Irving Bacon

Highest Rated:
100% Moonrise (1948)
Lowest Rated:
60% The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Birthday:
Sep 6, 1893
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Irving Bacon entered films at the Keystone Studios in 1913, where his athletic prowess and Ichabod Crane-like features came in handy for the Keystone brand of broad slapstick. He appeared in over 200 films during the silent and sound era, often playing mailmen, soda jerks and rustics. In The Amazing…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 60% - 100%
Number of Movies: 200
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1958 Ambush at Cimarron Pass
  • Stanfield
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1958 Fort Massacre
  • Charlie
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1956 Big Cat
  • Actor
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1956 Dakota Incident
  • Tully Morgan
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1956 Hidden Guns
  • Doc Carter
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1955 At Gunpoint (Gunpoint!)
  • Ferguson
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1955 Run for Cover (Colorado)
  • Scotty
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1954 Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
  • Mr. Maddocks
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1954 88% The Glenn Miller Story
  • Mr. Miller
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1954 96% A Star Is Born
  • Graves
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1953 Devil's Canyon
  • Old Guard
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1953 Fort Ti
  • Sgt. Monday Wash
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1953 Kansas Pacific
  • Casey
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1952 Room for One More
  • The Mayor
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1952 O. Henry's Full House
  • Mr. Dorset
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1951 Cause for Alarm
  • Mr. Carston Postman
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1951 Here Comes the Groom
  • Baines
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1950 Riding High
  • Hamburger man
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1950 Born to Be Bad
  • Jewelry Salesman
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1950 Never a Dull Moment
  • Tunk Johnson
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1949 It's a Great Feeling
  • Information clerk
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1949 Woman in Hiding
  • Link
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1949 The Green Promise
  • Julius Larkins
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1949 Manhandled
  • Sgt. Fayle
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1949 John Loves Mary
  • Beachwood
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1949 Night Unto Night
  • Real Estate Agent
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1949 Dynamite
  • Jake
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1949 The Big Cat
  • Matt Cooper
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1948 State of the Union (The World and His Wife)
  • Buck Swenson
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1948 100% Moonrise
  • Judd Jenkins
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1948 The Velvet Touch
  • Harvey
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1948 Good Sam
  • Tramp
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1947 Dear Ruth
  • Delivery man
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1947 97% Monsieur Verdoux
  • Pierre Couvais
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1947 75% The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  • Melvin
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1947 Saddle Pals
  • Thaddeus Bellweather
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1947 Albuquerque
  • Dave Walton
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1947 High Wall
  • Gas Station Proprietor
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1946 Night Train to Memphis
  • Rainbow
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1945 Guest Wife
  • Nosey character
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1945 Roughly Speaking
  • Customer in Music Shop
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1945 85% Spellbound
  • Gateman
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1945 Week-End at the Waldorf (Weekend at the Waldorf)
  • Sam Skelly
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1944 Casanova Brown
  • Hotel Manager
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1944 Wing and a Prayer
  • Sailor
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1944 83% Since You Went Away
  • Bartender
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1944 Pin Up Girl
  • Window Cleaner
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1944 A Guy Named Joe
  • Corporal
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1944 60% The Thin Man Goes Home
  • Tom the Proprietor
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1944 Story of Dr. Wassell
  • Missionary
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1944 Knickerbocker Holiday
  • Peter Van Stoon
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1943 Blondie and Dagwood: It's a Great Life
  • Mailman
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1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
  • Actor
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1943 King of the Cowboys
  • Deputy Alf Cluckus
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1943 Stranger in Town
  • Orrin Todds
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1943 100% Shadow of a Doubt
  • Station Master
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1943 Two Weeks to Live
  • Gimpel
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1943 Footlight Glamour
  • Mr. Crum
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1943 Girl Crazy
  • Reception Clerk
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1943 The Desperadoes
  • Dan Walters
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1943 Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders
  • Waiter
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1943 Johnny Come Lately (Johnny Vagabond)
  • Chief of Police
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1943 In Old Oklahoma (War of the Wildcats)
  • Ben telegraph operator
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1943 Action in the North Atlantic
  • Bartender
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1943 Hers to Hold
