Gender: Male
Born: 4th December 1889
Died: 15th November 1955
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: 6 Day Bike Rider,
42nd Street,
A Child Is Born,
A Notorious Affair,
A Prodigal Bridegroom,
A Sailor's Sweetheart,
A Slight Case of Murder,
A Very Honorable Guy,
Action in the North Atlantic,
Affectionately Yours,
Alias the Doctor,
An Innocent Affair,
Boy Meets Girl,
Brass Knuckles,
Broadway Gondolier,
Broken Hearts of Hollywood,
Brother Orchid,
Cain and Mabel,
Call Me Mister,
Captain Eddie,
Cowboy from Brooklyn,
Crooner,
Devil Dogs of the Air,
Espionage Agent,
Ever Since Eve,
Fifty Million Frenchmen,
Finger Prints,
Fireman, Save My Child,
Footlight Parade,
Footsteps in the Dark,
Frisco Kid,
Give My Regards to Broadway,
Gold Diggers of 1937,
Gold Dust Gertie,
Golden Girl,
Good Morning, Nurse,
He Was Her Man,
Here Comes the Navy,
Home Sweet Homicide,
Honeymoon for Three,
Honky Tonk,
Honor of the Family,
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now,
In Caliente,
Indianapolis Speedway,
Invisible Stripes,
It Happens Every Spring,
Kept Husbands,
Kill the Umpire,
Knute Rockne, All American,
Larceny, Inc.,
Manhattan Parade,
Marked Woman,
Mary Stevens, M.D.,
Miss Grant Takes Richmond,
Miss Pinkerton,
Moby Dick,
Mother Is a Freshman,
Navy Blues,
No Defense,
Pay as You Enter,
Picture Snatcher,
Private Izzy Murphy,
Racket Busters,
San Quentin,
Say It with Songs,
She Couldn't Say No,
She Couldn't Say No,
Silver Queen,
Sit Tight,
Smith's Customer,
So Long Letty,
Son of a Sailor,
Sons o' Guns,
Stark Mad,
Submarine D-1,
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier,
The Famous Ferguson Case,
The Fighting Sullivans,
The Fighting Sullivans: Bonus Material,
The French Line,
The Frogmen,
The Fuller Brush Girl,
The Good Humor Man,
The Great Sioux Uprising,
The Heart of Maryland,
The I Don't Care Girl,
The Irish in Us,
The Lion and the Mouse,
The Office Wife,
The Oklahoma Kid,
The Other Tomorrow,
The Question of Today,
The Singing Fool,
The Wild Goose Chaser,
Three Cheers for the Irish,
Wake Up and Dream,
Walking My Baby Back Home,
White Flannels,
Wings for the EagleLloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.
Bacon was born in San Jose California, the son of actor Frank Bacon, later the co-author and star of the long running Broadway show 'Lightnin' (1918), and Jennie (Weidman) Bacon. He was not related to actor Irving Bacon whom he directed in a number of his films. Bacon attended Santa Clara University, and would later include highlights from the Bronco Football program in the end of his famous film, Knute Rockne, All American.
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, 1940's Knute Rockne, All
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