Filmography
Jim Backus
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self, Self - Co-Host
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
The Love Boat
1977 · Marvin Waterman, Mr. Landers
Matinee Theater
1955 · Actor
Love, American Style
1969 · Jerry Franks
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · Marty Van Ransohoff
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Iggy
Maverick
1957 · Joe Wheelwright
Climax!
1954 · Detective Herman
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Lucus Edgerton
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Mr. Magoo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Studio One
1948 · Tim McTaggart
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · General Fitzhugh
The Untouchables
1959 · William Norbert
Daniel Boone
1964 · Will Scataway
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Fabian Swanson
Fantasy Island
1978 · Cap Truman
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · Bill
Medical Center
1969 · Actor
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
Burke's Law
1963 · Harold Mason, Pork Pie Hannigan
The Brady Bunch
1969 · Zaccariah
Gilligan's Island
1964 · Thurston Howell
Gunsmoke
1955 · Reverend Sims
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Maury Samuels
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Self (uncredited)
The Mr. Magoo Show
1960 · Mr Magoo (voice)
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · Actor
The Millionaire
1955 · Henry Banning
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Actor
The Mod Squad
1968 · Emile Wade
Police Story
1973 · Actor, Jake Mandel
Harry O
1974 · Ziggy
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
1986 · Actor
Ellery Queen
1975 · Howard Biggers
The Gale Storm Show
1956 · Arthur Hutchins
Arrest and Trial
1963 · Sam Thayer
Chico and the Man
1974 · Actor
CHiPs
1977 · Weitzman
The George Gobel Show
1954 · Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967 · Self
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Harry
Nanny and the Professor
1970 · Dr. Charles Walters
The Dick Powell Show
1961 · Monte
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Karl Bigger
Espionage
1963 · McAvoy
Flying High
1978 · Actor
What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1977 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
The Good Guys
1968 · Actor
I Married Joan
1952 · Judge Bradley Stevens
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Frank Stark
The New Adventures of Gilligan
1974 · Thurston Howell III (voice)
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
1964 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
The Barbara McNair Show
1969 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Kevin Grady
$weepstake$
1979 · Major Adams
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Tyler Fitzgerald
Joe Forrester
1975 · Actor
Accidental Family
1967 · Actor
Pete's Dragon
1977 · The Mayor
Eischied
1979 · Actor
Conflict
1956 · Dandy Summers
The Jim Backus Show
1960 · Actor
Blondie
1968 · J.C. Dithers /Mr. Dithers
Don't Bother to Knock
1952 · Peter Jones
Gilligan's Planet
1982 · Thurston Howell, III (voice)
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972 · Timothy Forsythe
The Rebels
1979 · John Hancock
Mobile One
1975 · Macklin
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957 · Clarence Locan
Angel Face
1953 · District Attorney Judson
Good Guys Wear Black
1978 · Albert, the Doorman
His Kind of Woman
1951 · Myron Winton
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952 · Jim Cleary
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · The King (segment "The Dancing Princess")
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973 · Prof. David Tilson
Continental Showcase
1966 · Self - Host
Myra Breckinridge
1970 · Doctor
Deep in My Heart
1954 · Ben Judson
Johnny Cool
1963 · Louis Murphy
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965 · Whitepaper
A Child Is Waiting
1963 · Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Sunday in New York
1963 · Chief Pilot Drysdale
The Unknown Story
2022 · Self - archive footage
The Wheeler Dealers
1963 · Bullard Bear
C.H.O.M.P.S.
1979 · Mr. Gibbs
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950 · Willie Dennis (uncredited)
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
1962 · Mr. Quincy Magoo / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Bright Victory
1951 · Bill Grayson
The Opposite Sex
1956 · Psychiatrist
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1951 · Mayor
The Wild and the Innocent
1959 · Mr. Forbes
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
1978 · Thurston Howell III
Iron Man
1951 · Max Watkins
The Man with a Cloak
1951 · Flaherty
Advance to the Rear
1964 · Gen. Willoughby
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950 · Joseph "Little Joe" Rogers
Androcles and the Lion
1952 · Centurion
Boys' Night Out
1962 · Peter Bowers
You Can't Run Away from It
1956 · Danker
A Dangerous Profession
1949 · Police Lt. Nick Ferrone / Narrator (voice)
Don't Make Waves
1967 · Self (uncredited)
Critic's Choice
1963 · William Von Hagedorn
Crazy Mama
1975 · Mr. Albertson
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968 · Tru-Blue Lou
The High Cost of Loving
1958 · Paul Mason
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951 · Sam Harris
Billie
1965 · Howard G. Carol
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1957 · King's Emissary
The Girl He Left Behind
1956 · Sgt. Hanna
Pat and Mike
1952 · Charles Barry
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982 · Self
Half Angel
1951 · Michael Hogan
Here Come the Nelsons
1952 · Joe Randolph
Geraldine
1953 · Jason Ambrose
Hurry Sundown
1967 · Carter Sillens
Plutopia
1951 · Milton the Cat
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956 · Tom Culdane
The Rose Bowl Story
1952 · Michael "Iron Mike" Burke
Father Was a Fullback
1949 · Professor Sullivan
Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969 · Colonel
Above and Beyond
1953 · Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
Francis in the Navy
1955 · Commander Hutch
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971 · Jim Backus, Writer
Tom, Dick and Harriet
1960 · James
Angels' Brigade
1979 · Cmdr. Lindsey March
There Goes The Bride
1980 · Mr. Perkins
Top Secret Affair
1957 · Col. Homer W. Gooch
Friday Foster
1975 · Enos Griffith
Macabre
1958 · Sheriff Jim Tyloe
1001 Arabian Nights
1959 · Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo (voice)
Hollywood Story
1951 · Mitch Davis
The Square Jungle
1955 · Pat Quaid
Have I Got a Christmas for You
1977 · Kevin Grady
Hello Down There
1969 · T.R. Hollister
Getting Away from It All
1972 · Mike Lorimar
Ice Palace
1960 · Dave Husack
Slapstick of Another Kind
1982 · President of the U.S.
