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Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading-man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards.
Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and appeared in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical drama Footloose (1984). Since then, he has starred in critically acclaimed films such as JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Other credits include Friday the 13th (1980), Tremors (1990), The River Wild (1994), Balto (1995), The Woodsman (2004), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), X-…
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Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading-man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards. Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and appeared in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical drama Footloose (1984). Since then, he has starred in critically acclaimed films such as JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Other credits include Friday the 13th (1980), Tremors (1990), The River Wild (1994), Balto (1995), The Woodsman (2004), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Patriots Day (2016). Bacon has also directed the films Losing Chase (1996) and Loverboy (2005). On television, Bacon received a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Michael Strobl in the HBO original film Taking Chance (2009). He starred in the Fox drama series The Following from 2013 to 2015. Bacon played the title role in the Amazon Prime Video series I Love Dick from 2016 to 2017. From 2019 to 2022, he starred in the Showtime series City on a Hill. In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His prolific career in a variety of genres has led him to become associated with the concept of interconnectedness among people, as evidenced by the trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". He is a brand ambassador for British mobile network operator EE and has appeared in the company's advertisements. Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Bacon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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BODY OF WORK
Kevin Bacon's Filmography
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Beach Read
Family Movie
as Jack
Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
as Self
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
as Bob Garbinger, the Villain
The Best You Can
as Stan Olszewski
The Bloody Plumage from Another World
as Evil Chicken
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
MaXXXine
as John Labat
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
as Captain Cade Grant
Leave the World Behind
as Danny
Space Oddity
as Jeff McAllister
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
as Kevin Bacon
One Way
as Fred Sr.
They/Them
as Owen Whistler
Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough
as Self
North Star
as Dr. Owen Broderick
Val
as Self (archive)
The Legend of Burt Gummer
as self
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw
as Self
Tremors: Making Perfection
as Himself
You Should Have Left
as Theo Conroy
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
as Self
Find Your Groove
as Self
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Pinky Peterson
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
as Self
Tour de Pharmacy
as Ditmer Klerken
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Story of a Girl
as Michael
Patriots Day
as Richard DesLauriers
The Darkness
as Peter Taylor
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
Black Mass
as FBI Agent Charles McGuire
Cop Car
as Sheriff Kretzer
Skum Rocks!
as Self
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Carroll Caldwell
R.I.P.D.
as Bobby Hayes
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
No Poster
Vanilla Ice Archive
as Self (archive footage)
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
as Self - Sebastian Shaw
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as Charles J. Cooper
"Footloose": Remembering Willard
as Self
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
as Self
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as David Lindhagen
X-Men: First Class
as Sebastian Shaw
Elephant White
as Jimmy the Brit
Let’s Dance! Kevin Bacon on "Footloose"
as Self
Super
as Jacques
Beyond All Boundaries
as Robert Sherrod
Taking Chance
as LtCol Mike Strobl
The Human Family Tree
as Himself - Narrator
My One and Only
as Dan Devereaux
These Vagabond Shoes
as Tom
New Orleans Animal Rescue
as Himself
Frost/Nixon
as Jack Brennan
Animal House: The Inside Story
as Self
Connected: The Power of Six Degrees
as Kevin Bacon
Saving Angelo
as Brent
Rails & Ties
as Tom Stark
Death Sentence
as Nick Hume
The Air I Breathe
as Love
Where the Truth Lies
as Lanny
Beauty Shop
as Jorge
Loverboy
as Marty
The Woodsman
as Walter
Footloose: A Modern Musical
as Self
No Poster
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
Forces of Nature
as Himself - Narrator
Cavedweller
as Randall Pritchard
No Poster
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
In the Cut
as John Graham (uncredited)
Mystic River
as Sean Devine
No Poster
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
as Rev. Chip Diller
Trapped
as Hickey
Novocaine
as Actor Lance Phelps
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
Hollow Man
as Sebastian Caine
We Married Margo
as Self
My Dog Skip
as Jack Morris
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as (archive footage)
Stir of Echoes
as Tom Witzky
Diner: On The Flip Side
as Self
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
as Self - Chip Diller
Wild Things
as Sergeant Ray Duquette
Telling Lies in America
as Billy Magic
Picture Perfect
as Sam
Digging to China
as Ricky Schroth
Destination Anywhere
as Mike
No Poster
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
as Self
Sleepers
as Nokes
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
as Self
Balto
as Balto (voice)
Apollo 13
as Jack Swigert
Sci-Fi Channel: The Making of Apollo 13
as Self
Murder in the First
as Henri Young
The River Wild
as Wade
The Air Up There
as Jimmy Dolan
A Few Good Men
as Capt. Jack Ross
JFK
as Willie O'Keefe
Pyrates
as Ari
A Little Vicious
as Narrator
He Said, She Said
as Dan Hanson
Queens Logic
as Dennis
America's Funniest Dirty Jokes
as Himself
Flatliners
as David Labraccio
Tremors
as Valentine McKee
The Big Picture
as Nick Chapman
Criminal Law
as Martin Thiel
Lemon Sky
as Alan
She's Having a Baby
as Jake Briggs
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
as Taxi Racer
End of the Line
as Everett
White Water Summer
as Vic
No Poster
John Hughes: Time Capsule
as Himself
The Tender Age
as Probation Officer (uncredited)
Quicksilver
as Jack Casey
Mister Roberts
as Ens. Frank Pulver
Footloose
as Ren
The Demon Murder Case
as Kenny Miller
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
as Dennis
Forty Deuce
as Ricky
Diner
as Timothy Fenwick Jr.
Only When I Laugh
as Don
Friday the 13th
as Jack
Hero at Large
as 2nd Teenager
The Gift
as Teddy
Starting Over
as Husband - Young Couple
Animal House
as Chip Diller
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man
as Self
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Summoner
as Jefferson Haddock
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The Bellamy Brothers: Guilty of the Crime
as Leo
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Kevin & Maher
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Maher & Kevin
as kevin