James Coburn

7.5	Listal rating

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Birth Name: James Harrison Coburn, Jr.

Born: 31 August 1928 Died: 18 November 2002

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 2"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Paula Coburn

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Hollywood Icons' Final Roles are... Animated? (25 items)
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They talk with their eyes (100 items)
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Who is your Favorite Cowboy ? (48 items)
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Who's the Best Classic Actor? (45 items)
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Actors who would play me in a story of my life. (10 items)
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About: Lanky, charismatic and versatile actor with an amazing grin that put everyone at ease, James Coburn studied acting at UCLA, and then moved to New York to study under noted acting coach Stella Adler. After being noticed in several stage productions, Coburn appeared in a handful of minor westerns before being cast as the knife-throwing, quick-shooting Britt in the John Sturges mega-hit The Magnificent Seven (1960). Sturges remembered Coburn's talents when he cast his next major film project, The G Lanky, charismatic and versatile actor with an amazing grin that put everyone at ease, James Coburn studied acting at UCLA, and then moved to New York to study under noted acting coach Stella Adler. After being noticed in several stage productions, Coburn appeared in a handful of minor westerns before being cast as the knife-throwing, quick-shooting Britt in the John Sturges mega-hit The Magnificent Seven (1960). Sturges remembered Coburn's talents when he cast his next major film project, The Great Escape (1963), where Coburn played the Australian POW Sedgewick. Regular work now came thick and fast for Coburn, including appearing in Major Dundee (1965), the first of several films he appeared in directed by Hollywood enfant terrible Sam Peckinpah. The next two years were a key period for Coburn, with his performances in the wonderful 007 spy spoof Our Man Flint (1966) and the eerie Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). Coburn followed up in 1967 with a Flint sequel, In Like Flint (1967), and the much underrated political satire The President's Analyst (1967). The remainder of the 1960s was rather uneventful for Coburn. However, he became associated with martial arts legend Bruce Lee and the two trained together, traveled extensively and even visited India scouting locations for a proposed film project, but Lee's untimely death (Coburn, along with Steve McQueen, was a pallbearer at Lee's funeral) put an end to that.

The 1970s saw Coburn appearing again in several strong roles, starting off in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), alongside Charles Bronson in the Depression-era Hard Times (1975) and as a disenchanted German soldier on the Russian front in Peckinpah's superb Cross of Iron (1977). Towards the end of the decade, however, Coburn was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which severely hampered his health and work output for many years. After conventional treatments failed, Coburn turned to a holistic therapist, and through a restructured diet program, made a definite improvement. By the 1990s he was once again appearing regularly in both film and TV productions.

No one was probably more surprised than Coburn himself when he was both nominated for, and then won, the Best Supporting Actor Award in 1997 for playing Nick Nolte's abusive and alcoholic father in Affliction (1997). At 70 years of age, Coburn's career received another shot in the arm, and he appeared in another 14 films, including Snow Dogs (2002) and The Man from Elysian Fields (2001), before his death from a heart attack in November of 2002. Coburn's passions in life included martial arts, card playing and enjoying fine Cuban cigars. ... (more)

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Movies

1. Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Rating:

7.5

5048 Watched

2. The Nutty Professor (1996)

Rating:

2482 Watched

3. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

Rating:

5.5

1217 Watched

4. The Great Escape (1963)

Rating:

738 Watched

5. Maverick (1994)

Rating:

6.4

800 Watched

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TV

1. Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990)

Rating:

532 Watched

2. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Rating:

7.2

525 Watched

3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Rating:

7.8

184 Watched

4. The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)

Rating:

4.4

137 Watched

5. Bonanza (1959)

Rating:

6.2

126 Watched

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Movies written by

1. Circle of Iron (1978)

Rating:

6.8

23 Watched

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Who's the Best Classic Actor? (45 person items)

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In Memoriam (305 person items)

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Hollywood Icons' Final Roles are... Animated? (25 person items)

"as Henry J. Waternoose in "Monsters, Inc." (2001) Year of Death: 2002"

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Icons of Manliness (85 person items)

"Cross of Iron"

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My Favorite Actors (Who even can save Shit!) (191 person items)

" A icon that always was a pleasure to find in any movie"

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Directed by Don Siegel (402 person items)

"Hell Is for Heroes"

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Favorite Actors (In No Order) (16 person items)

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Actors (392 person items)

"The Magnificent Seven (1960) Hell Is for Heroes (1962) The Great Escape (1963) Charade (1963) The Americanization of Emily (1964) Our Man Flint (1966) Midway (1976) California Suite (1978) (uncredited) Hudson Hawk (1991) The Player (1992) Maverick (1994) Eraser (1996) The Nutty Professor (1996) Payback (1999) (uncredited) Monsters, Inc. (2001) (voice)"

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Directed by Sam Peckinpah (160 person items)

"Major Dundee Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Cross of Iron"

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Top watched Actors (50 person items)

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Top 12 old is gold actors (12 person items)

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Directed by John Sturges (462 person items)

"The Magnificent Seven The Great Escape"

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They talk with their eyes (100 person items)

"Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973) "

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Great Performances By Mature Actors (10 person items)

"6. James Coburn, Affliction, 1998, Age 70 The actor who originated James Bond, Sean Connery, won an Oscar well after his Bond days ended, so it was fitting that Bond´s imposter, Derek Flint, also got to win an Oscar later in life. Coburn, the lanky character actor with a smile that could light up a room was most famous for The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, and the Bond parody Our Man Flint in which he played title character Derek Flint. In the late 70´s, Coburn was diagnosed with rhe"

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Directed by Sergio Leone (119 person items)

"Duck, You Sucker"

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500 movie stars of all time (500 person items)

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Rest in Peace (229 person items)

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Spaghetti Western Stars (59 person items)

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Action Heroes (and Villains) (417 person items)

"Action Films: Hell Is for Heroes (1962) - Cpl. Henshaw Charade (1963) - Tex Panthollow Our Man Flint (1966) - Derek Flint In Like Flint (1967) - Derek Flint The Honkers (1972) - Lew Lathrop Hard Times (1975) - Speed Sky Riders (1976) - Jim McCabe Midway (1976) - Captain Vinton Maddox Cross of Iron (1977) - Unteroffizier/Sgt. Feldwebel Rolf Steiner Firepower (1979) - Jerry Fanon/Eddie High Risk (1981) - Serrano Young Guns II (1990) - John Simpson Chisum Hudson Hawk (1991) - George Kaplan A Thous"

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Actors who would play me in a story of my life. (10 person items)

"Career-path: General Era: Early-forties Identical traits: Integrity, inspires confidence, reluctant leader, reliable. Who knows, if a war broke out and I couldn't even dodge conscription with my shopping receipt of qualifications, I might be called up to the front lines to lead her majesty's finest into battle. If so, Coburn would have to return from the dead and do a sterling job at portraying my faultless, multiple-medal earning war-time career. "

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