Editing James Coburn (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:James Coburn grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, California.JPG|thumb|Coburn's grave marker at [[Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary]] in [[Westwood, Los Angeles]].]]
Coburn was married twice. His first marriage was to Beverly Kelly, in 1959; they had two children together.<ref name="nytimes2002">{{cite news |author=Robert F. Worth |url=https://nytimes.com/2002/11/19/us/james-coburn-74-is-dead-a-sly-presence-in-80-films.html |title=James Coburn, 74, Is Dead; A Sly Presence in 80 Films - NYTimes.com |newspaper=nytimes.com |date=November 19, 2002 |access-date=January 28, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202070330/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/us/james-coburn-74-is-dead-a-sly-presence-in-80-films.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple divorced in 1979 after 20 years of marriage.<ref name = nytimes2002/>

He later married actress Paula Murad on October 22, 1993, in Versailles, France; they remained married until Coburn's death in 2002.<ref name="nytimes2002" /> The couple set up a charitable organization, the James and Paula Coburn Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|date=November 3, 2020|title=The James and Paula Coburn Foundation 123 G Street San Diego, CA 92101|url=https://jamesandpaulacoburnfoundation.org|url-status=live|archive-date=May 19, 2021|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=The James and Paula Coburn Foundation 123 G Street San Diego, CA 92101|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519195418/https://jamesandpaulacoburnfoundation.org/}}</ref>

In spite of his severe rheumatoid arthritis, Coburn was a [[martial arts]] student and a friend of fellow actor [[Bruce Lee]]. Upon Lee's early death, Coburn was one of his pallbearers at the funeral on July 25, 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3999|title=Lee, Bruce (1940–1973), Martial Arts Master and Film Maker|website=www.historylink.org|access-date=November 3, 2019|archive-date=August 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825221754/http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3999|url-status=live}}</ref>