Jim Backus

from Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Artwork for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldImage of 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.

Timeline

2005Aged 92

  • Poster for Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

    Self (uncredited)

1987Aged 74

1985Aged 72

  • Poster for Prince Jack

    Dealy

1983Aged 70

  • Poster for The Unpredictable Pudgy!

    Himself

1982Aged 69

  • Poster for Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

    Self

  • Poster for Slapstick of Another Kind

    President of the U.S.

1981Aged 68

  • Poster for The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

    Thurston Howell III

1980Aged 67

  • Poster for The Gossip Columnist

    Jim Backus

  • Poster for There Goes The Bride

    Mr. Perkins

1979Aged 66

  • Poster for Angels' Brigade

    Cmdr. Lindsey March

  • Poster for The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

    Thurston Howell III

  • Poster for C.H.O.M.P.S.

    Mr. Gibbs

1978Aged 65

  • Poster for Good Guys Wear Black

    Albert, the Doorman

  • Poster for Rescue from Gilligan's Island

    Thurston Howell III

1977Aged 64

  • Poster for Never Con a Killer

    Stanley Bunch

  • Poster for Pete's Dragon

    The Mayor

  • Poster for Have I Got a Christmas for You

    Kevin Grady

1975Aged 62

  • Poster for Cop on the Beat

    Jake Mandel

  • Poster for Crazy Mama

    Mr. Albertson

  • Poster for Friday Foster

    Enos Griffith

1974Aged 61

1973Aged 60

  • Poster for The Girl Most Likely To...

    Prof. David Tilson

  • Poster for Miracle on 34th Street

    Shellhammer

1972Aged 59

  • Poster for Getting Away from It All

    Mike Lorimar

  • Poster for Now You See Him, Now You Don't

    Timothy Forsythe

  • Poster for Of Thee I Sing

    Senator Robert F. Lyons

  • Poster for Magic Carpet

    George Benson

1971Aged 58

  • Poster for Mooch Goes to Hollywood

    Jim Backus

1970Aged 57

  • Poster for Uncle Sam Magoo

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    Staunch

  • Poster for Myra Breckinridge

    Doctor

1969Aged 56

  • Poster for Hello Down There

    T.R. Hollister

  • Poster for Wake Me When the War Is Over

    Colonel

1968Aged 55

  • Poster for Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

    Tru-Blue Lou

1967Aged 54

  • Poster for Hurry Sundown

    Carter Sillens

  • Poster for Damn Yankees

    Benny Van Buren

  • Poster for Don't Make Waves

    Self (uncredited)

1965Aged 52

  • Poster for John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

    Whitepaper

  • Poster for Fluffy

    Sergeant

  • Poster for Billie

    Howard G. Carol

1964Aged 51

  • Poster for Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for Advance to the Rear

    Gen. Willoughby

  • Poster for Rendezvous in Space

    Moon (voice)

1963Aged 50

  • Poster for A Child Is Waiting

    Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)

  • Poster for Critic's Choice

    William Von Hagedorn

  • Poster for Operation Bikini

    Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly

  • Poster for My Six Loves

    Sheriff

  • Poster for Johnny Cool

    Louis Murphy

  • Poster for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    Tyler Fitzgerald

  • Poster for Sunday in New York

    Chief Pilot Drysdale

  • Poster for The Wheeler Dealers

    Bullard Bear

1962Aged 49

  • Poster for The Horizontal Lieutenant

    Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag

  • Poster for Boys' Night Out

    Peter Bowers

  • Poster for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

    The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")

  • Poster for Zotz!

    Horatio Kellgore

  • Poster for Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

    Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

1961Aged 48

  • Poster for Magoo Meets Frankenstein

    Mr. Magoo

1960Aged 47

  • Poster for Tom, Dick and Harriet

    James

  • Poster for I Was a Teenage Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Ice Palace

    Dave Husack

  • Poster for Inside Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self

1959Aged 46

  • A Princess for Magoo

    Narrator

  • Poster for Bwana Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo’s Homecoming

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Merry Minstrel Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo's Lodge Brother

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Wild and the Innocent

    Mr. Forbes

  • Poster for Terror Faces Magoo

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for The Big Operator

    Cliff Heldon

  • Poster for A Private's Affair

    Jim Gordon

  • Poster for Ask Any Girl

    Mr. Maxwell

  • Poster for 1001 Arabian Nights

    Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

1958Aged 45

  • Poster for Magoo's Young Manhood

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Scoutmaster Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Explosive Mr. Magoo

