Birthday:
Feb 25, 1913
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rebel Without a Cause | Frank Stark | 1955 |
| Pete's Dragon | The Mayor | 1977 |
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Tyler Fitzgerald | 1963 |
| Don't Bother to Knock | Peter Jones | 1952 |
| Angels' Brigade | Cmdr. Lindsey March | 1979 |
| Now You See Him, Now You Don't | Timothy Forsythe | 1972 |
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Willie Dennis (uncredited) | 1950 |
| Rescue from Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1978 |
| His Kind of Woman | Myron Winton | 1951 |
| Boys' Night Out | Peter Bowers | 1962 |
| Hello Down There | T.R. Hollister | 1969 |
| Macabre | Sheriff Jim Tyloe | 1958 |
| Deadline - U.S.A. | Jim Cleary | 1952 |
| Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1959 |
| Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Tru-Blue Lou | 1968 |
| The Wheeler Dealers | Bullard Bear | 1963 |
| I'll See You in My Dreams | Sam Harris | 1951 |
| Man of a Thousand Faces | Clarence Locan | 1957 |
| Francis in the Navy | Commander Hutch | 1955 |
| 1001 Arabian Nights | Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice) | 1959 |
| The Wild and the Innocent | Mr. Forbes | 1959 |
| Hollywood Story | Mitch Davis | 1951 |
| Ice Palace | Dave Husack | 1960 |
| Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents | Himself (uncredited) | 2005 |
| Plutopia | Milton the Cat | 1951 |
| A Dangerous Profession | Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator | 1949 |
| Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol | Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | 1962 |
| Los Angeles Plays Itself | Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town | Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers | 1950 |
| Iron Man | Max Watkins | 1951 |
| Slapstick of Another Kind | President of the U.S. | 1982 |
| Johnny Cool | Louis Murphy | 1963 |
| Zotz! | Prof. Horatio Kellgore | 1962 |
| The Man with a Cloak | Flaherty | 1951 |
| Friday Foster | Enos Griffith | 1975 |
| Billie | Howard G. Carol | 1965 |
| The Girl Most Likely To... | Prof. David Tilson | 1973 |
| Critic's Choice | Dr. William Von Hagedorn | 1963 |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Mr. Gibbs | 1979 |
| You Can't Run Away from It | Danker | 1956 |
| The Castaways on Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1979 |
| Crazy Mama | Mr. Albertson | 1975 |
| Ragtime Bear | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1949 |
| Uncle Sam Magoo | Mr. Magoo | 1970 |
| Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | Whitepaper | 1965 |
| Father Was a Fullback | Professor Sullivan | 1949 |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | King's Emissary | 1957 |
| The Horizontal Lieutenant | Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag | 1962 |
| The Rebels | John Hancock | 1979 |
| Operation Bikini | Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly | 1963 |
| Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Jim Backus | 1971 |
| Meet Me in Las Vegas | Tom Culdane | 1956 |
| Half Angel | Michael Hogan | 1951 |
| The Naked Hills | Willis Haver | 1956 |
| Customs Agent | Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby | 1950 |
| The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Staunch | 1970 |
| The Girl He Left Behind | Sgt. Hanna | 1956 |
| Advance to the Rear | Gen. Willoughby | 1964 |
| Hurry Sundown | Carter Sillens | 1967 |
| Top Secret Affair | Col. Homer W. Gooch | 1957 |
| Inside Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self | 1960 |
| The High Cost of Loving | Paul Mason | 1958 |
| Fluffy | Sergeant | 1965 |
| My Six Loves | Sheriff | 1963 |
| I Want You | Harvey Landrum | 1951 |
| Miracle on 34th Street | Shellhammer | 1973 |
| The Big Operator | Cliff Heldon | 1959 |
| Getting Away from It All | Mike Lorimar | 1972 |
| Here Come the Nelsons | Joe Randolph | 1952 |
| Goodnight Jackie | Mr. Landry | 1974 |
| M | The Mayor | 1951 |
| I Love Melvin | Mergo | 1953 |
| The Square Jungle | Pat Quaid | 1955 |
| Spellbound Hound | Mr. Magoo | 1950 |
| Bungled Bungalow | Mr. Magoo | 1951 |
| Barefaced Flatfoot | Mr. Magoo | 1951 |
| Angel Face | District Attorney Judson | 1953 |
| Bright Victory | Bill Grayson | 1951 |
| Grizzly Golfer | Mr. Magoo | 1951 |
| A Private's Affair | Jim Gordon | 1959 |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The King (segment "The Dancing Princess") | 1962 |
| One Last Fling | Howard Pritchard | 1949 |
| Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom | Pat Quaid (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Narrator / Santa Claus (voice) | 1974 |
| When Magoo Flew | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1954 |
| Magic Carpet | George Benson | 1972 |
| Emergency Wedding | Ed Hamley | 1950 |
| Never Con a Killer | Stanley Bunch | 1977 |
| The Great Man | Nick Cellantano | 1956 |
| Hollywood's Hidden Secrets | Self | 1987 |
| Good Guys Wear Black | Albert, the Doorman | 1978 |
| Fuddy Duddy Buddy | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1951 |
| Hotsy Footsy | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1952 |
| I Was a Teenage Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1960 |
| Cop on the Beat | Jake Mandel | 1975 |
| Androcles and the Lion | Centurion | 1952 |
| Myra Breckinridge | Doctor | 1970 |
| Magoo Meets Frankenstein | Mr. Magoo | 1961 |
| Scoutmaster Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1958 |
| Prince Jack | Dealy | 1985 |
| Trouble Indemnity | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1950 |
| There Goes The Bride | Mr. Perkins | 1980 |
| Ask Any Girl | Mr. Maxwell | 1959 |
| Deep in My Heart | Ben Judson | 1954 |
| Don't Make Waves | Self (uncredited) | 1967 |
| The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1981 |
| The Opposite Sex | Psychiatrist | 1956 |
| The Rose Bowl Story | Michael "Iron Mike" Burke | 1952 |
| Tom, Dick and Harriet | James | 1960 |
| A Princess for Magoo | Narrator | 1959 |
| Sunday in New York | Chief Pilot Drysdale | 1963 |
| Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy | Magistrate Backus | 1950 |
| Above and Beyond | Gen. Curtis E. LeMay | 1953 |
| Eighteen and Anxious | Harvey Graham | 1957 |
| Terror Faces Magoo | Mr. Magoo | 1959 |
| Magoo Express | Mr. Magoo | 1955 |
| Madcap Magoo | Mr. Magoo | 1955 |
| Magoo Makes News | Mr. Magoo | 1955 |
| Magoo Goes West | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| Calling Doctor Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| Destination Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1954 |
| Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery | Mr. Magoo | 1964 |
| The Gossip Columnist | Jim Backus | 1980 |
| Magoo Beats the Heat | Mr. Magoo(voice) | 1956 |
| Pat and Mike | Charles Barry | 1952 |
| Easy Living | Dr. Franklin | 1949 |
| A-Lad-in His Lamp | Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited) | 1948 |
| The Enchanted Journey | Gamba | 1981 |
| Trailblazer Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| Magoo's Problem Child | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| Meet Mother Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| Magoo's Canine Mutiny | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1956 |
| Rock Hound Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo's Moose Hunt | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo's Private War | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo Goes Overboard | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Matador Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo Breaks Par | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo's Masquerade | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo Saves the Bank | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957 |
| Magoo's Young Manhood | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1958 |
| Geraldine | Jason Ambrose | 1954 |
| Magoo's Lodge Brother | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1959 |
| Damn Yankees | Benny Van Buren | 1967 |
| Wake Me When the War Is Over | Colonel | 1969 |
| A Child Is Waiting | Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited) | 1963 |
| The Explosive Mr. Magoo | Mr Magoo (voice) | 1958 |
| Magoo’s Three-Point Landing | Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice) | 1958 |
| Magoo’s Cruise | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1958 |
| Love Comes to Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1958 |
| Gumshoe Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1958 |
| Bwana Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1959 |
| Magoo’s Homecoming | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1959 |
| Merry Minstrel Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1959 |
| Have I Got a Christmas for You | Kevin Grady | 1977 |
| The Great Lover | Higgins | 1949 |
| Rendezvous in Space | Moon (voice) | 1964 |
| Of Thee I Sing | Senator Robert F. Lyons | 1972 |
| Where Will You Hide? | Narrator | 1948 |
| The Popcorn Story | Narrator | 1950 | Series | Cast | Year |
| CHiPs | Weitzman | 1977 |
| The Dick Powell Show | Monte | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | Maury Samuels | 1958 |
| Burke's Law | Harold Mason | 1963 |
| Cain's Hundred | Karl Bigger | 1961 |
| Gilligan's Planet | Thurston Howell, III (voice) | 1982 |
| The Good Guys | 1968 | |
| The Love Boat | Marvin Waterman | 1977 |
| The Brady Bunch | 1969 | |
| Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell, III | 1964 |
| Chico and the Man | 1974 | |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | Marty Van Ransohoff | 1962 |
| Alias Smith and Jones | 1971 | |
| Charlie's Angels | Iggy | 1976 |
| The Merv Griffin Show | Self | 1962 |
| Continental Showcase | Self - Host | 1966 |
| The New Adventures of Gilligan | Thurston Howell III (voice) | 1974 |
| The Mod Squad | Emile Wade | 1968 |
| Medical Center | 1969 | |
| Arrest and Trial | Sam Thayer | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | Reverend Sims | 1955 |
| Studio One | Tim McTaggart | 1948 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Kevin Grady | 1951 |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1974 | |
| Blondie | 1968 | |
| Harry O | 1974 | |
| Mobile One | 1975 | |
| The Wild Wild West | Fabian Swanson | 1965 |
| Nanny and the Professor | Dr. Charles Walters | 1970 |
| Daniel Boone | Will Scataway | 1964 |
| Police Story | 1973 | |
| The Millionaire | Henry Banning | 1955 |
| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Self | 1967 |
| Climax! | Detective Herman | 1954 |
| Matinee Theater | 1955 | |
| Accidental Family | 1967 | |
| Ellery Queen | Howard Biggers | 1975 |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | Lucus Edgerton | 1950 |
| Eischied | 1979 | |
| I Married Joan | Judge Bradley Stevens | 1952 |
| Sweepstakes | 1979 | |
| Flying High | 1978 | |
| The Barbara McNair Show | Self | 1969 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1962 |
| The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show | 1986 | |
| What's New, Mr. Magoo? | 1977 | |
| The Mr. Magoo Show | Mr Magoo | 1960 |
| The Jim Backus Show | 1960 | |
| Joe Forrester | 1975 | |
| Maverick | Joe Wheelwright | 1957 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1961 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Self - Co-Host | 1961 |
| The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1964 |
| Love, American Style | Jerry Franks | 1969 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Bill | 1969 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Harry | 1950 |
| The Untouchables | William Norbert | 1959 |
| The Gale Storm Show | Arthur Hutchins | 1956 |
| Burke's Law | Pork Pie Hannigan | 1963 |
| Burke's Law | Herkimer Witt | 1963 |
| The George Gobel Show | Self | 1954 |
| The Love Boat | Mr. Landers | 1977 |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self | 1950 |
| Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self | 1957 |
| The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Self | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | General Fitzhugh | 1965 |
| What's My Line? | Self - Panelist | 1950 |
| Fantasy Island | Cap Truman | 1978 |
