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11-19-2002, 02:35 AM

Oscar-Winner James Coburn Dies at 74

LOS ANGELES (AP) - James Coburn, the lean and lanky actor who rose to fame playing villainous roles in early action films and won an Academy Award decades later as an alcoholic father in ``Affliction,'' has died of a heart attack. He was 74.

Coburn's breakthrough performances came in 1960s action flicks such as ``The Magnificent Seven,'' ``Hell is For Heroes'' and ``The Great Escape.''

He then changed direction and found what was for decades his greatest fame: portraying tongue-in-cheek secret agent Derek Flint in the late 1960s James Bond spoofs ``Our Man Flint'' and ``In Like Flint.''

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11-19-2002, 03:46 AM

He was in on of my favorite bad movies Hudson Hawk
And he was one of Bruce Lee's original students

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WintersEmbers

11-19-2002, 03:54 AM

i just read this in the paper and im mortified. hes in my favorite bad movie The Cherokee Kid with Sinbad

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Abrasive Dean

11-19-2002, 06:43 AM

A Great shame he had a terrific voice.

He is in two films currently doing the rounds:

An American Gun
and
The Man from Elysian Fields.

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blakjeezis

11-19-2002, 06:58 AM

I just found out about this, and frankly, it sucks. James Coburn was an original badass and always one of the toughest sons of bitches on the screen. It is a shame he's passed, he will be missed.

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Michael Fury

11-19-2002, 07:08 AM

I really liked Coburn as an intense Pat Garrett chasing Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson).

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ChrisTheCop

11-19-2002, 09:10 AM

for the youngins on the board--he was most recently in Monsters Inc as the voice of the boss, and before that he was in Maverick with mel gibson as the riverboat captain/bad guy. R.I.P. <html> <img src="http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/19/obit.coburn/story.coburn.obit.jpg"> </html>

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Ants In My Pants

11-19-2002, 10:37 AM

Damn, I thought he died a few weeks ago. Who the hell am I thinking of?

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ChrisTheCop

11-19-2002, 10:53 AM

Richard Harris was also in a few westerns, maybe him ants

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Doogie

11-19-2002, 11:09 AM

I guess that hardware store (EDIT- just remembered,loews) has to find a new voiceover guy...

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jamesdiggy

11-19-2002, 11:56 AM

Gotta respect a guy who throws knives at a gunfight.

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erole

11-19-2002, 11:57 AM

goodbye Mr. Watternoose

Contra

11-19-2002, 04:44 PM

i loved his performance in "Out Cold" with Jeremy London. one word...stellar!

in all seriousness though he was a very talented, established actor, and although he will be missed he was 72 after all.

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ChrisTheCop

11-19-2002, 04:52 PM

actually he was 74

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Yerdaddy

11-19-2002, 06:04 PM

Actually he was Magnificent 74.

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blakjeezis

11-19-2002, 06:42 PM

He also had a small, uncredited, but really good role in Payback, as Justin Fairfax. "Not the luggage. Now that's just mean, man." Classic line.

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Justice4all

11-19-2002, 10:23 PM

James Coburn was one of the first movie men to make it cool to be the bad guy.
He will be missed.
First Richard Harris, now Our Man Flint, who is the 3rd man in the death pool? I am almost afraid to think about it.
Farewell Mr. Coburn

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