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Jim Backus

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1913-02-25

Died: 1989-07-03

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Where Will You Hide?	Narrator	0
2	1948	A-Lad-in His Lamp	Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)	71
3	1949	One Last Fling	Howard Pritchard	40
4	1949	Ragtime Bear	Mr. Magoo (voice)	70
5	1949	Father Was a Fullback	Professor Sullivan	60
6	1949	Easy Living	Dr. Franklin	59
7	1949	The Great Lover	Higgins	68
8	1949	A Dangerous Profession	Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)	56
9	1950	Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy	Magistrate Backus	0
10	1950	Spellbound Hound	Mr. Magoo	0
11	1950	Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town	Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers	61
12	1950	Customs Agent	Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby	0
13	1950	Trouble Indemnity	Mr. Magoo (voice)	58
14	1950	The Killer That Stalked New York	Willie Dennis (uncredited)	61
15	1950	Emergency Wedding	Ed Hamley	55
16	1950	The Popcorn Story	Narrator	60
17	1951	Bungled Bungalow	Mr. Magoo	0
18	1951	M	The Mayor	63
19	1951	Barefaced Flatfoot	Mr. Magoo	60
20	1951	Half Angel	Michael Hogan	56
21	1951	Plutopia	Milton the Cat	56
22	1951	Hollywood Story	Mitch Davis	66
23	1951	Bright Victory	Bill Grayson	69
24	1951	His Kind of Woman	Myron Winton	66
25	1951	Iron Man	Max Watkins	61
26	1951	Fuddy Duddy Buddy	Mr. Magoo (voice)	60
27	1951	The Man with a Cloak	Flaherty	69
28	1951	I'll See You in My Dreams	Sam Harris	47
29	1951	Grizzly Golfer	Mr. Magoo	60
30	1951	I Want You	Harvey Landrum	52
31	1952	Here Come the Nelsons	Joe Randolph	60
32	1952	Deadline - U.S.A.	Jim Cleary	68
33	1952	Pat and Mike	Charles Barry	63
34	1952	Don't Bother to Knock	Peter Jones	67
35	1952	Pink and Blue Blues	Mr. Magoo (voice)	57
36	1952	The Rose Bowl Story	Michael "Iron Mike" Burke	35
37	1952	Hotsy Footsy	Mr. Magoo (voice)	70
38	1952	Androcles and the Lion	Centurion	58
39	1953	Angel Face	District Attorney Judson	71
40	1953	Above and Beyond	Gen. Curtis E. LeMay	61
41	1953	I Love Melvin	Mergo	62
42	1953	Geraldine	Jason Ambrose	50
43	1954	When Magoo Flew	Mr. Magoo (voice)	66
44	1954	Deep in My Heart	Ben Judson	68
45	1954	Destination Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	80
46	1955	Magoo Express	Mr. Magoo	60
47	1955	Madcap Magoo	Mr. Magoo	60
48	1955	Francis in the Navy	Commander Hutch	55
49	1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Frank Stark	75
50	1955	Magoo Makes News	Mr. Magoo	60
51	1955	The Square Jungle	Pat Quaid	59
52	1956	Magoo's Canine Mutiny	Mr. Magoo (voice)	75
53	1956	Meet Me in Las Vegas	Tom Culdane	45
54	1956	Magoo Goes West	Mr. Magoo (voice)	60
55	1956	Calling Doctor Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
56	1956	The Naked Hills	Willis Haver	46
57	1956	Magoo Beats the Heat	Mr. Magoo(voice)	0
58	1956	Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper	Mr. Magoo (voice)	54
59	1956	Trailblazer Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
60	1956	Magoo's Problem Child	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
61	1956	The Girl He Left Behind	Sgt. Hanna	40
62	1956	You Can't Run Away from It	Danker	47
63	1956	The Opposite Sex	Psychiatrist	52
64	1956	The Great Man	Nick Cellantano	52
65	1956	Meet Mother Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
66	1957	Top Secret Affair	Col. Homer W. Gooch	46
67	1957	Magoo Goes Overboard	Mr. Magoo (voice)	75
68	1957	Matador Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
69	1957	Magoo Breaks Par	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
70	1957	Man of a Thousand Faces	Clarence Locan	67
71	1957	Magoo's Masquerade	Mr. Magoo (voice)	10
72	1957	Magoo Saves the Bank	Mr. Magoo (voice)	50
73	1957	Rock Hound Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
74	1957	Eighteen and Anxious	Harvey Graham	60
75	1957	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	King's Emissary	54
76	1957	Magoo's Moose Hunt	Mr. Magoo (voice)	50