    Mr Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The High Cost of Loving

    Paul Mason

  • Poster for Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

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

  • Magoo’s Cruise

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Macabre

    Sheriff Jim Tyloe

  • Poster for Love Comes to Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Gumshoe Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

1957Aged 44

  • Poster for Top Secret Affair

    Col. Homer W. Gooch

  • Poster for Magoo Goes Overboard

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Matador Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo Breaks Par

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo's Masquerade

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Man of a Thousand Faces

    Clarence Locan

  • Poster for Magoo Saves the Bank

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Rock Hound Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Eighteen and Anxious

    Harvey Graham

  • Poster for The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    King's Emissary

  • Poster for Magoo's Moose Hunt

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo's Private War

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

1956Aged 43

  • Poster for Magoo's Canine Mutiny

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Meet Me in Las Vegas

    Tom Culdane

  • Poster for Magoo Goes West

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Calling Doctor Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Naked Hills

    Willis Haver

  • Poster for Magoo Beats the Heat

    Mr. Magoo(voice)

  • Poster for Magoo's Puddle Jumper

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Trailblazer Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Magoo's Problem Child

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Girl He Left Behind

    Sgt. Hanna

  • Poster for You Can't Run Away from It

    Danker

  • Poster for The Opposite Sex

    Psychiatrist

  • Poster for The Great Man

    Nick Cellantano

  • Poster for Meet Mother Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

1955Aged 42

  • Poster for Magoo Express

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for Madcap Magoo

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for Francis in the Navy

    Commander Hutch

  • Poster for Rebel Without a Cause

    Frank Stark

  • Poster for Magoo Makes News

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for The Square Jungle

    Pat Quaid

1954Aged 41

  • Poster for When Magoo Flew

    Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)

  • Poster for Deep in My Heart

    Ben Judson

  • Poster for Destination Magoo

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

1953Aged 40

  • Poster for Angel Face

    District Attorney Judson

  • Poster for Above and Beyond

    Gen. Curtis E. LeMay

  • Poster for I Love Melvin

    Mergo

  • Poster for Geraldine

    Jason Ambrose

1952Aged 39

  • Poster for Here Come the Nelsons

    Joe Randolph

  • Poster for Deadline - U.S.A.

    Jim Cleary

  • Poster for Pat and Mike

    Charles Barry

  • Poster for Don't Bother to Knock

    Peter Jones

  • Poster for Pink and Blue Blues

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Rose Bowl Story

    Michael "Iron Mike" Burke

  • Poster for Pete Hothead

    Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)

  • Poster for Hotsy Footsy

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Androcles and the Lion

    Centurion

1951Aged 38

  • Poster for Bungled Bungalow

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for M

    Mayor

  • Poster for Barefaced Flatfoot

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for Half Angel

    Michael Hogan

  • Poster for Plutopia

    Milton the Cat

  • Poster for Hollywood Story

    Mitch Davis

  • Poster for Bright Victory

    Bill Grayson

  • Poster for His Kind of Woman

    Myron Winton

  • Poster for Iron Man

    Max Watkins

  • Poster for Fuddy Duddy Buddy

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Man with a Cloak

    Flaherty

  • Poster for I'll See You in My Dreams

    Sam Harris

  • Poster for Grizzly Golfer

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for I Want You

    Harvey Landrum

1950Aged 37

  • Poster for Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

    Magistrate Backus

  • Poster for Spellbound Hound

    Mr. Magoo

  • Poster for Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

    Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers

  • Poster for Customs Agent

    Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby

  • Poster for Trouble Indemnity

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for The Killer That Stalked New York

    Willie Dennis (uncredited)

  • Poster for Emergency Wedding

    Ed Hamley

  • Poster for The Popcorn Story

    Narrator

1949Aged 36

  • Poster for One Last Fling

    Howard Pritchard

  • Poster for Ragtime Bear

    Mr. Magoo (voice)

  • Poster for Father Was a Fullback

    Professor Sullivan

  • Poster for Easy Living

    Dr. Franklin

  • Poster for The Great Lover

    Higgins

  • Poster for A Dangerous Profession

    Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)

1948Aged 35

Year unknown

  • Poster for Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

    Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)

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