Jim Backus Movies

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.

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...

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home. There, he finds evidence of all...

Magoo and Waldo are on safari in Africa.

Mickey's on vacation at Camp Utopia. At first Pluto thinks it really is utopia: trees everywhere and a cat to chase. But the cabin rules are strict:...

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...

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the development of the feature-length animated film...

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr....

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...

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!

In a flashback Mr. Magoo thinks back in time to the Gay 90's when he was a young man, and just as myopic then as in the 1950s. He makes a bet with a...

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients....

A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to mistaking a gold rock for a rain cloud, he meets...

The near-sighted one decides to take a hunting-and-fishing trip, and hires a Native American guide. He quickly grows impatient with the guide and...

The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sets out for a round of golf but catches the prison paddy wagon instead of the city bus and winds up in prison breaking...

Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.