Jim Backus
Acting • Born 1913-02-25 – Died 1989-07-03
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.
Filmography
235 credits
Rebel Without a Cause
Movie • 1955
Frank Stark
Pete's Dragon
Movie • 1977
The Mayor
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie • 1963
Tyler Fitzgerald
Don't Bother to Knock
Movie • 1952
Peter Jones
Angels' Brigade
Movie • 1979
Cmdr. Lindsey March
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Movie • 1972
Timothy Forsythe
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie • 1950
Willie Dennis (uncredited)
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Movie • 1978
Thurston Howell III
His Kind of Woman
Movie • 1951
Myron Winton
Boys' Night Out
Movie • 1962
Peter Bowers
Hello Down There
Movie • 1969
T.R. Hollister
Macabre
Movie • 1958
Sheriff Jim Tyloe
Deadline - U.S.A.
Movie • 1952
Jim Cleary
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
Movie • 1959
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Movie • 1968
Tru-Blue Lou
The Wheeler Dealers
Movie • 1963
Bullard Bear
I'll See You in My Dreams
Movie • 1951
Sam Harris
Man of a Thousand Faces
Movie • 1957
Clarence Locan
Francis in the Navy
Movie • 1955
Commander Hutch
1001 Arabian Nights
Movie • 1959
Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)
The Wild and the Innocent
Movie • 1959
Mr. Forbes
Hollywood Story
Movie • 1951
Mitch Davis
Ice Palace
Movie • 1960
Dave Husack
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Movie • 2005
Himself (uncredited)
Plutopia
Movie • 1951
Milton the Cat
A Dangerous Profession
Movie • 1949
Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
Movie • 1962
Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Movie • 1950
Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers
Iron Man
Movie • 1951
Max Watkins
Slapstick of Another Kind
Movie • 1982
President of the U.S.
Johnny Cool
Movie • 1963
Louis Murphy
Zotz!
Movie • 1962
Horatio Kellgore
The Man with a Cloak
Movie • 1951
Flaherty
Friday Foster
Movie • 1975
Enos Griffith
Billie
Movie • 1965
Howard G. Carol
The Girl Most Likely To...
Movie • 1973
Prof. David Tilson
Critic's Choice
Movie • 1963
Dr. William Von Hagedorn
C.H.O.M.P.S.
Movie • 1979
Mr. Gibbs
You Can't Run Away from It
Movie • 1956
Danker
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
Movie • 1979
Thurston Howell III
Crazy Mama
Movie • 1975
Mr. Albertson
Ragtime Bear
Movie • 1949
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Uncle Sam Magoo
Movie • 1970
Mr. Magoo
Magoo's Puddle Jumper
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Movie • 1965
Whitepaper
Father Was a Fullback
Movie • 1949
Professor Sullivan
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Movie • 1957
King's Emissary
The Horizontal Lieutenant
Movie • 1962
Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag
Operation Bikini
Movie • 1963
Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Movie • 1971
Jim Backus
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Movie • 1956
Tom Culdane
Half Angel
Movie • 1951
Michael Hogan
The Naked Hills
Movie • 1956
Willis Haver
Customs Agent
Movie • 1950
Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Movie • 1970
Staunch
The Girl He Left Behind
Movie • 1956
Sgt. Hanna
Advance to the Rear
Movie • 1964
Gen. Willoughby
Hurry Sundown
Movie • 1967
Carter Sillens
Top Secret Affair
Movie • 1957
Col. Homer W. Gooch
Inside Magoo
Movie • 1960
Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self
The High Cost of Loving
Movie • 1958
Paul Mason
Fluffy
Movie • 1965
Sergeant
My Six Loves
Movie • 1963
Sheriff
I Want You
Movie • 1951
Harvey Landrum
Miracle on 34th Street
Movie • 1973
Shellhammer
The Big Operator
Movie • 1959
Cliff Heldon
Getting Away from It All
Movie • 1972
Mike Lorimar
Here Come the Nelsons
Movie • 1952
Joe Randolph
Goodnight Jackie
Movie • 1974
Mr. Landry
M
Movie • 1951
The Mayor
I Love Melvin
Movie • 1953
Mergo
The Square Jungle
Movie • 1955
Pat Quaid
Spellbound Hound
Movie • 1950
Mr. Magoo
Bungled Bungalow
Movie • 1951
Mr. Magoo
Barefaced Flatfoot
Movie • 1951
Mr. Magoo
Angel Face
Movie • 1953
District Attorney Judson
Bright Victory
Movie • 1951
Bill Grayson
Grizzly Golfer
Movie • 1951
Mr. Magoo
A Private's Affair
Movie • 1959
Jim Gordon
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1962
The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")
One Last Fling
Movie • 1949
Howard Pritchard
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Movie • 1974
Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)
When Magoo Flew
Movie • 1954
Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)
Magic Carpet
Movie • 1972
George Benson
Emergency Wedding
Movie • 1950
Ed Hamley
Never Con a Killer
Movie • 1977
Stanley Bunch
The Great Man
Movie • 1956
Nick Cellantano
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Movie • 1987
Self
Good Guys Wear Black
Movie • 1978
Albert, the Doorman
Fuddy Duddy Buddy
Movie • 1951
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Hotsy Footsy
Movie • 1952
Mr. Magoo (voice)
I Was a Teenage Magoo
Movie • 1960
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Cop on the Beat
Movie • 1975
Jake Mandel
Androcles and the Lion
Movie • 1952
Centurion
Myra Breckinridge
Movie • 1970
Doctor
Magoo Meets Frankenstein
Movie • 1961
Mr. Magoo
Scoutmaster Magoo
Movie • 1958
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Prince Jack
Movie • 1985
Dealy
Trouble Indemnity
Movie • 1950
Mr. Magoo (voice)
There Goes The Bride
Movie • 1980
Mr. Perkins
Ask Any Girl
Movie • 1959
Mr. Maxwell
Deep in My Heart
Movie • 1954
Ben Judson
Don't Make Waves
Movie • 1967
Self (uncredited)
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
Movie • 1981
Thurston Howell III
The Opposite Sex
Movie • 1956
Psychiatrist
The Rose Bowl Story
Movie • 1952
Michael "Iron Mike" Burke
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Movie • 1960
James
A Princess for Magoo
Movie • 1959
Narrator
Sunday in New York
Movie • 1963
Chief Pilot Drysdale
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
Movie • 1950
Magistrate Backus
Above and Beyond
Movie • 1953
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
Eighteen and Anxious
Movie • 1957
Harvey Graham
Terror Faces Magoo
Movie • 1959
Mr. Magoo
Magoo Express
Movie • 1955
Mr. Magoo
Madcap Magoo
Movie • 1955
Mr. Magoo
Magoo Makes News
Movie • 1955
Mr. Magoo
Magoo Goes West
