James Coburn, the big, versatile leading man with a toothy grin who appeared in such films as “Our Man Flint” and “Affliction,” for which he won an Academy Award, died Monday afternoon at his Beverly ...

He came of age in an era of pretty-boy movie stars, matinee idols with the glossy perfection of Robert Redford or Warren Beatty, but James Coburn was no pretty boy. He could be strong, funny, smooth ...

James Coburn, the Oscar-winning character actor and onetime leading man in westerns and action films, died Monday afternoon of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 74. He won the 1998 ...

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, ...

Years ago, at a small theater on La Cienega, I went to see a performance of a play by Edna St. Vincent Millay called “Conversation at Midnight.” At its center -- I remember no one else on stage -- was ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- James Coburn, the tough-guy actor in films that included "Our Man Flint" and "The Magnificent Seven," but who won an Academy Award years later for his portrayal of a dissolute ...

LOS ANGELES — James Coburn, the lean and lanky actor who rose to fame play ing villainous roles in early action films and won an Academy Award decades later as an alcoholic father in “ Affliction,” ...

Nov. 19 -- At the height of actor James Coburn's career, he was sidelined by rheumatoid arthritis and all but disappeared from the screen for two decades. He said he was able to return to acting only ...