Actor · Acting

Jim Backus

Born 1913-02-25

Died 1989-07-03

📍 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 223

The Unknown Story

as Self - archive footage

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

as Himself (uncredited)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show

Slapstick of Another Kind

as President of the U.S.

Gilligan's Planet

as Thurston Howell, III (voice)

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

as Thurston Howell III

Hill Street Blues

as Mr. Magoo (archive footage) (uncredited)

There Goes The Bride

The Gossip Columnist

as John Hancock

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

as Thurston Howell III

Angels' Brigade

as Cmdr. Lindsey March

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

as Thurston Howell III

Good Guys Wear Black

as Albert, the Doorman

Have I Got a Christmas for You

as Marvin Waterman

What's New, Mr. Magoo?

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Never Con a Killer

as Stanley Bunch

Charlie's Angels

as Enos Griffith

as Howard Biggers

as Mr. Albertson

Cop on the Beat

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

as Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)

Chico and the Man

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The New Adventures of Gilligan

as Thurston Howell III (voice)

Miracle on 34th Street

The Girl Most Likely To...

as Prof. David Tilson

as George Benson

as Senator Robert F. Lyons

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

as Timothy Forsythe

Getting Away from It All

as Mike Lorimar

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Alias Smith and Jones

Myra Breckinridge

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Uncle Sam Magoo

Nanny and the Professor

as Dr. Charles Walters

Wake Me When the War Is Over

Love, American Style

as Jerry Franks

The Brady Bunch

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Hello Down There

as T.R. Hollister

as J.C. Dithers /Mr. Dithers

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

as Tru-Blue Lou

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self (uncredited)

Accidental Family

Don't Make Waves

as Self (uncredited)

as Benny Van Buren

as Carter Sillens

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

as Howard G. Carol

I Dream of Jeannie

as General Fitzhugh

The Wild Wild West

as Fabian Swanson

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Gilligan's Island

as Thurston Howell, III

The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Will Scataway

Rendezvous in Space

as Moon (voice)

Advance to the Rear

as Gen. Willoughby

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest

The Wheeler Dealers

as Bullard Bear

Sunday in New York

as Chief Pilot Drysdale

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

as Tyler Fitzgerald

as Louis Murphy

as Harold Mason

as Pork Pie Hannigan

as Herkimer Witt

Arrest and Trial

Operation Bikini

as Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly

Critic's Choice

as Dr. William Von Hagedorn

A Child Is Waiting

as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

as Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

as Horatio Kellgore

The Merv Griffin Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Marty Van Ransohoff

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

as The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")

Boys' Night Out

as Peter Bowers

The Horizontal Lieutenant

as Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

The Dick Powell Show

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

The Mr. Magoo Show

as Mr Magoo (voice)

The Jim Backus Show

as Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self

I Was a Teenage Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Tom, Dick and Harriet

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

1001 Arabian Nights

as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)

The Untouchables

as William Norbert

A Private's Affair

The Big Operator

as Cliff Heldon

Terror Faces Magoo

The Wild and the Innocent

Magoo's Lodge Brother

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Merry Minstrel Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo’s Homecoming

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

77 Sunset Strip

as Maury Samuels

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Love Comes to Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Sheriff Jim Tyloe

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing

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

The High Cost of Loving

The Explosive Mr. Magoo

as Mr Magoo (voice)

Scoutmaster Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Young Manhood

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Private War

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Moose Hunt

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

as King's Emissary

Eighteen and Anxious

as Harvey Graham

Rock Hound Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Saves the Bank

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Joe Wheelwright

Man of a Thousand Faces

as Clarence Locan

Magoo's Masquerade

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Breaks Par

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Goes Overboard

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Top Secret Affair

as Col. Homer W. Gooch

Meet Mother Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Nick Cellantano

The Opposite Sex

as Psychiatrist

You Can't Run Away from It

The Girl He Left Behind

Magoo's Problem Child

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Trailblazer Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo's Puddle Jumper

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Beats the Heat

as Mr. Magoo(voice)

The Naked Hills

as Willis Haver

Calling Doctor Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Magoo Goes West

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Magoo's Canine Mutiny

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

The Square Jungle

Magoo Makes News

Matinee Theater

Rebel Without a Cause

as Reverend Sims

Francis in the Navy

as Commander Hutch

The Millionaire

as Henry Banning

Destination Magoo

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

Deep in My Heart

as Detective Herman

When Magoo Flew

as Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)

as Jason Ambrose

as District Attorney Judson

Above and Beyond

as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay

Androcles and the Lion

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Judge Bradley Stevens

as Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)

The Rose Bowl Story

as Michael "Iron Mike" Burke

Don't Bother to Knock

as Charles Barry

Deadline - U.S.A.

Here Come the Nelsons

as Joe Randolph

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Harvey Landrum

I'll See You in My Dreams

The Man with a Cloak

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

His Kind of Woman

as Myron Winton

as Bill Grayson

Hollywood Story

as Milton the Cat

as Michael Hogan

Barefaced Flatfoot

Bungled Bungalow

The Popcorn Story

Emergency Wedding

The Killer That Stalked New York

as Willie Dennis (uncredited)

Trouble Indemnity

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

as Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers

Spellbound Hound

What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Lucus Edgerton

Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy

as Magistrate Backus

A Dangerous Profession

as Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)

The Great Lover

as Dr. Franklin

Father Was a Fullback

as Professor Sullivan

as Mr. Magoo (voice)

as Howard Pritchard

as Tim McTaggart

A-Lad-in His Lamp

as Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)

Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA

as Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)