Jim Backus

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Jim Backus was born James Gilmore Backus on February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was one of the few actors to do it all: radio, Broadway, movies, television and cartoons. After attending preparatory school in his hometown Cleveland, Backus enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, to ply his trade. While waiting for parts, he did radio and became friends with such future notables as Garson Kanin and Keenan Wynn. Backus stuck it out and soon was doing motion pictures in addition to radio. He was typecast in roles as "rich types" but broke the mold when he portrayed James Dean's father in the classic ...denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun (1955). With his career in full swing, Backus also tackled two roles that he would be best known for, Mr. Magoo in cartoons and Thurston Howell III in Gilligans Insel (1964). After the series' run ended, he continued doing guest spots on television and movies, before passing away on July 3, 1989. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ken Severson

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Jim Backus’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Jim Backus on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Jim Backus movies released per year from 1975 till 2018.

Top Genres

Jim Backus works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Family Genre flixes. 30% of Jim Backus movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jim Backus worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jim Backus has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

Jim Backus's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Documentary,History
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.

7.9/10169 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Biography,Documentary
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom (2012)

Trapeze, Spartacus, Sweet Smell of Success, The Boston Strangler, Some Like It Hot. Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean, was one of the very first teen idols ...

7.4/1096 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Animation,Comedy
The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974)

The further misadventures of the inept sailor, Gilligan and his fellow castaways, in an animated series.

6.5/1030 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Family,Sci-Fi
Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.

6.2/1088 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Comedy,Western
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)

When the town's sole blacksmith vows to leave because he was stood up by his mail-order bride from the East, the panicked townsfolk scramble to find him a surrogate wife.

6.2/1099 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Animation,Comedy,Family
Gilligan's Planet (1982)

The same passengers that got shipwrecked in the tv series get space-ship-wrecked on distant planet.

5.9/1030 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Crime
Crazy Mama (1975)

Several women begin outlaws' lives in a desperate trip to their family farm, which was taken off them by corrupt authorities.

5.5/1080 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Comedy
Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)

The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.

5.2/1095 min

Available in 2 platform(s).