Jim Backus

Jim Backus

Birthday: 1913-02-25

Deathday: 1989-07-03

Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Also known as: James Gilmore Backus

imdb_id: nm0000822

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.

Played in movies:

Destination Magoo

Score: 8.0

Enchanted Journey

Score: 7.8

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Score: 7.6

Rebel Without a Cause

Score: 7.5

Magoo Goes Overboard

Score: 7.5

Magoo's Canine Mutiny

Score: 7.5

The Gossip Columnist

Score: 7.5

A-Lad-in His Lamp

Score: 7.1

Angel Face

Score: 7.1

Hotsy Footsy

Score: 7.0

Ragtime Bear

Score: 7.0

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

Score: 7.0

Bright Victory

Score: 6.9

The Man with a Cloak

Score: 6.9

Deadline - U.S.A.

Score: 6.8

The Great Lover

Score: 6.8

A Child Is Waiting

Score: 6.8

Deep in My Heart

Score: 6.8

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

Score: 6.8

Miracle on 34th Street

Score: 6.8

Man of a Thousand Faces

Score: 6.7

Don't Bother to Knock

Score: 6.7

His Kind of Woman

Score: 6.6

Sunday in New York

Score: 6.6

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

Score: 6.6

The Girl Most Likely To...

Score: 6.6

Hollywood Story

Score: 6.6

When Magoo Flew

Score: 6.6

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

Score: 6.6

Fluffy

Score: 6.5

Hurry Sundown

Score: 6.4

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

Score: 6.3

Pat and Mike

Score: 6.3

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Score: 6.3

The Wild and the Innocent

Score: 6.3

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Score: 6.3

Pete's Dragon

Score: 6.3

M

Score: 6.3

Ask Any Girl

Score: 6.2

I Love Melvin

Score: 6.2

The Wheeler Dealers

Score: 6.2

Above and Beyond

Score: 6.1

Iron Man

Score: 6.1

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Score: 6.1

The Killer That Stalked New York

Score: 6.1

The Popcorn Story

Score: 6.0

Of Thee I Sing

Score: 6.0

Magoo Goes West

Score: 6.0

Madcap Magoo

Score: 6.0

Magoo Express

Score: 6.0

Magoo Makes News

Score: 6.0

Eighteen and Anxious

Score: 6.0

Scoutmaster Magoo

Score: 6.0

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

Score: 6.0

Grizzly Golfer

Score: 6.0

Barefaced Flatfoot

Score: 6.0

The Square Jungle

Score: 6.0

Here Come the Nelsons

Score: 6.0

Father Was a Fullback

Score: 6.0

Friday Foster

Score: 6.0

Easy Living

Score: 5.9

Macabre

Score: 5.9

Hello Down There

Score: 5.9

Trouble Indemnity

Score: 5.8

Androcles and the Lion

Score: 5.8

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Score: 5.8

The Big Operator

Score: 5.8

Ice Palace

Score: 5.8

Boys' Night Out

Score: 5.8

Pink and Blue Blues

Score: 5.7

The High Cost of Loving

Score: 5.7

Zotz!

