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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