Stephen Bosustow
He was a writer and producer, known for Mister Magoo(1960), Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) and The Tell-Tale Heart (1953). He died on July 4, 1981. -IMDB
Works
Inside Magoo
A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the regular series, this rare cartoon begins with a bunch of clips talking about the history of the movies, then has some discussion about how Magoo is made, and a talk with Jim Backus. Then the bulk of the film is a Mr. Magoo cartoon featuring Magoo learning about cancer danger signs and how to protect yourself.
Release Date1960-01-12
Charactersd Self
The Mr. Magoo Show
The Mister Magoo Show is an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962. A single episode included five five-minute shorts and could either be aired together with bumpers as a single half-hour show, or it could be split up with one short aired each weekday, along with other cartoons. It was produced by United Productions of America.
Release Date1960-11-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count10
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Release Date1956-12-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Trouble Indemnity
An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as one of Magoo's old college chums. Magoo is now worth a hefty sum and is ready to collect after being bitten by a dog (actually a tiger rug) but, instead of going to the insurance building, enters a building under construction next door to it. The salesman and his boss notice Magoo walking around the steel skeleton of the building and realizing, "If he falls, the company falls", they rush over making several attempts to save Magoo's life and keep him from endangering himself.
Release Date1950-09-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count6
Bungled Bungalow
Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.
Release Date1951-01-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Destination Magoo
The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure, hand in hand, off to the "Moon". The life that man leads!
Release Date1954-12-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Ragtime Bear
At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.
Release Date1949-09-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count6
Barefaced Flatfoot
Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.
Release Date1951-04-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Man Alive!
This Oscar-nominated documentary short is from the American Cancer Society. Ed ignores his car problems and then fixes it without using a good mechanic. He also ignores stomach problems. Will he go to a doctor? Is it cancer?
Release Date1952-02-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count7
The Tell-Tale Heart
A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.
Release Date1953-12-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count90
1001 Arabian Nights
In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his nephew's laziness, Abdul insists that Aladdin find a wife. To his uncle's surprise, Aladdin falls in love with the beautiful Princess Yasminda. Before he can make his move, however, Aladdin is whisked away by the evil Wazir on a quest to find a magic lamp that will grant its owner unlimited power in the form of three magic wishes.
Release Date1959-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count14
Spellbound Hound
Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.
Release Date1950-03-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Balloon Land
The inhabitants, including the trees and rocks, of Balloon Land are made entirely of balloons. They come under attack from the evil Pincushion Man. With the help of a quickly inflated army, they manage to fend off the attacker.
Release Date1935-09-30
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobAnimation
Vote Count21
Hotsy Footsy
Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across the alley, thinking he's dancing with the wife of an old friend.
Release Date1952-10-22
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Baby Boogie
A little girl asks her parents, in song, where babies come from. They decide not to tell her the truth, so she starts searching out the answer. She's finally told that they come from "the hospitl".
Release Date1955-05-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Kangaroo Courting
It's springtime and love is in the air particularly for Mr. Magoo. Magoo is disappointed to learn his nephew, Waldo, had a fight with his girlfriend, Juliette. Magoo plans to have Waldo and Juliette reunited but instead of going to Juliette's apartment, he goes instead to a boxing ring where a boxing female kangaroo is sparring. Magoo mistakes the kangaroo for Juliette and invites her home to meet Waldo. Unfortunately, the kangaroo is trained to throw punches every time she hears a bell and Waldo is usually at the receiving end of the blows.
Release Date1954-06-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Matador Magoo
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, further lost than usual, mistakes a bullring in Mexico for a highway in the United States, and his myopic wanderings through the arena cause much havoc, and draws very few cheers, especially from the bull.
Release Date1957-05-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Gerald McBoing-Boing
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
Release Date1950-11-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count73
Christopher Crumpet's Playmate
Christopher Crumpet has an imaginary elephant for a playmate. Christopher's father begins to see the elephant. Mr. Crumpet reveals this to his co-worker, Mr. Bilgewater, who quickly plays office politics by telling their boss that Mr. Crumpet is crazy. The boss has recently awarded Crumpet a junior partnership, which Bilgewater thought he had deserved. The boss visits the Crumpet home, and finds that Crumper does indeed see his son's imaginary playmate. But instead of taking the junior partnership away from Crumpet, he makes him a full partner. The boss himself has an imaginary hyena.
