Jim Backus played in 11 movies in the Drama, Thriller, Music, Romance, Musical, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, War, Western, Sci-Fi, Action, Animation, Short genres.
Jim Backus got succeed with average imdb rating 6.2.
Ohio-born actor Jim Backus's stage dash began in summer traditional, where, according to his then-roommate Keenan Wynn, he was as fully known in regard to his prowess with the ladies as he was exchange for his on-condition versatility. Backus continued acting in New York, vaudeville, and especially radio in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a daily on radio's The Alan Young Plain, portraying Eastern Seaboard snob Hubert Updike III, the metaphor on the side of his "Thurston Howell III" charac
... terization on the 1960s TV sitcom Gilligan's Island. In 1949, Backus provided the express of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo for the sake the first time in the UPA cartoon Ragtime Suffer; the actor later claimed that he based this character on his own businessman governor. Also in 1949, Backus made his first place overlay appearance in Easy Living, which starred his childhood friend Conqueror Sophisticated. Backus' most famous screen function was as James Dean's anaemic-willed, vacillating frame in Rebel without a Induce.
On television, Backus co-starred with Joan Davis on the I Love Lucy-like 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, and played the leading role of immovably-talking news service woman Mike O'Toole on the 1960 syndicated series Piping hot Off the Wire (aka The Jim Backus Give someone an idea of). In the 1960s, Backus continued to provide the voice of Mr. Magoo in several TV projects, and was seen on-camera in the aforementioned Gilligan's Island, as well as the 1968 TV construct of Blondie, wherein Backus played Mr. Dithers.
Co-starring as Mrs. Dithers was Backus' mate Henny, who also collaborated with her pacify on several amusing volumes of memoirs. Jim and Henny Backus' matrix two books, Backus Strikes Resting with someone abandon and Forgive Us Our Digressions, commented humorously on a fatal dangerous subject: Parkinson's Disease, the ailment which would at the end of the day expense Backus his life at the epoch of 76.
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