Jim Backus Movies

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

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

An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as...

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

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...

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

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

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

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian,...

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he...

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

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

A deep dive into the origin and legacy of United Productions of America, the innovative and iconoclastic studio that produced characters including...

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.

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'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...

Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.

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...

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