Kevin Bacon
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The Toxic Avenger Unrated as Bob Garbinger, the Villain
2025Conviction of the Heart as Self
2025The Best You Can as Stan Olszewski
2025The Bloody Plumage from Another World as Evil Chicken
2025Sirens as Peter Kell
2025The Bondsman as Hub Halloran
2024MaXXXine as John Labat
2024Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F as Captain Cade Grant
2023Leave the World Behind as Danny
2023Space Oddity as Jeff McAllister
2022Colin from Accounts as Kevin Bacon
2022The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as Kevin Bacon
2022Take 5 with Zan Rowe as Self - Guest
2022One Way as Fred Sr.
2022They/Them as Owen Whistler
2022Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough as Self
2022North Star
2021Ben & Jerry's: Clash of the Cones as Self
2020The Legend of Burt Gummer as self
2020Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw as Self
2020Tremors: Making Perfection as Himself
2020You Should Have Left as Theo Conroy
2020Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine as Self
2020Find Your Groove as Self
2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Pinky Peterson
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019City on a Hill as Jackie Rohr
2019Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives as Self
2018Tremors as Valentine 'Val' McKee
2017No Activity as Kevin Bacon (voice)
2017SMILF as Kevin Bacon
2017Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
2017Tour de Pharmacy as Ditmer Klerken
2017The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017Story of a Girl as Michael
2016Patriots Day as Richard DesLauriers
2016I Love Dick as Dick
2016The Darkness as Peter Taylor
2015Black Mass as FBI Agent Charles McGuire
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015Cop Car as Sheriff Kretzer
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2015Hot Ones as Self
2015Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead as Self - Actor
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013@midnight with Chris Hardwick as Self
2013Skum Rocks! as Self
2013The Presidents' Gatekeepers as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013Jayne Mansfield's Car as Carroll Caldwell
2013R.I.P.D. as Bobby Hayes
2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013The Following as Ryan Hardy
2012Vanilla Ice Archive as Self (archive footage)
2012Comedy Bang! Bang! as Self
2012X-Men: First Class 35mm Special as Self - Sebastian Shaw
2012Finding Your Roots as Self
20128 as Charles J. Cooper
2011Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011Crazy, Stupid, Love. as David Lindhagen
2011X-Men: First Class as Sebastian Shaw
2011Elephant White as Jimmy the Brit
2010Super as Jacques
2010Conan as Self
2009Beyond All Boundaries as Robert Sherrod
2009Taking Chance as LtCol Mike Strobl
2009Bored to Death as Himself
2009The Human Family Tree as Himself - Narrator
2009My One and Only as Dan Devereaux
2009These Vagabond Shoes as Tom
2009New Orleans Animal Rescue as Himself
2009Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2009RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Video Message
2008Frost/Nixon as Jack Brennan
2008Animal House: The Inside Story as Self
2008Connected: The Power of Six Degrees as Kevin Bacon
2007Rails & Ties as Tom Stark
2007Death Sentence as Nick Hume
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007The Air I Breathe as Love
2006America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005The Colbert Report as Self
2005Where the Truth Lies as Lanny
2005Beauty Shop as Jorge
2005American Dad! as Kevin Bacon (voice)
2005Loverboy as Marty
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004The Woodsman as Walter
2004The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2004Mystic River: Beneath the Surface as Self
2004Forces Of Nature as Himself - Narrator
2004Cavedweller as Randall Pritchard
2004On Air with Ryan Seacrest as The Bacon Brothers (performance)
2003Mystic River: From Page to Screen as Self
2003In the Cut as John Graham (uncredited)
2003Mystic River as Sean Devine
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2003Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update as Rev. Chip Diller
2002Trapped as Hickey
2002American Idol as Self
2001Novocaine as Actor Lance Phelps
2001Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2001Critics Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
2000Hollow Man as Sebastian Caine
2000God, the Devil and Bob as Kevin Bacon (voice)
2000We Married Margo as Self
2000My Dog Skip as Jack Morris
1999The Early Show as Self
1999Stir of Echoes as Tom Witzky
1999Diner: On The Flip Side as Self
1999The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest
1998The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion as Self - Chip Diller
1998Will & Grace as Kevin Bacon
1998Wild Things as Sergeant Ray Duquette
1997The View as Self
1997The View as Self - Guest
1997Telling Lies in America as Billy Magic
1997Picture Perfect as Sam
1997Leute heute as Self
1997Digging to China as Ricky Schroth
1997Destination Anywhere as Mike
1997Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life as Self
1996Sleepers as Sean Nokes
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self
1995Balto as Balto (voice)
1995The Frank Skinner Show as Self
1995Apollo 13 as Jack Swigert
1995Murder in the First as Henri Young
1994The River Wild as Wade
1994The Air Up There as Jimmy Dolan
1993Frasier as Vic (voice)
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992A Few Good Men as Capt. Jack Ross
1992Mad About You as Kevin Bacon
1992MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
1991JFK as Willie O'Keefe
1991Pyrates as Ari
1991A Little Vicious as Narrator
1991He Said, She Said as Dan Hanson
1991Queens Logic as Dennis
1991America's Funniest Dirty Jokes as Himself
1990Flatliners as David Labraccio
1990Tremors as Valentine McKee
1989The Big Picture as Nick Chapman
1989Criminal Law as Martin Thiel
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
1988POV as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988Lemon Sky as Alan
1988She's Having a Baby as Jake Briggs
1987Planes, Trains and Automobiles as Taxi Racer
1987End of the Line as Everett
1987White Water Summer as Vic
1986John Hughes: Time Capsule as Himself
1986ZDF-Fernsehgarten as Self
1986The Tender Age as Probation Officer (uncredited)
1986Quicksilver as Jack Casey
1984Mister Roberts as Ens. Frank Pulver
1984Footloose as Ren
1983The Demon Murder Case as Kenny Miller
1983Enormous Changes at the Last Minute as Dennis
1982Forty Deuce as Ricky
1982Diner as Timothy Fenwick Jr.
1981Only When I Laugh as Don
1980Friday the 13th as Jack
1980Hero at Large as 2nd Teenager
1979The Gift as Teddy
1979Starting Over as Husband - Young Couple
1978Animal House as Chip Diller
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1951Search for Tomorrow
—The Bellamy Brothers: Guilty of the Crime as Leo
—Family Movie