James Coburn-Television

 

Alfred Hitchcock Presents — "The Jokester" (1958)

State Trooper — as Dobie in "Hard Money, Soft Touch" (1959)

The DuPont Show with June Allyson — as Floyd in "The Girl" (1959)

Perry Mason — "The Case of the Envious Editor" (1960); "The Case of the Angry Astronaut" (1962)

The Rifleman — "Young Englishman" (1958); "The High Country" (1961)

Tales of Wells Fargo — "Butch Cassidy" (1958); "The Wayfarers" (1962)

Trackdown — "Hard Lines" (1959)

Tombstone Territory — "The Gunfighter" (1959)

Bat Masterson — "The Black Pearls" (1959); "Six Feet of Gold" (1961)

Wanted: Dead or Alive — "Reunion For Revenge", "The Kovack Affair" (1959); "The Trial" (1960)

Bronco — "Payroll of the Dead" (1959); "Shadow of Jesse James" (1960)

Have Gun Will Travel — "One Came Back" (1959); "The Gladiators" (1960)

Klondike (1960–1961)

Peter Gunn — "The Murder Clause" (1960)

Lawman — "The Catcher", "The Showdown" (1960)

The Deputy — "The Truly Yours" (1960)

Acapulco (1961) (canceled after 8 episodes)

The Brothers Brannagan as Dell in "Death is Not Deductible" (1961)

The Outlaws — "Culley" (1961)

Laramie — "The Mark of the Maneaters" (1961)

Cheyenne — "Trouble Street" (1961)

Bonanza — "The Truckee Strip" (1959); "The Dark Gate" (1961)

The Untouchables (1959 TV series) — "The Jamaica Ginger Story - S2E44" (1961)

Perry Mason — "The Case of the Envious Editor" (1961); "The Case of the Angry Astronaut" (1962)

Checkmate (TV series) — "A Chant of Silence" (1962)

Rawhide — "The Hostage Child" (1962)

Combat! — "Masquerade" (1963)

The Twilight Zone — "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963)

The Greatest Show On Earth (1963) — "Uncaged"

The Eleventh Hour (1963) — as Steve Kowlowski in "Oh, You Shouldn't Have Done It"

Stoney Burke — "The Test" (1963)

Route 66 — "Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep" (1964)

The Defenders — "The Man Who Saved His Country" (1964)

Bracken's World — "Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon" (1970)

The Dain Curse (1978) (miniseries)

The Muppet Show (1980)

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981)

Darkroom (1981–1982)

Explorer, 13 one-Hour co-hosted with producer, director by Douchan Gersi (1981)

Malibu (1983)

Draw! (1984)

Faerie Tale Theatre — "Pinocchio" (1984) - The Gypsy

Sins of the Father (1985)

The Edge and Beyond (1988–1990) (narrator)

The Infinite Voyage (host from 1990–1991)

Captain Planet and the Planeteers (voice-over cast member from 1990–1993)

Silverfox (1991) (pilot)

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1990)

Hollywood Stuntmakers [1991] host

Murder, She Wrote — "Day of the Dead" (1992)

National Lampoon's True Facts (1992)

The Fifth Corner (1992) (canceled after 2)

Christmas Reunion (1993)

The Hit List (1993)

Mike & Spike (1994-) as Horsecup

Greyhounds (1994) (pilot)

The Avenging Angel (1995)

Picket Fences — "Upbringings" (1995)

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)

The Cherokee Kid (1996)

The Second Civil War (1997)

Profiler — "Shadow of Angels" (1997)

Mr. Murder (1998)

Noah's Ark (1999)

Vengeance Unlimited — "Judgment" (1999)

Shake, Rattle & Roll: An American Love Story (1999)

Missing Pieces (2000)

Walter and Henry (2001)

Arli$$ (2002) — "The Immortal"

Shark Chronicles (1991) (Narrator; re-broadcast in 1995 for Discovery Channel's "Shark Week")

James Coburn-Death

 

 

 

Coburn died of a heart attack on November 18, 2002, while listening to music in his Beverly Hills, California, home. He was survived by his widow Paula, son James IV and a stepdaughter. His ashes were interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, and marked by a stone bench inscribed with his name. By the time of his death, Coburn was the voice of the "Like a Rock" Chevrolet television ad campaign. James Garner succeeded Coburn for the remainder of the campaign.

James Coburn-Cars

 

 

 

 

Coburn’s interest in fast cars began with his father’s garage business and continued throughout his personal life. He exported rare cars to Japan.  Coburn is credited with turning Steve McQueen on to Ferraris.  Coburn owned two at that time. One was a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, the other the Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California SWB. His Spyder was the thirteenth of just fifty-six built. Coburn imported the pre-owned car in 1964, shortly after completing “The Great Escape”.  The car was restored and sold for $10,894,400.00 to English broadcaster Chris Evans. It set a new world record for the highest price ever paid for an automobile at auction.

