Jim Backus Movies

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk,...

Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with...

Mr. Magoo has a windup toy mistaken for a bomb.

Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family...

Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's...

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Mickey's on vacation at Camp Utopia. At first Pluto thinks it really is utopia: trees everywhere and a cat to chase. But the cabin rules are strict:...

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home. There, he finds evidence of all...

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an...

A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.

Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across the alley, thinking he's dancing with the wife of...

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his...