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."