Jim Backus
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- 3
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- Backus strikes back
- Forgive us our digressions
- Rocks on the roof
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1937-09-12
- Active to
- 2019-02-21
Discography
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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,422x
- The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 13,946x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
- 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 6,787x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
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- Jim Backus (1953).jpg
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- Jim Backus
- date of birth
- 1913-02-25
- date of death
- 1989-07-03
- birth name
- James Gilmore Backus
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
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