
Irving Bacon
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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.
Known For

General Electric Theater

Four Star Playhouse

Riverboat

December Bride

Leave It to Beaver

I Love Lucy

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Gone with the Wind

Star Spangled Rhythm

The President Vanishes

The Grapes of Wrath

Men Without Names

The Texas Rangers

The Glass Key

The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Tropic Holiday

The Great Man's Lady

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Riding High

Whispering Smith

The Big Broadcast

Hello, Everybody!

Spellbound

Here Comes the Groom

Forgotten Faces

Private Worlds

You Belong to Me

The Vice Squad

Exclusive

Two-Fisted

El Paso

Golden Harvest

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

A Son Comes Home

Million Dollar Legs

Dear Wife

Millions in the Air

Wives Never Know

Timothy's Quest

It's a Great Life

If I Had a Million

Murder with Pictures

Hollywood Boulevard

Scandal Sheet

Out of This World

Street of Chance

Sitting Pretty

Tip-Off Girls

Here Comes Cookie

He Learned About Women

Drift Fence

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Sing, You Sinners

No One Man

Dear Ruth

Give Me a Sailor

Manhandled

Ship Cafe

Run for Cover

Let's Make a Million

Albuquerque

Lone Cowboy

The Saturday Night Kid

Caught in the Draft

True Confession

Holiday Inn

Internes Can't Take Money

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

The Pursuit of Happiness

Burning Up

Lady Be Careful

This Is the Night

California's Golden Beginning

Henry Aldrich for President

Dynamite
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