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.

Born

Feb 25, 1913

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Died

Jul 03, 1989

Known For

Acting

Movies

163 acting

2 crew

Popularity

2.0

movie

Known For

Rebel Without a Cause

1955

as Frank Stark

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963

as Tyler Fitzgerald

Pete's Dragon

1977

as The Mayor

Don't Bother to Knock

1952

as Peter Jones

Angel Face

1953

as District Attorney Judson

Good Guys Wear Black

1978

as Albert, the Doorman

Rebel Without a Cause

1955 • as Frank Stark

★ 7.5

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963 • as Tyler Fitzgerald

★ 7.0

Pete's Dragon

1977 • as The Mayor

★ 6.3

Don't Bother to Knock

1952 • as Peter Jones

★ 6.7

Johnny Cool

1963 • as Louis Murphy

★ 5.4

Deadline - U.S.A.

1952 • as Jim Cleary

★ 6.9

Myra Breckinridge

1970 • as Doctor

★ 4.6

Angel Face

1953 • as District Attorney Judson

★ 7.1

Good Guys Wear Black

1978 • as Albert, the Doorman

★ 5.1

His Kind of Woman

1951 • as Myron Winton

★ 6.8

Macabre

1958 • as Sheriff Jim Tyloe

★ 6.0

Hurry Sundown

1967 • as Carter Sillens

★ 6.4

A Child Is Waiting

1963 • as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)

★ 6.8

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962 • as Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

★ 6.3

Boys' Night Out

1962 • as Peter Bowers

★ 5.7

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1962 • as The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")

★ 5.9

The Girl Most Likely To...

1973 • as Prof. David Tilson

★ 6.6

Androcles and the Lion

1952 • as Centurion

★ 5.9

The Man with a Cloak

1951 • as Flaherty

★ 6.8

Don't Make Waves

1967 • as Self (uncredited)

★ 5.2

Advance to the Rear

1964 • as Gen. Willoughby

★ 5.2

Sunday in New York

1963 • as Chief Pilot Drysdale

★ 6.8

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1957 • as King's Emissary

★ 5.7

Top Secret Affair

1957 • as Col. Homer W. Gooch

★ 4.9

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

1972 • as Timothy Forsythe

★ 6.3

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1982 • as Self

★ 6.0

Ask Any Girl

1959 • as Mr. Maxwell

★ 6.5

Crazy Mama

1975 • as Mr. Albertson

★ 5.6

Trouble Indemnity

1950 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 6.2

Man of a Thousand Faces

1957 • as Clarence Locan

★ 6.8

Hello Down There

1969 • as T.R. Hollister

★ 5.8

Hollywood Story

1951 • as Mitch Davis

★ 6.7

Meet Me in Las Vegas

1956 • as Tom Culdane

★ 4.5

Deep in My Heart

1954 • as Ben Judson

★ 6.7

You Can't Run Away from It

1956 • as Danker

★ 5.4

A Dangerous Profession

1949 • as Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)

★ 5.7

Billie

1965 • as Howard G. Carol

★ 5.0

Wake Me When the War Is Over

1969 • as Colonel

★ 5.2

Geraldine

1953 • as Jason Ambrose

★ 6.0

Friday Foster

1975 • as Enos Griffith

★ 6.1

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965 • as Whitepaper

★ 3.8

The Killer That Stalked New York

1950 • as Willie Dennis (uncredited)

★ 6.2

The Wild and the Innocent

1959 • as Mr. Forbes

★ 6.4

Bungled Bungalow

1951 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 10.0

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

1978 • as Thurston Howell III

★ 4.6

Bright Victory

1951 • as Bill Grayson

★ 7.1

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

1968 • as Tru-Blue Lou

★ 5.3

Matador Magoo

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

The Wheeler Dealers

1963 • as Bullard Bear

★ 6.3

The Opposite Sex

1956 • as Psychiatrist

★ 5.5

Iron Man

1951 • as Max Watkins

★ 6.2

M

1951 • as The Mayor

★ 6.5

C.H.O.M.P.S.

1979 • as Mr. Gibbs

★ 5.0

Half Angel

1951 • as Michael Hogan

★ 6.2

Easy Living

1949 • as Dr. Franklin

★ 5.7

Grizzly Golfer

1951 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 6.5

Slapstick of Another Kind

1982 • as President of the U.S.

★ 3.1

Spellbound Hound

1950 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 9.0

Ragtime Bear

1949 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.2

A Private's Affair

1959 • as Jim Gordon

★ 4.7

Above and Beyond

1953 • as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay

★ 6.2

Pat and Mike

1952 • as Charles Barry

★ 6.4

Magoo's Private War

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

The Explosive Mr. Magoo

1958 • as Mr Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

I Want You

1951 • as Harvey Landrum

★ 5.2

Francis in the Navy

1955 • as Commander Hutch

★ 5.6

Critic's Choice

1963 • as William Von Hagedorn

★ 5.6

Plutopia

1951 • as Milton the Cat

★ 6.0

Destination Magoo

1954 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.5

Barefaced Flatfoot

1951 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 7.0

Never Con a Killer

1977 • as Stanley Bunch

★ 10.0

Here Come the Nelsons

1952 • as Joe Randolph

★ 7.0

Pink and Blue Blues

1952 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 5.9

Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

• as Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)

