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- Category: Motion pictures
- Star rank: 1629
- Address:
7001 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
- GPS location:
34.101661, -118.342185
Lloyd Bacon
Biography
Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director who appeared in more than 40 films. Bacon started in films with Charlie Chaplin and Bronco Billy Anderson. As an actor he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as The Tramp (1915), The Champion (1915) and Easy Street (1917).
He also directed over a hundred films between 1920 and 1955. He is best known as director of such classics as 42nd Street (1933), Ever Since Eve (1937), A Slight Case of Murder (1938) with Edward G. Robinson, Invisible Stripes (1939) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, The Oklahoma Kid (1939) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Knute Rockne, All American (1940) with Pat O’Brien and Ronald Reagan, and The Fighting Sullivans (1944) with Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell.
Fact file
- Born: December 4, 1889 San Jose, California
- Died: November 15, 1955 (aged 65) Burbank, California
- Resting place: Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County
- Spouse: Margaret Adele Lowdermilk (? – ?) Nadine Coughlin (1911-1989)
Read more about Lloyd Bacon at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Orange and Sycamore
Nearby you will also find Lurene Tuttle, Chuck Jones, David Janssen, Lilli Palmer, and many others.