James Coburn: movies and TV shows
James Coburn has 241 credits in the archive: 143 films and 98 TV series, from 1944 to 2024. Highest rated: People's Choice Awards (9.2/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2024 · busiest year: 1959 (16 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western | Self | Film | — | 95 |
| 2011 | Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War | Self | Film | — | 82 |
| 2011 | Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War | Film | — | 82 | |
| 2006 | Sam Peckinpah: Portrait | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2005 | Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | Self | Film | 7.6 | 76 |
| 2004 | Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon | Self | Film | 8.7 | 75 |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 75 |
| 2003 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years | Self - Host | Film | 6.3 | 74 |
| 2002 | Snow Dogs | Thunder Jack | Film | 5.6 | 73 |
| 2002 | The Yellow Bird | Rev. Increase Tutwiler | Film | 10.0 | 73 |
| 2002 | I Love Muppets | Self | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 2002 | American Gun | Martin Tillman | Film | 5.4 | 73 |
| 2002 | The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 73 |
| 2001 | Monsters, Inc. | Waternoose (voice) | Film | 7.9 | 72 |
| 2001 | The Man from Elysian Fields | Alcot | Film | 5.9 | 72 |
| 2001 | The Mists of Avalon | TV | 6.7 | 72 | |
| 2001 | Texas Rangers | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 72 |
| 2001 | The Unbeatable Bruce Lee | Film | 8.4 | 72 | |
| 2001 | Proximity | Jim Corcoran | Film | 4.3 | 72 |
| 2001 | Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 72 |
| 2001 | Missing Pieces | Atticus Cody | Film | 5.7 | 72 |
| 2001 | Walter and Henry | Charlie | Film | 8.6 | 72 |
| 2000 | Intrepid | Captain Hal Josephson | Film | 4.4 | 71 |
| 2000 | Kurosawa | Self | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 71 |
| 2000 | Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 1999 | Payback | Justin Fairfax | Film | 6.8 | 70 |
| 1999 | Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero | Self | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 1999 | Noah's Ark | The 'Peddler' | TV | 4.5 | 70 |
| 1999 | Noah's Ark | Peddler | Film | — | 70 |
| 1999 | Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 9.0 | 70 |
| 1999 | Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On | Self | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 1999 | World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 70 |
| 1998 | The Heaven and Earth Show | TV | 4.4 | 69 | |
| 1998 | Affliction | Glen Whitehouse | Film | 6.3 | 69 |
| 1998 | The Path of the Dragon | Self | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 1998 | Mr. Murder | Drew Oslett, Sr. | Film | 5.0 | 69 |
| 1998 | Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist | Self | Film | 2.5 | 69 |
| 1997 | Scene by Scene | Self | TV | 6.0 | 68 |
| 1997 | The Second Civil War | Jack Buchan | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 1997 | Keys to Tulsa | Harmon Shaw | Film | 4.7 | 68 |
| 1997 | Skeletons | Frank Jove | Film | 4.2 | 68 |
| 1997 | The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson | Himself | Film | 3.7 | 68 |
| 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Host | Film | 7.2 | 68 |
| 1997 | Earth's Two-Minute Warning | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 1996 | Arli$$ | Sid Perelli | TV | 6.8 | 67 |
| 1996 | Profiler | Charles Vanderhorn | TV | 7.0 | 67 |
| 1996 | Eraser | WitSec Chief Beller | Film | 6.1 | 67 |
| 1996 | The Nutty Professor | Harlan Hartley | Film | 5.6 | 67 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 67 | |
| 1996 | The Cherokee Kid | Cyrus Bloomington | Film | 5.5 | 67 |
| 1996 | Football America | Narrator | Film | — | 67 |
| 1996 | Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis | Film | — | 67 | |
| 1996 | Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | Narrator | Film | — | 67 |
| 1995 | The Avenging Angel | Porter Rockwell | Film | 5.0 | 66 |
| 1995 | The Set Up | Jeremiah Cole | Film | 4.2 | 66 |
| 1995 | Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder | Jeffery Winslow | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1995 | National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 66 |
