Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Born on this day – Jim Backus:


Jim Backus


Actor

Writer

February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960); 1001 Arabian Nights (1959); A Child Is Waiting (1963); A Dangerous Profession (1949); A Princess for Magoo (1959); A Private's Affair (1959); ABC Afterschool Specials (1976); ABC's Nightlife (1965); About Faces (1960); Above and Beyond (1952); Accidental Family (1967); Advance to the Rear (1964); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); A-Lad-in His Lamp (1948); Alias Smith and Jones (1972); All Star Revue (1952–1953); American Masters (2005); Androcles and the Lion (1952); Angel Face (1952); Angels' Brigade (1979); Ark II (1976); Arrest and Trial (1964); Ask Any Girl (1959); Autumn Leaves (1956); Barefaced Flatfoot (1951); Before the Three-Hour Tour (2004); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Billie (1965); Biography (2002); Blondie (1968–1969); Boys' Night Out (1962); Bright Victory (1951); Bungled Bungalow (1951); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Bwana Magoo (1959); C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979); Cain's Hundred (1961); Calling Doctor Magoo (1956); Calling Doctor Magoo / Hotsy Footsy (1952); Calling Doctor Magoo / Kangaroo Courting (1954); Calling Doctor Magoo / Love Comes to Magoo (1958); Calling Doctor Magoo / Magoo Goes Skiing (1954); Calling Doctor Magoo / Magoo's Check Up (1955); Calling Doctor Magoo / Magoo's Cruise (1958); Calling Doctor Magoo / The Explosive Mr. Magoo (1958); Can You Top This (1970); Charlie's Angels (1977 / 1979); Chico and the Man (1975); CHiPs (1977); Christopher Crumpet / Four Wheels, No Brakes (1954); Christopher Crumpet / Pete Hothead (1952); Christopher Crumpet / The Popcorn Story (1950); Climax! (1957); Confidential File (1956); Conflict (1956); Continental Showcase (1966); Cop on the Beat (1975); Crazy Mama (1975); Critic's Choice (1963); Customs Agent (1950); Damn Yankees! (1967); Daniel Boone (1968); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Dee Time (1969); Deep in My Heart (1954); Della (1970); Destination Magoo (1954); Don't Bother to Knock (1952); Don't Make Waves (1967); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Easy Living (1949); Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy (1950); Eighteen and Anxious (1957); Eischied (1979); Ellery Queen (1975); Emergency Wedding (1950); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Gilligan's Island - The Untold Tales (2000); Espionage (1964); ET in TV Land (2003); Family Feud (1983); Fantasy Island (1978–1980); Father Was a Fullback (1949); Film Making Techniques: Acting (1973); Fluffy (1965); Flying High (1978); Follow the Sun (1962); Forever James Dean (1988); Francis in the Navy (1955); Friday Foster (1975); Front Row Center (1956); Funny You Should Ask (1969); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968–1969); Geraldine (1953); Getting Away from It All (1972); Gilligan's Island (1964–1992); Gilligan's Planet (1982); Good Guys Wear Black (1978); Goodnight Jackie (1974); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Gunsmoke (1975); Gypsy (1966); Half Angel (1951); Harry O (1975); Have I Got a Christmas for You (1977); He Said, She Said (1970); Heavy Petting (1989); Hello Down There (1969); Here Come the Nelsons (1952); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hill Street Blues (1982); His Kind of Woman (1951); Histoire bruyante de la jeunesse (2020); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood House (1949); Hollywood Magoo (1970); Hollywood Squares (1965–1974); Hollywood Story (1951); Hurry Sundown (1967); I Dream of Jeannie (1970); I Love Melvin (1953); I Married Joan (1952–1955); I Spy (1968); I Want You (1951); I Was a Teenage Magoo (1960); Ice Palace (1960); I'll Bet (1965); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); Imagine That (1983); Inside Magoo (1960); Iron Man (1951); It Takes Two (1969–1970); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's Your Bet (1969–1972); I've Got a Secret (1957–1967); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1973); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Joe Forrester (1975); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965); Johnny Cool (1963); Juke Box Jury (1963); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Liar's Club (1977–1978); Look Who's Driving (1954); Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Understanding / Love and the Marriage Counselor (1970); Lux Video Theatre (1956); M (1951); Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950); Macabre (1958); Magic Carpet (1972); Magoo Beats the Heat (1956); Magoo Beats the Heat / Magoo Goes Overboard (1957); Magoo Breaks Par (1957); Magoo Makes News (1955); Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) (1959); Magoo Meets Frankenstein (1959); Magoo Saves the Bank (1957); Magoo Slept Here / Magoo Express (1955); Magoo Slept Here / Magoo's Moose Hunt (1957); Magoo Slept Here / Magoo's Problem Child (1956); Magoo Slept Here / Magoo's Three-Point Landing (1958); Magoo Slept Here / Matador Magoo (1957); Magoo's Masterpiece (1953); Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974); Match Game (1973); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Maverick (1961); McKeever and the Colonel (1963); Medical Center (1973); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990–1993); Merry Minstrel Magoo (1959); Miracle on 34th Street (1973); Mister Magoo (1960); Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962); Mobile One (1975); Mod Squad (1973); Mooch (1974); Mr. Magoo (1997); Mr. Magoo Cartoon Merry-Go-Round (1953); Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest (1964); Muscular Dystrophy Telethon (1957); My Six Loves (1963); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Nanny and the Professor (1970); Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982); Never Con a Killer (1977); New Zoo Revue (1975); Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972); Of Thee I Sing (1972); One Last Fling (1949); Operation Bikini (1963); Password (1962–1973); Pat and Mike (1952); Person to Person (1961); Personality (1967); Pete's Dragon (1977); Picture This (1963); Pink and Blue Blues / Grizzly Golfer (1951); Pink and Blue Blues / Madcap Magoo (1955); Pink and Blue Blues / Magoo's Canine Mutiny (1956); Pink and Blue Blues / Magoo's Young Manhood (1958); Pink and Blue Blues / Meet Mother Magoo (1956); Playhouse 90 (1958); Plutopia (1951); Police Story (1975–1976); Prince Jack (1984); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Rendezvous in Space (1964); Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978); Rescuing a Fantasy Classic (2021); Robert Montgomery Presents (1957); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1970); Slapstick of Another Kind (1982); Spellbound Hound (1950); Stand Up and Cheer (1974); Star Stage (1956); Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International (1955); Storybook Squares (1969); Studio One (1957–1958); Stump the Stars (1963); Stu's Show (2023); Sunday in New York (1963); Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History (2001); Sweepstakes (1979); Take a Good Look (1959); Talent Scouts (1962–1963); Tattletales (1974); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The Alan Hamel Show (1979); The Barbara McNair Show (1969); The Beverly Hillbillies (1963); The Big Operator (1959); The Bob Braun Show (1971); The Bob Newhart Show (1962); The Brady Bunch (1971–1974); The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986–2000); The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968–1978); The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979); The Celebrity Game (1965); The Chevy Showroom Starring Andy Williams (1959); The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Danny Thomas Show (1960); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Donald O'Connor Show (1968); The DuPont Show of the Week (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1970); The Enchanted Journey (1981); The Errand Boy (1961); The Fabulous Shorts (1968); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964–1965); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1957); The Garry Moore Show (1962–1967); The George Gobel Show (1958); The Ghost Busters (1975); The Gift of the Magi (1978); The Gilligan Manifesto (2018); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Girl Most Likely to... (1973); The Good Guys (1969); The Gossip Columnist (1980); The Great Lover (1949); The Great Man (1956); The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981); The High Cost of Loving (1958); The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962); The Humpbacked Horse (1975); The Jerry Lewis Show: From This Moment On (1962); The Jim Backus Show (1960–1961); The Joan Rivers Show (1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1968–1969); The John Gary Show (1967); The Juke Box Jury (1959); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady and the Stock Exchange (1962); The Late Show (1988); The Lee Phillip Show (1962–1971); The Linkletter Show (1962); The Love Boat (1978–1981); The Magical World of Disney (1975); The Man with a Cloak (1951); The Match Game (1963); The Max Bygraves Hour (1970); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1962–1980); The Millionaire (1959); The Miner's Daughter (1950); The Mouse Factory (1972–1973); The Movie Game (1969); The Naked Hills (1956); The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974–1975); The Object Is (1964); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); The Rebels (1979); The Rose Bowl Story (1952); The Roy Leonard Show (1971); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1971); The Sixties (2014); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Square Jungle (1955); The Steve Allen Show (1969); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957–1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1969); The Unknown Story (2022); The Untouchables (1960); The Virginia Graham Show (1972); The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1973); The Web (1954); The Wheeler Dealers (1963); The Wild and the Innocent (1959); The Wild Wild West (1969); The Windblown Hare (1949); The Wonderful Career of George Pal (2022); The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962); There Goes the Bride (1980); These Amazing Shadows (2011); This Is Your Life (1958 / 1971); To Tell the Truth (1958); Today (1959–1980); Tom Cottle: Up Close (1983); Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom (2012); Top Secret Affair (1957); Trailblazer Magoo (1956); Trapper John, M.D. (1983); Trouble Indemnity (1950); Trouble Indemnity / Fuddy Duddy Buddy (1951); Trouble Indemnity / Magoo's Glorious Fourth (1957); Trouble Indemnity / Magoo's Homecoming (1959); Trouble Indemnity / Magoo's Masquerade (1957); Trouble Indemnity / Pink and Blue Blues (1952); Trouble Indemnity / Ragtime Bear (1949); Trouble Indemnity / Sloppy Jalopy (1952); Trouble Indemnity / Stage Door Magoo (1955); Trouble Indemnity / Terror Faces Magoo (1959); Trouble Indemnity / When Magoo Flew (1954); TV Guide's Truth Behind the Sitcom Scandals 2 (2000); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); What's My Line? (1957–1972); What's New, Mr. Magoo? (1977); When Magoo Flew / Captains Outrageous (1952); When Magoo Flew / Gumshoe Magoo (1958); When Magoo Flew / Magoo's Private War (1957); When Magoo Flew / Rock-Hound Magoo (1957); When Magoo Flew / Safety Spin (1953); When Magoo Flew / Scoutmaster Magoo (1958); When Magoo Flew The Dog Snatcher (1952); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968); Where Will You Hide? (1948); Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1974); You Can't Run Away from It (1956); Young Dr. Kildare (1972); Your Chevrolet Showroom (1953); You're Putting Me On (1969); Zotz! (1962).

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