Jim Backus Movies

Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know the...

Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would...

Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are shutting off his power. Outraged, Magoo heads for...

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

A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between...

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

Foreign-flavored intrigue abounds when Mr. Magoo is mistaken for a fellow spy aboard a European train.

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

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

A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.

Expecting a visit from his practical joker friend Smiley, Mr. Magoo instead entertains an escaped mental patient.

When Rodney, a friend of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, goes to the hospital, Mr. Magoo decides to visit him and to take along some of his cure-all,...

Magoo goes golfing in an unbearable way. When Magoo and Waldo go to play golf, they wind up in the middle of a bear hunt. Magoo mistakes a grizzly...

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

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

Near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to his lodger-convention and latches onto a robber, whom he thinks is his room-mate. He winds up in the den of...

Mr. Magoo brings in his mail opening up a flyer for a store's "83rd Anniversary Sale". Magoo thinks that the flyer is a letter from his mother about...

At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty...

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.