Release Date1955-09-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count8
Magoo’s Homecoming
Magoo ends up at the zoo instead of his college homecoming.
Release Date1959-03-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Gumshoe Magoo
Magoo obliviously foils a criminal’s robbery plans.
Release Date1958-10-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Bwana Magoo
Magoo and Waldo are on safari in Africa.
Release Date1959-01-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Ballet-Oop
Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages to get them ready and they are a huge success. The school owner is so pleased that he enters all of the school's 1400 students in a contest where they have to learn "Swan Lake" in just two weeks.
Release Date1954-02-11
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Bailing Out
Part of the FLIGHT SAFETY series, instructing U.S. Navy pilots in the history of parachutes and the correct use of parachutes.
Release Date1949-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Magoo Breaks Par
The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sets out for a round of golf but catches the prison paddy wagon instead of the city bus and winds up in prison breaking rocks. He complains to the warden, who he mistakes for the grounds keeper, about the conditions of the golf course, and the warden boots him out.
Release Date1957-06-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Rock Hound Magoo
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to mistaking a gold rock for a rain cloud, he meets an old prospector and accuses him of claim-jumping. Together, they actually discover gold.
Release Date1957-10-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
I Was a Teenage Magoo
Told in flashback, the plot has teenage (but still nearsighted) red-headed Magoo picks up his date "Melba" (a kangaroo) from her home (in a circus) and go on a picnic.
Release Date1960-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Merry Minstrel Magoo
Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.
Release Date1959-04-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Big Tim
Tim is a brand-new locomotive fresh from the workshop, featuring an innovation called roller bearings. These axles use spinning cylinders to reduce friction and wear. Sent to the yard where his Uncle Smedley works, Tim learns about Kid Friction, a menace who grinds metal against metal and causes overheated bearings called hotboxes. On his first job, Tim is stopped cold and sent to the sheds. When Kid Friction strikes again, Tim and his roller bearings are ready to stop him.
Release Date1949-06-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Pink and Blue Blues
Mr. Magoo is hired by his neighbors to babysit their little son, Homer. Magoo is delighted to accept but, unfortunately, a notorious cat burglar is intent on entering and robbing the house Magoo is babysitting it. To make matters worse, Magoo is constantly confusing Homer with the family dog and vice versa. When the thief finally breaks in, all chaos breaks loose but everything turns out all right in the end when the thief is apprehended thanks to the dog who is more alert than Magoo was.
Release Date1952-08-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count10
Meet Mother Magoo
Mr. Magoo brings in his mail opening up a flyer for a store's "83rd Anniversary Sale". Magoo thinks that the flyer is a letter from his mother about her "83rd birthday" and begins to worry that maybe he hasn't spent enough time with his mother lately. He goes to pay his mother a visit to make up for lost time but upon arriving, Mother Magoo doesn't quite appreciate Magoo's attempts at being helpful such as baking a feather duster thinking it to be a turkey dinner. So she uses psychology to eventually persuade him to go back home (at least until next year).
Release Date1956-12-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
How to Ride a Horse
Aided by his horse, Percy, Goofy takes horsemanship to a new level. Originally released as a part of The Reluctant Dragon (1941).
Release Date1947-07-07
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobAnimation
Vote Count23
When Magoo Flew
Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know the man he is sitting next to is actually a thief and when a detective appears on the plane to track the thief down, Magoo thinks it's all part of the movie. After doing some wing walking, Magoo reenters the plane and exposes the thief to the detective. When the plane lands, Magoo remarks that they should have shown a cartoon particularly one with that "delightful near sighted fellow".