 

Cal Spyder #2377 was repainted several times during Coburn's ownership; it has been black, silver and possibly burgundy. Coburn kept the car at his Beverly Hills-area home, where it was often serviced by Max Balchowsky, who also did the suspension and frame modifications on those Mustang GTs used in the filming of

 

McQueen’s "Bullitt." Coburn sold the Spyder in 1987 after 24 years of ownership. Over time he also owned the above-noted Lusso, a Ferrari Daytona, at least one Ferrari 308 and a 1967 Ferrari 412P sports racer.

James Coburn-Career

 

 

 

 

Coburn's film debut was as the sidekick of bad guy Pernell Roberts in the Randolph Scott western Ride Lonesome.

 

Coburn appeared in dozens of television roles including , several episodes of Bonanza. He appeared at least twice on John Payne's NBC western “The Restless Gun” in episodes entitled "The Pawn" and "The Way Back".    Coburn and Ralph Taeger co-starred with Joi Lansing in “Klondike” on NBC in the 1960–1961 season. When “Klondike”, set in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway, was cancelled, Taeger and Coburn were regrouped as detectives in Mexico in NBC's equally short-lived “Acapulco”.

 

Coburn became well known in the 1960s and the 1970s for his roles in several action and western films. First primarily with Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson in two John Sturges films: “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Great Escape”.

 

Coburn played the part of a villainous Texan in the hugely successful “Charade”. He Played a glib naval officer in “The Americanization of Emily” and a one-armed Indian tracker in “Major Dundee” gained him much notice.

 

In 1966, Coburn became a bona fide star with the release of Our Man Flint, a James Bond spoof released by 20th Century-Fox. In 1971, he starred in the spaghetti western “Duck, You Sucker!”, directed by Sergio Leone, as an Irish explosives expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century.

 

Coburn teamed with director Sam Peckinpah for the 1973 film “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid”.  Jerry Bresler, took editing responsibilities away from Peckinpah during post-production, resulting in Peckinpah's becoming furious over what he claimed was the producer's deliberate sabotage of his film, and he threatened the studio with a lawsuit. Columbia relented--mainly because of a promise made to them by star Charlton Heston that he would never work for the studio again if they didn't let Peckinpah edit the film the way he wanted--and acceded to some of Peckinpah's demands, but the finished product was still not satisfactory to him and he disowned it).

 

Peckinpah and Coburn were greatly disappointed and turned next to “Cross of Iron”, a critically acclaimed war epic that performed poorly in the U.S. but was a huge hit in Europe. They remained close friends until Peckinpah's death on December 28, 1984. In 1973 Coburn was one of the featured celebrities dressed in prison gear on the cover of the album “Band On The Run” made by Paul McCartney and his band Wings.

 

Coburn returned to television in 1978 to star in a three-part mini-series version of a Dashiell Hammett detective novel, “The Dain Curse”, tailoring his character to bear a physical resemblance to the author. Due to severe rheumatoid arthritis, Coburn appeared in very few films in the 1980s. Although his hands were visibly gnarled in film appearances within the final two decades of his career, Coburn continued working. He spent much of his time writing songs with British singer-songwriter Lynsey De Paul and doing television series as his work on Darkroom. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing a sulfur-based compound. Coburn returned to film in the 1990s, and appeared in supporting roles in “Young Guns II”, “Hudson Hawk”, “Sister Act 2”, “Maverick”, “Eraser”, “The Nutty Professor”, “Affliction”, and “Payback”. Coburn's performance in ‘Affliction” earned him an Academy Award, and he was also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild and the Independent Spirit Awards.

James Coburn-Early Life

 

 

 

Coburn was born in Laurel, Nebraska, to Mylet S. (née Johnson) and James Harrison Coburn, Jr.

 

Coburn was of Scotch-Irish and Swedish descent. He was raised in Compton, California, attended Compton Junior College. Coburn enlisted in the United States Army in 1950, serving as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas.

 

Coburn also narrated Army training films in Mainz, Germany. He attended Los Angeles City College, where he studied acting alongside Jeff Corey and Stella Adler. Coburn made his stage debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in Billy Budd.

 

Coburn was selected for a Remington Products razor commercial in which he was able to shave off 11 days of beard growth in less than 60 seconds  joking that he had more teeth to show on camera than the other 12 candidates for the part.

A Tribute To The Magnificent Seven (The Movie)

 

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