Jim Backus Movies

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

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

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

Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally falls into the ship's swimming pool and thinks he...

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 thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

The near-sighted Mr. McGoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/iron curtain days of the 1950s, seriously. When he...

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

In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism -...

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

Literary classics take a ribbing as the nearsighted bumbler portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein and other characters.

Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the development of the feature-length animated film...

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

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 dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.

Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose

Wendell Burton is a guy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend, Lana Wood. He is caught up in a nutty crisis of trying to survive life without her!

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...

Join Mr. Magoo as Uncle Sam, on an all-American animated adventure through our nation's history. Pull up a chair at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving,...