Jim Backus - biography

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”

Jim Backus has appeared in the following films:
Easy Living (1949)
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
The Great Lover (1949)
Bright Victory (1951)
Half Angel (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Hollywood Story (1951)
I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951)
I Want You (1951)
Iron Man (1951)
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Angel Face (1952)
Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)
Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)
Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Pat and Mike (1952)
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
I Love Melvin (1953)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Francis in the Navy (1955)
The Square Jungle (1955)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
The Great Man (1956)
You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Top Secret Affair (1957)
The High Cost of Loving (1958)
A Private’s Affair (1959)
Ask Any Girl (1959)
The Big Operator (1959)
The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
Ice Palace (1960)
Boys’ Night Out (1962)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Critic’s Choice (1963)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Johnny Cool (1963)
Sunday in New York (1963)
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
My Six Loves (1963)
Advance to the Rear (1964)
Fluffy (1965)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
Don’t Make Waves (1967)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
Hello Down There (1969)
Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
Angels’ Brigade (1979)
There Goes the Bride (1980)
Prince Jack (1985)