starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire. An avid golfer, Backus made the 36-hole cut at the 1964 Bing Crosby...

The Jim Backus Show is a 39-episode American television sitcom that aired in broadcast syndication in 1960 and 1961. The series was also known as Hot Off...

Henny and Jim Backus co-authored several humorous books, including What Are You Doing After the Orgy? (1962), Only When I Laugh (1965), Backus Strikes Back...

and protagonist created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into...

Schwartz. The show's ensemble cast features Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells. It aired...

by Nicholas Ray. The film stars James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen and William Hopper. It is also the film debut...

Backus (born 1930), American geophysicist Gus Backus (1937–2019), American singer Henny Backus (1911–2004), Broadway showgirl and wife of Jim Backus Henry...

Jim Backus decides to make the cocktail and leaves passenger Buddy Hackett to fly the plane. When Hackett asks, "What if something happens?" Backus replies...

the leaders of a drug cartel, and gives minor roles to character actors Jim Backus, Alan Hale, Jr., Pat Buttram and Arthur Godfrey (playing himself). Of...

as her husband, Dagwood Bumstead. Jim Backus played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real-life wife, Henny Backus, playing Cora Dithers. The series...

with her sister Jane Kean. She married four times, to actors including Jim Backus and her last husband Lew Parker. She died in 1986 of cancer in Hollywood...

Bob Denver as Gilligan Alan Hale, Jr. as Jonas "The Skipper" Grumby Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III Natalie Schafer as Mrs. "Lovey" Howell III Judith...

thus, the genie saves Aladdin from execution and he and Yasminda wed. Jim Backus as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo Kathryn Grant as Princess Yasminda Dwayne Hickman...

director Lew Ayres (1908–1996), actor Henny Backus (1911–2004), author, wife of Jim Backus Jim Backus (1913–1989), actor Richard Baer (1928–2008), screenwriter...

51-minute television film directed by Richard Erdman and co-written by Jim Backus, who also stars in the film as himself. The film chronicles the adventures...

and directed by William Castle, and starring Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Jim Backus, Fred Clark, and Cecil Kellaway. It is about a man obtaining magical powers...

Lee Philips and starring Larry Hagman, Barbara Feldon, Gary Collins, Jim Backus, Vivian Vance, and Burgess Meredith. It was aired on January 18, 1972...

animated Christmas special to be produced specifically for television. Jim Backus provides the voice of Magoo, with additional voices provided by Paul Frees...

Robertson, Jane Fonda, and Rod Taylor, with Robert Culp, Jo Morrow, and Jim Backus. The score was composed and recorded by Peter Nero, who also appears as...

Pevney, the film's cast includes Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer and Jim Backus. Chaney's son is played by Roger Smith, later the star of the television...

and later in syndication. Howell, portrayed by veteran character actor Jim Backus, took hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and several changes of...

maintaining a Howell-like persona without being an imitation of Backus. Toward the end of filming, Backus insisted that he felt well enough to make a cameo appearance...

on the sitcom by Eric Chappell Only When I Laugh, a book by Jim Backus and Henny Backus Only When I Laugh, an autobiography by Paul Merton. Only When...

Stockard Channing as Miriam Knight Ed Asner as Detective Ralph Varone Jim Backus as Professor David Tilson Joe Flynn as Dr. Green Chuck McCann as Coach...

Leachman as Melba Stokes Stuart Whitman as Jim Bob Ann Sothern as Sheba Stokes Linda Purl as Cheryl Stokes Jim Backus as Albertson Donny Most as Shawn Tisha...

Garner (1960). She was the resourceful Girl-Friday, Dora Miles, on The Jim Backus Show: 533  (also known as Hot Off the Wire), snooty socialite Judy Evans...

as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge (Jim Backus). The show, whose syndicated opening makes the claim "America's favorite...

to become a franchise), and thrown into the mix were character actor Jim Backus, former screen heartthrob Tab Hunter and Gary Crosby (son of Bing). Avalon...

William Castle, written by Robb White, and starring William Prince and Jim Backus. The film falls into both the horror and suspense genres. It involved...

Eunson. The film stars William Campbell, Martha Scott, Jackie Loughery, Jim Backus, Ron Hagerthy, and Jackie Coogan. The film was released on November 15...