Cast
Jim Backus
Acting
Cast
Jim Backus
Known for
Acting
Born
1913-02-25
From
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died
1989-07-03
Also known as James Gilmore Backus
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.
★5.3
MOVIE1963
Johnny Cool
as Louis Murphy
★6.2
MOVIE1951
Half Angel
as Michael Hogan
★7.5
MOVIE1955
Rebel Without a Cause
as Frank Stark
★7.0
MOVIE1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Tyler Fitzgerald
★5.0
MOVIE1965
Billie
as Howard G. Carol
★5.2
MOVIE1964
Advance to the Rear
as Gen. Willoughby
★5.7
MOVIE1949
A Dangerous Profession
as Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1977
Pete's Dragon
as The Mayor
★8.5
MOVIE1954
Destination Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1951
Bungled Bungalow
as Mr. Magoo
★7.5
MOVIE1952
Hotsy Footsy
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1951
The Man with a Cloak
as Flaherty
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Above and Beyond
as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
★6.2
MOVIE1950
Trouble Indemnity
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE1949
Ragtime Bear
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1963
A Child Is Waiting
as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1959
Ask Any Girl
as Mr. Maxwell
★4.9
MOVIE1957
Top Secret Affair
as Col. Homer W. Gooch
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Don't Bother to Knock
as Peter Jones
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Magoo's Lodge Brother
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE1970
Myra Breckinridge
as Doctor
★6.8
MOVIE1963
Sunday in New York
as Chief Pilot Drysdale
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Spellbound Hound
as Mr. Magoo
★5.1
MOVIE1978
Good Guys Wear Black
as Albert, the Doorman
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Gumshoe Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1951
His Kind of Woman
as Myron Winton
★6.4
MOVIE1967
Hurry Sundown
as Carter Sillens
★4.3
MOVIE1952
The Rose Bowl Story
as Michael "Iron Mike" Burke
★5.9
MOVIE1952
Androcles and the Lion
as Centurion
★5.6
MOVIE1957
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
as King's Emissary
★5.6
MOVIE1955
Francis in the Navy
as Commander Hutch
★5.4
MOVIE1956
The Opposite Sex
as Psychiatrist
★7.1
MOVIE1953
Angel Face
as District Attorney Judson
★5.9
MOVIE1969
Hello Down There
as T.R. Hollister
★4.5
MOVIE1956
The Girl He Left Behind
as Sgt. Hanna
★5.6
MOVIE1975
Crazy Mama
as Mr. Albertson
★6.1
MOVIE1975
Friday Foster
as Enos Griffith
★4.5
MOVIE1956
Meet Me in Las Vegas
as Tom Culdane
★7.1
MOVIE1951
Bright Victory
as Bill Grayson
★5.0
MOVIE1979
C.H.O.M.P.S.
as Mr. Gibbs
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Here Come the Nelsons
as Joe Randolph
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Bwana Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
★5.2
MOVIE1967
Don't Make Waves
as Self (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1962
Boys' Night Out
as Peter Bowers
★6.2
MOVIE1951
Iron Man
as Max Watkins
★6.4
MOVIE1952
Pat and Mike
as Charles Barry
★5.0
MOVIE1956
The Great Man
as Nick Cellantano
★3.1
MOVIE1979
Angels' Brigade
as Cmdr. Lindsey March
★5.9
MOVIE1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Geraldine
as Jason Ambrose
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Magoo’s Homecoming
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Matador Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Explosive Mr. Magoo
as Mr Magoo (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1972
Magic Carpet
as George Benson
★10.0
MOVIE1977
Never Con a Killer
as Stanley Bunch
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
as Timothy Forsythe
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Barefaced Flatfoot
as Mr. Magoo
★6.9
MOVIE1952
Deadline - U.S.A.
as Jim Cleary
★5.5
MOVIE1962
Zotz!
as Horatio Kellgore
★5.2
MOVIE1981
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
as Thurston Howell III
★5.7
MOVIE1949
Easy Living
as Dr. Franklin
★6.3
MOVIE1963
The Wheeler Dealers
as Bullard Bear
★4.7
MOVIE1975
Cop on the Beat
as Jake Mandel
MOVIE1960
Tom, Dick and Harriet
as James
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Grizzly Golfer
as Mr. Magoo
★6.0
MOVIE1959
The Big Operator
as Cliff Heldon
MOVIETBA
Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA
as Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)
★3.0
MOVIE1982
Slapstick of Another Kind
as President of the U.S.