Release Date1954-01-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count22
Magoo Goes Overboard
Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally falls into the ship's swimming pool and thinks he has fallen overboard. When he tries to rescue one of the swimmers, the ship's captain jumps in and rescues Magoo. The grateful---and talkative---MaGoo informs the ship's captain that he will inform the ship's captain of his good deed and, when last seen, MaGoo is heading in the direction of the swimming pool.
Release Date1957-02-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Magoo's Puddle Jumper
At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty salesman but he drives it off anyway. Unfortunately, the myopic Magoo drives off a pier and under the ocean where he mistakes the various aquatic surroundings such as fish, sunken boats, and seals for other cars, dilapidated mansions, and a horn happy driver respectively.
Release Date1956-07-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count21
Madcap Magoo
Expecting a visit from his practical joker friend Smiley, Mr. Magoo instead entertains an escaped mental patient.
Release Date1955-06-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Magoo's Young Manhood
In a flashback Mr. Magoo thinks back in time to the Gay 90's when he was a young man, and just as myopic then as in the 1950s. He makes a bet with a friend that he can get a date with a star of the Broadway stage. It isn't long before Stage-Door Johnny Magoo winds up on stage in the play during a dinner scene, and performs rather well considering he was hearing the dialogue for the first time. Later, he is firmly convinced he had taken the Police Gazette beauty to dinner. No, her name wasn't Andre.
Release Date1958-03-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo Saves the Bank
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, on his way to make a bank deposit, boards a race-track bound bus instead. Mistaking the betting windows for tellerwindows, he keeps making and winning bets on long shots. The track finally tosses him out with his bag of winnings, which Magoo thinks was the result of compound interest growth.
Release Date1957-09-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Rooty Toot Toot
Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.
Release Date1951-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count39
Magoo's Problem Child
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home. There, he finds evidence of all manner of crimes, ranging from murder down to counterfeiting, and jumps to the conclusion that his nephew Waldo is responsible. He gets Waldo and runs away seeking a hideout until he can straighten things out. Following Magoo's fugitive-directions, they wind up in the city jail.
Release Date1956-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo's Moose Hunt
Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose
Release Date1957-11-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Terror Faces Magoo
Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families and subsequently learns that he and Waldo have been scheduled to air on tonight's broadcast. Magoo proceeds to show the cameramen the various rooms and exhibits of his house. Unfortunately, his publicity is threatened by a burglar and his trained gorilla who break into Magoo's house and attempt to rob it. Of course, Magoo doesn't notice the gorilla (he even mistakes it for Waldo) and reassures the cameramen that Waldo will be all right even if he does have "the manners of a gorilla".
Release Date1959-07-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Magoo's Canine Mutiny
The nearsighted Mr. McGoo goes shopping for a dog as a pet, and enters the pet store just as it is being robbed by a crook wearing a fur coat. McGoo puts a leash on him and heads for home as the crook thinks this will afford him a safe escape. But a policeman puts the collar on the thief and takes him to jail. McGoo, still wanting a dog, goes shopping for a replacement but ends up in a record store. He exits dragging a s statue of a dog, the 'His Master's Voice' trademark of a record company
Release Date1956-03-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Madeline
This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.
Release Date1952-11-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count16
Hell-Bent for Election
A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is depicted as a streamlined diesel express train in a race against Dewey, a worn-out steam train. The public is admonished to "get behind the president and stay the course to victory."
Release Date1944-07-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count13
Love Comes to Magoo
A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.
Release Date1958-10-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
How Now Boing Boing
Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to speak in words instead of sound effects. They all fail until, by chance, Gerald tries to phone home.
Release Date1954-09-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Magoo Makes News
Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are shutting off his power. Outraged, Magoo heads for the power company intent on giving them a piece of his mind. However, instead of going to the power company, he goes to a newspaper printing officer by mistake getting tangled up in the machinery all the while thinking he is being given "the bum's rush". He returns to his house with the power back on thinking he has won. But the next day, he doesn't like the paper's editorial and heads to the newspaper office wanting to give them a piece of his mind!
Release Date1955-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Bric’s Stew
An unreleased UPA cartoon.
Release Date1959-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing
Magoo’s car breaks down on an airport runway.
