Jim Backus — Actor (33)
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The Girl He Left Behind (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Girl He Left Behind
director: David Butler actor: Tab Hunter / Natalie Wood …
other title: 더 걸 히 레프트 비하인드 / Playboy – Marsch, marsch! …
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
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Trouble Indemnity (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Trouble Indemnity
director: John Hubley / Pete Burness actor: Jim Backus
other title: Mr. Magoo, das Versicherungsrisiko
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 one of Magoo's old college chums. Magoo is now worth a hefty sum and is ready to collect after being bitten by a dog (actually a tiger rug) but, instead of going to the insurance building, enters a building under construction next door to it. The salesman and his boss notice Magoo walking around the steel skeleton of the building and realizing, "If he falls, the company falls", they rush over making several attempts to save Magoo's life and keep him from endangering himself.
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Ask Any Girl (1959) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Ask Any Girl
director: 查尔斯·沃尔特斯 actor: 大卫·尼文 / 雪莉·麦克雷恩 …
other title: 凤求凰 / 问任何姑娘 …
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
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Advance to the Rear (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Advance to the Rear
director: George Marshall actor: Glenn Ford / Stella Stevens …
other title: Helden ohne Hosen / Le Bataillon des lâches …
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag group on a classified mission to protect a transport for the U.S. Treasury. Complicating matters is Martha Lou Williams, a Confederate agent posing as a lady of the evening.
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Critic's Choice (1963) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Critic's Choice
director: Don Weis actor: Bob Hope / Lucille Ball …
other title: Tu das nicht, Angelika / Elección crítica …
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
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Operation Bikini (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Operation Bikini
director: Anthony Carras actor: Tab Hunter / Frankie Avalon …
other title: Sprengkommando Ledernacken / Commando Bikini …
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 underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.
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Plutopia (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Plutopia
director: Charles August Nichols actor: James MacDonald / Pinto Colvig …
other title: プルートのユートピア / Plutopie …
Mickey's on vacation at Camp Utopia. At first Pluto thinks it really is utopia: trees everywhere and a cat to chase. But the cabin rules are strict: no dogs indoors, and dogs must be muzzled and leashed. Mickey puts Pluto out to sleep, just out of reach of his food, and the cat comes down and taunts him. Pluto falls asleep and dreams of his "Plutopia" with a subservient cat begging Pluto to bite him and catering to his every need.
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Angels' Brigade (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Angels' Brigade
director: Greydon Clark actor: Sylvia Anderson / Lieu Chinh …
other title: Die unschlagbaren Sieben von Las Vegas / 天使纵队 …
Seven women decide to fight the local drug cartel. When Las Vegas pop singer Michelle's brother is found severely beaten, he's discovered to have been on illegal drugs. Michelle meets with April, her brother's teacher, who reveals that she's secretly been gathering intelligence on the cartel's local processing plant, and Michelle agrees to help April with a plan to destroy the plant. With Michelle's fame opening the door, they recruit four more women with special skills and connections to help them carry out their audacious goal.
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
director: Leslie H. Martinson actor: Bob Denver / Alan Hale Jr. …
other title: El rescate de la isla de Gilligan / 鬼馬神童 …
When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into one structure in order to have any chance to ride the disaster out.
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
director: 阿贝·莱维托 actor: 吉姆·巴克斯 / Morey Amsterdam …
other title: 마고의 크리스마스캐롤 / Le Noël de Mr Magoo …
In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve.
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Gilligan's Island (1964) [TV] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Gilligan's Island
director: Sherwood Schwartz actor: Bob Denver / Alan Hale Jr. …
other title: ギリガン君SOS / Les Joyeux Naufragés …
The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.
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I Love Melvin (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I Love Melvin
director: Don Weis actor: 唐纳德·奥康纳 / 黛比·雷诺斯 …
other title: Fotograf aus Liebe / La novia modelo …
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk, and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.