★5.3
MOVIE1951
I Want You
as Harvey Landrum
★4.6
MOVIE1978
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
as Thurston Howell III
★6.7
MOVIE1954
Deep in My Heart
as Ben Judson
★6.6
MOVIE1973
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Prof. David Tilson
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Emergency Wedding
as Ed Hamley
★6.3
MOVIE1949
Father Was a Fullback
as Professor Sullivan
★6.8
MOVIE1957
Man of a Thousand Faces
as Clarence Locan
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing
as Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)
★4.6
MOVIE1956
The Naked Hills
as Willis Haver
★6.3
MOVIE1959
The Wild and the Innocent
as Mr. Forbes
★7.3
MOVIE1980
The Gossip Columnist
as Jim Backus
MOVIE1959
A Princess for Magoo
as Narrator
★3.8
MOVIE1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Whitepaper
★7.1
MOVIE1949
The Great Lover
as Higgins
★5.3
MOVIE1967
Damn Yankees
as Benny Van Buren
★6.5
MOVIE1951
M
as The Mayor
★4.7
MOVIE1959
A Private's Affair
as Jim Gordon
★7.0
MOVIE1980
There Goes The Bride
as Mr. Perkins
★6.7
MOVIE1951
Hollywood Story
as Mitch Davis
★6.2
MOVIE1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Willie Dennis (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1973
Miracle on 34th Street
as Shellhammer
★6.1
MOVIE1955
The Square Jungle
as Pat Quaid
★6.2
MOVIE1953
I Love Melvin
as Mergo
★5.6
MOVIE1963
Critic's Choice
as Dr. William Von Hagedorn
★6.3
MOVIE1962
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
as Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1979
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
as Thurston Howell III
★4.9
MOVIE1951
I'll See You in My Dreams
as Sam Harris
★6.3
MOVIE1960
Ice Palace
as Dave Husack
★3.8
MOVIE1963
Operation Bikini
as Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
MOVIE1964
Rendezvous in Space
as Moon (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
as Staunch
MOVIE1960
I Was a Teenage Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1956
Meet Mother Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
as Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers
★7.0
MOVIE1972
Of Thee I Sing
as Senator Robert F. Lyons
★5.3
MOVIE1968
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
as Tru-Blue Lou
★6.0
MOVIE1958
Macabre
as Sheriff Jim Tyloe
★5.9
MOVIE1952
Pink and Blue Blues
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★5.1
MOVIE1956
You Can't Run Away from It
as Danker
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Merry Minstrel Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★4.8
MOVIE1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as Jim Backus
★10.0
MOVIE1950
Customs Agent
as Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby
★9.0
MOVIE1985
Prince Jack
as Dealy
★10.0
MOVIE1956
Magoo's Problem Child
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Magoo Breaks Par
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1959
Terror Faces Magoo
as Mr. Magoo
★5.2
MOVIE1969
Wake Me When the War Is Over
as Colonel
★5.7
MOVIE1963
My Six Loves
as Sheriff
★6.7
MOVIE1955
Magoo Express
as Mr. Magoo
MOVIE1974
Goodnight Jackie
as Mr. Landry
★7.7
MOVIE1956
Magoo's Canine Mutiny
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1959
1001 Arabian Nights
as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1970
Uncle Sam Magoo
as Mr. Magoo
★7.0
MOVIE1965
Fluffy
as Sergeant
★8.3
MOVIE1957
Magoo Goes Overboard
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1958
The High Cost of Loving
as Paul Mason
★10.0
MOVIE1972
Getting Away from It All
as Mike Lorimar
★4.8
MOVIE1949
One Last Fling
as Howard Pritchard
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Eighteen and Anxious
as Harvey Graham
★5.2
MOVIE1962
The Horizontal Lieutenant
as Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag
★5.9
MOVIE1951
Plutopia
as Milton the Cat
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Magoo Makes News
as Mr. Magoo
★6.3
MOVIE1957
Magoo's Moose Hunt
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Scoutmaster Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Magoo Saves the Bank
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
MOVIE1977
Have I Got a Christmas for You
as Kevin Grady
★6.5
MOVIE1950
The Popcorn Story
as Narrator
★7.2
MOVIE1948
A-Lad-in His Lamp
as Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)
MOVIE1960
Inside Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Love Comes to Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Magoo's Young Manhood
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
MOVIE1950
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
as Magistrate Backus
★8.0
MOVIE1952
Pete Hothead
as Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Madcap Magoo
as Mr. Magoo
★3.3
MOVIE1957
Magoo's Masquerade
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1956
Magoo's Puddle Jumper
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Rock Hound Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
MOVIE1964
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
as Mr. Magoo
★6.7
MOVIE1954
When Magoo Flew
as Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1974
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
as Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)
MOVIE1961
Magoo Meets Frankenstein
as Mr. Magoo
★7.0
MOVIE1958
Magoo’s Cruise
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
MOVIE1959
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1956
Magoo Goes West
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Magoo's Private War
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
MOVIE1987
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
as Self
MOVIE2005
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
as Himself (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Calling Doctor Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Fuddy Duddy Buddy
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
MOVIE1948
Where Will You Hide?
as Narrator
MOVIE1964
Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery
as Mr. Magoo
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Trailblazer Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1956
Magoo Beats the Heat
as Mr. Magoo(voice)