Kevin Bacon
Department: Acting
Biography
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable films include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors and Frost/Nixon. Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Known For
Mystic River
2003
A Few Good Men
1992
Apollo 13
1995
Wild Things
1998
Flatliners
1990
Sleepers
1996
JFK
1991
Footloose
1984
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987
They/Them
2022
Friday the 13th
1980
Balto
1995
Quicksilver
1986
Novocaine
2001
Stir of Echoes
1999
Frost/Nixon
2008
Death Sentence
2007
Digging to China
1997
Murder in the First
1995
Animal House
1978
Taking Chance
2009
Picture Perfect
1997
The River Wild
1994
Trapped
2002
Where the Truth Lies
2005
Tremors
1990
Hollow Man
2000
She's Having a Baby
1988
My One and Only
2009
The Woodsman
2004
The Air I Breathe
2007
Diner
1982
Beauty Shop
2005
Criminal Law
1989
Rails & Ties
2007
Connected: The Power of Six Degrees
2008
MaXXXine
2024
Super
2010
The Big Picture
1989
Telling Lies in America
1997
The Air Up There
1994
My Dog Skip
2000
He Said, She Said
1991
R.I.P.D.
2013
X-Men: First Class
2011
Queens Logic
1991
End of the Line
1987
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
White Water Summer
1987
Elephant White
2011
The Demon Murder Case
1983
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
Loverboy
2005
John Hughes: Time Capsule
1986
The Legend of Burt Gummer
2020
Pyrates
1991
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough
2022
Destination Anywhere
1997
Forty Deuce
1982
The Human Family Tree
2009
Leave the World Behind
2023
Forces Of Nature
2004
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2001
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983
North Star
2022
A Little Vicious
1991
The Darkness
2016
Space Oddity
2023
These Vagabond Shoes
2009
Diner: On The Flip Side
1999
Only When I Laugh
1981
Cop Car
2015
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024
Mister Roberts
1984
The Best You Can
2025
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
2022
Black Mass
2015
Starting Over
1979
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw
2020
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Hero at Large
1980
Lemon Sky
1988
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
Patriots Day
2016
In the Cut
2003
Vanilla Ice Archive
2012
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
8
2012
The Bloody Plumage from Another World
2025
Skum Rocks!
2013
Story of a Girl
2017
The Gift
1979
Cavedweller
2004
The Tender Age
1986
Tour de Pharmacy
2017
The Words That Built America
2017
You Should Have Left
2020
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
2013
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
America's Funniest Dirty Jokes
1991
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998
Find Your Groove
2020
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
2020
Animal House: The Inside Story
2008
Tremors: Making Perfection
2020
One Way
2022
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
2025
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
2012
Family Movie
2026
We Married Margo
2000
New Orleans Animal Rescue
2009
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
2026
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
2003
The Bellamy Brothers: Guilty of the Crime
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The View
1997
The Early Show
1999
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Frasier
1993
American Idol
2002
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Colbert Report
2005
Will & Grace
1998
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
SMILF
2017
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
The Following
2013
Saturday Night Live
1975
Bored to Death
2009
Ben & Jerry's: Clash of the Cones
2021
Critics Choice Awards
2001
Search for Tomorrow
1951
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Bondsman
2025
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
I Love Dick
2016
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Tremors
2018
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Leute heute
1997
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
2013
City on a Hill
2019
Hot Ones
2015
The View
1997
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
1986
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2009
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004
God, the Devil and Bob
2000
No Activity
2017
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Mad About You
1992
The Daily Show
1996
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Sirens
2025
Conan
2010
Colin from Accounts
2022
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
American Dad!
2005
POV
1988
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
2022
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Simpsons
1989
Teen Titans Go!
2013