Cast: Jim Backus

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jim Backus. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Ice Palace

1960 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Richard Burton · Robert Ryan · Martha Hyer · Jim Backus

Plot At the end of World War I, Zeb Kennedy, a canner, and Thor Storm, a fishing boat captain, set up a fish cannery in Alaska and through the years find...

5.8

75 votes

5.8

75 votes

Gilligan's Island (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · Leslie Goodwins · Gary Nelson · Jerry Hopper

Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer

Plot TV Series (1964-1967). 3 Seasons. 98 episodes. Gilligan's Island was an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as...

5.7

290 votes

5.7

290 votes

Meet Me in Las Vegas

1956 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Dan Dailey · Cyd Charisse · Agnes Moorehead · Lili Darvas

Plot Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with...

5.7

66 votes

5.7

66 votes

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

1972 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Kurt Russell · Cesar Romero · Joe Flynn · Jim Backus

Plot Dexter (Kurt Russell) has an idea for a formula to render things invisible. Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn) is less than impressed and sets his hopes for winning a lucrative science...

5.7

188 votes

5.7

188 votes

Macabre

1958 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast William Prince · Jim Backus · Christine White · Jacqueline Scott

Plot A small-town doctor (William Prince) gets caught up in a revenge plot when his small daughter is kidnapped and buried alive as he is given a few short hours to...

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

Father Was a Fullback

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Fred MacMurray · Maureen O'Hara · Betty Lynn · Rudy Vallee

Plot Football coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie.

5.6

73 votes

5.6

73 votes

Crazy Mama

1975 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Cloris Leachman · Stuart Whitman · Ann Sothern · Jim Backus

Plot Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, for a...

5.5

46 votes

5.5

46 votes

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (TV)

1957 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Van Johnson · Claude Rains · Lori Nelson · Jim Backus

Plot The Pied Piper (Van Johnson) is first spotted working magic in Hamelin by a disabled boy, Paul, and playing his signature tune In the Hall of the Mountain King. Paul...

5.5

45 votes

5.5

45 votes

Bright Victory

1951 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Peggy Dow · Julie Adams · James Edwards

Plot In North Africa during World War II, Sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by a German sniper's bullet. Rehabilitation at the military hospital presents many challenges, but accepting his disability also...

5.5

28 votes

5.5

28 votes

Top Secret Affair

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Susan Hayward · Kirk Douglas · Paul Stewart · Jim Backus

Plot The head of a large publishing empire is dismayed when a top army general is about to be appointed to an atomic energy committee. She's determined to discredit him prior...

5.5

86 votes

5.5

86 votes

Ask Any Girl

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast David Niven · Shirley MacLaine · Gig Young · Rod Taylor

Plot When Meg Wheeler, a naive young girl, goes to big city looking for a husband she lands a job in a marketing firm run by brothers Miles and Evan Doughton....

5.4

30 votes

5.4

30 votes

Friday Foster

1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Marks

Cast Pam Grier · Yaphet Kotto · Godfrey Cambridge · Thalmus Rasulala

Plot Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate...

5.3

53 votes

5.3

53 votes

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Doris Day · Robert Morse · Terry-Thomas · Patrick O'Neal

Plot When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune...

5.2

85 votes

5.2

85 votes

Myra Breckinridge

1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Michael Sarne

Cast Raquel Welch · John Huston · John Carradine · Mae West

Plot Myron Breckinridge goes to Europe to have a sex change, and comes back to America as the sexy, man-hating Myra. She enrolls at the acting school of her uncle, conservative...

5.1

152 votes

5.1

152 votes

The Wild and the Innocent

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sher

Cast Audie Murphy · Joanne Dru · Gilbert Roland · Jim Backus

Plot In this comical western, a curmudgeonly fur-trapper is hurt by an enraged bear and must send his nephew to town with his pelts so he can get much-needed supplies. En...

5.0

103 votes

5.0

103 votes

Francis in the Navy

1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

5.0

31 votes

5.0

31 votes

Advance to the Rear

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Glenn Ford · Stella Stevens · Melvyn Douglas · Jim Backus

Plot A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up to.

5.0

33 votes

5.0

33 votes

I'll See You in My Dreams

1951 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Doris Day · Danny Thomas · Frank Lovejoy · Patrice Wymore

Plot Danny Thomas and Doris Day star in this delightful musical portrait of the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. This film focuses on the enduring relationship between the composer...

5.0

29 votes

5.0

29 votes

Critic's Choice

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Rip Torn · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good....

4.7

38 votes

4.7

38 votes

The Brady Bunch (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Rudolph · Jack Arnold · Hal Cooper · John Rich

Cast Robert Reed · Florence Henderson · Ann B. Davis · Maureen McCormick

Plot TV Series (1969-1974). 5 Seasons. 117 Episodes. Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike's previous wife's death has left him to...

4.7

3K votes

4.7

3K votes