Jim Backus

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1937-09-12

Active to

2019-02-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,929

Total plays

4,961

James Gilmore 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 TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause and "Thurston Howell, III" on the 1960s hit sitcom Gilligan's Island. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, al

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,499x

2. The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

   · 2009 · cited 14,232x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,207x

4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,817x

5. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,796x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jim

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Ohio

Place of death

Los Angeles

Spouse

Henny Backus

Occupation

film actor

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Image

Jim Backus (1953).jpg

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