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Calling Doctor Magoo
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Destination Magoo
Movie • 1954
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery
Movie • 1964
Mr. Magoo
The Gossip Columnist
Movie • 1980
Jim Backus
Magoo Beats the Heat
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo(voice)
Pat and Mike
Movie • 1952
Charles Barry
Easy Living
Movie • 1949
Dr. Franklin
A-Lad-in His Lamp
Movie • 1948
Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)
Enchanted Journey
Movie • 1981
Gamba
Trailblazer Magoo
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Problem Child
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Meet Mother Magoo
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Canine Mutiny
Movie • 1956
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Rock Hound Magoo
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Moose Hunt
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Private War
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo Goes Overboard
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Matador Magoo
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo Breaks Par
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Masquerade
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo Saves the Bank
Movie • 1957
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Young Manhood
Movie • 1958
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Geraldine
Movie • 1953
Jason Ambrose
Magoo's Lodge Brother
Movie • 1959
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Damn Yankees
Movie • 1967
Benny Van Buren
Wake Me When the War Is Over
Movie • 1969
Colonel
A Child Is Waiting
Movie • 1963
Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
The Explosive Mr. Magoo
Movie • 1958
Mr Magoo (voice)
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing
Movie • 1958
Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)
Magoo’s Cruise
Movie • 1958
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Love Comes to Magoo
Movie • 1958
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Gumshoe Magoo
Movie • 1958
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Bwana Magoo
Movie • 1959
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo’s Homecoming
Movie • 1959
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Merry Minstrel Magoo
Movie • 1959
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Have I Got a Christmas for You
Movie • 1977
Kevin Grady
The Great Lover
Movie • 1949
Higgins
Rendezvous in Space
Movie • 1964
Moon (voice)
Of Thee I Sing
Movie • 1972
Senator Robert F. Lyons
Where Will You Hide?
Movie • 1948
Narrator
The Popcorn Story
Movie • 1950
Narrator
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
Movie • 1964
Mr. Magoo
Pink and Blue Blues
Movie • 1952
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Pete Hothead
Movie • 1952
Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)
Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA
Movie
Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Weitzman
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Monte
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Maury Samuels
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Harold Mason
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Karl Bigger
Gilligan's Planet
TV • 1982
Thurston Howell, III (voice)
The Good Guys
TV • 1968
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Marvin Waterman
The Brady Bunch
TV • 1969
Gilligan's Island
TV • 1964
Thurston Howell, III
Chico and the Man
TV • 1974
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Marty Van Ransohoff
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Iggy
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Continental Showcase
TV • 1966
Self - Host
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Emile Wade
The New Adventures of Gilligan
TV • 1974
Thurston Howell III (voice)
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Sam Thayer
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Reverend Sims
Studio One
TV • 1948
Tim McTaggart
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Kevin Grady
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Blondie
TV • 1968
J.C. Dithers /Mr. Dithers
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Fabian Swanson
Mobile One
TV • 1975
Macklin
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Dr. Charles Walters
Police Story
TV • 1973
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Will Scataway
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Henry Banning
Climax!
TV • 1954
Detective Herman
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Accidental Family
TV • 1967
Ellery Queen
TV • 1975
Howard Biggers
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Lucus Edgerton
I Married Joan
TV • 1952
Judge Bradley Stevens
Eischied
TV • 1979
Flying High
TV • 1978
The Barbara McNair Show
TV • 1969
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
TV • 1986
What's New, Mr. Magoo?
TV • 1977
The Mr. Magoo Show
TV • 1960
Mr Magoo
The Jim Backus Show
TV • 1960
Joe Forrester
TV • 1975
Maverick
TV • 1957
Joe Wheelwright
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
TV • 1964
Mr. Magoo (voice)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Bill
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Jerry Franks
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
William Norbert
The Gale Storm Show
TV • 1956
Arthur Hutchins
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Harry
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Pork Pie Hannigan
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Herkimer Witt
The George Gobel Show
TV • 1954
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Mr. Landers
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1967
Self
I Dream of Jeannie
TV • 1965
General Fitzhugh
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Panelist
Fantasy Island
TV • 1978
Cap Truman
Harry O
TV • 1974
Ziggy
$weepstake$
TV • 1979
Major Adams
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Mr. Magoo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Police Story
TV • 1973
Jake Mandel
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)
The Unknown Story
TV • 2022
Self - archive footage
The Rebels
TV • 1979
John Hancock