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.

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicholas Ray's 1955 drama "Rebel Without a Cause" might be one of the most celebrated films in Hollywood history. Its star, James ...

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 ...

Sherwood Schwartz's sitcom "Gilligan's Island" was a tremendous success when it premiered in 1964. The premise is well-known ...

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.

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 ...

Jim Backus' Thurston Howell III looks out from a bamboo prison in Gilligan's Island - CBS Jim Backus is known for playing Thurston Howell III on "Gilligan's Island," but unlike many of his co-stars, ...