James Coburn

James Coburn is one of those actors I keep returning to for sheer presence. Standing 188 cm with that lean face and predatory grin, he stalked through more than seventy films and a hundred television roles over a forty-five-year career, mostly in Westerns and action. What moves me is the shape of that career: decades of being the cool, dangerous figure in the supporting frame, then finally an Academy Award late in life. That feels like justice for a man who kept working without chasing it. He died in 2002, but his star on the Walk of Fame and his films keep that flinty charisma alive, and I deeply respect a lifer like him.

Name (English)

James Coburn

Name (Japanese)

ジェームズ・コバーン

Reading

じぇーむず・こばーん

Born

August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

Origin

Laurel, Nebraska, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / film actor / television director / voice actor

High school

Compton High School

University

Los Angeles City College

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• 1994 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.jamescoburn.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Coburn
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4227

Tags

• Nebraska
• actor
• screenwriter
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

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