Jim Backus

Acting

Born: 1913-02-25 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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.

Acting

Rebel Without a Cause

Frank Stark

Pete's Dragon

The Mayor

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

Tyler Fitzgerald

Don't Bother to Knock

Peter Jones

Angels' Brigade

Cmdr. Lindsey March

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Timothy Forsythe

The Killer That Stalked New York

Willie Dennis (uncredited)

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

Thurston Howell III

His Kind of Woman

Myron Winton

Boys' Night Out

Peter Bowers

Hello Down There

T.R. Hollister

Macabre

Sheriff Jim Tyloe

Deadline - U.S.A.

Jim Cleary

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Tru-Blue Lou

The Wheeler Dealers

Bullard Bear

I'll See You in My Dreams

Sam Harris

Man of a Thousand Faces

Clarence Locan

Francis in the Navy

Commander Hutch

1001 Arabian Nights

Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)

The Wild and the Innocent

Mr. Forbes

Hollywood Story

Mitch Davis

Ice Palace

Dave Husack

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Himself (uncredited)

Plutopia

Milton the Cat

A Dangerous Profession

Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers

Iron Man

Max Watkins

Slapstick of Another Kind

President of the U.S.

Johnny Cool

Louis Murphy

Zotz!

Horatio Kellgore

The Man with a Cloak

Flaherty

Friday Foster

Enos Griffith

Billie

Howard G. Carol

The Girl Most Likely To...

Prof. David Tilson

Critic's Choice

Dr. William Von Hagedorn

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

Mr. Gibbs

You Can't Run Away from It

Danker

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

Thurston Howell III

Crazy Mama

Mr. Albertson

Ragtime Bear

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Uncle Sam Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Magoo's Puddle Jumper

Mr. Magoo (voice)

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Whitepaper

Father Was a Fullback

Professor Sullivan

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

King's Emissary

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag

Operation Bikini

Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Jim Backus

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Tom Culdane

Half Angel

Michael Hogan

The Naked Hills

Willis Haver

Customs Agent

Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Staunch

The Girl He Left Behind

Sgt. Hanna

Advance to the Rear

Gen. Willoughby

Hurry Sundown

Carter Sillens

Top Secret Affair

Col. Homer W. Gooch

Inside Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self

The High Cost of Loving

Paul Mason

Fluffy

Sergeant

My Six Loves

Sheriff

I Want You

Harvey Landrum

Miracle on 34th Street

Shellhammer

The Big Operator

Cliff Heldon

Getting Away from It All

Mike Lorimar

Here Come the Nelsons

Joe Randolph

Goodnight Jackie

Mr. Landry

The Mayor

I Love Melvin

Mergo

The Square Jungle

Pat Quaid

Spellbound Hound

Mr. Magoo

Bungled Bungalow

Mr. Magoo

Barefaced Flatfoot

Mr. Magoo

Angel Face

District Attorney Judson

Bright Victory

Bill Grayson

Grizzly Golfer

Mr. Magoo

A Private's Affair

Jim Gordon

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")

One Last Fling

Howard Pritchard

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)

When Magoo Flew

Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)

Magic Carpet

George Benson

Emergency Wedding

Ed Hamley

Never Con a Killer

Stanley Bunch

The Great Man

Nick Cellantano

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

Self

Good Guys Wear Black

Albert, the Doorman

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Hotsy Footsy

Mr. Magoo (voice)

I Was a Teenage Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Cop on the Beat

Jake Mandel

Androcles and the Lion

Centurion

Myra Breckinridge

Doctor

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

Mr. Magoo

Scoutmaster Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Prince Jack

Dealy

Trouble Indemnity

Mr. Magoo (voice)

There Goes The Bride

Mr. Perkins

Ask Any Girl

Mr. Maxwell

Deep in My Heart

Ben Judson

Don't Make Waves

Self (uncredited)

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

Thurston Howell III

The Opposite Sex

Psychiatrist

The Rose Bowl Story

Michael "Iron Mike" Burke

Tom, Dick and Harriet

James

A Princess for Magoo

Narrator

Sunday in New York

Chief Pilot Drysdale

Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

Magistrate Backus

Above and Beyond

Gen. Curtis E. LeMay

Eighteen and Anxious

Harvey Graham

Terror Faces Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Magoo Express

Mr. Magoo

Madcap Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Magoo Makes News

Mr. Magoo

Magoo Goes West

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Calling Doctor Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Destination Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

Mr. Magoo

The Gossip Columnist

Jim Backus

Magoo Beats the Heat

Mr. Magoo(voice)

Pat and Mike

Charles Barry

Easy Living

Dr. Franklin

A-Lad-in His Lamp

Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)

Enchanted Journey

Gamba

Trailblazer Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Problem Child

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Meet Mother Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Canine Mutiny

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Rock Hound Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Moose Hunt

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Private War

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Goes Overboard

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Matador Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Breaks Par

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Masquerade

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Saves the Bank

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Young Manhood

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Geraldine

Jason Ambrose

Magoo's Lodge Brother

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Damn Yankees

Benny Van Buren

Wake Me When the War Is Over

Colonel

A Child Is Waiting

Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)

The Explosive Mr. Magoo

Mr Magoo (voice)

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)

Magoo’s Cruise

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Love Comes to Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Gumshoe Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Bwana Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo’s Homecoming

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Merry Minstrel Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Have I Got a Christmas for You

Kevin Grady

The Great Lover

Higgins

Rendezvous in Space

Moon (voice)

Of Thee I Sing

Senator Robert F. Lyons

Where Will You Hide?

