James Coburn

James Harrison Coburn III was an American actor. He was featured in more than 70 films, largely in action roles, and made 100 television appearances during his 45year career, ultimately winning an Academy Award in 1997 for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.

Coburn was born on August 31, 1928 in Laurel, Nebraska, the son of James Coburn, Jr. and Milet Johanson his father was of ScotsIrish ancestry and his mother was an immigrant from Sweden. The elder Coburn had a garage business that was destroyed by the Great Depression. Coburn himself was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College. In 1950, he enlisted in the United States Army, in which he served as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas. Coburn also narrated Army training films in Mainz, Germany. Coburn attended Los Angeles City College, where he studied acting alongside Jeff Corey and Stella Adler, and later made his stage debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in Herman Melvilles Billy Budd. Coburn was selected for a Remington Products razor commercial in which he was able to shave offdays of beard growth in less than 60 seconds, while joking that he had more teeth to show on camera than the othercandidates for th

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