Lloyd Bacon

Infobox actor
name=Lloyd Francis Bacon


imagesize=144px
birthdate=birth date|1889|12|4|df=y
birthplace=San Jose, California
deathdate=death date and age|1955|11|15|1889|12|4|df=y
deathplace=Burbank, California
spouse=Margaret Adele Lowdermilk (? - ?)
restingplace= Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County

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

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*Find A Grave|id=20214

Persondata
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