Cast: Jim Backus
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jim Backus. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
My Six Loves
1963 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Gower Champion
Cast Debbie Reynolds · Cliff Robertson · David Janssen · Eileen Heckart
Plot Successful Broadway star Janice Courtney collapses from exhaustion and is ordered to rest for six weeks at her country home in Connecticut. While there, she meets some people who change...
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Wake Me When the War Is Over (TV)
1969 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Gene Nelson
Cast Jim Backus · Ken Berry · Eva Gabor · Werner Klemperer
Plot During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory. He is taken in by...
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C.H.O.M.P.S.
1979 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Wesley Eure · Valerie Bertinelli · Conrad Bain · Chuck McCann
Plot A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him.
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Miracle on 34th Street (TV)
1973 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Fielder Cook
Cast Sebastian Cabot · Jane Alexander · David Hartman · Suzanne Davidson
Plot A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who...
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood (TV)
1971 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Richard Erdman
Cast Vincent Price · James Darren · Jill St. John · Jim Backus
Plot A dog named Mooch comes to Hollywood and tries to make it in show business with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor (narrator).
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The Horizontal Lieutenant
1962 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Jim Hutton · Paula Prentiss · Jack Carter · Jim Backus
Plot A military comedy about a luckless army intelligence lieutenant who finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the...
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Cain's Hundred (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction John Peyser · Tom Gries · Boris Sagal · Robert Gist
Cast Peter Mark Richman · Gene Coogan · Eddie Hice · Gavin MacLeod
Plot A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring one hundred top criminals to justice.
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The Girl He Left Behind
1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Tab Hunter · Natalie Wood · Jessie Royce Landis · Jim Backus
Plot College students Andy Shaeffer and Susan Daniels are pinned. While Susan works hard to put herself through college, Andy sponges off his parents, his mother, Madeline Shaeffer, who in particular...
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Angels' Brigade
1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Greydon Clark
Cast Sylvia Anderson · Lieu Chinh · Jacqueline Cole · Liza Greer
Plot Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.
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The Wheeler Dealers
1963 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Lee Remick · James Garner · Phil Harris · Chill Wills
Plot Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas where his oil wells are drying up and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market....
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The Big Operator
1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles F. Haas
Cast Mickey Rooney · Steve Cochran · Mamie Van Doren · Mel Torme
Plot Bill Gibson is Little Joe's nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating conversation with a known criminal -...
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (TV)
1981 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Peter Baldwin
Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer
Plot The staff of the island resort need the aid of the Harlem Globetrotters to keep their island from a greedy millionaire.
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The Square Jungle
1955 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Hopper
Cast Tony Curtis · Pat Crowley · Ernest Borgnine · Paul Kelly
Plot Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. His cop friend McBride finances him;...
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The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Abe Levitow
Cast Jim Backus · Joan Gardner · Marvin Miller · Paul Frees
Plot Animated series featuring Jim Backus's Mr. Magoo character in half-hour adaptations of classic stories for children. Praised by both critics and educators, and well-remembered by fans, the program won a...
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You Can't Run Away from It
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Dick Powell
Cast June Allyson · Jack Lemmon · Charles Bickford · Paul Gilbert
Plot Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous...
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One Last Fling
1949 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Alexis Smith · Zachary Scott · Douglas Kennedy · Ann Doran
Plot Larry and Olivia Pearce have been married less than a year and Olivia is anxious to return to her old job at her father's music store, but macho-Larry believes that...
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The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (TV)
1979 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Earl Bellamy
Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer
Plot The Castaways finally get permanently rescued and they turn their island home into an exclusive resort.
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Billie
1965 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Don Weis
Cast Patty Duke · Jim Backus · Jane Greer · Warren Berlinger
Plot A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete finds herself caught between being beating boys at sports and having a boyfriend, while her conservative father opposes women's rights in his campaign...
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Fluffy
1965 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Earl Bellamy
Cast Tony Randall · Shirley Jones · Edward Andrews · Howard Morris
Plot Fluffy the lion is featured in this comedy. He plays the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter (Tony Randall) -- a scientist trying to prove that even...
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The Rebels (TV)
1979 · Movie · 240 min. · United States
Direction Russ Mayberry
Cast Andrew Stevens · Don Johnson · Doug McClure · Jim Backus
Plot Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) takes part in the american revolution and the newly formed congress.
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