Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 - November 15, 1955) was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.
Biography
Bacon started in films with Charlie Chaplin and Bronco Billy Anderson and appeared in more than 40 total. As an actor he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as 1915's The Tramp, The Champion and 1917's Easy Street.
He also directed over a hundred films between 1920 and 1955. He is best known as director of such classics as 1933's 42nd Street, 1937's Ever Since Eve from a screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al., 1938's A Slight Case of Murder with Edward G. Robinson, 1939's Invisible Stripes with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, 1939's The Oklahoma Kid with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, and 1940's Knute Rockne, All American with Pat O'Brien and Ronald Reagan (as "the Gipper").
Bacon's brother, Irving Bacon, was a film actor who appeared in a number of Bacon's films. Their father, Frank Bacon, was the co-author and star of Lightnin' (1918), which for a while was the longest-running play in Broadway history.
External links
Lloyd Bacon at the Internet Movie Database
Lloyd Bacon at Allmovie
Lloyd Bacon at Find A Grave
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NAME
Bacon, Lloyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Bacon, Lloyd Francis
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor, director
DATE OF BIRTH
December 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH
San Jose, California
DATE OF DEATH
November 15, 1955
PLACE OF DEATH
Burbank, California
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