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Acting

James Coburn

Career: Active from 1957 to 2002, busiest in 2001 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 71
top three billing

Average score: 57/100

Highest rated: The Great Escape
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 128 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

James Coburn Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.9, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0
Family Dynamics
3.8, average 4.8
Uncanny
1.7, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 10
Moral Ambiguity 9
Social Commentary 8
Character Study 7
Historical Setting 6
Intrigue 5
Cult Classic 5
Cynical 4
Classic Western 4
Mystery 3
Nostalgic 3
Explosive Action 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

170

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

In Memory Of

2000s

12 titles · average score 55

Snow Dogs

40

as Thunder Jack

American Gun

58

as Martin Tillman

The Yellow Bird

as Rev. Increase Tutwiler

The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

as Narrator

Monsters, Inc.

85

as Waternoose (voice)

Proximity

35

as Jim Corcoran

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

72

as Narrator (voice)

The Man from Elysian Fields

51

as Alcot

Missing Pieces

58

as Atticus Cody

Walter and Henry

77

as Charlie

Texas Rangers

35

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Intrepid

39

as Captain Hal Josephson

1990s

39 titles · average score 55

Affliction

76

as Glen Whitehouse

Mr. Murder

46

as Drew Oslett, Sr.

The Second Civil War

63

as Jack Buchan

The Nutty Professor

59

as Harlan Hartley

Eraser

54

as Beller

The Cherokee Kid

57

as Cyrus Bloomington

The Avenging Angel

58

as Porter Rockwell

Maverick

67

as Commodore Duvall

Greyhounds

as John Dolan

The Hit List

41

as Peter Mayhew

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

62

as Jim Hathaway

Hudson Hawk

38

as George Kaplan

1980s

18 titles · average score 56

Call from Space

as Studio Boss

Death of a Soldier

28

as Maj. Patrick Dannenberg

Martin's Day

68

as Lt. Lardner

Sins of the Father

as Frank Murchison

Pinocchio

60

as The Gypsy

Draw!

53

as Sam Starret

Digital Dreams

as God's Gift to Wyman

Looker

41

as John Reston

High Risk

54

as Serrano

Mr. Patman

as Patman

The Baltimore Bullet

57

as Nick Casey

Loving Couples

39

as Walter

1970s

23 titles · average score 59

The Dain Curse

66

TV show · as Hamilton Nash

Circle of Iron

50

Story

Cross of Iron

71

as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Midway

54

as Capt. Vinton Maddox

The Last Hard Men

51

as Provo

Hard Times

72

as Spencer "Speed" Weed

Bite the Bullet

56

as Luke Matthews

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

67

as Pat Garrett

The Last of Sheila

82

as Clinton Greene

Harry in Your Pocket

55

as Harry

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

56

as Colonel Pembroke

Duck, You Sucker

81

as John H. Mallory

1960s

34 titles · average score 63

In Like Flint

65

as Derek Flint

The President's Analyst

72

as Dr. Sidney Schaefer

Waterhole #3

59

as Lewton Cole

Our Man Flint

71

as Derek Flint

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

56

as Lieutenant Christian

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

40

as Eli Kotch

A High Wind in Jamaica

59

as Zac

The Great Escape

87

as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Charade

85

as Tex Panthollow

Hell Is for Heroes

68

as Cpl. Frank Henshaw

The Magnificent Seven

80

as Britt

Klondike

TV show · as Jeff Durain

1950s

42 titles · average score 70

Ride Lonesome

80

as Whitt

Face of a Fugitive

53

as Purdy

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Major French

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Pete Jessup / Elmer Trace

Rawhide

50

TV show · as Colonel Briscoe

The Untouchables

53

TV show · as Dennis Garrity

The Rifleman

77

TV show · as Cy Parker / Ambrose

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Donald Fletcher / General Addison Brand

Wagon Train

71

TV show · as Ike Daggett

Have Gun, Will Travel

78

TV show · as Jack Harvey

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Union Sergeant / Andrews

Cheyenne

71

TV show · as Kell

1940s

1 title · average score 65

Studio One

65

TV show · as Sam Chandler