Jim Backus
James Gilmore Backus was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis's character's husband on TV's I Married Joan. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire.
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🎬 Movies
Wake Me When the War Is Over
actor
1969
Hello Down There
actor
1969
Hurry Sundown
actor
1967
Billie
actor
1965
Fluffy
actor
1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
actor
1965
The Wheeler Dealers
actor
1963
Sunday in New York
actor
1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
actor
1963
Johnny Cool
actor
1963
My Six Loves
actor
1963
A Child Is Waiting
actor
1963
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
actor
1962
Zotz!
actor
1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
actor
1962
Boys' Night Out
actor
1962
The Horizontal Lieutenant
actor
1962
Ice Palace
actor
1960
I Was a Teenage Magoo
actor
1960
