Jim Backus biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Jim Backus

Author Name:

Jim Backus

Born As:

James Gilmore Backus

Other Names:

James Gilmore Backus

Born:

25 Feb 1913

Died:

3 Jul 1989




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Radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor                          
Selected works:

Father was a Fullback - 1949
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - 1962
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World  - 1963
Billie - 1965
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? - 1968
Prince Jack - 1984, provided the voice of 
Mr. Magoo - 1949 
Smoky the Genie -  A Lad In His Lamp
The Jack Benny Program
The Mel Blanc Show - 1947–1948

Deadline - U.S.A. - 1951
Pat and Mike - 1952

The Brady Bunch
The Hustler
Gilligan's Island - 1964-1967
                          
                          
Voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband - a domestic court judge - on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause, and Thurston J. Howell III on the 1960s hit 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.