Personal Info
Known Credits
162
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1913-02-25 (112 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also Known For
James Gilmore Backus
Jim 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. ...
Known For
Acting
2012 --
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
| Pat Quaid (archive footage)
2005 --
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
| Himself (uncredited)
2004 --
Los Angeles Plays Itself
| Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)
1987 --
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
| Self
1985 --
Prince Jack
| Dealy
1982 --
Slapstick of Another Kind
| President of the U.S.
1981 --
Enchanted Journey
| Gamba
1981 --
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
| Thurston Howell III
1980 --
There Goes The Bride
| Mr. Perkins
1980 --
The Gossip Columnist
| Jim Backus
1979 --
C.H.O.M.P.S.
| Mr. Gibbs
1979 --
The Rebels
| John Hancock
1979 --
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
| Thurston Howell III
1979 --
Angels' Brigade
| Cmdr. Lindsey March
1978 --
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
| Thurston Howell III
1978 --
Good Guys Wear Black
| Albert, the Doorman
1977 --
Have I Got a Christmas for You
| Kevin Grady
1977 --
Pete's Dragon
| The Mayor
1977 --
Never Con a Killer
| Stanley Bunch
1975 --
Friday Foster
| Enos Griffith
1975 --
Crazy Mama
| Mr. Albertson
1975 --
Cop on the Beat
| Jake Mandel
1974 --
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
| Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)
1974 --
Goodnight Jackie
| Mr. Landry
1973 --
Miracle on 34th Street
| Shellhammer
1973 --
The Girl Most Likely To...
| Prof. David Tilson
1972 --
Magic Carpet
| George Benson
1972 --
Of Thee I Sing
| Senator Robert F. Lyons
1972 --
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
| Timothy Forsythe
1972 --
Getting Away from It All
| Mike Lorimar
1971 --
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
| Jim Backus
1970 --
Myra Breckinridge
| Doctor
1970 --
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
| Staunch
1970 --
Uncle Sam Magoo
| Mr. Magoo
1969 --
Wake Me When the War Is Over
| Colonel
1969 --
Hello Down There
| T.R. Hollister
1968 --
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
| Tru-Blue Lou
1967 --
Don't Make Waves
| Self (uncredited)
1967 --
Damn Yankees
| Benny Van Buren
1967 --
Hurry Sundown
| Carter Sillens
1965 --
Billie
| Howard G. Carol
1965 --
Fluffy
| Sergeant
1965 --
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
| Whitepaper
1964 --
Rendezvous in Space
| Moon (voice)
1964 --
Advance to the Rear
| Gen. Willoughby
1964 --
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
| Mr. Magoo
1964 --
Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery
| Mr. Magoo
1963 --
The Wheeler Dealers
| Bullard Bear
1963 --
Sunday in New York
| Chief Pilot Drysdale
1963 --
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
| Tyler Fitzgerald
1963 --
Johnny Cool
| Louis Murphy
1963 --
My Six Loves
| Sheriff
1963 --
Operation Bikini
| Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
1963 --
Critic's Choice
| Dr. William Von Hagedorn
1963 --
A Child Is Waiting
| Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
1962 --
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
| Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
1962 --
Zotz!
