Irving Bacon
Biography
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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 (incorrectly named as his brother in some sources) such as The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). He often played comical "average guys".
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he played the weary postman Mr. Crumb in Columbia Pictures' Blondie film series. One of his bigger roles was as a similarly flustered postman in the thriller Cause for Alarm! in 1952.
During the 1950s, Bacon worked steadily in a number of television sitcoms, most notably I Love Lucy, where he appeared in two episodes, one which cast him as Ethel Mertz's father.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1893-09-05
Place of birth
Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
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Cast
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
7.82
Gone with the Wind
1939
7.90
A Star Is Born
1954
7.10
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
6.50
Blondie Takes a Vacation
1939
6.20
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
7.20
Blondie on a Budget
1940
6.00
Blondie Plays Cupid
1940
6.70
Blondie in Society
1941
7.40
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
7.30
Footlight Glamour
1943
7.70
It's a Great Life
1943
7.50
Knickerbocker Holiday
1944
5.00
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
7.06
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
7.50
Monsieur Verdoux
1947
7.71
It's a Great Feeling
1949
5.90
Meet John Doe
1941
7.30
It Started with Eve
1941
7.14
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945
5.00
Two Sisters
1929
6.00
Blondes Prefer Bonds
1931
0.00
Rio
1939
5.10
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
6.90
Holiday Inn
1942
7.03
The Head Man
1928
0.00
Moonrise
1948
6.30
The Velvet Touch
1948
6.16
Cause for Alarm!
1951
5.87
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
7.19
Rose of Cimarron
1952
5.00
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
7.07
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
6.43
Manhandled
1949
5.12
Lady for a Day
1933
7.04
Born to Be Bad
1950
5.91
Woman in Hiding
1950
6.20
Footlight Serenade
1942
0.00
Ann Vickers
1933
5.90
Earthworm Tractors
1936
5.00
No One Man
1932
6.00
The Glenn Miller Story
1954
6.90
The Girl from Everywhere
1927
0.00
The Best Man
1928
0.00
The Swim Princess
1928
0.00
Motorboat Mamas
1928
0.00
Private Detective 62
1933
6.00
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
6.38
The Howards of Virginia
1940
6.46
Can't Help Singing
1944
5.10
This Is the Night
1932
5.60
Big City
1937
7.40
Bad Girl
1931
5.94
Lone Cowboy
1933
3.50
Dakota Incident
1956
6.33
Broadway Bill
1934
6.00
Our Wife
1941
5.70
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
6.00
Calling Hubby's Bluff
1929
0.00
Fort Massacre
1958
6.00
Young People
1940
4.60
Family Honeymoon
1948
5.70
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
6.39
A Prodigal Bridegroom
1926
4.00
The Murder Man
1935
6.90
Masked Mamas
1926
0.00
Hurry, Doctor!
1925
0.00
Hot Cakes for Two
1926
0.00
Trimmed in Gold
1926
0.00
Meet My Girl
1926
0.00
Kitty from Killarney
1926
0.00
A Dozen Socks
1927
8.00
Over Thereabouts
1925
0.00
The Jolly Jilter
1927
0.00
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947
6.00
For Sale, a Bungalow
1927
0.00
Caught in the Draft
1941
5.80
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
5.89
Kentucky Moonshine
1938
5.30
At Gunpoint
1955
6.30
Mr. Music
1950
4.00
Back Street
1941
7.18
Riding High
1950
5.80
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
1958
5.38
King of the Cowboys
1943
5.50
The Match King
1932
6.60
His New Stenographer
1928
0.00
Petticoat Fever
1936
5.50
True Confession
1937
5.80
Guest Wife
1945
6.20
Isn't Love Cuckoo?
