Jim Backus Movies

Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's...

Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to...

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came...

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.

The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and...

Wendell Burton is a guy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend, Lana Wood. He is caught up in a nutty crisis of trying to survive life without her!

Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across the alley, thinking he's dancing with the wife of...

Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families and subsequently learns that he and Waldo have been...

Mr. Magoo, intent on going to the beach, winds up in the desert instead. Thinking himself to be at the beach, he tries fishing (he hooks a turtle...

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

Bold animated drawings and a dramatic soundtrack provide background for narrators who argue that World War III is looming and, as such, world...

Literary classics take a ribbing as the nearsighted bumbler portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein and other characters.

Mr Magoo goes to what he thinks is a hotel but it’s actually a mad scientist’s castle and he’s after a brain...

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, on his way to make a bank deposit, boards a race-track bound bus instead. Mistaking the betting windows for...

Mr. Magoo is hired by his neighbors to babysit their little son, Homer. Magoo is delighted to accept but, unfortunately, a notorious cat burglar is...

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.

Mr. Magoo brings in his mail opening up a flyer for a store's "83rd Anniversary Sale". Magoo thinks that the flyer is a letter from his mother about...

Magoo goes golfing in an unbearable way. When Magoo and Waldo go to play golf, they wind up in the middle of a bear hunt. Magoo mistakes a grizzly...