From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Gilmore "Jim" Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III on the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis's character's husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's character's father in Rebel Without a Cause and Thurston Howell, III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot off the Wire. An avid golfer, Backus actually made the 36-hole cut at the 1964 Bing Crosby Pro-Am tournament. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Backus,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Series | Hollywood House | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom | Pat Quaid (archive footage) | 2012-03-20 |
Movie | Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three-Hour Tour in History | Himself (archive footage) | 2001-10-14 |
Movie | Hollywood's Hidden Secrets | Himself | 1987-01-01 |
Series | The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show | 1986-09-13 | |
Movie | Prince Jack | Dealy | 1985-12-01 |
Movie | Slapstick (Of Another Kind) | President of the U.S. | 1982-12-09 |
Series | Gilligan's Planet | 1982-09-18 | |
Movie | The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1981-05-15 |
Movie | There Goes The Bride | Mr. Perkins | 1980-07-07 |
Series | Sweepstakes | Unknown | 1979-01-26 |
Movie | Angels' Brigade | Cmdr. Lindsey March | 1979-02-01 |
Movie | C.H.O.M.P.S. | Mr. Gibbs | 1979-12-21 |
Movie | The Castaways on Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1979-05-03 |
Series | Eischied | Unknown | 1979-09-21 |
Movie | The Rebels | John Hancock | 1979-05-14 |
Movie | Good Guys Wear Black | Albert, the Doorman | 1978-06-01 |
Series | Flying High | Unknown | 1978-09-29 |
Movie | Rescue from Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell III | 1978-10-14 |
Series | What's New, Mr. Magoo? | 1977-09-10 | |
Series | The Love Boat | Unknown | 1977-09-24 |
Movie | Pete's Dragon | The Mayor | 1977-11-03 |
Series | CHiPs | Unknown | 1977-09-15 |
Series | Charlie's Angels | Unknown | 1976-09-22 |
Movie | Cop on the Beat | Jake Mandel | 1975-05-06 |
Movie | Crazy Mama | Mr. Albertson | 1975-06-01 |
Series | Joe Forrester | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Movie | Friday Foster | Enos Griffith | 1975-12-25 |
Series | Mobile One | Unknown | 1975-09-12 |
Series | Ellery Queen | Unknown | 1975-09-11 |
Movie | Goodnight Jackie | Mr. Landry | 1974-02-27 |
Series | The New Adventures of Gilligan | 1974-09-07 | |
Series | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | Chico and the Man | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | Harry O | Unknown | 1974-09-12 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Movie | The Girl Most Likely to... | Prof. David Tilson | 1973-11-06 |
Movie | Miracle on 34th Street | Shellhammer | 1973-12-14 |
Movie | Now You See Him, Now You Don't | Timothy Forsythe | 1972-07-12 |
Movie | Getting Away from It All | Mike Lorimar | 1972-01-18 |
Movie | Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Jim Backus | 1971-12-31 |
Series | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown | 1971-01-05 |
Movie | Myra Breckinridge | Doctor | 1970-06-24 |
Series | Nanny and the Professor | Unknown | 1970-01-21 |
Movie | The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Staunch | 1970-04-01 |
Movie | Hello Down There | T.R. Hollister | 1969-01-01 |
Series | The Barbara McNair Show | Unknown | 1969-09-13 |
Series | The Brady Bunch | Unknown | 1969-09-26 |
Series | Medical Center | Unknown | 1969-09-24 |
Movie | Wake Me When the War Is Over | Colonel | 1969-10-14 |
Movie | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Tru-Blue Lou | 1968-06-19 |
Series | The Good Guys | Unknown | 1968-09-25 |
Series | The Mod Squad | Unknown | 1968-09-24 |
Series | Blondie | 1968-09-26 | |
Movie | Hurry Sundown | Carter Sillens | 1967-02-09 |
Movie | Damn Yankees | Benny Van Buren | 1967-04-08 |
Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown | 1967-09-09 |
Series | Accidental Family | Unknown | 1967-09-15 |
Series | Continental Showcase | Self - Host | 1966-06-11 |
Movie | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | Whitepaper | 1965-03-24 |
Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
Movie | Billie | Howard G. Carol | 1965-12-13 |
Movie | Fluffy | Sergeant | 1965-06-27 |
Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Movie | Advance to the Rear | Gen. Willoughby | 1964-06-10 |
Series | Gilligan's Island | Thurston Howell, III | 1964-09-26 |
Series | The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1964-09-26 |
Movie | Operation Bikini | Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly | 1963-03-26 |
Movie | A Child Is Waiting | Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited) | 1963-02-13 |
Movie | My Six Loves | Sheriff | 1963-04-03 |
Movie | Critic's Choice | Dr. William Von Hagedorn | 1963-02-24 |
Movie | Johnny Cool | Louis Murphy | 1963-10-02 |
Movie | The Wheeler Dealers | Bullard Bear | 1963-11-14 |
Series | Arrest and Trial | Unknown | 1963-09-15 |
Movie | Sunday in New York | Chief Pilot Drysdale | 1963-11-13 |
