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Jim Backus
Known for: ActingJim 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 69
Gilligan's Island
as Thurston Howell 
Pete's Dragon
+3
as The Mayor 
Rebel Without a Cause
+2
as Frank Stark 
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
+6
as Tyler Fitzgerald 
The New Adventures of Gilligan
as Thurston Howell III (voice) 
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as The King (segment "The Dancing Princess") 
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
as Mr. Magoo (voice) 
Gilligan's Planet
as Thurston Howell, III (voice) 
Macabre
as Sheriff Jim Tyloe 
I Married Joan
as Judge Bradley Stevens 
Easy Living
as Dr. Franklin 
Angel Face
as District Attorney Judson 
Good Guys Wear Black
as Albert, the Doorman 
Don't Bother to Knock
as Peter Jones 
Deadline - U.S.A.
as Jim Cleary 
His Kind of Woman
as Myron Winton 
Boys' Night Out
+1
as Peter Bowers 
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
as Timothy Forsythe 
Hurry Sundown
+1
as Carter Sillens 
M
as The Mayor 
A Child Is Waiting
as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited) 
Deep in My Heart
+1
as Ben Judson 
Billie
as Howard G. Carol 
Johnny Cool
as Louis Murphy 
Pat and Mike
as Charles Barry 
Friday Foster
+3
as Enos Griffith 
Sunday in New York
as Chief Pilot Drysdale 
Man of a Thousand Faces
as Clarence Locan 
The Wild and the Innocent
as Mr. Forbes 
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
+3
as Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) 
Meet Me in Las Vegas
+1
as Tom Culdane 
Advance to the Rear
as Gen. Willoughby 
The Man with a Cloak
as Flaherty 
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
+3
as Thurston Howell III 
You Can't Run Away from It
+2
as Danker 
Francis in the Navy
as Commander Hutch 
Above and Beyond
as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay 
Wake Me When the War Is Over
+1
as Colonel 
Operation Bikini
as Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly 
Hello Down There
as T.R. Hollister 
The Wheeler Dealers
as Bullard Bear 
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
as Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers 
The Girl He Left Behind
as Sgt. Hanna 
I'll See You in My Dreams
+1
as Sam Harris 
I Love Melvin
+1
as Mergo 
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
+3
as King's Emissary 
Androcles and the Lion
as Centurion 
Hollywood Story
as Mitch Davis 
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
as Thurston Howell III 
Bright Victory
as Bill Grayson 
The Naked Hills
as Willis Haver 
My Six Loves
as Sheriff 
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as Jim Backus 
C.H.O.M.P.S.
as Mr. Gibbs 
Slapstick of Another Kind
as President of the U.S. 
Miracle on 34th Street
as Shellhammer 
Angels' Brigade
as Cmdr. Lindsey March 
Iron Man
as Max Watkins 
A Dangerous Profession
as Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice) 
The Horizontal Lieutenant
as Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag 
A Private's Affair
as Jim Gordon 
There Goes The Bride
as Mr. Perkins 
Top Secret Affair
as Col. Homer W. Gooch 
Critic's Choice
as William Von Hagedorn 
Crazy Mama
as Mr. Albertson 
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
as Thurston Howell III 
Eighteen and Anxious
as Harvey Graham 
I Want You
as Harvey Landrum 
Zotz!
as Horatio Kellgore