Jim Backus (1913 - 1989)

American radio, television, film, and voice actor.

* February 25, 1913 Cleveland, Ohio, USA
 as James Gilmore Backus
 July 3, 1989 Los Angeles, California, USA


Books by Jim Backus

Jim Backus
Rocks on the Roof
New York, 1958

Books with substantial mentioning of Jim Backus

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

Books with an entry on Jim Backus

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979

Ken D. Jones, Arthur F. McClure, Alfred E. Twomey Character People Ken D. Jones, Arthur F. McClure, Alfred E. Twomey
Character People, The Stalwarts of the Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1976

Films

1060
Hello Down There

1930
The Truth About Youth

1949
A Dangerous Profession
The Great Lover
One Last Fling
Father Was a Fullback

1950
Customs Agent
The Killer That Stalked New York
Emergency Wedding
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1951
Bright Victory
I Want You
M
Iron Man
Hollywood Story
His Kind of Woman
The Man With a Cloak
Half Angel
I'll See You in My Dreams

1952
Deadline - U.S.A.
Don't Bother to Knock
Pat and Mike
Angel Face
Above and Beyond
Androcles and the Lion
Here Come the Nelsons

1953
Geraldine
I Love Melvin

1954
Deep in My Heart

1955
Rebel Without a Cause
The Square Jungle
Francis in the Navy

1956
The Great Man
Meet Me in Las Vegas
The Opposite Sex
You Can't Run Away From It
The Girl He Left Behind
Autumn Leaves
The Naked Hills

1957
Man of a Thousand Faces
Top Secret Affair
Eighteen and Anxious

1958
The High Cost of Loving
Macabre

1959
The Big Operator
Ask Any Girl
The Wild and the Innocent
A Private's Affair
1001 Arabian Nights

1960
Ice Palace

1961
The Errand Boy

1962
Zotz!
Boys' Night Out
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Horizontal Lieutenant

1962-1963
McKeever and the Colonel

1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Sunday in New York
A Child Is Waiting
My Six Loves
Critic's Choice
Operation Bikini
Johnny Cool
The Wheeler Dealers

1964
Advance to the Rear
Rendezvous in Space

1965
Fluffy
Billie
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1967
Don't Make Waves
Hurry Sundown

1968
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

1969
Wake Me When the War Is Over

1970
Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Myra Breckinridge

1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1971-1973
Alias Smith and Jones

1975
Cop on the Beat
Friday Foster
Crazy Mama

1978
Good Guys Wear Black
Rescue from Gilligan's Island

1979
The Electric Horseman
The Rebels

1982
Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

1984
Prince Jack

2003
Los Angeles Plays Itself

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