Karl Backus

Karl Backus
Born
Karl Laurence Backus

1963 or 1964 (age 61–62)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Actor
  • art director
Years active1981–present
Known forOregon Shakespeare Festival
Notable credits

Karl Laurence Backus is an American actor and art director who appeared in multiple productions of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 1980s and 90s, a San Diego production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (2003), and the films Skin: The Movie (2018), Thane of East County (2015), and Walking with the Enemy (2013). Backus has multiple ensemble nominations at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema.