Biography
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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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles
I Dream of Jeannie
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Hill Street Blues
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
The Wild Wild West
Gilligan's Island
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Rebel Without a Cause
I Married Joan
Bright Victory
Police Story
Daniel Boone
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Eighteen and Anxious
What's My Line?
CHiPs
The Beverly Hillbillies
Maverick
The Colgate Comedy Hour
A Child Is Waiting
Sunday in New York
Man of a Thousand Faces
The Man with a Cloak
His Kind of Woman
Charlie's Angels
The Brady Bunch
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Gunsmoke
Deep in My Heart
Lux Video Theatre
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Don't Bother to Knock
Fantasy Island
Hurry Sundown
Pat and Mike
Pete's Dragon
The Love Boat
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
The Wheeler Dealers
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
The Wild and the Innocent
Chico and the Man
I Love Melvin
Above and Beyond
Iron Man
Gilligan's Planet
Friday Foster
Macabre
Hello Down There
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm