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- <text id=89TT1882>
- <title>
- July 17, 1989: Died:Jim Backus
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 80
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- <p> DIED. Jim Backus, 76, actor who created two enduring
- American show-business icons: the myopic Mr. Magoo and
- locked-jaw millionaire Thurston Howell III of TV's Gilligan's
- Island; in Santa Monica, Calif. Veteran of more than 75 movie
- roles, Backus became a symbol of the befuddled fathers of the
- '50s when he portrayed James Dean's dad in the 1955 film Rebel
- Without a Cause.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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