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Lloyd Bacon is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Co-Director American born on 4 december 1889 at San Jose (USA)

Lloyd Bacon

Lloyd Bacon
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Birth name Lloyd Francis Bacon
Nationality USA
Birth 4 december 1889 at San Jose (USA)
Death 15 november 1955 (at 65 years) at Burbank (USA)

Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres—westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, crime dramas—and was one of the directors at Warner Bros. in the 1930s who helped give that studio its reputation for gritty, fast-paced "torn from the headlines" action films.

Biography

Jeunesse
Llyod Bacon est né à San Jose en Californie le 4 décembre 1889. Il est le fils de la star de Broadway Frank Bacon (1864-1922) et de l'actrice Jennie Weidman (1867-1956). Bacon a étudié à l'Université de Santa Clara.


Carrière
Llyod Bacon a commencé sa carrière comme acteur dans les films de Charlie Chaplin et Gilbert M. Anderson et est apparu dans plus de 40 films dans des rôles secondaires. Pas vraiment à l'aise en tant qu'acteur, il est ensuite devenu réalisateur et a dirigé plus de 100 films entre 1926 et 1955. Son premier film est Private Izzy Murphy réalisé en 1926 avec George Jessel et Patsy Ruth Miller. Le film est le premier d'une longue collaboration avec la société de production Warner Bros., où Bacon est un réalisateur prolifique et peu coûteux.
Il est surtout connu pour avoir réalisé les films classiques 42nd Street et Prologues en 1933, de Ever Since Eve en 1937, Un meurtre sans importance avec Edward G. Robinson en 1938, Invisible Stripes en 1939 avec George Raft et Humphrey Bogart, Terreur à l'ouest en 1939 avec James Cagney et Humphrey Bogart, Knute Rockne, All American en 1940 avec Pat O'Brien et Ronald Reagan, Convoi vers la Russie en 1943 et J'avais cinq fils en 1944 avec Anne Baxter et Thomas Mitchell.

Après avoir quitté Warner Bros., il rejoint la société de production 20th Century Fox pour laquelle il réalise notamment en 1949 le film Faux Jeu, puis Columbia Pictures avec Le Marchand de bonne humeur et Kill the Umpire en 1950.

Les films de Lloyd Bacon sont de différents genres : western, comédie musicale, comédie, film de gangsters, de crime, drame.

Lloyd Bacon, décédé le 15 novembre 1955 à l'âge de 65 ans d'une hémorragie cérébrale, eut deux épouses, un fils, Frank (1937-2009), et une fille, Betsey. Il est inhumé au Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Best films

42nd Street (1933)
(Director)
Golden Girl (1951)
(Director)
The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
(Director)

Usually with

Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
(13 films)
Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(23 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(21 films)
Leo White
Leo White
(16 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lloyd Bacon (122 films)

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Actor

Submarine D-1, 1h40
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh, Henry O'Neill, Lloyd Bacon
Roles Director
Rating58% 2.902042.902042.902042.902042.90204
Butch Rogers (Pat O'Brien) and Sock McGillis (Wayne Morris) are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer (Doris Weston). At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are virtually inseparable.
Broadway Gondolier, 1h39
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda, William Gargan, George Barbier
Roles Man Going to Brooklyn (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1912453.1912453.1912453.1912453.191245
A taxi driver (Dick Powell) secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer. One day he gives a radio station secretary a lift. She prattles on about a sponsor's new contest. The sponsor, a prominent cheese company, is looking for a singing gondolier to participate in their newest campaign.
Footlight Parade, 1h44
Directed by Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd
Rating74% 3.7443453.7443453.7443453.7443453.744345
Chester Kent (James Cagney) replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called "prologues", short live stage productions presented in movie theaters before the main feature is shown. He faces pressure from his business partners to constantly create a large number of marketable prologues to service theaters throughout the country, but his job is made harder by a rival who is stealing his ideas, probably with assistance from someone working inside his company. Kent is so overwhelmed with work that he doesn't realize that his secretary, Nan (Joan Blondell), has fallen in love with him, and is doing her best to protect him.
Wagon Tracks, 1h18
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Lloyd Bacon, Leo Pierson, Bert Sprotte
Roles Guy Merton
Rating65% 3.277543.277543.277543.277543.27754
The film's plot centers on Buckskin Hamilton (played by William S. Hart), a desert guide in the mold of Kit Carson. The film is set in the Gold Rush year of 1850.
Square Deal Sanderson, 50minutes
Directed by William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Ann Little, William S. Hart, Frank Whitson, Lloyd Bacon, Edwin Wallock, Bob Kortman
Roles Barney Owen aka Bill Bransford
Rating60% 3.0416653.0416653.0416653.0416653.041665
Easy Street, 19minutes
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Lloyd Bacon
Roles Junkie (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.6939053.6939053.6939053.6939053.693905
In a slum called Easy Street, the police are failing to maintain law and order.
His Fatal Move
Directed by Reggie Morris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Raymond Griffith, Lloyd Bacon
Roles le commerçant italien

His Thankless Job, 10minutes
Directed by Reggie Morris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Raymond Griffith, Lloyd Bacon
Roles le mari débordé

The Fireman, 24minutes
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Disaster films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Eric Campbell, Charlotte Mineau, Leo White
Roles Her Father
Rating64% 3.2441553.2441553.2441553.2441553.244155
A young girl's father (Bacon) arranges with the local fire chief (Campbell) to have his house burn down so he could collect on the insurance money.
Behind the Screen, 23minutes
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Lloyd Bacon, Wesley Ruggles
Roles Director of Comical Film (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4415353.4415353.4415353.4415353.441535
The film takes place in a movie studio. A stagehand named David (Chaplin) has a supervisor, Goliath (Campbell). Much of the film is slapstick comedy involving Chaplin manhandling large props, but other plotlines include a strike by the stagehands, and Purviance, who is unable to become an actress, dressing as a man and becoming a stagehand.
The Floorwalker
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Bacon, Albert Austin, Charlotte Mineau
Roles Assistant Manager
Rating65% 3.2950453.2950453.2950453.2950453.295045
Charlot sème la zizanie dans un grand magasin. Il participe, involontairement, à l'arrestation du directeur et du chef de rayon de ce magasin, coupables de malversations multiples.
The Rink
The Rink (1916)
, 24minutes
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, James T. Kelley, Albert Austin, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman
Roles Guest
Rating69% 3.494233.494233.494233.494233.49423
After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.