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Jim Backus

Jim Backus was a radio, television and movie actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo[?], the rich Herbert Updike of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband on TV's "I Married Joan[?]," James Dean's father in Rebel Without A Cause, and Thurston Howell III[?] on "Gilligan's Island."

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