# James Coburn, R.I.P. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500 "2002-11-19T12:07:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/1 "2002-11-19T12:07:16Z")
James Coburn died yesterday of a heart attack. ::::Sigh::::::: [Obit](http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/18/obit.coburn.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/2 "2002-11-19T12:16:28Z")
As I said in the other thread: Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/3 "2002-11-19T15:13:28Z")
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh! That really sucks. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/4 "2002-11-19T15:24:45Z")
I had dinner a couple of times with his daugher & her daughter in Carmel. No offense, but from what I learned, I don’t think I would want him to be my dad. Sure, that guy is a great actor, esp. Cat Balou, but at home, well… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/5 "2002-11-19T15:48:27Z")
Cat Ballou?? That was Lee Marvin. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/6 "2002-11-19T16:26:50Z")
…no, it was Jane Fonda. Coburn just didn’t have the figure for those corsets. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/7 "2002-11-19T18:00:28Z")
Lee Marvin is Also Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/8 "2002-11-19T19:46:35Z")
I always got Lee Marvin and James Coburn mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/9 "2002-11-19T19:59:58Z")
Now it’s the “Magnificent Six.”☹ ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/10 "2002-11-19T20:07:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*Now it’s the “Magnificent Six.”☹ \*\* Er, “Magnificent Three.” Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen are dead, too. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/11 "2002-11-19T20:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I always got Lee Marvin and James Coburn mixed up. Funny, I always got James Coburn mixed up with [Jason Robards](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Robards,+Jason). ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-coburn-r-i-p/137500/12 "2002-11-19T23:50:25Z")
“I always got Lee Marvin and James Coburn mixed up” Looks like me too, but : “James Coburn came to Hollywood during the same period that one-time movie villain Lee Marvin was being promoted to stardom; producers took advantage of Coburn’s slight resemblance to Marvin, casting the young actor in the sort of secondary “heavy” roles” [http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800017369&cf=gen&intl=us](http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800017369&cf=gen&intl=us)