Jim Backus
Jim Backus was an actor, born 1913, died 1989.
James Gilmore Backus was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis's character's husband on TV's I Married Joan. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire.
Movies (25)
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Friday Foster (1975)
- Pete's Dragon (1977)
- Myra Breckinridge (1970)
- Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
- Boys' Night Out (1962)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
- Sunday in New York (1963)
- The Opposite Sex (1956)
- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)
- M (1951)
- Angel Face (1953)
- Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
- Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
- His Kind of Woman (1951)
- Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
- The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
- Crazy Mama (1975)
- Getting Away from It All (1972)
- Bright Victory (1951)
- Johnny Cool (1963)
- Above and Beyond (1953)
TV (20)
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
- Charlie's Angels (1976)
- Burke's Law (1963)
- Gilligan's Island (1964)
- The Brady Bunch (1969)
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
- Cain's Hundred (1961)
- Nanny and the Professor (1970)
- The Mr. Magoo Show (1960)
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967)
- Chico and the Man (1974)
- Flying High (1978)
- The Dick Powell Show (1961)
- Joe Forrester (1975)
- The Gale Storm Show (1956)
- The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986)
- $weepstake$ (1979)
- The Good Guys (1968)
- Eischied (1979)