Lloyd Bacon

Biography

Lloyd Bacon was an American stage and silent-era screen actor who is most remembered as a film director, making films in virtually all genres. Among the 130 films he directed is the 1933 Warner Bros. classic 42nd Street.

Directed

1. 42nd Street (1933) — Director
2. Footlight Parade (1933) — Director
3. Marked Woman (1937) — Director
4. Action in the North Atlantic (1943) — Director
5. A Slight Case of Murder (1938) — Director
6. Brother Orchid (1940) — Director
7. Larceny, Inc. (1942) — Director
8. The Oklahoma Kid (1939) — Director
9. San Quentin (1937) — Director
10. The Frogmen (1951) — Director
11. Invisible Stripes (1939) — Director
12. Knute Rockne All American (1940) — Director
13. Picture Snatcher (1933) — Director
14. Kept Husbands (1931) — Director
15. Here Comes the Navy (1934) — Director
16. It Happens Every Spring (1949) — Director
17. The Fighting Sullivans (1944) — Director
18. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) — Director
19. Wonder Bar (1934) — Director
20. She Couldn't Say No (1954) — Director
21. Racket Busters (1938) — Director
22. Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) — Director
23. Cain and Mabel (1936) — Director
24. Ever Since Eve (1937) — Director
25. Footsteps in the Dark (1941) — Director
26. The Office Wife (1930) — Director
27. Miss Pinkerton (1932) — Director
28. The French Line (1954) — Director
29. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) — Director
30. So Long Letty (1929) — Director
31. Moby Dick (1930) — Director
32. Espionage Agent (1939) — Director
33. Frisco Kid (1935) — Director
34. A Notorious Affair (1930) — Director
35. He Was Her Man (1934) — Director
36. Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) — Director
37. Silver Queen (1942) — Director
38. The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) — Director
39. The Irish in Us (1935) — Director
40. Indianapolis Speedway (1939) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Easy Street (1917) — Junkie (uncredited)
2. The Rink (1916) — Guest
3. The Tramp (1915) — Edna's Fiancé / Second Thief
4. The Vagabond (1916) — Artist (uncredited)
5. The Champion (1915) — Second Sparring Partner / Exerciser in Gym / Referee
6. The Floorwalker (1916) — Assistant Manager
7. The Fireman (1916) — Her Father
8. Behind the Screen (1916) — Director of Comical Film (uncredited)
9. A Night in the Show (1915) — Man in Balcony
10. The Count (1916) — Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
11. In the Park (1915) — Pocketbook Thief
12. A Jitney Elopement (1915) — Young Butler / Cop
13. His Regeneration (1915) — The Saloon Girl's Companion
14. Wagon Tracks (1919) — Guy Merton
15. Broadway Gondolier (1935) — Man Going to Brooklyn (uncredited)
16. The Charlie Chaplin Festival (1941) — Various Roles (archive footage)
17. Square Deal Sanderson (1919) — Barney Owen aka Bill Bransford
18. Miss Nobody (1920) — The Aviator
19. 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006) — Self (archive footage)
20. Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel (1936) — Self
21. The Broken Gate (1920) — John
22. The Feud (1919) — Ben Summers
23. The Bachelor's Burglar (1915)
24. Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp (1915) — The Cattle Thief
25. Broncho Billy Misled (1915) — The Prospector
26. Wine, Women and Song (1915)
27. The Escape of Broncho Billy (1915) — The Sheriff
28. A Christmas Revenge (1915) — Billy's rival
29. Her Lesson (1916) — The Butler
30. The Book Agent's Romance (1916) — The Butler
31. Snakeville’s Champion (1915) — Hotch
32. There He Goes (1925) — The Cook
33. The Midlanders (1920) — Wiley Curran
34. The Girl in the Rain (1920) — Walter
35. Hands Off! (1921) — Ford Wadley
36. Vagabond Luck (1919) — Buck
37. The Kentucky Colonel (1920) — Boyd Savely
38. The Greater Profit (1921) — Jim Crawkins
39. The Road Demon (1921) — Luther McCabe
40. Broncho Billy's Greaser Deputy (1915)