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Full James Coburn Biography
James Harrison Coburn, Jr. (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American actor.
Coburn was born in Laurel, Nebraska, the son of Mylet S. (née Johnson) and James Harrison Coburn, Sr., a garage mechanic. His maternal grandparents were immigrants from Sweden. He grew up in Compton, California and acted in college, eventually making his stage debut at the La Jolla Playhouse.
In 1971, he starred in the western A Fistful of Dynamite, directed by Sergio Leone, where he plays as an Irish dynamite expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early part of the 20th century. In 1973 he teamed up with radical director Sam Peckinpah for the film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (they had first worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee). But an MGM producer tried to sabotage the production causing the film to be drastically edited when it opened. Both Peckinpah and Coburn were disappointed and delved into Cross of Iron, a critically-acclaimed war epic which performed poorly in the US but was a huge hit in Europe. The two remained good friends until the legendary director's death in 1984 of a stroke.
He died suddenly on November 18, 2002 at the age of 74, from a cardiac arrest, while listening to the radio. He was survived by his wife Paula Murad, a son, and a stepdaughter. At the time of his death, he was the instantly-recognizable commercial voice for Chevrolet trucks' "Like a Rock" television ad campaign. Actor James Garner replaced Coburn's voice for the remainder of the campaign. Paula Murad would later die of cancer on July 30, 2004, at the age of 49. |
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