James Coburn came up in a conversation recently. We were watching Monsters Inc. and while I couldn’t name the voice actor for the corrupt CEO, I knew exactly who it was: he’ll always be George Kaplan to me, and thanks to IMDB that’s really all I needed to know.

The voice, the preternatural calm, the sharp spark in his eyes, these are all good things, but what always struck me about Coburn was that he really seemed to enjoy himself — he was simply happy to be acting.

I always enjoyed Coburn's work.

He was definitely a "man's man". I enjoyed each movie he was in, but especially "Payback" and, of course, "The Magnificent Seven". OH! And "Our Man Flynn".

Doyce, you hit it on the head when you said it looked like was really enjoying himself in all his roles.

He will be sorely missed.

Ooops, sorry. "Our Man Flint".