Jim Backus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Gilmore "Jim" Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III on the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis's character's husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's character's father in Rebel Without a Cause and Thurston Howell, III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot off the Wire. An avid golfer, Backus actually made the 36-hole cut at the 1964 Bing Crosby Pro-Am tournament. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Backus,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Feb 25, 1913 In Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 94
- First Appeared:
- In the movie A-Lad-in His Lamp 1948-10-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom 2012-03-20
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom | Pat Quaid (archive footage) | 2012-03-20 |
| Movie | Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History | Himself (archive footage) | 2001-10-14 |
| Movie | Prince Jack | Dealy | 1985-12-01 |
| Series | Gilligan's Planet | 1982-09-18 | |
| Movie | Slapstick of Another Kind | President of the U.S. | 1982-12-09 |
| Movie | The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1981-05-15 |
| Movie | There Goes The Bride | Mr. Perkins | 1980-07-07 |
| Movie | The Castaways on Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1979-05-03 |
| Movie | The Rebels | John Hancock | 1979-05-14 |
| Movie | C.H.O.M.P.S. | Mr. Gibbs | 1979-12-21 |
| Movie | Good Guys Wear Black | Albert, the Doorman | 1978-06-01 |
| Movie | Rescue from Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1978-10-14 |
| Series | What's New, Mr. Magoo? | 1977-09-10 | |
| Movie | Crazy Mama | Mr. Albertson | 1975-06-01 |
| Movie | Friday Foster | Enos Griffith | 1975-12-25 |
| Movie | Goodnight Jackie | Mr. Landry | 1974-02-27 |
| Series | The New Adventures of Gilligan | 1974-09-07 | |
| Movie | The Girl Most Likely To... | Prof. David Tilson | 1973-11-06 |
| Movie | Miracle on 34th Street | Shellhammer | 1973-12-14 |
| Movie | Getting Away from It All | Mike Lorimar | 1972-01-18 |
| Movie | Now You See Him, Now You Don't | Timothy Forsythe | 1972-07-12 |
| Movie | Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Jim Backus | 1971-12-31 |
| Movie | The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Staunch | 1970-04-01 |
| Movie | Myra Breckinridge | Doctor | 1970-06-24 |
| Movie | Wake Me When the War Is Over | Colonel | 1969-10-14 |
| Movie | Hello Down There | T.R. Hollister | 1969-01-01 |
| Movie | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Tru-Blue Lou | 1968-06-19 |
| Movie | Hurry Sundown | Carter Sillens | 1967-02-09 |
| Movie | Don't Make Waves | Self (uncredited) | 1967-06-20 |
| Movie | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | Whitepaper | 1965-03-24 |
| Movie | Fluffy | Sergeant | 1965-06-27 |
| Movie | Billie | Howard G. Carol | 1965-12-13 |
| Series | The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1964-09-19 |
| Movie | Advance to the Rear | Gen. Willoughby | 1964-06-10 |
| Series | Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell, III | 1964-09-26 |
| Movie | A Child Is Waiting | Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited) | 1963-02-13 |
| Movie | Operation Bikini | Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly | 1963-03-26 |
| Movie | Critic's Choice | Dr. William Von Hagedorn | 1963-02-24 |
| Movie | My Six Loves | Sheriff | 1963-04-03 |
| Movie | The Wheeler Dealers | Bullard Bear | 1963-11-14 |
| Movie | Johnny Cool | Louis Murphy | 1963-10-02 |
| Movie | The Horizontal Lieutenant | Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag | 1962-04-18 |
| Movie | Boys' Night Out | Peter Bowers | 1962-06-21 |
| Movie | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol | Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | 1962-12-18 |
| Movie | Zotz! | Prof. Horatio Kellgore | 1962-10-03 |
| Movie | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The King (segment "The Dancing Princess") | 1962-08-07 |
| Movie | Ice Palace | Dave Husack | 1960-01-02 |
| Movie | Ask Any Girl | Mr. Maxwell | 1959-08-21 |
| Movie | The Big Operator | Cliff Heldon | 1959-08-01 |
| Movie | The Wild and the Innocent | Mr. Forbes | 1959-05-27 |
| Movie | A Private's Affair | Jim Gordon | 1959-08-14 |
| Movie | The High Cost of Loving | Paul Mason | 1958-05-16 |
| Movie | Macabre | Sheriff Jim Tyloe | 1958-10-01 |
| Movie | Top Secret Affair | Col. Homer W. Gooch | 1957-01-30 |
| Movie | Man of a Thousand Faces | Clarence Locan | 1957-08-15 |
| Movie | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | King's Emissary | 1957-11-26 |
| Movie | Eighteen and Anxious | Harvey Graham | 1957-11-15 |
| Movie | The Naked Hills | Willis Haver | 1956-06-17 |
| Movie | The Girl He Left Behind | Sgt. Hanna | 1956-10-26 |
| Movie | Meet Me in Las Vegas | Tom Culdane | 1956-03-09 |
| Movie | The Great Man | Nick Cellantano | 1956-12-01 |
| Movie | You Can't Run Away from It | Danker | 1956-10-30 |
| Movie | The Opposite Sex | Psychiatrist | 1956-11-15 |
| Movie | Deep in My Heart | Ben Judson | 1954-12-09 |
| Movie | Above and Beyond | Gen. Curtis E. LeMay | 1953-01-02 |
| Movie | I Love Melvin | Mergo | 1953-03-20 |
| Movie | Don't Bother to Knock | Peter Jones | 1952-07-18 |
| Movie | Deadline - U.S.A. | Jim Cleary | 1952-03-14 |
| Movie | Here Come the Nelsons | Joe Randolph | 1952-02-23 |
| Movie | Pat and Mike | Charles Barry | 1952-06-13 |
| Movie | The Rose Bowl Story | Michael "Iron Mike" Burke | 1952-08-24 |
| Movie | Androcles and the Lion | Centurion | 1952-12-01 |
| Series | I Married Joan | Judge Bradley Stevens | 1952-10-15 |
| Movie | Plutopia | Milton the Cat | 1951-05-18 |
| Movie | Hollywood Story | Mitch Davis | 1951-06-01 |
| Movie | Bungled Bungalow | Mr. Magoo | 1951-01-15 |
| Movie | Bright Victory | Bill Grayson | 1951-08-01 |
| Movie | M | The Mayor | 1951-03-01 |
| Movie | Half Angel | Michael Hogan | 1951-05-05 |
| Movie | I Want You | Harvey Landrum | 1951-12-22 |
| Movie | I'll See You in My Dreams | Sam Harris | 1951-12-06 |
| Movie | The Man with a Cloak | Flaherty | 1951-11-27 |
| Movie | His Kind of Woman | Myron Winton | 1951-08-15 |
| Movie | Iron Man | Max Watkins | 1951-09-20 |
| Movie | Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town | Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers | 1950-04-01 |
| Movie | Customs Agent | Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby | 1950-05-18 |
| Movie | The Killer That Stalked New York | Willie Dennis (uncredited) | 1950-10-06 |
| Movie | Emergency Wedding | Ed Hamley | 1950-11-15 |
| Movie | Father Was a Fullback | Professor Sullivan | 1949-09-30 |
| Movie | One Last Fling | Howard Pritchard | 1949-06-30 |
| Movie | The Great Lover | Higgins | 1949-11-23 |
| Movie | Easy Living | Dr. Franklin | 1949-10-08 |
| Movie | A Dangerous Profession | Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (as James Backus) | 1949-12-10 |
| Movie | A-Lad-in His Lamp | Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited) | 1948-10-22 |