Jim Backus
Born: 1913-02-25 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died: 1989-07-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jim Backus (1913–1989) was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous credits are The Alan Young Radio Show, I Married Joan, Gilligan's Island, and Rebel Without a Cause. He also starred on his own show The Jim Backus Show.
Filmography
2022
- The Unknown Story as Self - archive footage
2005
- Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents as Himself (uncredited)
1987
- Hollywood's Hidden Secrets as Self
1985
- Prince Jack as Dealy
1982
- Gilligan's Planet as Thurston Howell, III (voice)
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
- Slapstick of Another Kind as President of the U.S.
1981
- Hill Street Blues as Mr. Magoo (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island as Thurston Howell III
1980
- The Gossip Columnist as Jim Backus
- There Goes The Bride as Mr. Perkins
1979
- $weepstake$ as Major Adams
- Eischied
- The Rebels as John Hancock
- Angels' Brigade as Cmdr. Lindsey March
- C.H.O.M.P.S. as Mr. Gibbs
- The Castaways on Gilligan's Island as Thurston Howell III
1978
- Fantasy Island as Cap Truman
- Flying High
- Good Guys Wear Black as Albert, the Doorman
- Rescue from Gilligan's Island as Thurston Howell III
1977
- The Love Boat as Marvin Waterman
- CHiPs as Weitzman
- Pete's Dragon as The Mayor
- What's New, Mr. Magoo? as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Have I Got a Christmas for You as Kevin Grady
- Never Con a Killer as Stanley Bunch
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Iggy
1975
- Ellery Queen as Howard Biggers
- Joe Forrester
- Friday Foster as Enos Griffith
- Mobile One as Macklin
- Crazy Mama as Mr. Albertson
- Cop on the Beat as Jake Mandel
1974
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Harry O as Ziggy
- Chico and the Man
- The New Adventures of Gilligan as Thurston Howell III (voice)
- Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus as Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)
- Goodnight Jackie as Mr. Landry
1973
- Police Story
- The Girl Most Likely To... as Prof. David Tilson
- Miracle on 34th Street as Shellhammer
1972
- Now You See Him, Now You Don't as Timothy Forsythe
- Magic Carpet as George Benson
- Of Thee I Sing as Senator Robert F. Lyons
- Getting Away from It All as Mike Lorimar
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Mooch Goes to Hollywood as Jim Backus
1970
- Nanny and the Professor as Dr. Charles Walters
- Myra Breckinridge as Doctor
- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County as Staunch
- Uncle Sam Magoo as Mr. Magoo
1969
- Love, American Style as Jerry Franks
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Bill
- Medical Center
- The Brady Bunch as Zaccariah
- The Barbara McNair Show as Self
- Hello Down There as T.R. Hollister
- Wake Me When the War Is Over as Colonel
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
- The Mod Squad as Emile Wade
- The Good Guys
- Blondie as J.C. Dithers /Mr. Dithers
- Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? as Tru-Blue Lou
1967
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- Accidental Family
- Hurry Sundown as Carter Sillens
- Don't Make Waves as Self (uncredited)
- Damn Yankees as Benny Van Buren
1966
- Continental Showcase as Self - Host
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Fabian Swanson
- I Dream of Jeannie as General Fitzhugh
- Billie as Howard G. Carol
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Whitepaper
- Fluffy as Sergeant
1964
- Daniel Boone as Will Scataway
- Gilligan's Island as Thurston Howell, III
- The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Advance to the Rear as Gen. Willoughby
- Rendezvous in Space as Moon (voice)
- Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest as Mr. Magoo
- Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery as Mr. Magoo
1963
- Burke's Law as Harold Mason
- Arrest and Trial as Sam Thayer
- Espionage as McAvoy
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Tyler Fitzgerald
- Johnny Cool as Louis Murphy
- A Child Is Waiting as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
- My Six Loves as Sheriff
- Critic's Choice as Dr. William Von Hagedorn
- Sunday in New York as Chief Pilot Drysdale
- Operation Bikini as Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
- The Wheeler Dealers as Bullard Bear
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Marty Van Ransohoff
- Boys' Night Out as Peter Bowers
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol as Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
- Zotz! as Horatio Kellgore
- The Horizontal Lieutenant as Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Cain's Hundred as Karl Bigger
- The Dick Powell Show as Monte
- Magoo Meets Frankenstein as Mr. Magoo
1960
- The Mr. Magoo Show as Mr Magoo (voice)
- The Jim Backus Show
- Ice Palace as Dave Husack
- Inside Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self
- Tom, Dick and Harriet as James
- I Was a Teenage Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959
- The Untouchables as William Norbert
- Ask Any Girl as Mr. Maxwell
- The Wild and the Innocent as Mr. Forbes
- 1001 Arabian Nights as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)