77	1957	Magoo's Private War	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
78	1958	Magoo's Young Manhood	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
79	1958	Scoutmaster Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	60
80	1958	The Explosive Mr. Magoo	Mr Magoo (voice)	0
81	1958	The High Cost of Loving	Paul Mason	57
82	1958	Magoo’s Three-Point Landing	Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)	0
83	1958	Magoo’s Cruise	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
84	1958	Macabre	Sheriff Jim Tyloe	59
85	1958	Love Comes to Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
86	1958	Gumshoe Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
87	1959	A Princess for Magoo	Narrator	0
88	1959	Bwana Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
89	1959	Magoo’s Homecoming	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
90	1959	Merry Minstrel Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
91	1959	Magoo's Lodge Brother	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
92	1959	The Wild and the Innocent	Mr. Forbes	63
93	1959	Terror Faces Magoo	Mr. Magoo	40
94	1959	The Big Operator	Cliff Heldon	58
95	1959	A Private's Affair	Jim Gordon	10
96	1959	Ask Any Girl	Mr. Maxwell	62
97	1959	1001 Arabian Nights	Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)	57
98	1959	Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
99	1960	I Was a Teenage Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	0
100	1960	Tom, Dick and Harriet	James	0
101	1960	Ice Palace	Dave Husack	58
102	1960	Inside Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self	0
103	1961	Magoo Meets Frankenstein	Mr. Magoo	0
104	1962	The Horizontal Lieutenant	Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag	48
105	1962	Boys' Night Out	Peter Bowers	58
106	1962	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")	58
107	1962	Zotz!	Prof. Horatio Kellgore	57
108	1962	Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol	Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)	63
109	1963	A Child Is Waiting	Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)	68
110	1963	Critic's Choice	Dr. William Von Hagedorn	55
111	1963	Operation Bikini	Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly	38
112	1963	My Six Loves	Sheriff	56
113	1963	Johnny Cool	Louis Murphy	53
114	1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Tyler Fitzgerald	70
115	1963	Sunday in New York	Chief Pilot Drysdale	66
116	1963	The Wheeler Dealers	Bullard Bear	62
117	1964	Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery	Mr. Magoo	0
118	1964	Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest	Mr. Magoo	0
119	1964	Advance to the Rear	Gen. Willoughby	50
120	1964	Rendezvous in Space	Moon (voice)	0
121	1965	John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!	Whitepaper	34
122	1965	Fluffy	Sergeant	65
123	1965	Billie	Howard G. Carol	50
124	1967	Hurry Sundown	Carter Sillens	65
125	1967	Damn Yankees	Benny Van Buren	40
126	1967	Don't Make Waves	Self (uncredited)	53
127	1968	Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	Tru-Blue Lou	52
128	1969	Hello Down There	T.R. Hollister	59
129	1969	Wake Me When the War Is Over	Colonel	50
130	1970	Uncle Sam Magoo	Mr. Magoo	0
131	1970	The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County	Staunch	63
132	1970	Myra Breckinridge	Doctor	45
133	1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood	Jim Backus	47
134	1972	Getting Away from It All	Mike Lorimar	0
135	1972	Now You See Him, Now You Don't	Timothy Forsythe	63
136	1972	Of Thee I Sing	Senator Robert F. Lyons	60
137	1972	Magic Carpet	George Benson	0
138	1973	The Girl Most Likely To...	Prof. David Tilson	66
139	1973	Miracle on 34th Street	Shellhammer	68
140	1974	Goodnight Jackie	Mr. Landry	0
141	1974	Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus	Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)	66
142	1975	Cop on the Beat	Jake Mandel	41
143	1975	Crazy Mama	Mr. Albertson	56
144	1975	Friday Foster	Enos Griffith	60
145	1977	Never Con a Killer	Stanley Bunch	0
