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Lloyd Bacon
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| Lloyd Bacon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 December 1889 San Jose, California |
| Died | 15 November 1955 Burbank, California |
Lloyd Bacon (December 4, 1889 in San Jose, California - November 15, 1955 in Burbank, California) was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.
He 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, 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.
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