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Jim Backus. James Gilmore Backus was an American actor, voice actor, and author. He is best known for appearing in films and television series like ‘The Square Jungle’ and ‘Gilligan's Island.’. As a voice actor, he performed in radio shows, such as ‘The Jack Benny Program’ and ‘The Mel Blanc Show.’. Backus started performing in ...
Florida National Guard. Years of service. 1971-1977. James Leonard Bacchus (born June 21, 1949) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1991 to 1995. He was a founding member and twice chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva ...
Actor. He is best remembered for being the voice of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, and for playing 'Thurston Howell III' on the classic television situation comedy Gilligan's Island that aired from 1964 to 1967. He had an extensive career for over five decades as a screen, stage, radio, and television figure. The son...
The Harlem Globetrotters, a traveling troupe of merry basketball players, are on a plane ride over the Pacific Ocean when it suffers engine trouble and is forced to make an emergency landing onto Gilligan's Island. The castaways heard the news on Mr. Howell's private TV. After a brief time stranded in the jungle, they are discovered by Gilligan ...
Jim Backus (25 February 1913 - 3 July 1989) was an American actor and voice-actor. He is best known for his roles as Mr. Magoo and as Thurston Howell III in Gilligan's Island.
Release. December 18, 1962. ( 1962-12-18) Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a 1962 animated musical holiday television special produced by UPA. [1] It is an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and it features UPA's character Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. The special first aired on December 18, 1962, on NBC and was ...
Jim Backus James Gilmore “Jim” Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III on the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis’s character’s husband on TV’s I Married Joan, James Dean’s character’s father in Rebel Without a Cause and Thurston Howell, III on the 1960s hit sitcom Gilligan’s Island.
