Irving Bacon

Irving Bacon

September 5, 1893

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Irving Bacon (September 6, 1893 – February 5, 1965) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 500 films. Bacon played on the stage for a number of years before getting into films in 1920. He was sometimes cast in films directed by Lloyd Bacon (inc…

Known For

38 titles
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It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

1934 · 1h 45m · Movie

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

8.1
2
Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt

1943 · 1h 48m · Movie

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

7.8
3
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

7.8
4
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1954 · 2h 34m · Movie

In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

7.5
5
Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux

1947 · 2h 4m · Movie

A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

7.8
6
Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn

1942 · 1h 40m · Movie

At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

7.3
7
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941 · 2h 2m · Movie

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

7.6
8
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1937 · 1h 51m · Movie

Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.

7.3
9
The Glenn Miller Story

The Glenn Miller Story

1954 · 1h 55m · Movie

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

7.3
10
Topper

Topper

1937 · 1h 37m · Movie

A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.

7.2
11
At the Circus

At the Circus

1939 · 1h 27m · Movie

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

6.8
12
Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day

1933 · 1h 36m · Movie

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

7.4
13
Made for Each Other

Made for Each Other

1939 · 1h 32m · Movie

While on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.

6.2
14
Moonrise

Moonrise

1948 · 1h 30m · Movie

Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.

7.0
15
Room for One More

Room for One More

1952 · 1h 38m · Movie

New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into...

7.2
16
The Oklahoma Kid

The Oklahoma Kid

1939 · 1h 25m · Movie

During the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.

6.4
17
Cause for Alarm!

Cause for Alarm!

1951 · 1h 14m · Movie

An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

6.4
18
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1941 · 1h 11m · Movie

A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.

7.0
19
If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

6.9
20
Run for Cover

Run for Cover

1955 · 1h 33m · Movie

Mistaken for train robbers, Matt Dow and Davey Bishop are shot at by the sheriff and his posse but they are cleared and hired as lawmen.

6.7
21
Bad Girl

Bad Girl

1931 · 1h 30m · Movie

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

6.4
22
Great Guns

Great Guns

1941 · 1h 14m · Movie

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.

6.1
23
Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown

1944 · 1h 34m · Movie

In this hilarious romantic comedy, Gary Cooper gets a lesson in diapers and formula after stealing his child from his ex-wife (Teresa Wright), who was planning to give her up for adoption.

6.2
24
The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia

1940 · 1h 56m · Movie

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

6.0
25
Good Sam

Good Sam

1948 · 1h 54m · Movie

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

6.3
26
Fort Massacre

Fort Massacre

1958 · 1h 20m · Movie

A cavalry troop finds itself under constant attack by Indians.

6.2
27
This Is the Night

This Is the Night

1932 · 1h 20m · Movie

An affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from the Summer Olympics.

6.6
28
Ambush at Cimarron Pass

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

1958 · 1h 13m · Movie

In 1867, a Yankee patrol joins forces with a group of ex-Confederate soldiers in order to cross Apache territory and reach the nearest fort.

5.2
29
Kansas Pacific

Kansas Pacific

1953 · 1h 13m · Movie

With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.

5.8
30
Fighting Caravans

Fighting Caravans

1931 · 1h 32m · Movie

A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

5.7
31
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

1954 · 1h 20m · Movie

Ma and Pa Kettle get the farm in order to help their son Elwin win a scholarship.

6.8
32
Back Street

Back Street

1941 · 1h 29m · Movie

Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.

6.7
33
Can't Help Singing

Can't Help Singing

1944 · 1h 30m · Movie

A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.

6.2
34
The Keyhole

The Keyhole

1933 · 1h 9m · Movie

Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. Anne married the much older millionaire Schuyler Brooks only t...

6.5
35
Lilly Turner

Lilly Turner

1933 · 1h 5m · Movie

A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.

6.5
36
El Paso

El Paso

1949 · 1h 43m · Movie

In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.

5.8