1925
0.00
Now I'll Tell
1934
4.80
Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
1926
0.00
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
4.40
Sing, Bing, Sing
1933
5.60
The Big Cat
1949
3.50
Fort Ti
1953
6.50
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
6.30
A Stranger in Town
1943
6.07
Patrick the Great
1945
4.00
Murder with Pictures
1936
5.10
Love on a Bet
1936
7.00
Duffy of San Quentin
1954
6.00
Lucky Night
1939
6.60
She Couldn't Say No
1940
6.80
Accent on Love
1941
6.00
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
4.70
Freckles Comes Home
1942
5.00
Branded Men
1931
5.00
Marry the Girl
1937
5.00
High Hats and Low Brows
1932
0.00
A Blonde's Revenge
1926
1.00
Whispering Whiskers
1926
0.00
Whispering Smith
1948
6.40
Ride on Vaquero
1941
4.20
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
6.20
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
1926
0.00
Two-Fisted
1935
7.00
Here Comes Cookie
1935
7.30
The Vice Squad
1931
7.00
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
5.00
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
5.00
Wake Up and Dream
1946
6.50
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
4.50
Exposed
1938
5.00
You Can't Take It with You
1938
7.49
Sweethearts on Parade
1953
0.00
Midnight Intruder
1938
5.20
The Mind Reader
1933
6.30
Sing, You Sinners
1938
6.70
Under Western Skies
1945
5.80
Tip-Off Girls
1938
6.00
Knights Before Christmas
1930
0.00
Casanova Brown
1944
6.30
Hello, Everybody!
1933
6.00
Lime Juice Nights
1931
0.00
Lawyer Man
1932
5.82
Union Depot
1932
6.10
Dear Ruth
1947
6.60
Honor of the Range
1934
5.00
It's A Small World
1935
4.50
Street of Chance
1930
6.61
Give Me a Sailor
1938
5.60
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940
0.00
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
6.80
Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941
0.00
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
6.40
Smith's Army Life
1928
0.00
The First Hundred Years
1938
6.00
Burning Up
1930
3.50
You Belong to Me
1934
7.00
The Old Barn
1929
8.00
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
6.18
Alias: The Bad Man
1931
4.30
The Hell Cat
1934
6.00
Heavenly Days
1944
0.00
One Way to Love
1946
7.00
Dynamite
1949
2.50
Emergency Wedding
1950
5.50
Tide of Empire
1929
5.90
A Rainy Knight
1925
5.00
Chip Off the Old Block
1944
4.00
The Green Promise
1949
6.05
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1925
0.00
Broke in China
1927
5.50
Side Street
1929
5.00
Smith's Pony
1927
0.00
They Made Me a Criminal
1939
6.14
Room for One More
1952
6.30
There Goes My Heart
1938
7.14
Double Harness
1933
6.66
Smith's Uncle
1926
0.00
The Rodeo
1929
0.00
Vogues of 1938
1937
5.31
They Gave Him a Gun
1937
6.20
The President Vanishes
1934
7.00
Racket Busters
1938
5.10
Lilly Turner
1933
5.60
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
5.10
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
6.60
Out of This World
1945
7.30
The Spirit of Culver
1939
0.00
By Your Leave
1934
3.00
It's Love I'm After
1937
6.96
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
6.42
Scandal Sheet
1931
0.00
Half Way to Heaven
1929
5.00
At the Circus
1939
6.30
George White's Scandals
1934
5.00
Rocky
1948
0.00
Men Without Names
1935
6.00
Desert of Lost Men
1951
0.00
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
6.70
Words and Music
1948
5.70
Page Miss Glory
1935
6.30
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
0.00
Exclusive
1937
6.00
Mary Jane's Pa
1935
6.00
On Your Toes
1939
3.90
Henry Aldrich for President
1941
4.00
The Big Broadcast
1932
7.10
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934
6.00
Black Horse Canyon
1954
5.90
Made for Each Other
1939
6.10
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
6.85
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
6.02
Tail Spin
1939
5.80
The Oklahoma Kid
1939
5.98
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
5.80
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
5.50
Bachelor Mother
1939
7.13
Second Fiddle
1939
4.86
Kansas Pacific
1953
4.80
News Is Made at Night
1939
4.50
The Texas Rangers
1936
6.36
Professor Beware
1938
6.10
Matchmaking Mamma
1929
5.00
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
3.50
O. Henry's Full House
1952
6.50
It Happened One Night
1934
7.83
The Wild Man of Borneo
1941
6.50
