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
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Donald O´Connor · Martha Hyer · Richard Erdman · Jim Backus
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