Cast: Jim Backus
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jim Backus. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ethel Barrymore · Kim Hunter · Ed Begley
Plot Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York 'Day', finds that the late owner's heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast James Dean · Natalie Wood · Sal Mineo · Jim Backus
Plot Jim Stark's family has just moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles. He meets Plato, and Judy, whom he likes. He somehow gets mixed up with some tough guys who...
7.0
18K votes
7.0
18K votes
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters
Plot After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...
6.8
5K votes
6.8
5K votes
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast James Cagney · Dorothy Malone · Jane Greer · Jim Backus
Plot Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. As an actor, he puts that knowledge (together with lots...
6.7
378 votes
6.7
378 votes
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1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast David Wayne · Howard Da Silva · Luther Adler · Martin Gabel
6.6
179 votes
6.6
179 votes
The Man with a Cloak
1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Fletcher Markle
Cast Joseph Cotten · Barbara Stanwyck · Louis Calhern · Leslie Caron
Plot In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to...
6.6
74 votes
6.6
74 votes
Hurry Sundown
1967 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Michael Caine · Jane Fonda · Faye Dunaway · John Phillip Law
Plot Set in the south in the days just after World War II, a black and a white farmer team up to irrigate their fields and escape the crushing poverty that...
6.5
418 votes
6.5
418 votes
Don't Bother to Knock
1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast Richard Widmark · Marilyn Monroe · Anne Bancroft · Donna Corcoran
6.5
945 votes
6.5
945 votes
Pat and Mike
1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Aldo Ray · William Ching
Plot Pat Pemberton is a women's sports sensation - a champion in golf, tennis, and whatever else she decides to do. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, Mike Conovan...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Hollywood Story
1951 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Richard Conte · Julie Adams · Richard Egan · Henry Hull
Plot Hollywood 1950: The successful producer Larry O'Brian arrives in Los Angeles to found a motion picture company. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent...
6.4
73 votes
6.4
73 votes
The Girl Most Likely to... (TV)
1973 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Lee Philips
Cast Stockard Channing · Ed Asner · Jim Backus · Joe Flynn
Plot An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
6.3
23 votes
6.3
23 votes
Above and Beyond
1952 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama
Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Parker · James Whitmore · Larry Keating
Plot "Above and Beyond" depicts the events leading up to the use of the first atomic bomb at the end of World War II. Colonel Paul Tibbetts is chosen by the...
6.1
130 votes
6.1
130 votes
Deep in My Heart
1954 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast José Ferrer · Merle Oberon · Helen Traubel · Doe Avedon
Plot Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
6.0
52 votes
6.0
52 votes
Pete's Dragon
1977 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Helen Reddy · Mickey Rooney · Sean Marshall · Red Buttons
Plot This heartwarming musical blends live action, animation, and music to highlight the story of Pete (Sean Marshall), a young boy who is befriended by a delightful dragon named Elliot (voiced...
6.0
4K votes
6.0
4K votes
Don't Make Waves
1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Tony Curtis · Claudia Cardinale · Sharon Tate · Robert Webber
5.9
428 votes
5.9
428 votes
Johnny Cool
1963 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William Asher
Cast Henry Silva · Elizabeth Montgomery · Richard Anderson · Jim Backus
Plot Colini, an exiled American gangster living in Sicily, rescues Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is groomed, polished, and renamed "Johnny Cool," Colini sends him on...
5.9
32 votes
5.9
32 votes
A Dangerous Profession
1949 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast George Raft · Ella Raines · Pat O'Brien · Bill Williams
Plot Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude...
5.9
80 votes
5.9
80 votes
Sunday in New York
1963 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Peter Tewksbury
Cast Rod Taylor · Jane Fonda · Cliff Robertson · Robert Culp
Plot Eileen is 22 and engaged to Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. One of Eileen's concerns is that she may...
5.8
145 votes
5.8
145 votes
A Private's Affair
1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Sal Mineo · Christine Carère · Barry Coe · Barbara Eden
Plot Luigi is an Army private with a chip on his shoulder and some personal problems. He's also a talented jazz drummer, but the Army offers few outlets for this ability.
5.8
27 votes
5.8
27 votes
Boys' Night Out
1962 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Kim Novak · James Garner · Tony Randall · Howard Duff
Plot Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and...
5.8
199 votes
5.8
199 votes