  • Dr.Bacon
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1943 This Is the Army
  • Waiter
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1942 100% Holiday Inn
  • Gus
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1942 Give Out, Sisters
  • Dr. Howard
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1942 Blondie for Victory
  • Mr. Crumb
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1942 Pardon My Sarong
  • Proprietor
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1942 Blondie's Blessed Event
  • Mr. Crumb
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1942 Footlight Serenade
  • Porter
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1942 The Bashful Bachelor
  • Sheriff
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1942 Freckles Comes Home
  • Constable
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1942 Star Spangled Rhythm
  • Farmer 'Old Glory' number
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1942 Juke Girl
  • Keeno
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1942 The Spoilers
  • Hotel Proprietor
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1942 Get Hep to Love
  • Mr. Hardwicke
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1942 Great Man's Lady
  • Parson
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1941 80% Western Union
  • Barber
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1941 Remember the Day
  • Cecil
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1941 Million Dollar Baby
  • Income Tax Man
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1941 Accent on Love
  • Actor
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1941 Caught In The Draft
  • Cogswell
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1941 Blondie in Society
  • Mailman
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1941 82% They Died with Their Boots On
  • Salesman
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1941 Girl, a Guy and a Gob
  • Mr. Merney
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1941 88% Meet John Doe
  • Beany
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1941 Tobacco Road
  • Teller
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1941 Great Guns
  • Postman
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1941 100% Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (What A Man)
  • Tom soda jerk
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1941 It Started with Eve
  • Raven
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1941 Blondie Goes Latin
  • Mailman
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1941 Caught in the Draft
  • Actor
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1940 Broadway Melody of 1940
  • Soda Jerk
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1940 97% His Girl Friday
  • Gus
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1940 Love, Honor & Oh-Baby!
  • Cab Driver
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1940 100% The Grapes of Wrath
  • Conductor
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1940 Star Dust
  • Clerk
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1940 Blondie Has Servant Trouble
  • Mailman
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1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife
  • Gas Station Attendant
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1940 Lillian Russell
  • Soldier
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1940 Dreaming Out Loud
  • Wes Stillman
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1940 You Can't Fool Your Wife
  • Lippincott
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1940 Brother Rat and a Baby (Baby Be Good)
  • Hospital Official
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1940 Invisible Stripes
  • Personnel Director
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1940 The Howards of Virginia (The Tree of Liberty)
  • Tom Norton
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1940 Blondie on a Budget
  • Mailman
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1940 Young People
  • Otis
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1940 100% Edison, the Man
  • Sheriff
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1940 80% The Return of Frank James
  • Man at Wagon Sale
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1940 Blondie Plays Cupid
  • Mailman
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1940 Michael Shayne: Private Detective
  • Fisherman
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1940 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
  • Becker
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1939 Blondie Takes a Vacation
  • Mailman
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1939 Lucky Night
  • Bus Conductor
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1939 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
  • Jailer
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1939 Bachelor Mother
  • Clerk
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1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
  • Bakery Clerk
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1939 On Your Toes
  • Vaudeville Stage Manager
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1939 Blondie Meets the Boss
  • Mailman
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1939 They Made Me a Criminal
  • Speed Gas Station Attendant
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1939 The Gracie Allen Murder Case
  • Clerk
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1939 96% Gone With the Wind
  • The Corporal
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1939 The Oklahoma Kid
  • Hotel Clerk
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1939 Blondie Brings Up Baby
  • Mailman
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1939 Second Fiddle
  • Justice of the Peace Harvey Vaughan
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1938 Letter of Introduction
  • Actor
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1938 Man-Proof
  • Drug Clerk
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1938 Spawn of the North
  • Cannery Official
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1938 The Mad Miss Manton
  • Spengler the Process Server
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1938 Sing You Sinners
  • Lecturer
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1938 Sweethearts
  • Assistant Director
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1938 There Goes My Heart
  • Mr. Dobbs the Floorwalker
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1938 The Sisters
  • Robert Forbes