146	1977	Pete's Dragon	The Mayor	63
147	1977	Have I Got a Christmas for You	Kevin Grady	0
148	1978	Good Guys Wear Black	Albert, the Doorman	51
149	1978	Rescue from Gilligan's Island	Thurston Howell III	47
150	1979	Angels' Brigade	Cmdr. Lindsey March	28
151	1979	The Castaways on Gilligan's Island	Thurston Howell III	66
152	1979	The Rebels	John Hancock	0
153	1979	C.H.O.M.P.S.	Mr. Gibbs	50
154	1980	The Gossip Columnist	Jim Backus	75
155	1980	There Goes The Bride	Mr. Perkins	0
156	1981	The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island	Thurston Howell III	47
157	1981	Enchanted Journey	Gamba	64
158	1982	Slapstick of Another Kind	President of the U.S.	27
159	1985	Prince Jack	Dealy	0
160	1987	Hollywood's Hidden Secrets	Self	0
161	2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)	76
162	2005	Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents	Himself (uncredited)	0
163	2012	Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom	Pat Quaid (archive footage)	68

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Tim McTaggart	50
2	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Lucus Edgerton	56
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	69
4	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Harry	63
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Kevin Grady	86
7	1952	I Married Joan	Judge Bradley Stevens	60
8	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
9	1954	Climax!	Detective Herman	33
10	1955	The Millionaire	Henry Banning	50
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Reverend Sims	66
12	1955	Matinee Theater		50
13	1956	The Gale Storm Show	Arthur Hutchins	55
14	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
15	1957	Maverick	Joe Wheelwright	68
16	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Maury Samuels	67
17	1959	The Untouchables	William Norbert	79
18	1960	The Jim Backus Show		0
19	1960	The Mr. Magoo Show	Mr Magoo	67
20	1961	Cain's Hundred	Karl Bigger	47
21	1961	The Dick Powell Show	Monte	55
22	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
23	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	54
24	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies	Marty Van Ransohoff	69
25	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
26	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
27	1963	Arrest and Trial	Sam Thayer	77
28	1963	Burke's Law	Harold Mason	60
29	1963	Burke's Law	Pork Pie Hannigan	60
30	1963	Burke's Law	Herkimer Witt	60
31	1964	Daniel Boone	Will Scataway	69
32	1964	Gilligan's Island	Thurston Howell, III	74
33	1964	The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo	Mr. Magoo (voice)	67
34	1965	The Wild Wild West	Fabian Swanson	75
35	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	General Fitzhugh	78
36	1966	Continental Showcase	Self - Host	0
37	1967	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour	Self	69
38	1967	Accidental Family		50
39	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
40	1968	The Mod Squad	Emile Wade	63
41	1968	The Good Guys		60
42	1968	Blondie		0
43	1969	The Barbara McNair Show	Self	0
44	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Bill	65
45	1969	Medical Center		61
46	1969	The Brady Bunch		67
47	1969	Love, American Style	Jerry Franks	61
48	1970	Nanny and the Professor	Dr. Charles Walters	60
49	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
50	1973	Police Story		69
51	1974	The New Adventures of Gilligan	Thurston Howell III (voice)	48
52	1974	Harry O	Ziggy	46
53	1974	Chico and the Man		58
54	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker		76
55	1975	Joe Forrester		70
56	1975	Ellery Queen	Howard Biggers	74
57	1975	Mobile One		50
58	1976	Charlie's Angels	Iggy	67
59	1977	What's New, Mr. Magoo?		75
60	1977	CHiPs	Weitzman	68
61	1977	The Love Boat	Marvin Waterman	63
62	1977	The Love Boat	Mr. Landers	63
63	1978	Fantasy Island	Cap Truman	64
64	1978	Flying High		45
65	1979	Sweepstakes		0
66	1979	Eischied		60
67	1982	Gilligan's Planet	Thurston Howell, III (voice)	58
68	1986	The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show		78