Narrator

The Popcorn Story

Narrator

Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

Mr. Magoo

Pink and Blue Blues

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Pete Hothead

Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)

Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

Rebel Without a Cause

Frank Stark

Pete's Dragon

The Mayor

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

Tyler Fitzgerald

Don't Bother to Knock

Peter Jones

Angels' Brigade

Cmdr. Lindsey March

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Timothy Forsythe

The Killer That Stalked New York

Willie Dennis (uncredited)

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

Thurston Howell III

His Kind of Woman

Myron Winton

Boys' Night Out

Peter Bowers

Hello Down There

T.R. Hollister

Macabre

Sheriff Jim Tyloe

Deadline - U.S.A.

Jim Cleary

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Tru-Blue Lou

The Wheeler Dealers

Bullard Bear

I'll See You in My Dreams

Sam Harris

Man of a Thousand Faces

Clarence Locan

Francis in the Navy

Commander Hutch

1001 Arabian Nights

Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)

The Wild and the Innocent

Mr. Forbes

Hollywood Story

Mitch Davis

Ice Palace

Dave Husack

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Himself (uncredited)

Plutopia

Milton the Cat

A Dangerous Profession

Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers

Iron Man

Max Watkins

Slapstick of Another Kind

President of the U.S.

Johnny Cool

Louis Murphy

Zotz!

Horatio Kellgore

The Man with a Cloak

Flaherty

Friday Foster

Enos Griffith

Billie

Howard G. Carol

The Girl Most Likely To...

Prof. David Tilson

Critic's Choice

Dr. William Von Hagedorn

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

Mr. Gibbs

You Can't Run Away from It

Danker

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

Thurston Howell III

Crazy Mama

Mr. Albertson

Ragtime Bear

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Uncle Sam Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Magoo's Puddle Jumper

Mr. Magoo (voice)

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Whitepaper

Father Was a Fullback

Professor Sullivan

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

King's Emissary

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag

Operation Bikini

Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Jim Backus

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Tom Culdane

Half Angel

Michael Hogan

The Naked Hills

Willis Haver

Customs Agent

Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Staunch

The Girl He Left Behind

Sgt. Hanna

Advance to the Rear

Gen. Willoughby

Hurry Sundown

Carter Sillens

Top Secret Affair

Col. Homer W. Gooch

Inside Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self

The High Cost of Loving

Paul Mason

Fluffy

Sergeant

My Six Loves

Sheriff

I Want You

Harvey Landrum

Miracle on 34th Street

Shellhammer

The Big Operator

Cliff Heldon

Getting Away from It All

Mike Lorimar

Here Come the Nelsons

Joe Randolph

Goodnight Jackie

Mr. Landry

The Mayor

I Love Melvin

Mergo

The Square Jungle

Pat Quaid

Spellbound Hound

Mr. Magoo

Bungled Bungalow

Mr. Magoo

Barefaced Flatfoot

Mr. Magoo

Angel Face

District Attorney Judson

Bright Victory

Bill Grayson

Grizzly Golfer

Mr. Magoo

A Private's Affair

Jim Gordon

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")

One Last Fling

Howard Pritchard

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)

When Magoo Flew

Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)

Magic Carpet

George Benson

Emergency Wedding

Ed Hamley

Never Con a Killer

Stanley Bunch

The Great Man

Nick Cellantano

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

Self

Good Guys Wear Black

Albert, the Doorman

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Hotsy Footsy

Mr. Magoo (voice)

I Was a Teenage Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Cop on the Beat

Jake Mandel

Androcles and the Lion

Centurion

Myra Breckinridge

Doctor

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

Mr. Magoo

Scoutmaster Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Prince Jack

Dealy

Trouble Indemnity

Mr. Magoo (voice)

There Goes The Bride

Mr. Perkins

Ask Any Girl

Mr. Maxwell

Deep in My Heart

Ben Judson

Don't Make Waves

Self (uncredited)

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

Thurston Howell III

The Opposite Sex

Psychiatrist

The Rose Bowl Story

Michael "Iron Mike" Burke

Tom, Dick and Harriet

James

A Princess for Magoo

Narrator

Sunday in New York

Chief Pilot Drysdale

Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

Magistrate Backus

Above and Beyond

Gen. Curtis E. LeMay

Eighteen and Anxious

Harvey Graham

Terror Faces Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Magoo Express

Mr. Magoo

Madcap Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Magoo Makes News

Mr. Magoo

Magoo Goes West

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Calling Doctor Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Destination Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

Mr. Magoo

The Gossip Columnist

Jim Backus

Magoo Beats the Heat

Mr. Magoo(voice)

Pat and Mike

Charles Barry

Easy Living

Dr. Franklin

A-Lad-in His Lamp

Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)

Enchanted Journey

Gamba

Trailblazer Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Problem Child

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Meet Mother Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Canine Mutiny

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Rock Hound Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Moose Hunt

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Private War

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Goes Overboard

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Matador Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Breaks Par

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Masquerade

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Saves the Bank

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Young Manhood

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Geraldine

Jason Ambrose

Magoo's Lodge Brother

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Damn Yankees

Benny Van Buren

Wake Me When the War Is Over

Colonel

A Child Is Waiting

Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)

The Explosive Mr. Magoo

Mr Magoo (voice)

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)

Magoo’s Cruise

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Love Comes to Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Gumshoe Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Bwana Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo’s Homecoming

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Merry Minstrel Magoo

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Have I Got a Christmas for You

Kevin Grady

The Great Lover

Higgins

Rendezvous in Space

Moon (voice)

Of Thee I Sing

Senator Robert F. Lyons

Where Will You Hide?

Narrator

The Popcorn Story

Narrator

Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

Mr. Magoo

Pink and Blue Blues

Mr. Magoo (voice)

Pete Hothead

Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)

Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

Other Credits

Destination Magoo

Story

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Writer

Destination Magoo

Story

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Writer