| Prof. Horatio Kellgore
1962 --
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
| The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")
1962 --
Boys' Night Out
| Peter Bowers
1962 --
The Horizontal Lieutenant
| Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag
1961 --
Magoo Meets Frankenstein
| Mr. Magoo
1960 --
Inside Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self
1960 --
Ice Palace
| Dave Husack
1960 --
Tom, Dick and Harriet
| James
1960 --
I Was a Teenage Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959 --
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959 --
1001 Arabian Nights
| Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)
1959 --
Ask Any Girl
| Mr. Maxwell
1959 --
A Private's Affair
| Jim Gordon
1959 --
The Big Operator
| Cliff Heldon
1959 --
Terror Faces Magoo
| Mr. Magoo
1959 --
The Wild and the Innocent
| Mr. Forbes
1959 --
Magoo's Lodge Brother
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959 --
Merry Minstrel Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959 --
Magoo’s Homecoming
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959 --
Bwana Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1959 --
A Princess for Magoo
| Narrator
1958 --
Gumshoe Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1958 --
Love Comes to Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1958 --
Macabre
| Sheriff Jim Tyloe
1958 --
Magoo’s Cruise
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1958 --
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing
| Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)
1958 --
The High Cost of Loving
| Paul Mason
1958 --
The Explosive Mr. Magoo
| Mr Magoo (voice)
1958 --
Scoutmaster Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1958 --
Magoo's Young Manhood
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Magoo's Private War
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Magoo's Moose Hunt
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
| King's Emissary
1957 --
Eighteen and Anxious
| Harvey Graham
1957 --
Rock Hound Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Magoo Saves the Bank
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Magoo's Masquerade
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Man of a Thousand Faces
| Clarence Locan
1957 --
Magoo Breaks Par
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Matador Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Magoo Goes Overboard
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1957 --
Top Secret Affair
| Col. Homer W. Gooch
1956 --
Meet Mother Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956 --
The Great Man
| Nick Cellantano
1956 --
The Opposite Sex
| Psychiatrist
1956 --
You Can't Run Away from It
| Danker
1956 --
The Girl He Left Behind
| Sgt. Hanna
1956 --
Magoo's Problem Child
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956 --
Trailblazer Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956 --
Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956 --
Magoo Beats the Heat
| Mr. Magoo(voice)
1956 --
The Naked Hills
| Willis Haver
1956 --
Calling Doctor Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956 --
Magoo Goes West
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1956 --
Meet Me in Las Vegas
| Tom Culdane
1956 --
Magoo's Canine Mutiny
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1955 --
The Square Jungle
| Pat Quaid
1955 --
Magoo Makes News
| Mr. Magoo
1955 --
Rebel Without a Cause
| Frank Stark
1955 --
Francis in the Navy
| Commander Hutch
1955 --
Madcap Magoo
| Mr. Magoo
1955 --
Magoo Express
| Mr. Magoo
1954 --
Destination Magoo
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1954 --
Deep in My Heart
| Ben Judson
1954 --
Geraldine
| Jason Ambrose
1954 --
When Magoo Flew
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1953 --
I Love Melvin
| Mergo
1953 --
Above and Beyond
| Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
1953 --
Angel Face
| District Attorney Judson
1952 --
Androcles and the Lion
| Centurion
1952 --
Hotsy Footsy
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1952 --
The Rose Bowl Story
| Michael "Iron Mike" Burke
1952 --
Don't Bother to Knock
| Peter Jones
1952 --
Pat and Mike
| Charles Barry
1952 --
Deadline - U.S.A.
| Jim Cleary
1952 --
Here Come the Nelsons
| Joe Randolph
1951 --
I Want You
| Harvey Landrum
1951 --
Grizzly Golfer
| Mr. Magoo
1951 --
I'll See You in My Dreams
| Sam Harris
1951 --
The Man with a Cloak
| Flaherty
1951 --
Fuddy Duddy Buddy
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1951 --
Iron Man
| Max Watkins
1951 --
His Kind of Woman
| Myron Winton
1951 --
Bright Victory
| Bill Grayson
1951 --
Hollywood Story
| Mitch Davis
1951 --
Plutopia
| Milton the Cat
1951 --
Half Angel
| Michael Hogan
1951 --
Barefaced Flatfoot
| Mr. Magoo
1951 --
M
| The Mayor
1951 --
Bungled Bungalow
| Mr. Magoo
1950 --
The Popcorn Story
| Narrator
1950 --
Emergency Wedding
| Ed Hamley
1950 --
The Killer That Stalked New York
| Willie Dennis (uncredited)
1950 --
Trouble Indemnity
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1950 --
Customs Agent
| Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby
1950 --
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
| Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers
1950 --
Spellbound Hound
| Mr. Magoo
1950 --
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
| Magistrate Backus
1949 --
A Dangerous Profession
| Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)
1949 --
The Great Lover
| Higgins
1949 --
Easy Living
| Dr. Franklin
1949 --
Father Was a Fullback
| Professor Sullivan
1949 --
Ragtime Bear
| Mr. Magoo (voice)
1949 --
One Last Fling
| Howard Pritchard
1948 --
A-Lad-in His Lamp
| Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)
1948 --
Where Will You Hide?
| Narrator