Evelyn's workaholic husband learns about it from Greg's live-in girlfriend, scatterbrained television weather girl Ste...
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Dr. Walter Kirby
1980
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Mr. Patman works as a nurse in the psychiatric ward of a Vancouver area hospital. He treats his patients with care and compassion, they who in turn like him. To each, they are like family. He has disdain, however, for the doctors ...
Character:
Patman
1980
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A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Character:
Jack Dryden
1979
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Kermit the Frog is discovered playing banjo in the Florida swamps by a talent agent and told that he has promise. And so Kermit sets out for Hollywood to find fame and fortune. He is joined along the way by a bizarre menagerie of ...
1979
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Set in the Caribbean, Firepower is one of those "celebrity salads," featuring a glittering all-star cast. Sophia Loren heads the ensemble as Adele, the widow of a murdered chemist. Believing that a multimillionaire industrialist i...
Character:
Jerry Fanon /
Eddie
1979
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Hard-boiled private dick Hamilton Nash is hired to investigate a case of stolen diamonds, which leads him to a lovely and odd young woman named Gabrielle, who believes she has been stricken with the ancient curse of the Dain famil...
Character:
Hamilton Nash
3 episodes, 1978
1978
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This stunning ensemble cast tells the story of four different guests in a hotel. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda are a divorced couple fighting over the visitation of their daughter. Maggie Smith is coming to watch the Oscars with Michae...
1978
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Director Sam Peckinpah's only war movie, "Cross of Iron", is filmed from the perspective of German soldiers lost in a hopeless cause on World War II's Eastern Front. Sergeant Steiner (James Coburn), a well respected squad leader, ...
Character:
Unteroffizier Feldwebel (S /
Sgt.) Rolf Steiner
1977
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Character:
Narrator
1977
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Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plan...
Character:
Jim McCabe
1976
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The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. "Midway" tells the story of this historic June ...
Character:
Capt. Vinton Maddox
1976
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In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away an
1975
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old o...