Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even towards the end, Jim Backus, best known as Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island and the original voice of cartoon character Mr.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born James Gilmore Backus on February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was raised in Bratenahi, a wealthy village. Backus spent his ...

One of the central characters on 'Gilligan's Island' is Thurston Howell III. Jim Backus played the beloved millionaire throughout the show's three seasons. It's hard to imagine anyone but Backus as ...

In the opening scene of the 1963 movie, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” Jim Backus (best known as Thurston Howell III in “Gilligan’s Island”) requests an Old Fashioned while flying a small plane.

Henny Backus, 93, an actress and the widow of actor Jim Backus, with whom she wrote several books, has died. Backus died Dec. 9 at UCLA Medical Center after a series of strokes. Backus, who was born ...

This article was updated on Tuesday, Dec. 28. Actress and author Henny Backus, widow of actor Jim Backus, died Dec. 9 in Los Angeles after a series of strokes. Backus, nee Henrietta Kaye, was born in ...