Profile
James Coburn
Actor
Male
Born
Aug 31, 1928
Hometown
Laurel, Nebraska
Died
Nov 18, 2002
Death Place
Beverly Hills
Nationality
American
Alma Mater
Los Angeles City ...
James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role… Read More
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Romance
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Paula O'HaraMarried 1993 - 2002
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Beverly KellyMarried 1959
Family
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James Coburn
d.2002
children
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James H. Coburn IVSon
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Eric Minh Swenson: Mat Gleason Is The Sam Peckinpah Of The Art World: Part 1 (Video)Huffington Post - Jan 03, 2013
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Firefighters Extricate Two From Crashed CarAlameda Patch - Oct 04, 2012
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Bruce Lee's Daughter Shannon On Living With The Loss Of A LegendHuffington Post - Jul 25, 2012
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1928
Birth
Born on August 31, 1928.
TWENTIES
1950
21 Years Old
Coburn was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1950, serving as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas.
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THIRTIES
1959
30 Years Old
Coburn's film debut came in 1959 as the sidekick of bad guy Pernell Roberts in the Randolph Scott western Ride Lonesome.
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1960
31 Years Old
Coburn and Ralph Taeger co-starred with Joi Lansing in Klondike on NBC in the 1960 - 1961 season.
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1966
37 Years Old
In 1966, Coburn became a bona fide star following the release of the James Bond parody film Our Man Flint.
1967
38 Years Old
In 1967, Coburn was voted the 12th biggest star in Hollywood.
FORTIES
1971
42 Years Old
In 1971, Coburn 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 (they had worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee; the film's producer, 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.
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1978
49 Years Old
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.
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FIFTIES
LATE ADULTHOOD
Coburn died of a heart attack on November 18, 2002, while listening to music in his Beverly Hills, California, home.
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