starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire. An avid golfer, Backus made the 36-hole cut at the 1964 Bing Crosby...
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Henny and Jim Backus co-authored several humorous books, including What Are You Doing After the Orgy? (1962), Only When I Laugh (1965), Backus Strikes Back...
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The Jim Backus Show is a 39-episode American television sitcom that aired in broadcast syndication in 1960 and 1961. The series was also known as Hot Off...
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Backus (born 1930), American geophysicist Gus Backus (1937–2019), American singer Henny Backus (1911–2004), Broadway showgirl and wife of Jim Backus Henry...
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Schwartz. The show's ensemble cast features Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells. It aired...
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animated Christmas special to be produced specifically for television. Jim Backus provides the voice of Magoo, with additional voices provided by Paul Frees...
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cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into...
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by Nicholas Ray. The film stars James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen and William Hopper. It is also the film debut...
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and later in syndication. Howell, portrayed by veteran character actor Jim Backus, took hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and several changes of...
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the leaders of a drug cartel, and gives minor roles to character actors Jim Backus, Alan Hale, Jr., Pat Buttram and Arthur Godfrey (playing himself). Of...
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Beminger Charles Buchinski as Hank Tasling Frank Richards as Sam Garsell Jim Backus as Charles Barry Chuck Connors as Police Captain Joseph E. Bernard as...
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on the sitcom by Eric Chappell Only When I Laugh, a book by Jim Backus and Henny Backus Only When I Laugh, an autobiography by Paul Merton. Only When...
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Jim Backus decides to make the cocktail and leaves passenger Buddy Hackett to fly the plane. When Hackett asks, "What if something happens?" Backus replies...
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Christopher Backus is an American actor, director and screenwriter. Backus made his television debut in NBC's Will & Grace, followed by landing roles in...
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with her sister Jane Kean. She married four times, to actors including Jim Backus and her last husband Lew Parker. She died in 1986 of cancer in Hollywood...
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thus, the genie saves Aladdin from execution and he and Yasminda wed. Jim Backus as Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo Kathryn Grant as Princess Yasminda Dwayne Hickman...
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Robertson, Jane Fonda, and Rod Taylor, with Robert Culp, Jo Morrow, and Jim Backus. The score was composed and recorded by Peter Nero, who also appears as...
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as her husband, Dagwood Bumstead. Jim Backus played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real-life wife, Henny Backus, playing Cora Dithers. The series...
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was produced by United Productions of America. The series' voices were Jim Backus, Mel Blanc, Jerry Hausner, Benny Rubin, Paul Frees, and Frank Nelson....
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Schaffner Roddy McDowall as Dr. Henry Sawyer Suzanne Davidson as Susan Walker Jim Backus as Horace Shellhammer Barry Greenberg as Alfred David Doyle as R.H. Macy...
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and directed by William Castle, and starring Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Jim Backus, Fred Clark, and Cecil Kellaway. It is about a man obtaining magical powers...
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Bob Denver as Gilligan Alan Hale, Jr. as Jonas "The Skipper" Grumby Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III Natalie Schafer as Mrs. "Lovey" Howell III Judith...
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It Happened One Night. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Jim Backus, Stubby Kaye, Jack Albertson and Howard McNear. It Happened One Night...
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Christie as Mrs. Willebrandt Fay Baker as Alice Garrison Courtney Jim Backus as Jim Cleary Uncredited Carleton Young as Crane, Garrison's daughters' lawyer...
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executive producer; Henry Silva of Ocean's 11 starred, with Mort Sahl and Jim Backus in supporting roles) 4 for Texas (1963) (Sinatra and Martin) Robin and...
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Ayres Jim Backus Raymond Bailey Joe Don Baker Ed Bakey Rayford Barnes Baynes Barron Norman Bartold Harry Basch Richard Basehart Ned Beatty Jim Beaver...
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24, 1965. It is the follow-up to the 1960/61 series Mister Magoo, with Jim Backus reprising the title role. Unlike the theatrical cartoons, which focused...
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Riley Cesar Romero as A.J. Arno Joe Flynn as Dean Eugene (E.J.) Higgins Jim Backus as Timothy Forsythe William Windom as Professor Lufkin Michael McGreevey...
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51-minute television film was directed by Richard Erdman and co-written by Jim Backus, who also stars in the film as himself. The film chronicles the adventures...
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as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge (Jim Backus). The show, whose syndicated opening makes the claim "America's favorite...
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