Jim Backus

Known for Acting

Jim Backus's portrait

Details

Birthday: February 25, 1913

Deathday: July 03, 1989

Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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.

Actor

2005

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

1987

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

1985

Prince Jack

1982

Slapstick of Another Kind

1982

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1981

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

1981

Enchanted Journey

1980

There Goes The Bride

1980

The Gossip Columnist

1979

Angels' Brigade

1979

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

1979

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

1978

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

1978

Good Guys Wear Black

1977

Pete's Dragon

1977

Never Con a Killer

1977

Have I Got a Christmas for You

1975

Friday Foster

1975

Crazy Mama

1975

Cop on the Beat

1974

Goodnight Jackie

1974

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

1973

The Girl Most Likely To...

1973

Miracle on 34th Street

1972

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

1972

Getting Away from It All

1972

Magic Carpet

1972

Of Thee I Sing

1971

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1970

Uncle Sam Magoo

1970

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

1970

Myra Breckinridge

1970

Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

1969

Hello Down There

1969

Wake Me When the War Is Over

1968

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

1967

Hurry Sundown

1967

Don't Make Waves

1967

Damn Yankees

1965

Billie

1965

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965

Fluffy

1964

Advance to the Rear

1964

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

1964

Rendezvous in Space

1964

Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

1963

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

1963

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

Johnny Cool

1963

Critic's Choice

1963

Operation Bikini

1963

My Six Loves

1963

Sunday in New York

1963

A Child Is Waiting

1962

Boys' Night Out

1962

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962

Zotz!

1962

The Horizontal Lieutenant

1962

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1961

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

1960

Ice Palace

1960

Inside Magoo

1960

I Was a Teenage Magoo

1960

Tom, Dick and Harriet

1959

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

1959

1001 Arabian Nights

1959

The Wild and the Innocent

1959

The Big Operator

1959

A Private's Affair

1959

Ask Any Girl

1959

A Princess for Magoo

1959

Terror Faces Magoo

1959

Magoo's Lodge Brother

1959

Bwana Magoo

1959

Magoo’s Homecoming

1959

Merry Minstrel Magoo

1958

Macabre

1958

The High Cost of Loving

1958

Scoutmaster Magoo

1958

Magoo's Young Manhood

1958

The Explosive Mr. Magoo

1958

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

1958

Magoo’s Cruise

1958

Love Comes to Magoo

1958

Gumshoe Magoo

1957

Man of a Thousand Faces

1957

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1957

Top Secret Affair

1957

Eighteen and Anxious

1957

Rock Hound Magoo

1957

Magoo's Moose Hunt

1957

Magoo's Private War

1957

Magoo Goes Overboard

1957

Matador Magoo

1957

Magoo Breaks Par

1957

Magoo's Masquerade

1957

Magoo Saves the Bank

1956

You Can't Run Away from It

1956

Magoo's Puddle Jumper

1956

Meet Me in Las Vegas

1956

The Naked Hills

1956

The Girl He Left Behind

1956

The Great Man

1956

The Opposite Sex

1956

Magoo Goes West

1956

Calling Doctor Magoo

1956

Magoo Beats the Heat

1956

Trailblazer Magoo

1956

Magoo's Problem Child

1956

Meet Mother Magoo

1956

Magoo's Canine Mutiny

1955

Rebel Without a Cause

1955

Francis in the Navy

1955

The Square Jungle

1955

Magoo Express

1955

Madcap Magoo

1955

Magoo Makes News

1954

When Magoo Flew

1954

Deep in My Heart

1954

Destination Magoo

1953

I Love Melvin

1953

Angel Face

1953

Above and Beyond

1953

Geraldine

1952

Don't Bother to Knock

1952

Deadline - U.S.A.

1952

Here Come the Nelsons

1952

Hotsy Footsy

1952

Androcles and the Lion

1952

The Rose Bowl Story

1952

Pat and Mike

1952

Pink and Blue Blues

1952

Pete Hothead

1951

His Kind of Woman

1951

I'll See You in My Dreams

1951

Hollywood Story

1951

Plutopia

1951

Iron Man

1951

The Man with a Cloak

1951

Half Angel

1951

I Want You

1951

M

1951

Bungled Bungalow

1951

Barefaced Flatfoot

1951

Bright Victory

1951

Grizzly Golfer

1951

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

1950

The Killer That Stalked New York

1950

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1950

Customs Agent

1950

Spellbound Hound

1950

Emergency Wedding

1950

Trouble Indemnity

1950

Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

1950

The Popcorn Story

1949

A Dangerous Profession

1949

Ragtime Bear

1949

Father Was a Fullback

1949

One Last Fling

1949

Easy Living

1949

The Great Lover

1948

A-Lad-in His Lamp

1948

Where Will You Hide?

Writer

1971

Mooch Goes to Hollywood