Jim Backus Movies

Mr. Magoo, intent on going to the beach, winds up in the desert instead. Thinking himself to be at the beach, he tries fishing (he hooks a turtle...

Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home. There, he finds evidence of all...

Magoo obliviously foils a criminal’s robbery plans.

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

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

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

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

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.

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...

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...

Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

Bold animated drawings and a dramatic soundtrack provide background for narrators who argue that World War III is looming and, as such, world...