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Selected Jim Backus film and TV show credits:
Acting Credits
1988
Forever James Dean
Frank Stark
1984
The Enchanted Journey
Gamun
1982
Gilligan's Planet
Thurston Howell III
1981
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
Thurston Howell III
1980
There Goes the Bride
Mr. Perkins
1976
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler
Himself
1973
The Girl Most Likely to...
Prof. David Tilson
1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Himself
1969
Wake Me When the War Is Over
Colonel
1968
Blondie
Mr. Dithers
1968
The Good Guys
Henry Arsdale
1956
Magoo's Puddle Jumper
Mr. Magoo
1955
Magoo Express
Mr. Magoo
1952
Pink and Blue Blues
Mr. Magoo
1951
Grizzly Golfer
Mr. Magoo
1950
Emergency Wedding
Ed Hamley
1950
Trouble Indemnity
Mr. Magoo
1949
One Last Fling
Howard Pritchard
1948
A-Lad-in His Lamp
Genie
1930
The Truth About Youth
Maitre d'
Producer Credits
1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
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James Gilmore Backus
Other Names
Thurston Howell III
Age
76 (age at death)
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High School
Kentucky Military Institute (Expelled)
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Claim to Fame
Gilligan`s Island, Mr. Magoo
Biography
James Gilmore "Jim" Backus (February 25, 1913 July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III on the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis's character's husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's character's father in Rebel Without a Cause and Thurston Howell, III on the 1960s hit sitcom Gilligan's Island. 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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