Release Date1958-06-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo Express
Foreign-flavored intrigue abounds when Mr. Magoo is mistaken for a fellow spy aboard a European train.
Release Date1955-05-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Spare the Child
It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change. The father doesn't like this at all. After a while, the son slowly realizes that being a grownup isn't all that easy. Unfortunately, the father doesn't seem to realize that the same holds true for being a kid.
Release Date1955-01-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Magoo Goes West
Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to venture to California in search of sunny weather. Even though he never actually leaves town, the trip is a long one with Magoo driving through city parks and water fountains. Finally believing himself to be on the home stretch when going through a car wash, he is convinced he has finally made it to California when he crashes into a billboard advertisement for Florida.
Release Date1956-04-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Magoo's Masquerade
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo fugitive, in her place. A detective becomes suspicious, as well he might, when the ostrich becomes attached to some of the guest's jewels. Magoo finally takes his date home and he suspects that she would like for him to call again.
Release Date1957-08-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
The World's Greatest Freak Show
The plight of a magician named Pflug, an egotist who thinks he is a gift to the world. Assembling a group of oddities for his act, he learns who the real freak is.
Release Date1972-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Pete Hothead
This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper. Pete Hothead was featured in only one other cartoon. In this one he receives a parrot from a store rather than the radio he ordered. In his attempts to exchange the parrot for a radio, he cause much havoc, disruptions and chaos in the store. He finally gets his radio, but then decides he'd rather have a television set.
Release Date1952-09-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo Beats the Heat
Mr. Magoo, intent on going to the beach, winds up in the desert instead. Thinking himself to be at the beach, he tries fishing (he hooks a turtle which he mistakes for a crab) and swimming. Meanwhile, a desert wanderer and his horse are lost beyond hope when suddenly they lay eyes on Magoo's set up. Thinking the whole thing to be a mirage, they decide to make the best of it by devouring Magoo's picnic lunch and refreshments despite Magoo's protests. After the hearty meal, the man wants to thank Magoo before he "fades away" by giving him the only gold nugget he found while trekking the desert. Magoo thinks the gold is a sea-shell and plans to give it to Waldo to add to his collection!
Release Date1956-06-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
The Explosive Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo has a windup toy mistaken for a bomb.
Release Date1958-05-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo's Private War
The near-sighted Mr. McGoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/iron curtain days of the 1950s, seriously. When he stumbles across the premiere of a new science-fiction movie at a theatre, he thinks his town has just been invaded by outer-space aliens. He takes the on-screen activities as part of the attack and goes through all the civil-defense steps to save the audience.
Release Date1957-12-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Trailblazer Magoo
The near-sighted one decides to take a hunting-and-fishing trip, and hires a Native American guide. He quickly grows impatient with the guide and takes over leading the way. He winds up in a big city and in a park lake, trail-blazing his way over park benches, statutes and through the zoo, releasing a lion along the way.
Release Date1956-09-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo’s Cruise
Magoo is mistaken for a foreign spy.
Release Date1958-09-11
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Calling Doctor Magoo
When Rodney, a friend of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, goes to the hospital, Mr. Magoo decides to visit him and to take along some of his cure-all, homemade elixir. But he makes a wrong turn and ends up on a docked-ship visiting a stranger wearing a turban, thanking he is Rodney, and gives him some of the elixir. He returns home and gets a telephone call from Rodney who is waiting for his visit. He thinks Rodney is delirious and ventures forth for another visit carrying a giant-size bottle of his elixir.
Release Date1956-05-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.
Release Date1959-12-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Rise of Duton Lang
Professor Duton Lang is an obese scientist who has made many great discoveries. When he finally weights 497 pounds he develops a compound which permits him to eat as much as he wants and still lose weight. He gets down to 150 pounds in weight but is still the same body-size as when he weighed nearly 500 pounds. Eventually, he becomes a minus-weight and floats off into outer space.
Release Date1955-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Little Boy with a Big Horn
Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.
Release Date1953-03-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
A Princess for Magoo
Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the development of the feature-length animated film "1001 Arabian Nights".
Release Date1959-01-01