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
4.00
Timothy's Quest
1936
3.00
Man of Iron
1935
6.00
A Son Comes Home
1936
1.00
The Desperadoes
1943
5.70
Night Train to Memphis
1946
0.00
Sons of New Mexico
1949
5.00
Hat, Coat and Glove
1934
5.50
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
2.50
El Paso
1949
5.70
It's a Great Life
1935
0.00
Dixie Dugan
1943
5.00
Great Guns
1941
5.81
Star in the Night
1945
7.38
The Sisters
1938
6.10
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.50
Star Dust
1940
4.70
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
7.50
His Girl Friday
1940
7.40
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
6.30
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939
5.80
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
5.20
A Guy Named Joe
1943
6.56
Edison, the Man
1940
6.60
Big Town Girl
1937
6.00
Week-End Pass
1944
0.00
Thru Different Eyes
1942
0.00
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
6.26
The Return of Frank James
1940
6.30
The Happy Years
1950
7.70
Between Us Girls
1942
6.00
Run for Cover
1955
6.64
He Learned About Women
1933
0.00
In Old Oklahoma
1943
6.24
Since You Went Away
1944
6.50
The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
5.80
Here Comes the Groom
1951
5.20
Good Morning, Nurse
1925
0.00
Sitting Pretty
1933
7.50
The Big Timer
1932
3.50
To Mary - with Love
1936
4.50
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
6.50
Lillian Russell
1940
6.10
The Singing Kid
1936
4.00
The Campus Carmen
1928
4.00
His First Flame
1927
5.33
Devil's Canyon
1953
4.80
Dreaming Out Loud
1940
5.70
No Ransom
1934
0.00
Topper
1937
6.73
Rhythm on the Range
1936
4.00
Big Business
1937
5.00
Diamond Jim
1935
6.00
Katie Did It
1950
6.00
Madame Racketeer
1932
4.80
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
6.00
Saddle Pals
1947
5.00
Four Mothers
1941
6.20
Manhattan Moon
1935
0.00
Big Business Girl
1931
6.00
Golden Harvest
1933
5.00
Adventures in Silverado
1948
5.00
Albuquerque
1948
6.80
The Spoilers
1942
6.19
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
6.60
The Great Man's Lady
1941
6.30
Hidden Guns
1956
5.00
Remember the Day
1941
6.60
California's Golden Beginning
1948
0.00
Good Sam
1948
5.97
Hers to Hold
1943
6.86
Never a Dull Moment
1950
5.40
Big Town Czar
1939
0.00
Remember When?
1925
7.00
Redheads on Parade
1935
0.00
Lady Be Careful
1936
4.50
I Stole a Million
1939
6.00
Smith's Picnic
1926
0.00
I'll Love You Always
1935
3.00
Angel's Holiday
1937
5.50
Get Hep to Love
1942
4.00
Dangerous Number
1937
5.00
San Francisco
1936
6.58
Million Dollar Legs
1932
6.60
The Gay Bride
1934
5.80
Western Union
1941
6.00
State of the Union
1948
6.66
Spellbound
1945
7.41
Cadet Girl
1941
0.00
Two Weeks to Live
1943
2.00
Her Primitive Man
1944
6.00
So's Your Uncle
1943
5.00
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935
6.20
Tobacco Road
1941
6.60
The House Across the Street
1949
4.50
If I Had a Million
1932
6.71
Mister Big
1943
2.20
The Keyhole
1933
4.90
Central Airport
1933
6.14
The Chaser
1938
6.00
Young America
1942
0.00
Smith's Cook
1927
0.00
Smith's Fishing Trip
1927
0.00
Powdersmoke Range
1935
0.00
John Loves Mary
1949
4.80
Too Busy to Work
1939
0.00
Dear Wife
1949
6.00
Top Man
1943
0.00
Sailor's Lady
1940
4.00
Tropic Holiday
1938
5.80
File 113
1933
0.00
Hard to Get
1938
6.00
The Glass Key
1935
6.42
The Itching Hour
1931
0.00
Gold Rush Maisie
1940
6.50
She Couldn't Take It
1935
4.50
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
6.00
Private Worlds
1935
6.00
Pardon My Sarong
1942
6.50
China Clipper
1936
5.60
Ship Cafe
1935
0.00
House of Mystery
1934
4.70
Central Park
1932
5.20
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
6.10
Johnny Come Lately
1943
6.69
A Star Is Born
1937
7.13
Let's Make a Million
1936
0.00
Blondie Goes Latin
1941
6.20
Blondie
1938
7.10
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
6.31
Boarding House Blues
1930
0.00
Female
1933
6.33
Goin' to Town
1935
5.20
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
4.50
Drift Fence
1936
4.00
Down Memory Lane
1949
0.00
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
6.13
Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932
3.00
Forgotten Faces
1936
0.00
Bad Boy
1935
5.00
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
6.10
Wives Never Know
1936
0.00
Millions in the Air
1935
0.00
The Music Goes 'Round
1936
0.00