Score: 5.7

1001 Arabian Nights

Score: 5.7

My Six Loves

Score: 5.6

Half Angel

Score: 5.6

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Score: 5.6

A Dangerous Profession

Score: 5.6

Plutopia

Score: 5.6

Crazy Mama

Score: 5.6

Emergency Wedding

Score: 5.5

Critic's Choice

Score: 5.5

Francis in the Navy

Score: 5.5

Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper

Score: 5.4

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

Score: 5.3

Don't Make Waves

Score: 5.3

Johnny Cool

Score: 5.3

The Opposite Sex

Score: 5.2

Good Guys Wear Black

Score: 5.2

The Great Man

Score: 5.2

I Want You

Score: 5.2

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Score: 5.2

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Score: 5.1

Wake Me When the War Is Over

Score: 5.0

Geraldine

Score: 5.0

Magoo Saves the Bank

Score: 5.0

Magoo's Moose Hunt

Score: 5.0

Advance to the Rear

Score: 5.0

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

Score: 5.0

Billie

Score: 5.0

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Score: 4.8

You Can't Run Away from It

Score: 4.7

I'll See You in My Dreams

Score: 4.7

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

Score: 4.7

Top Secret Affair

Score: 4.6

The Naked Hills

Score: 4.6

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Score: 4.5

Myra Breckinridge

Score: 4.5

Cop on the Beat

Score: 4.1

Damn Yankees

Score: 4.0

Terror Faces Magoo

Score: 4.0

One Last Fling

Score: 4.0

The Girl He Left Behind

Score: 4.0

Operation Bikini

Score: 3.8

The Rose Bowl Story

Score: 3.5

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Score: 3.4

Angels' Brigade

Score: 2.8

Slapstick of Another Kind

Score: 2.7

Magoo's Masquerade

Score: 1.0

A Private's Affair

Score: 1.0

Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

Score: 0.0

Where Will You Hide?

Score: 0.0

Rendezvous in Space

Score: 0.0

Have I Got a Christmas for You

Score: 0.0

Magoo’s Homecoming

Score: 0.0

Love Comes to Magoo

Score: 0.0

Merry Minstrel Magoo

Score: 0.0

Bwana Magoo

Score: 0.0

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

Score: 0.0

Gumshoe Magoo

Score: 0.0

Magoo’s Cruise

Score: 0.0

The Explosive Mr. Magoo

Score: 0.0

Magoo's Lodge Brother

Score: 0.0

Magoo's Young Manhood

Score: 0.0

Magoo Breaks Par

Score: 0.0

Magoo's Private War

Score: 0.0

Matador Magoo

Score: 0.0

Magoo's Problem Child

Score: 0.0

Trailblazer Magoo

Score: 0.0

Rock Hound Magoo

Score: 0.0

Meet Mother Magoo

Score: 0.0

Magoo Beats the Heat

Score: 0.0

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

Score: 0.0

Calling Doctor Magoo

Score: 0.0

Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

Score: 0.0

A Princess for Magoo

Score: 0.0

Tom, Dick and Harriet

Score: 0.0

There Goes The Bride

Score: 0.0

Prince Jack

Score: 0.0

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

Score: 0.0

I Was a Teenage Magoo

Score: 0.0

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

Score: 0.0

Never Con a Killer

Score: 0.0

Magic Carpet

Score: 0.0

Spellbound Hound

Score: 0.0

Bungled Bungalow

Score: 0.0

Goodnight Jackie

Score: 0.0

Getting Away from It All

Score: 0.0

Inside Magoo

Score: 0.0

Customs Agent

Score: 0.0

The Rebels

Score: 0.0

Uncle Sam Magoo

Score: 0.0

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Score: 0.0

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Untouchables

Score: 7.9

I Dream of Jeannie

Score: 7.8

The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show

Score: 7.8

Arrest and Trial

Score: 7.7

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Score: 7.6

The Wild Wild West

Score: 7.5

What's New, Mr. Magoo?

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Gilligan's Island

Score: 7.4

Ellery Queen

Score: 7.4

The George Gobel Show

Score: 7.3

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Score: 7.0

Joe Forrester

Score: 7.0

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.8

CHiPs

Score: 6.8

The Mr. Magoo Show

Score: 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Score: 6.7

The Brady Bunch

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Score: 6.5

Fantasy Island

Score: 6.4

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Medical Center

Score: 6.1

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Love, American Style

Score: 6.0

Eischied

Score: 6.0

I Married Joan

Score: 6.0

Nanny and the Professor

Score: 6.0

The Good Guys

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Chico and the Man

Score: 5.8

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 5.8

Gilligan's Planet

Score: 5.7

Robert Montgomery Presents

Score: 5.6

The Gale Storm Show

Score: 5.5

The Dick Powell Show

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

Accidental Family

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Mobile One

Score: 5.0

Studio One

Score: 5.0

The New Adventures of Gilligan

Score: 4.8

Cain's Hundred

Score: 4.7

Harry O

Score: 4.6

Flying High

Score: 4.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3

The Jim Backus Show

Score: 0.0

The Barbara McNair Show

Score: 0.0

Sweepstakes

Score: 0.0

Blondie

Score: 0.0

Continental Showcase

Score: 0.0