# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-backus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:30:26.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-backus"
name: "Jim Backus"
slug: "jim-backus"
description: "James Gilmore Backus was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis's character's husband on TV's I Married Joan. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire."
tagline: "American radio, television, film, and voice actor (1913–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Backus_(1953).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-02-25"
deathDate: "1989-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5428226779252112
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000822/"
    handle:    "nm0000822"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump