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Jim Backus

1913 - 1989

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James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis' character's husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Backus has received more than 3,472,286 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jim Backus is the 6,020th most popular actor (down from 5,452nd in 2019), the 8,993rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,458th in 2019) and the 2,871st most popular American Actor.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jim Backus ranks 6,020 out of 9,996. Before him are Isabel Jeans, Luther Adler, Ethan Phillips, Allan Arbus, Elaine Stewart, and Chiaki Kuriyama. After him are Margaret Qualley, Jasper Pääkkönen, Leonor Watling, Débora Falabella, Michele Morrone, and Bae Soo-bin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jim Backus ranks 305. Before him are Annette Rogers, Aleksanteri Saarvala, Noah Beery Jr., Balraj Sahni, Mary Carew, and Kalevi Kotkas. After him are Tony Martin, Richard Tucker, Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, Lynn Bari, Odd Frantzen, and Mildred Cohn. Among people deceased in 1989, Jim Backus ranks 240. Before him are Manlio Di Rosa, Jimmy Murphy, Friederich Franzl, Edward Abbey, Aleksanteri Saarvala, and Richard Rado. After him are Hilda Strike, Willi Horn, Lynn Bari, Erich Herrmann, Fernando Martín Espina, and Willie Steele.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Backus ranks 8,993 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert M. La Follette (1855), Pam Shriver (1962), Neal H. Moritz (1959), Mort Walker (1923), Elaine Stewart (1930), and Doug Collins (1951). After him are Margaret Qualley (1994), Brad Wilk (1968), Charles Sibley (1917), Jay Roach (1957), Nunnally Johnson (1897), and John Cregan (1878).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jim Backus ranks 2,871. Before him are Greta Gerwig (1983), Russell Simpson (1880), Luther Adler (1903), Ethan Phillips (1955), Allan Arbus (1918), and Elaine Stewart (1930). After him are Margaret Qualley (1994), Nicholas Colasanto (1924), Guy Siner (1947), Anne Dudek (1975), Dick Clark (1929), and Tony Dalton (1975).

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