| 1994 | Maverick | Commodore Duvall | Film | 6.9 | 65 |
| 1994 | The Life of Bruce Lee | Self - Actor & Student of Bruce Lee | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 1994 | Greyhounds | John Dolan | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 1994 | A Christmas Reunion | Santa | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 1994 | Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice | Jeffrey Winslow | Film | 10.0 | 65 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 64 |
| 1993 | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Mr. Crisp | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1993 | The Hit List | Peter Mayhew | Film | 4.9 | 64 |
| 1993 | The Curse of the Dragon | Self | Film | 7.2 | 64 |
| 1993 | Deadfall | Mike Donan / Lou Donan | Film | 4.1 | 64 |
| 1993 | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | Film | 7.1 | 64 |
| 1993 | Return to 'The Great Escape' | Self | Film | 8.5 | 64 |
| 1992 | HBO First Look | TV | 5.6 | 63 | |
| 1992 | Picket Fences | Walter Brock | TV | 7.5 | 63 |
| 1992 | The Player | James Coburn | Film | 7.2 | 63 |
| 1992 | Mastergate | Major Manley Battle | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 1992 | True Facts | Film | 10.0 | 63 | |
| 1992 | Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 | Jim Hathaway | Film | 5.9 | 63 |
| 1992 | The Fifth Corner | Dr. Grandwell | TV | 6.0 | 63 |
| 1992 | Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.2 | 63 |
| 1991 | Hudson Hawk | George Kaplan | Film | 5.7 | 62 |
| 1991 | Silverfox | Robert Fox | Film | — | 62 |
| 1990 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Looten Plunder (voice) | TV | 6.9 | 61 |
| 1990 | Young Guns II | John Simpson Chisum | Film | 6.5 | 61 |
| 1990 | Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1989 | Clive James' Postcard from | Self | TV | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1989 | Call from Space | Studio Boss | Film | 8.5 | 60 |
| 1989 | Train to Heaven | Gregorius | Film | 9.0 | 60 |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self (voice) | Film | — | 60 |
| 1988 | Walking After Midnight | Self | Film | 9.0 | 59 |
| 1987 | Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | Self | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 1986 | Death of a Soldier | Maj. Patrick Dannenberg | Film | 3.2 | 57 |
| 1986 | The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 1986 | Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 1985 | Martin's Day | Lt. Lardner | Film | 6.4 | 56 |
| 1985 | Sins of the Father | Frank Murchison | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Cyrus Ramsey | TV | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1984 | Pinocchio | The Gypsy | Film | 5.2 | 55 |
| 1984 | Draw! | Sam Starret | Film | 6.4 | 55 |
| 1983 | Digital Dreams | God's Gift to Wyman | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1983 | Malibu | Tom Wharton | Film | 3.8 | 54 |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self | TV | 5.3 | 53 |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The Gypsy | TV | 8.1 | 53 |
| 1981 | The Fall Guy | James Coburn | TV | 7.6 | 52 |
| 1981 | Darkroom | Host | TV | 7.2 | 52 |
| 1981 | Mr. Patman | Patman | Film | 4.7 | 52 |
| 1981 | Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981" | Henry Bellamy | Film | 4.8 | 52 |
| 1981 | Looker | John Reston | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1981 | High Risk | Serrano | Film | 5.9 | 52 |
| 1980 | The Baltimore Bullet | Nick Casey | Film | 5.7 | 51 |
| 1980 | Loving Couples | Walter | Film | 4.8 | 51 |
| 1979 | The Muppet Movie | El Sleezo Cafe Owner | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1979 | Superstunt II | Self | Film | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1979 | Goldengirl | Jack Dryden | Film | 5.4 | 50 |
| 1979 | The Muppets Go Hollywood | Self | Film | 6.2 | 50 |
| 1979 | Firepower | Jerry Fanon / Eddie | Film | 5.0 | 50 |
| 1978 | Convoy | Film | 6.3 | 49 | |
| 1978 | The Dain Curse | Hamilton Nash | TV | 6.5 | 49 |
| 1978 | California Suite | Actor in Diana's Movie (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 49 |