I'll See You in My Dreams

1951 • as Sam Harris

★ 4.9

I Was a Teenage Magoo

1960 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

1979 • as Thurston Howell III

★ 6.5

The Girl He Left Behind

1956 • as Sgt. Hanna

★ 4.5

Ice Palace

1960 • as Dave Husack

★ 6.3

One Last Fling

1949 • as Howard Pritchard

★ 4.8

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1971 • as Jim Backus

★ 4.8

Father Was a Fullback

1949 • as Professor Sullivan

★ 6.3

Magoo's Problem Child

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 10.0

The Big Operator

1959 • as Cliff Heldon

★ 6.0

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1950 • as Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers

★ 6.5

Magoo's Canine Mutiny

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.7

Zotz!

1962 • as Horatio Kellgore

★ 5.6

Miracle on 34th Street

1973 • as Shellhammer

★ 6.8

Fluffy

1965 • as Sergeant

★ 7.0

Merry Minstrel Magoo

1959 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 9.0

Angels' Brigade

1979 • as Cmdr. Lindsey March

★ 3.1

The Unpredictable Pudgy!

1983 • as Himself

There Goes The Bride

1980 • as Mr. Perkins

★ 7.0

Have I Got a Christmas for You

1977 • as Kevin Grady

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

1981 • as Thurston Howell III

★ 5.2

The Naked Hills

1956 • as Willis Haver

★ 4.6

Hotsy Footsy

1952 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.5

Bwana Magoo

1959 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 9.0

Getting Away from It All

1972 • as Mike Lorimar

★ 10.0

I Love Melvin

1953 • as Mergo

★ 6.2

Magoo’s Homecoming

1959 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 9.0

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

1970 • as Staunch

★ 7.0

Gumshoe Magoo

1958 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

1974 • as Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)

★ 7.0

1001 Arabian Nights

1959 • as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)

★ 6.6

Rendezvous in Space

1964 • as Moon (voice)

★ 6.0

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

1958 • as Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)

★ 8.0

Meet Mother Magoo

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 10.0

Magoo's Young Manhood

1958 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

The Great Lover

1949 • as Higgins

★ 7.1

Tom, Dick and Harriet

1960 • as James

Magic Carpet

1972 • as George Benson

★ 9.0

Cop on the Beat

1975 • as Jake Mandel

★ 4.7

The Horizontal Lieutenant

1962 • as Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag

★ 5.2

When Magoo Flew

1954 • as Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)

★ 6.7

My Six Loves

1963 • as Sheriff

★ 5.7

Magoo Goes West

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.5

Love Comes to Magoo

1958 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

2005 • as Self (uncredited)

The High Cost of Loving

1958 • as Paul Mason

★ 6.6

Operation Bikini

1963 • as Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly

★ 3.8

Damn Yankees

1967 • as Benny Van Buren

★ 5.3

The Rose Bowl Story

1952 • as Michael "Iron Mike" Burke

★ 4.2

Magoo Saves the Bank

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.0

Magoo Beats the Heat

1956 • as Mr. Magoo(voice)

★ 10.0

Magoo's Moose Hunt

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 5.5

A-Lad-in His Lamp

1948 • as Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Magoo's Puddle Jumper

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 5.7

Of Thee I Sing

1972 • as Senator Robert F. Lyons

★ 7.0

The Square Jungle

1955 • as Pat Quaid

★ 6.1

Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

1950 • as Magistrate Backus

Customs Agent

1950 • as Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby

★ 10.0

movie

Where Will You Hide?

1948 • as Narrator

Magoo Breaks Par

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.0

Madcap Magoo

1955 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 8.0

The Great Man

1956 • as Nick Cellantano

★ 5.0

Prince Jack

1985 • as Dealy

★ 9.0

The Gossip Columnist

1980 • as Jim Backus

★ 7.3

Magoo's Lodge Brother

1959 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 9.0

Emergency Wedding

1950 • as Ed Hamley

★ 6.0

movie

A Princess for Magoo

1959 • as Narrator

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

1959 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Uncle Sam Magoo

1970 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 10.0

Magoo Goes Overboard

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.3

movie

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

1987 • as Self

Rock Hound Magoo

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.0

Eighteen and Anxious

1957 • as Harvey Graham

★ 7.0

Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

1964 • as Mr. Magoo

Scoutmaster Magoo

1958 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

1951 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 6.5

movie

Goodnight Jackie

1974 • as Mr. Landry

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

1964 • as Mr. Magoo

Pete Hothead

1952 • as Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)

★ 8.0

Magoo Makes News

1955 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 6.5

Calling Doctor Magoo

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.0

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

1961 • as Mr. Magoo

Inside Magoo

1960 • as Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self

Magoo Express

1955 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 6.7

Magoo's Masquerade

1957 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 3.3

The Popcorn Story

1950 • as Narrator

★ 6.5

Trailblazer Magoo

1956 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 8.0

Terror Faces Magoo

1959 • as Mr. Magoo

★ 5.7

movie

Magoo’s Cruise

1958 • as Mr. Magoo (voice)

★ 7.0