Jim Backus Movies

Magoo ends up at the zoo instead of his college homecoming.

A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

Magoo obliviously foils a criminal’s robbery plans.

Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus.

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...

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the...

Magoo’s car breaks down on an airport runway.

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...

In a flashback Mr. Magoo thinks back in time to the Gay 90's when he was a young man, and just as myopic then as in the 1950s. He makes a bet with a...

The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an...

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...

A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.

An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the...

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 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...

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

Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to...

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

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

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...