| 1978 | Circle of Iron | Film | 5.5 | 49 | |
| 1978 | Formula 1 - Speed fever | Self | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 1977 | Cross of Iron | Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner | Film | 7.1 | 48 |
| 1977 | Superstunt | Self | Film | — | 48 |
| 1977 | White Rock | James Coburn | Film | 5.4 | 48 |
| 1976 | The Muppet Show | Self - Special Guest Star | TV | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1976 | Midway | Capt. Vinton Maddox | Film | 6.6 | 47 |
| 1976 | The Last Hard Men | Provo | Film | 6.2 | 47 |
| 1976 | Sky Riders | Jim McCabe | Film | 6.2 | 47 |
| 1976 | Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 46 |
| 1975 | People's Choice Awards | Self | TV | 9.2 | 46 |
| 1975 | Hard Times | Spencer "Speed" Weed | Film | 6.8 | 46 |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet | Luke Matthews | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | TV | 7.6 | 45 | |
| 1974 | The Internecine Project | Robert Elliot | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Pat Garrett | Film | 7.2 | 44 |
| 1973 | The Last of Sheila | Clinton Greene | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1973 | Harry in Your Pocket | Harry | Film | 5.6 | 44 |
| 1972 | The Carey Treatment | Dr. Peter Carey | Film | 6.0 | 43 |
| 1972 | A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die | Colonel Pembroke | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1972 | The Honkers | Lew Lathrop | Film | 6.0 | 43 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 42 |
| 1971 | Duck, You Sucker | John H. Mallory | Film | 7.7 | 42 |
| 1970 | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Jeb Stuart Thornton | Film | 4.6 | 41 |
| 1969 | The Wolf Men | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1969 | Hard Contract | John Cunningham | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1968 | Candy | Dr. A.B. Krankheit | Film | 5.1 | 39 |
| 1968 | Duffy | Duffy | Film | 6.3 | 39 |
| 1967 | In Like Flint | Derek Flint | Film | 6.1 | 38 |
| 1967 | The President's Analyst | Dr. Sidney Schaefer | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1967 | Waterhole #3 | Lewton Cole | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1966 | What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | Lieutenant Christian | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1966 | Our Man Flint | Derek Flint | Film | 6.4 | 37 |
| 1966 | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Eli Kotch | Film | 5.6 | 37 |
| 1965 | Major Dundee | Samuel Potts | Film | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1965 | A High Wind in Jamaica | Zac | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 1965 | The Loved One | Immigration Officer | Film | 6.2 | 36 |
| 1964 | Action on the Beach | Self | Film | 9.0 | 35 |
| 1964 | The Americanization of Emily | Lt. Commander Paul "Bus" Cummings | Film | 6.7 | 35 |
| 1963 | The Great Escape | Sedgwick 'Manufacturer' | Film | 7.9 | 34 |
| 1963 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Kelly | TV | 7.5 | 34 |
| 1963 | Charade | Tex Panthollow | Film | 7.7 | 34 |
| 1963 | Kings of the Sun | Narrator (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 34 |
| 1963 | The Man from Galveston | Boyd Palmer | Film | 5.6 | 34 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 33 |
| 1962 | Combat! | Cpl. Arnold Kanger | TV | 7.8 | 33 |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke | Dr. Henry Jamison | TV | 6.8 | 33 |
| 1962 | Hell Is for Heroes | Cpl. Frank Henshaw | Film | 6.5 | 33 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 32 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Earl Chafee | TV | 6.3 | 32 |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred | Arthur Troy | TV | 5.3 | 32 |
| 1961 | Acapulco | Gregg Miles | TV | 6.5 | 32 |
| 1961 | The Murder Men | Arthur Troy | Film | 10.0 | 32 |
| 1960 | Route 66 | TV | 6.7 | 31 | |
| 1960 | The Tall Man | John Miller | TV | 6.9 | 31 |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven | Britt | Film | 7.5 | 31 |
| 1960 | Checkmate | Gresch | TV | 4.8 | 31 |
| 1960 | Outlaws | TV | 6.7 | 31 | |
| 1960 | The Aquanauts | Joe Casey | TV | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1960 | Stagecoach West | Sam Murdock | TV | 6.7 | 31 |
