Jim Backus

Jim Backus
Backus e sua esposa, Henny, em 1969.
Nome completo	James Gilmore Backus
Nascimento	25 de fevereiro de 1913 Cleveland, Estados Unidos
Nacionalidade	norte-americano
Morte	3 de julho de 1989 (76 anos) Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
Ocupação	Ator e cineasta
Atividade	1937-1989
Cônjuge	Henny Backus (1943-1989)

James Gilmore Backus, mais conhecido como Jim Backus (25 de fevereiro de 1913 — Los Angeles, 3 de julho de 1989), foi um ator e cineasta estadunidense. Conhecido internacionalmente, seus papeis mais marcantes foram Hubert Updike III em The Alan Young Show, o marido de Joan Davis na série I Married Joan, o pai de James Dean em Rebel Without a Cause, Thurston Howell, III em Gilligan's Island, seu próprio programa de televisão, The Jim Backus Show e a dublagem em Mr. Magoo.

Sepultado no Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Filmografia

• A-Lad-In His Lamp (1948)
• Father Was a Fullback (1949)
• Easy Living (1949)
• The Great Lover (1949)
• A Dangerous Profession (1949)
• One Last Fling (1949)
• Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
• M (1951)
• Bright Victory (1951)
• His Kind of Woman (1951)
• Half Angel (1951)
• Hollywood Story (1951)
• The Man with a Cloak (1951)
• I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
• I Want You (1951)
• Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
• Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)
• Pat and Mike (1952)
• The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
• Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
• Androcles and the Lion (1952)
• Above and Beyond (1952)
• Angel Face (1953)
• I Love Melvin (1953)
• Geraldine (1953)
• Francis in the Navy (1955)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
• The Opposite Sex (1956)
• The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
• You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
• The Great Man (1956)
• Top Secret Affair (1957)
• Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
• Macabre (1958)
• Ask Any Girl (1959)
• The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
• Ice Palace (1960)
• The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
• Boys' Night Out (1962)
• Zotz! (1962)
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) (TV) (voice)
• Operation Bikini (1963)
• My Six Loves (1963)
• Critic's Choice (1963)
• Johnny Cool (1963)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Sunday in New York (1963)
• The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
• Advance to the Rear (1964)
• Gilligan's Island (1964-1967)
• Billie (1965)
• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
• Hurry Sundown (1967)
• Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
• Hello Down There (1969)
• Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969) (TV)
• I Dream of Jeannie (1970)
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)
• Myra Breckinridge (1970)
• The Brady Bunch (1971)
• Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1973)
• The Girl Most Likely to... (1973) (TV)
• Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1974) (TV) (voice)
• Crazy Mama (1975)
• Friday Foster (1975)
• The Magic Pony (1975) (voice)
• Pete's Dragon (1977)
• Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978) (TV)
• Angels' Brigade (1979)
• The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979) (TV)
• C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
• The Rebels (1979)
• The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981) (TV)
• Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
• Prince Jack (1985)

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Ligações externas

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