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Jim Backus
James Gilmore "Jim" Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of "Mr. Magoo," the rich "Hubert Updike, III," of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband (a domestic court judge) on...
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Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous short story A Christmas Carol. It was the first animated holiday special ever produced specifically for television (1962), and the only one until Rudolph the Red-Nosed...
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Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious teenager played by James Dean, who comes to a town, meets a girl, disobeys his parents, and defies the local high school bullies. It was an attempt to...
Slapstick of Another Kind
Slapstick of Another Kind was filmed in 1982. It was released in March 1984 by both The S. Paul Company/Serendipity Entertainment Releasing Company and International Film Marketing.
The People's Republic of China is severing relations with all other...
Man of a Thousand Faces
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) is a film detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney, in which the title role is played by James Cagney.
In the early 1900s, actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney) is working in Vaudeville with his wife Cleva ...
Pat and Mike
Pat and Mike is a 1952 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The movie was directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib.
Pat Pemberton (Hepburn) is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering...
Don't Bother to Knock
Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American thriller film starring Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes, a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) is staying. He sees her through his window and...
Operation Bikini
Operation Bikini is a film released in 1963 by American International Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Carras and starred Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, and Scott Brady.
The casting was aimed to capture a varied audience. While Operation Bikini was...
The Wheeler Dealers
The Wheeler Dealers (released as Separate Beds in the UK) is a 1963 comedy film starring James Garner and Lee Remick and featuring Chill Wills and Jim Backus. The film was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodman's novel, and...
Angel Face
Angel Face (1952) is a black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger. The drama, filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California, features Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
One night, Beverly Hills ambulance driver Frank Jessup and his partner...
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin. George Pál was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest grossing movies of 1962. It won one Oscar...
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Now You See Him, Now You Don't is a Walt Disney film from 1972, starring Kurt Russell, a student in the fictional Medfield College. It is the sequel to the 1969 film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Now You See Him, Now You Don't was the first Disney...
You Can't Run Away from It
You Can't Run Away from It is a 1956 Technicolor musical comedy starring June Allyson and Jack Lemmon. Directed and produced by Dick Powell, the film is a remake of the 1934 Academy Award-winning film It Happened One Night.
Because she married an...
Macabre
Macabre (1958) is a thriller film directed by William Castle and based on a script by Robb White.
A doctor's kidnapped daughter has been buried alive. The doctor must race against the clock to find her before it's too late.
Castle took the bold step...
Critic's Choice
Critic's Choice is a 1963 film directed by Don Weis.
Based on the 1960 Broadway play of the same name by Ira Levin, the movie starred Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and included Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the...
Rescue From Gilligan's Island
Rescue From Gilligan's Island is a two-part television movie that continues the adventures of the shipwrecked castaways from the 1964-1967 TV series Gilligan's Island starring Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr. The film first aired on NBC October 14 and...
A-Lad-In His Lamp
A-Lad-In His Lamp is a 1948 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and featuring the Genie and Caliph Hassan Pfeiffer who is after Bugs and the Genie in his lamp. The voice of Bugs Bunny and Caliph Hassan Pfeiffer is voiced by Mel...
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Hy Averback. Although it is set in New York City during the major blackout of November 9, 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven northeastern...
Hello Down There
Hello Down There (1969) is a comedy musical film made by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jack Arnold and Ricou Browning and produced by George Sherman and Ivan Tors from a screenplay by John McGreevey and Frank Telford. It starred Tony...
