Acting
Filmography
A capable, rough-hewn leading man, his toothy grin and lanky body made him a perfect tough-guy in numerous leading and supporting roles in westerns and action films, such as The Magnificent Seven, Hell Is for Heroes, The Great Escape, Major Dundee, Our Man Flint, In Like Flint, Duck, You Sucker, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Charade, and Cross of Iron.
Film | Year |
Ride Lonesome | 1959 |
Face of a Fugitive | 1959 |
The Magnificent Seven | 1960 |
The Murder Men | 1961 |
Hell Is for Heroes | 1962 |
The Great Escape | 1963 |
Charade | 1963 |
The Man from Galveston | 1963 |
Action on the Beach | 1964 |
The Americanization of Emily | 1964 |
Major Dundee | 1965 |
A High Wind in Jamaica | 1965 |
The Loved One | 1965 |
Our Man Flint | 1966 |
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | 1966 |
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | 1966 |
In Like Flint | 1967 |
Waterhole No. 3 | 1967 |
The President’s Analyst | 1967 |
Duffy | 1968 |
Candy | 1968 |
Hard Contract | 1969 |
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | 1970 |
Duck, You Sucker! | 1971 |
The Carey Treatment | 1972 |
The Honkers | 1972 |
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die | 1972 |
Bruce Lee: The Man and The Legend | 1973 |
Harry in Your Pocket | 1973 |
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 |
The Last of Sheila | 1973 |
The Internecine Project | 1974 |
Bite the Bullet | 1975 |
Hard Times | 1975 |
Sky Riders | 1976 |
The Last Hard Men | 1976 |
Midway | 1976 |
White Rock | 1977 |
Cross of Iron | 1977 |
California Suite | 1978 |
The Dain Curse | 1978 |
The Dain Curse | 1978 |
Speed Forever | 1979 |
Firepower | 1979 |
The Muppet Movie | 1979 |
Goldengirl | 1979 |
The Baltimore Bullet | 1980 |
Loving Couples | 1980 |
Mr. Patman | 1980 |
High Risk | 1981 |
High Risk | 1981 |
Looker | 1981 |
Draw! | 1984 |
Martin’s Day | 1985 |
Death of a Soldier | 1986 |
Walking After Midnight | 1988 |
Call From Space | 1989 |
Train to Heaven | 1990 |
Young Guns II | 1990 |
Hudson Hawk | 1991 |
Mastergate | 1992 |
The Player | 1992 |
Deadfall | 1993 |
Curse of the Dragon | 1993 |
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | 1993 |
Maverick | 1994 |
The Set-Up | 1995 |
Skeletons | 1996 |
Eraser | 1996 |
The Nutty Professor | 1996 |
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | 1996 |
Keys to Tulsa | 1997 |
The Disappearance Of Kevin Johnson | 1997 |
Affliction | 1998 |
Payback | 1999 |
The Good Doctor | 2000 |
Intrepid | 2000 |
Proximity | 2001 |
Texas Rangers | 2001 |
The Yellow Bird | 2001 |
The Man from Elysian Fields | 2001 |
Monsters, Inc. | 2001 |
Kurosawa | 2001 |
Snow Dogs | 2002 |
American Gun | 2002 |
Filmography
Coburn also appeared in dozens of television roles including, with Roberts, several episodes of NBC’s Bonanza. He appeared twice each on two other NBC westerns Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson, one episode in the role of Butch Cassidy, and The Restless Gun with John Payne in “The Pawn” and “The Way Back”, the latter segment alongside Bonanza’s Dan Blocker.
