List of james coburn western movies
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James Coburn
American actor (1928–2002)
For other people named James Coburn, see James Coburn (disambiguation).
James Coburn | |
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Coburn as Anthony Wayne in The Californians (1959) | |
| Born | James Harrison Coburn III (1928-08-31)August 31, 1928 Laurel, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | November 18, 2002(2002-11-18) (aged 74) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, Westwood, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Los Angeles City College |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1953–2002 |
| Spouses | Beverly Kelly (m. 1959; div. 1979)Paula Murad (m. 1993) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Affliction (1997) |
James Harrison Coburn III[1] (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor who was featured in more than 70 films
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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 Sedgwick. 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.
Coburn was then cast, and gave an especially fine performance as Lt. Commander Paul Cummings in Arthur Hiller's The Americanization of Emily, where he demonstrated a flair for writer Paddy Chayefsky's subtle, ironic comedy t
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The Westerns of James Coburn
From knifeman Britt to Pat Garrett
James Coburn came ganska late to the Western. Only two of his appearances in oaters were in the 1950s, the glory days of saddle-and-sagebrush sagas, and those were non-lead parts in 1959 pictures, when he was already in his thirties. There were four movies in the 60s and eight in the 70s, when the glory had definitely departed. Nevertheless, he is well remembered for the genre, and his parts in The Magnificent Seven and two Sam Peckinpah Westerns were notably good. He also did a great number of TV Westerns, 58 episodes of 33 different shows and three TV movies, as against 15 features. So he earned the right to be considered an important figure in field.
His craggy face and sometimes roguish toothy smile were advantages, as well as his general toughness. He was well qualified to be badmen or the less saintly kind of good guy.
James Harrison Coburn III was born in Nebraska