| 1960 | Tate | TV | 5.4 | 31 | |
| 1960 | Klondike | Jeff Durain | TV | 6.6 | 31 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Pete Jessup | TV | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Ross Marquette | TV | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Elmer Trace | TV | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Major French | TV | 8.5 | 30 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Colonel Briscoe | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1959 | The Untouchables | Dennis Garrity | TV | 8.0 | 30 |
| 1959 | The Deputy | Coffer | TV | 6.5 | 30 |
| 1959 | The Detectives | TV | 6.7 | 30 | |
| 1959 | Black Saddle | Niles | TV | 6.2 | 30 |
| 1959 | Johnny Ringo | Moss Taylor | TV | 5.9 | 30 |
| 1959 | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Floyd | TV | 6.8 | 30 |
| 1959 | Men Into Space | Dr. Narry | TV | 7.4 | 30 |
| 1959 | Bourbon Street Beat | Buzz Griffin | TV | 6.0 | 30 |
| 1959 | Wichita Town | TV | 4.9 | 30 | |
| 1959 | Face of a Fugitive | Purdy | Film | 5.7 | 30 |
| 1959 | Ride Lonesome | Whitt | Film | 6.7 | 30 |
| 1958 | The Rifleman | Cy Parker | TV | 7.1 | 29 |
| 1958 | The Rifleman | Ambrose | TV | 7.1 | 29 |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson | Poke Otis | TV | 6.1 | 29 |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson | Leo Talley | TV | 6.1 | 29 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Harry Brind | TV | 5.7 | 29 |
| 1958 | Peter Gunn | TV | 6.6 | 29 | |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Henry Turner | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Jesse Holloway | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Howard Catlett | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1958 | Lawman | TV | 5.8 | 29 | |
| 1958 | Lawman | Lank Bailey | TV | 5.8 | 29 |
| 1958 | The Texan | TV | 6.0 | 29 | |
| 1958 | Bronco | TV | 6.0 | 29 | |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Donald Fletcher | TV | 7.7 | 28 |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | General Addison Brand | TV | 7.7 | 28 |
| 1957 | Wagon Train | Ike Daggett | TV | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | TV | 7.3 | 28 | |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Jack Harvey | TV | 7.3 | 28 |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Idaho | TV | 7.1 | 28 |
| 1957 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective | Victor Tavo | TV | 6.8 | 28 |
| 1957 | Suspicion | Matt Carson | TV | 6.2 | 28 |
| 1957 | Trackdown | Joker Wells | TV | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1957 | The Californians | Anthony Wayne | TV | 5.8 | 28 |
| 1957 | The Californians | Deputy Anthony Wayne | TV | 5.8 | 28 |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun | TV | 4.4 | 28 | |
| 1957 | The Night America Trembled | Sam (as Jim Coburn) | Film | 7.5 | 28 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Jess Newton | TV | 6.2 | 27 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Charlie Doyle | TV | 6.2 | 27 |
| 1956 | State Trooper | Dobie | TV | 5.7 | 27 |
| 1955 | Cheyenne | Kell | TV | 6.1 | 26 |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Buckskin Frank Leslie | TV | 6.8 | 26 |
| 1955 | The Millionaire | Lew Bennett | TV | 5.8 | 26 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Andrews | TV | 7.8 | 26 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Union Sergeant | TV | 7.8 | 26 |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Jack - Outlaw Leader | TV | 7.9 | 25 |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Mexican Police Captain (uncredited) | TV | 7.9 | 25 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 24 |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Claude Firman | TV | 6.8 | 24 |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days | Steve Barnes | TV | 6.6 | 23 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Atticus Cody | TV | 8.8 | 22 |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show | Self | TV | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Sam Chandler | TV | 5.4 | 19 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self | TV | 7.1 | 15 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 15 |