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