Jim Backus Movies

The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.

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

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.

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

Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show....

Magoo and Waldo are on safari in Africa.

A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.

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

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit...

The nearsighted Mr. McGoo goes shopping for a dog as a pet, and enters the pet store just as it is being robbed by a crook wearing a fur coat. McGoo...

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.

TV special featuring comedian Pudgy performing before a star-studded audience abroad RMS Queen Mary

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...