The Popcorn Story
1950 · Narrator
The Big Operator
1959 · Cliff Heldon
Miracle on 34th Street
1973 · Shellhammer
Operation Bikini
1963 · Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
Cop on the Beat
1975 · Jake Mandel
Easy Living
1949 · Dr. Franklin
Trouble Indemnity
1950 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing
1958 · Mr. Magoo / Air Traffic Controller / Sully (voice)
Of Thee I Sing
1972 · Senator Robert F. Lyons
The Explosive Mr. Magoo
1958 · Mr Magoo (voice)
I Want You
1951 · Harvey Landrum
The Naked Hills
1956 · Willis Haver
A Private's Affair
1959 · Jim Gordon
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
1981 · Thurston Howell III
Ask Any Girl
1959 · Mr. Maxwell
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
1979 · Thurston Howell III
I Was a Teenage Magoo
1960 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
The Great Lover
1949 · Higgins
Fluffy
1965 · Sergeant
Pink and Blue Blues
1952 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
My Six Loves
1963 · Sheriff
Magoo's Private War
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
One Last Fling
1949 · Howard Pritchard
Destination Magoo
1954 · Mr. Magoo (voice), Story
Magoo's Canine Mutiny
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005 · Self (uncredited)
Bungled Bungalow
1951 · Mr. Magoo
Grizzly Golfer
1951 · Mr. Magoo
The Horizontal Lieutenant
1962 · Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag
Magoo's Young Manhood
1958 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Fuddy Duddy Buddy
1951 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Puddle Jumper
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970 · Staunch
Magoo's Moose Hunt
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
The Gossip Columnist
1980 · Jim Backus
Barefaced Flatfoot
1951 · Mr. Magoo
Magoo's Lodge Brother
1959 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Damn Yankees
1967 · Benny Van Buren
Ragtime Bear
1949 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Hotsy Footsy
1952 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Prince Jack
1985 · Dealy
Matador Magoo
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Problem Child
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Uncle Sam Magoo
1970 · Mr. Magoo
Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA
TBA · Self / Mr. Magoo (archive footage, audio)
Rendezvous in Space
1964 · Moon (voice)
A-Lad-in His Lamp
1948 · Smokey the Genie (voice) (uncredited)
Magoo Saves the Bank
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
The Great Man
1956 · Nick Cellantano
A Princess for Magoo
1959 · Narrator
I Love Melvin
1953 · Mergo
Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery
1964 · Mr. Magoo
Magoo Beats the Heat
1956 · Mr. Magoo(voice)
Goodnight Jackie
1974 · Mr. Landry
Bwana Magoo
1959 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Zotz!
1962 · Horatio Kellgore
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
1959 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
1987 · Self
Madcap Magoo
1955 · Mr. Magoo
Meet Mother Magoo
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Calling Doctor Magoo
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
1950 · Magistrate Backus
Eighteen and Anxious
1957 · Harvey Graham
Spellbound Hound
1950 · Mr. Magoo
Gumshoe Magoo
1958 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1974 · Narrator / Santa Claus (voice)
Never Con a Killer
1977 · Stanley Bunch
When Magoo Flew
1954 · Mr. Magoo/Pilot (voice)
Magoo Goes West
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Merry Minstrel Magoo
1959 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Pete Hothead
1952 · Lavery the Floorwalker/Mailman (uncredited)
Emergency Wedding
1950 · Ed Hamley
Magic Carpet
1972 · George Benson
Magoo Meets Frankenstein
1961 · Mr. Magoo
Magoo Goes Overboard
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Scoutmaster Magoo
1958 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo's Masquerade
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo Breaks Par
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Customs Agent
1950 · Shanghai Chief Agent Thomas Jacoby
Magoo Express
1955 · Mr. Magoo
Where Will You Hide?
1948 · Narrator
Rock Hound Magoo
1957 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Love Comes to Magoo
1958 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Terror Faces Magoo
1959 · Mr. Magoo
Magoo’s Homecoming
1959 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Inside Magoo
1960 · Mr. Magoo (voice) / Self
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
1964 · Mr. Magoo
The Unpredictable Pudgy!
1983 · Himself
Magoo’s Cruise
1958 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Trailblazer Magoo
1956 · Mr. Magoo (voice)
Magoo Makes News
1955 · Mr. Magoo