- A Private's Affair as Jim Gordon
- Bwana Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- The Big Operator as Cliff Heldon
- Terror Faces Magoo as Mr. Magoo
- A Princess for Magoo as Narrator
- Magoo's Lodge Brother as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Merry Minstrel Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo’s Homecoming as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) as Mr. Magoo (voice)
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Maury Samuels
- Macabre as Sheriff Jim Tyloe
- The High Cost of Loving as Paul Mason
- Gumshoe Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo’s Three-Point Landing as Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)
- The Explosive Mr. Magoo as Mr Magoo (voice)
- Magoo's Young Manhood as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Love Comes to Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo’s Cruise as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Scoutmaster Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957
- Maverick as Joe Wheelwright
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Man of a Thousand Faces as Clarence Locan
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin as King's Emissary
- Top Secret Affair as Col. Homer W. Gooch
- Matador Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo Saves the Bank as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Eighteen and Anxious as Harvey Graham
- Magoo's Moose Hunt as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo's Private War as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Rock Hound Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo Goes Overboard as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo's Masquerade as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo Breaks Par as Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956
- The Gale Storm Show as Arthur Hutchins
- Conflict as Dandy Summers
- The Opposite Sex as Psychiatrist
- You Can't Run Away from It as Danker
- Meet Me in Las Vegas as Tom Culdane
- The Great Man as Nick Cellantano
- The Girl He Left Behind as Sgt. Hanna
- The Naked Hills as Willis Haver
- Magoo's Puddle Jumper as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo Beats the Heat as Mr. Magoo(voice)
- Magoo's Canine Mutiny as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Trailblazer Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Calling Doctor Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Meet Mother Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo Goes West as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Magoo's Problem Child as Mr. Magoo (voice)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Reverend Sims
- Matinee Theater
- The Millionaire as Henry Banning
- Rebel Without a Cause as Frank Stark
- Francis in the Navy as Commander Hutch
- The Square Jungle as Pat Quaid
- Madcap Magoo as Mr. Magoo
- Magoo Makes News as Mr. Magoo
- Magoo Express as Mr. Magoo
1954
- Climax! as Detective Herman
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- Deep in My Heart as Ben Judson
- Destination Magoo as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- When Magoo Flew as Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)
1953
- Angel Face as District Attorney Judson
- Above and Beyond as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
- I Love Melvin as Mergo
- Geraldine as Jason Ambrose
1952
- I Married Joan as Judge Bradley Stevens
- Pat and Mike as Charles Barry
- Deadline - U.S.A. as Jim Cleary
- Don't Bother to Knock as Peter Jones
- Androcles and the Lion as Centurion
- Hotsy Footsy as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- The Rose Bowl Story as Michael "Iron Mike" Burke
- Here Come the Nelsons as Joe Randolph
- Pink and Blue Blues as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Pete Hothead as Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Kevin Grady
- His Kind of Woman as Myron Winton
- I Want You as Harvey Landrum
- M as The Mayor
- Bright Victory as Bill Grayson
- Hollywood Story as Mitch Davis
- Iron Man as Max Watkins
- Half Angel as Michael Hogan
- I'll See You in My Dreams as Sam Harris
- Barefaced Flatfoot as Mr. Magoo
- Plutopia as Milton the Cat
- The Man with a Cloak as Flaherty
- Bungled Bungalow as Mr. Magoo
- Grizzly Golfer as Mr. Magoo
- Fuddy Duddy Buddy as Mr. Magoo (voice)
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Lucus Edgerton
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Harry
- The Killer That Stalked New York as Willie Dennis (uncredited)
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers
- Emergency Wedding as Ed Hamley
- Customs Agent as Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby
- Spellbound Hound as Mr. Magoo
- Trouble Indemnity as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy as Magistrate Backus
- The Popcorn Story as Narrator
1949
- Easy Living as Dr. Franklin
- A Dangerous Profession as Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)
- Father Was a Fullback as Professor Sullivan
- Ragtime Bear as Mr. Magoo (voice)
- The Great Lover as Higgins
- One Last Fling as Howard Pritchard
1948
- Studio One as Tim McTaggart
- A-Lad-in His Lamp as Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)
- Where Will You Hide? as Narrator