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Lloyd Bacon, Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.LifeBacon 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 1915s The Tramp, The Champion and 1917s Easy Street.He also directed over a hundred films between 1920 and 1955. He is best known as director of such classics as 1933s 42nd Street, 1937s Ever Since Eve from a screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al., 1938s A Slight Case of Murder with Edward G. Robinson, 1939s Invisible Stripes with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, 1939s The Oklahoma Kid with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, 1940s Knute Rockne, All American with Pat OBrien and Ronald Reagan (as the Gipper), 1943s Action in the North Atlantic, and 1944s The Fighting Sullivans with Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell. He also directed Wake Up and Dream (1946).Bacon was not related to Irving Bacon, who was a film actor who appeared in a number of Bacons films. Irvings parents were Millar and Myrtle Bacon of St. Joseph, Missouri. Lloyds father, Frank Bacon, was the co-author and star of Lightnin (1918), which for a while was the longest-running play in Broadway history. His mother was Jennie (Weidman) Bacon, whom he adored.At the time of his death, he was survived by numerous ex-wives, and a son (Frank, b.1937-d.2009) and a daughter (Betsey).References^ Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties. London: A. Zwemmer Limited. p. 75. ISBN 0302004777. External linksBiography portalLloyd Bacon at the Internet Movie DatabaseLloyd Bacon at AllmovieLloyd Bacon at Find a Gravev · d · eFilms directed by Lloyd Bacon1920sThe Heart of Maryland (1927) · Women They Talk About (1928) · The Singing Fool (1928) · Say It with Songs (1929)1930sShe Couldnt Say No (1930) · Moby Dick (1930) · The Office Wife (1930) · Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931) · Kept Husbands (1931) · Sit Tight (1931) · Gold Dust Gertie (1931) · Honor of the Family (1931) · Manhattan Parade (1931) · 42nd Street (1933) · Picture Snatcher (1933) · Footlight Parade (1933) · Wonder Bar (1934) · Here Comes the Navy (1934) · In Caliente (1935) · Frisco Kid (1935) · Cain and Mabel (1936) · Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) · Marked Woman (1937) · Ever Since Eve (1937) · San Quentin (1937) · A Slight Case of Murder (1938) · Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938) · Wings of the Navy (1939) · The Oklahoma Kid (1939) · Espionage Agent (1939) · Invisible Stripes (1939)1940sBrother Orchid (1940) · Knute Rockne, All American (1940) · Footsteps in the Dark (1941) · Larceny, Inc. (1942) · Silver Queen (1942) · Action in the North Atlantic (1943) · The Fighting Sullivans (1944) · Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) · Wake Up and Dream (1946) · Home Sweet Homicide (1946) · I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now (1947) · You Were Meant for Me (1948) · Mother Is a Freshman (1949) · It Happens Every Spring (1949) · Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)1950sKill the Umpire (1950) · The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) · Call Me Mister (1951) · The Frogmen (1951) · The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) · The French Line (1953) · She Couldnt Say No (1954)PersondataNameBacon, LloydAlternative namesBacon, Lloyd FrancisShort descriptionActor, directorDate of birthDecember 4, 1889Place of birthSan Jose, CaliforniaDate of deathNovember 15, 1955Place of deathBurbank, CaliforniaThis article about an American theatre actor born in the 1880s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eThis article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1880s is a stub. 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