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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 that would define his performances for the rest of his career.
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 Cuban cigars (which may have contributed to his fatal heart attack).- Sound Department
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James H. Coburn IV, C.A.S., has been working professionally in Production Sound for over twenty years, first as a boom operator and then a Production Sound Mixer. His involvement with film has been lifelong - he virtually grew up on the sets of films starring his father, James Coburn, and made his acting debut as a child in Sam Peckinpah's classic, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He was a world traveler, living and working for several years in Zimbabwe, Africa in the early 1980's. He served on the Board of the Cinema Audio Society for seven years, and was instrumental in creating the CAS Technical Achievement Awards honoring innovation in the equipment and software used by production and post production sound mixers. Before moving to New York Film Academy, from 2008-2015 James shared his enthusiasm for sound with students at Los Angeles Film School. He teaches the fundamentals of production audio - utility sound, booming, recording & mixing - emphasizing capturing performance, and the importance of production sound in enhancing and supporting the Director's artistic vision. James lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.- Actor
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James Coburn is a film, television and commercial actor with over 25 years of experience. He has worked with many of the industry's top directors, production companies, agencies and brands. James is also a former Entertainment news anchor and broadcaster. He got his early break with his twin brother John, also an actor. The duo produced and stared in a national show, that the NY Times, called the most passionate cultural show to ever be created at the Olympic Games.- Camera and Electrical Department
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- James Miller-Coburn is known for Don Pasquale (1973).
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James Coburn is known for 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999).- James Coburn is known for Gritty Tintin (2011).
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James Coburn is known for Man v. Animal (2017).- Additional Crew
Timothy James Coburn is known for Grief Counseling (2018).- Keegan James Coburn is known for Grief Counseling (2018).