Gilligan's Island veteran Jim Backus and Clint Eastwood actually appeared in a movie together back in Eastwood's ...

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.

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 ...

Jim Backus is most well known for playing Mr. Howell on Gilligan's Island, but he should have gotten an Oscar nomination for ...

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.

Before Sherwood Schwartz's sitcom "Gilligan's Island" took to the airwaves in 1964, Jim Backus was probably the cast's biggest star. Backus had already appeared in the moving 1955 James Dean flick ...

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 ...

On Feb. 25, 1964, brash underdog Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) stunned the boxing world with a TKO of Sonny "the Bear" Liston, winning the world heavyweight championship. "Gilligan's Island" star ...

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 ...