James Coburn
Actor
- Ride Lonesome (1959)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, James Best, Lee Van Cleef…
- Randolph Scott stars as a bounty hunter tasked with escorting a killer back to the gallows, all the while using him as bait to lure his murderous…
- Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson…
- Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson head other famous faces–to–be in this popular remake of Kurosawa's THE SEVEN SAMURAI.
- Hell Is For Heroes (1962)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker…
- An expertly written and delivered WWII adventure, where a small squad of US soldiers, headed by Steve McQueen, must hold off an advancing German…
- Great Escape, The (1963)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough…
- McQueen heads a star–studded international cast in this superb drama based on a true account of an escape from a German POW camp by a group of…
- Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas…
- Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
- Loved One, The (1965)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer…
- Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Doing for funerals what that DR…
- Our Man Flint (1966)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan…
- Zestful James Bond spoof with James Coburn providing the regulation braun with an equal measure of tongue–in–cheek.
- What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? (1966)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Aldo Ray
- Deft farce set during World War II. Coburn and company charged with seizing a small Sicillian village are surprised to find its inhabitants only too…
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
- Dir. Bernard Girard
Feat. James Coburn, Aldo Ray, Camilla Sparv
- James Coburn stars as Eli Kotch, a captivating rogue and full–time con man in this comical crime caper.
- In Like Flint (1967)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Andrew Duggan…
- Before AUSTIN POWERS, there was this James Bond spoof series (of which this is the second film) where James Coburn grins his way through proceedings.…
- President's Analyst, The (1967)
- Dir. Theodore J. Flicker
Feat. James Coburn
- Madcap comedy suspense tracking a hapless guy awarded the task of being the president's assistant, who then must deal with bribes and death threats…
- Candy (1968)
- Dir. Christian Marquand
Feat. Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton…
- Sixties sex farce that satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive eponymous heroine, played by Swedish model, Ewa Aulin.…
- A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
- Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival…
- A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die! (Una Ragione per vivere e una per morire) (1972)
- Dir. Tonino Valerii
Feat. James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer…
- Uneven spaghetti western set during the American Civil War concerns a private battle between a DIRY DOZEN style group and brutal Confederate…
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
- Restored version fully realises the director's vision of events surrounding Sherriff Garrett's pursuit of the legendary outlaw. A strange brew of…
- Bite the Bullet (1975)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Gene Hackman, James Coburn
- Gene Hackman and James Coburn are adversaries who contest a gruelling 700–mile horse race.
- Hard Times (Street Fighter) (1975)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland…
- During the Great Depression Charles Bronson fights economic gloom with his fists in this invigorating punch–fest from the action ace Walter…
- Sky Riders (1976)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp
- Absurd political–terrorism romp with a tough–as–nails James Coburn commandeering hang–gliders in a daring attempt to rescue…
- Cross of Iron (1977)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason…
- A doomed German platoon facing annihilation at Russian hands find their instinct for personal glory greater than their instinct for…
- Darkroom (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. James Coburn
- James Coburn hosts this cultish NIGHT GALLERY spinoff, with weekly episodes presenting two or three shorts tales of the mysterious and macabre.
- Looker (1981)
- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey…
- Sci–fi thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton that comments upon and satirizes media, advertising, TV's effects on the populace, and…
- Digital Daydreams (1983)
- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Bill Wyman, James Coburn, Richard O'Brien
- Genuine oddity lossely based around the life and 'digital dreams' of Bill Wyman (bassist of the Rolling Stones), which blends together documentary,…
- Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, The (1995)
- Dir. Francis Megahy
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, James Coburn, Dudley Moore…
- Fact–based movie movie about the perils of the Hollywood machine, in which a would–be film producer apparently runs afoul of the…
- Eraser (1996)
- Dir. Charles Russell
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa (singer/actress) Williams…
- Arnold Schwarzenegger bankrolls another effects–driven hardware epic, playing an FBI agent who 'erases' the identities of important,…
- Second Civil War, The (1997)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Denis Leary, James Earl Jones, James Coburn
- Fairly realistic speculation of an American Civil War, occurring when present–day Idaho cedes from the Union, painted over with the lighter…
- Affliction (1997)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek…
- A murder–mystery obscured in a snowbound landscape of wrecked relationships and alcoholic longings, this gets right under the skin of its…
- Keys to Tulsa (1997)
- Dir. Leslie Greif
Feat. Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger…
- A strong ensemble cast enliven this archetypal 90's crime film set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, making up the mostly unsavoury characters who complicate the…
- Kurosawa (2000)
- Dir. Adam Low
Feat. James Coburn, Clint Eastwood, Kon Ichikawa
- Solid, though roughly tailored journey through the life of the Japanese film director of THE SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJIMBO. Composed mostly of interview…
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Dir. Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
Feat. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Jennifer Tilly…
- Discovering that children’s screams can be converted into an energy source (‘Scream Heat’), monsters lurk in their closets to feed the…