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James Coburn: Great Escape
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(December 15, 2002) James Coburn died of a heart attack on the evening of November 18 at his home in Los Angeles. A distinctive, talented, and prolific actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Our Man Flint, and more than 80 other films as well as numerous appearances on television) who was well known internationally, he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1999 for his role in Affliction. Coburn was ... an enthusiastic and uncompromising advocate of alternative medicine.
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[L]ong to James Coburn, the actor whose tough-guy reputation didn't preclude him from teaching meditiation techniques to Animal of the Muppets. The star of the 1960's _Flint_ movies and 1963's _The Great Escape_ was 74 years old when he died of a heart attack November 18, 2002.
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As the man in the corduroy suit or the cowboy who could throw a knife quicker than his opponent could shoot, James H Coburn’s silver hair stole the silver screen. He blew up trains in A Fist Full Of Dynamite, saved the world, twice, as Derek Flint, and cycled to freedom in The Great Escape. Little is known... of his great love of gongs. In The President’s Analyst, when Coburn played the gong in the Hippy band Clearlight, he really did play them. He collected gongs and loved to play them to any lucky visitors willing to listen. Whether or not this oddity is by the late great James Coburn or just another garage group re-working of Louie Louie is not certain.
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