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1938 Swing Your Lady
  • Photographer
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1938 Professor Beware
  • Painter
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1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
  • Actor
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1938 96% You Can't Take It with You
  • Henry
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1938 Hard To Get
  • Attendant at Gas Station
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1938 The Texans
  • Pvt. Chilina
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1938 Racket Busters
  • Counterman
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1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  • Jury Foreman
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1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble
  • Sheriff
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1937 Sing and Be Happy
  • Palmer
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1937 94% Topper
  • Hotel clerk
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1937 Seventh Heaven
  • Young Soldier
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1937 Interns Can't Take Money
  • Actor
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1937 The Big Broadcast of 1938
  • Prisoner with harmonica
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1937 Internes Can't Take Money (You Can't Take Money)
  • Jeff
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1937 Big Town Girl
  • Gas Station Attendant
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1937 It's Love I'm After
  • Elevator Man
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1937 True Confession
  • Coroner
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1937 The Plainsman
  • Hysterical Trooper
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1937 Every Day's a Holiday
  • Quartet member
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1937 Exclusive
  • Dr. Boomgarten
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1937 Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
  • Actor
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1937 100% A Star Is Born
  • Station Agent
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1936 The Texas Rangers
  • David's Father
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1936 100% San Francisco
  • Picnicker
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1936 Murder with Pictures
  • Keogh
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1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
  • Mailman
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1936 Rhythm on the Range
  • Announcer
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1936 Drift Fence
  • Windy Watkins
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1936 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
  • Actor
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1936 Arizona Mahoney
  • Smoky
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1936 94% Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • Frank
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1936 Earthworm Tractors (A Natural Born Salesman)
  • Taxicab Driver
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1936 Hopalong Cassidy Returns
  • Peg Leg Holden
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1935 The Glass Key
  • Waiter
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1935 Goin' to Town
  • Actor
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1935 Here Comes Cookie
  • Thompson
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1935 Private Worlds
  • McLean Male Nurse
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1935 Powdersmoke Range
  • General Storekeeper
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1935 She Couldn't Take It (Woman Tamer)
  • Man at Toll Gate
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1935 The Big Broadcast of 1936
  • Radio Sound Man
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1935 Page Miss Glory
  • Waiter
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1934 Now I'll Tell
  • Attendant
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1934 The House of Mystery
  • Ned Pickens
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1934 Six of a Kind
  • Hotel Desk Clerk
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1934 98% It Happened One Night
  • Station Attendant
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1934 Broadway Bill
  • Hotdog stand owner
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1934 Romance in Manhattan
  • Counterman
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1933 Lawyer Man
  • Court Guard
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1933 Tillie and Gus
  • Nosy Extra at Gambling Table
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1933 The Keyhole
  • Grover the Chauffeur
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1933 The Bowery
  • Hick with Tailors
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1933 Private Detective 62
  • Taxi Driver
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1933 100% Lady for a Day
  • Dupe
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1933 Ann Vickers
  • Waiter
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1932 If I Had a Million
  • Chinaware Salesman
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1932 The Big Broadcast
  • Prisoner
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1932 Million Dollar Legs
  • Secretary of the Navy
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1932 100% I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
  • Barber Bill
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1932 Madame Racketeer
  • Gus the Desk Clerk
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1931 Fighting Caravans
  • Barfly
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1931 Branded Men
  • Ramrod
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1931 Scandal Sheet
  • Actor
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1931 Alias: The Bad Man
  • "Repeater" Simpson
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1930 Street of Chance
  • Harry
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Quotes from Irving Bacon's Characters

    1. Agnes Prescott: [describing Cary Grant's character] Now there's a guy who never goes out of a girl's mind. He just stays there... like a heavy meal.
    2. Melvin: What am I like?
    3. Agnes Prescott: Orange juice.
    From The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Submitted by Laura L (7 months ago)
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