Jim Backus Movies

Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus.

A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo...

Expecting a visit from his practical joker friend Smiley, Mr. Magoo instead entertains an escaped mental patient.

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 has mistaken a walrus for a human friend and various sight gags are shown in typical Magoo fashion.

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...

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...

A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.

Join medieval Mr. Magoo, as Friar Tuck, along with Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men on an exciting (mis)adventure in Sherwood Forest! Whether...

Magoo is mistaken for a foreign spy.

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

Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are shutting off his power. Outraged, Magoo heads for...

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

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 sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know the...

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...

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...

A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the regular series, this rare cartoon begins with a...

Told in flashback, the plot has teenage (but still nearsighted) red-headed Magoo picks up his date "Melba" (a kangaroo) from her home (in a circus)...