TV Program | Episode | Year |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | The Jokester | 1958 |
The Californians | One Ton of Peppercorns An Act of Faith | 1959 |
State Trooper | Hard Money, Soft Touch | 1959 |
The DuPont Show with June Allyson | The Girl | 1959 |
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | The Noble Outlaws | 1959 |
The Texan | Friend of the Family | 1960 |
Tate | Home Town | 1960 |
The Rifleman | Young Englishman The High Country | 1958-1961 |
Tales of Wells Fargo | Butch Cassidy The Wayfarers | 1958-1962 |
Trackdown | Hardlines | 1959 |
Tombstone Territory | The Gunfighter | 1959 |
Bat Masterson | The Black Pearls Six Feet of Gold | 1959-1961 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive | Reunion For Revenge The Kovack Affair The Trial | 1959-1960 |
Bourbon Street Beat | Target of Hate | 1960 |
Bronco | Payroll of the Dead Shadow of Jesse James | 1959-1960 |
How Gun Will Travel | One Came Back The Gladiators | 1959-1960 |
Klondike | Klondike Fever River of Gold Saints and Stickups The Unexpected Candidate Keys to Trouble Swoger’s Mule Taste of Danger Bare Knuckles The Man Who Owned Skagway The Hostages | 1960-1961 |
Peter Gunn | The Murder Clause | 1960 |
Lawman | The Catcher The Showdown | 1960 |
The Deputy | The Truly Yours | 1960 |
Acapulco | Bell’s Half Acre Killer in a Rose Colored Mask The Gentleman from Brazil Carbon Copy Cat Fisher’s Daughter Death Is a Smiling Man Blood Money Murder with Love | 1961 |
The Brothers Brannagan | Death is Not Deductible | 1961 |
The Outlaws | Culley | 1961 |
Laramie | The Mark of the Maneaters | 1961 |
Cheyenne | Trouble Street | 1961 |
The Tall man | The best Policy | 1961 |
Bonanza | The Truckee Strip The Dark Gate | 1959-1962 |
The Untouchables | The Jamaica Ginger Story | 1961 |
Perry Mason | The Case of Envious Editor The Case of the Angry Astronaut | 1961-1962 |
Checkmate | A Chant of Silence | 1962 |
Rawhide | The Hostage Child | 1962 |
Combat | Masquerade | 1963 |
The Twilight Zone | The Old Man in the Cave | 1963 |
The Greatest Show On Earth | Uncaged | 1963 |
The Eleventh Hour | Oh, You Shouldn’t Have Done It | 1963 |
Stoney Burke | The Test | 1963 |
Route 66 | Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep | 1964 |
The Defenders | The Man Who Saved His Country | 1964 |
Bracken’s World | Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon | 1970 |
The Dain Curse | 1978 | |
The Muppet Show | 1980 | |
Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls | 1981 | |
Darkroom | Closed Circuit Stay Tuned, We’ll Be Right Back The Bogeyman Will Get You Uncle George Needlepoint Siege of 31 August A Quiet Funeral Make-Up Catnip Daisies The Partnership Guillotine Lost in Translation Exit Line The Rarest of Wines Who’s There? | 1981-1982 |
Explorer | Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan (Afghanistan) In The Foot Steps Of Genghis Khan (Afghanistan) Land of the Living Gods Kingdom Beneath The Sky Lost Road To Nubia (Ethiopia) Bodies of Art, Bodies of Pandora Sanctuaries of Stone (Ethiopia) Land of Sheba (Ethiopia) Orphans of the Sun Magic Healing, Magic Death Wolves of Freedom Puppets of God And The Gods Moved to Taiwan Between Gods & Men Journal from India In The Wheels Of Karma the Last Empire of Sailing Festival of Tears Dancers of Evil (Sri Lanka) Tooth of Buddha (Sri Lanka) Blue Men of the Sahara From Timbuktu To The Stars (Burkina Faso) Kaaba Center of the Universe Bandits, Pirates, Flying Carpets Jungles of Borneo (Indonesia) Headhunters of Borneo (Indonesia) | 1981 |
Mailbu | 1983 | |
Draw | 1984 | |
Faerie Tale Theatre | Pinocchio | 1984 |
Sins of the Father | 1985 | |
The Edge and Beyond | 1988-1990 | |
The Inifite Voyage | 1990-1991 | |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Last of Her Kind Plunder Dam Don’t Drink the Water The Ultimate Pollution Mission to Save Earth: Part 1 Mission to Save Earth: Part 2 Domes of Doom Send in the Clones The Fine Print The Blue Car Line Summit to Save Earth: Part 1 Summit to Save Earth: Part 2 Fare Thee Whale Bitter Waters The Night of the Wolf | 1990-1993 |
Silverfox | Pilot | 1991 |
Crash Landing: the Rescue of Flight 232 | 1990 | |
Hollywood Stuntmakers | 1991 | |
Shark Chronicles | 1991 | |
Murder, She Wrote | Day of the Dead | 1992 |
National Lampoon’s True Facts | 1992 | |
The Fifth Corner | 1992 | |
Christmas Reunion | 1993 | |
The Hit List | 1993 | |
Mike & Spike | 1994 | |
Greyhounds | Pilot | 1994 |
The Avenging Angel | 1995 | |
Picket Fences | Upbringings | 1995 |
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder | 1995 | |
The Cherokee Kid | 1996 | |
The Second Civil War | 1997 | |
Profiler | Shadow of Angels | 1997 |
Mr. Murder | 1998 | |
Noah’s Ark | 1999 | |
Vengeance Unlimited | Judgment | 1999 |
Shake, Rattle & Roll: An American Love Story | 1999 | |
Missing Pieces | 2000 | |
Walter and Henry | 2001 | |
Arli$$ | The Immortal | 2002 |