Movie | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Tyler Fitzgerald | 1963-11-07 |
Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
Movie | Boys' Night Out | Peter Bowers | 1962-06-21 |
Movie | The Horizontal Lieutenant | Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag | 1962-04-18 |
Series | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown | 1962-09-26 |
Movie | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The King (segment "The Dancing Princess") | 1962-08-07 |
Movie | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol | Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | 1962-12-18 |
Movie | Zotz! | Prof. Horatio Kellgore | 1962-10-03 |
Movie | Magoo Meets Frankenstein | Mr. Magoo | 1961-03-20 |
Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
Series | The Dick Powell Show | Unknown | 1961-09-26 |
Movie | Ice Palace | Dave Husack | 1960-01-02 |
Series | The Mr. Magoo Show | Mr Magoo | 1960-11-07 |
Series | The Jim Backus Show | 1960-10-06 | |
Movie | The Wild and the Innocent | Mr. Forbes | 1959-05-27 |
Movie | The Big Operator | Cliff Heldon | 1959-08-01 |
Movie | Ask Any Girl | Mr. Maxwell | 1959-08-21 |
Movie | 1001 Arabian Nights | Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice) | 1959-12-01 |
Movie | A Private's Affair | Jim Gordon | 1959-08-14 |
Movie | The High Cost of Loving | Paul Mason | 1958-05-16 |
Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
Movie | Macabre | Sheriff Jim Tyloe | 1958-10-01 |
Movie | Top Secret Affair | Col. Homer W. Gooch | 1957-01-30 |
Movie | Magoo's Masquerade | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1957-08-15 |
Movie | Man of a Thousand Faces | Clarence Locan | 1957-08-15 |
Movie | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | King's Emissary | 1957-11-26 |
Movie | Eighteen and Anxious | Harvey Graham | 1957-11-15 |
Series | Maverick | Unknown | 1957-09-22 |
Movie | Meet Me in Las Vegas | Tom Culdane | 1956-03-09 |
Movie | The Naked Hills | Willis Haver | 1956-06-17 |
Movie | The Girl He Left Behind | Sgt. Hanna | 1956-10-26 |
Movie | The Great Man | Nick Cellantano | 1956-12-01 |
Movie | The Opposite Sex | Psychiatrist | 1956-11-15 |
Movie | You Can't Run Away from It | Danker | 1956-10-30 |
Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
Movie | Francis in the Navy | Commander Hutch | 1955-08-24 |
Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Movie | The Square Jungle | Pat Quaid | 1955-12-30 |
Movie | Rebel Without a Cause | Frank Stark | 1955-10-27 |
Movie | When Magoo Flew | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1954-01-06 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Movie | Deep in My Heart | Ben Judson | 1954-12-09 |
Movie | Above and Beyond | Gen. Curtis E. LeMay | 1953-01-02 |
Movie | Angel Face | District Attorney Judson | 1953-01-02 |
Movie | I Love Melvin | Mergo | 1953-03-20 |
Movie | Deadline - U.S.A. | Jim Cleary | 1952-03-14 |
Movie | Androcles and the Lion | Centurion | 1952-12-01 |
Movie | Pat and Mike | Charles Barry | 1952-06-13 |
Movie | Here Come the Nelsons | Joe Randolph | 1952-02-23 |
Series | I Married Joan | Judge Bradley Stevens | 1952-10-15 |
Movie | Hotsy Footsy | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1952-10-22 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | Don't Bother to Knock | Peter Jones | 1952-07-18 |
Movie | Hollywood Story | Mitch Davis | 1951-06-01 |
Movie | Half Angel | Michael Hogan | 1951-05-05 |
Movie | Bungled Bungalow | Mr. Magoo | 1951-01-15 |
Movie | Bright Victory | Bill Grayson | 1951-08-01 |
Movie | M | The Mayor | 1951-03-01 |
Movie | Barefaced Flatfoot | Mr. Magoo | 1951-04-25 |
Movie | Plutopia | Milton the Cat | 1951-05-18 |
Movie | Grizzly Golfer | Mr. Magoo | 1951-12-20 |
Movie | I Want You | Harvey Landrum | 1951-12-22 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Movie | His Kind of Woman | Myron Winton | 1951-08-15 |
Movie | I'll See You in My Dreams | Sam Harris | 1951-12-06 |
Movie | The Man with a Cloak | Flaherty | 1951-11-27 |
Movie | Iron Man | Max Watkins | 1951-09-20 |
Movie | Fuddy Duddy Buddy | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1951-10-17 |
Movie | Spellbound Hound | Mr. Magoo | 1950-03-16 |
Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
Movie | Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town | Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers | 1950-04-01 |
Movie | Customs Agent | Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby | 1950-05-18 |
Movie | Emergency Wedding | Ed Hamley | 1950-11-15 |
Movie | The Killer That Stalked New York | Willie Dennis (uncredited) | 1950-10-06 |
Movie | Ragtime Bear | Mr. Magoo (voice) | 1949-09-29 |
Movie | One Last Fling | Howard Pritchard | 1949-06-30 |
Movie | Father Was a Fullback | Professor Sullivan | 1949-09-30 |
Movie | Easy Living | Dr. Franklin | 1949-10-08 |
Movie | The Great Lover | Higgins | 1949-11-23 |
Movie | A Dangerous Profession | Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (as James Backus) | 1949-12-10 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | A-Lad-in His Lamp | Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited) | 1948-10-22 |