Editing Lloyd Bacon (section)

{{short description|Actor, director}}
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| name                      = Lloyd Bacon
| image                     = Lloyd Bacon.jpg
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| birth_date                = {{birth date|1889|12|4}}
| birth_place               = [[San Jose, California]], U.S.
| death_date                = {{death date and age|1955|11|15|1889|12|4}}
| death_place               = [[Burbank, California]], U.S.
| resting_place             = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California]]
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| nationality               = American
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| alma_mater                = [[Santa Clara University]]
| occupation                = Director, actor, screenwriter
| years_active              = 1914&ndash;1955
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* Margaret Adele Lowdermilk
* Mary Rubey Cox<ref>Brent E. Walker, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel, Bacon entry.</ref>
* Nadine Coughlin 
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'''Lloyd Francis Bacon''' (December 4, 1889 &ndash; November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage, and [[vaudeville]] actor and [[film director]].<ref name=obit/> As a director, he made films in virtually all genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, and crime dramas. He was one of the directors at [[Warner Bros.]] in the 1930s who helped give that studio its reputation for gritty, fast-paced "torn from the headlines" action films. And, in directing Warner Bros.' ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'', he joined the movie's song-and-dance-number director, [[Busby Berkeley]], in contributing to "an instant and enduring classic [that] transformed the musical genre".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/42nd-Street-film-1933|title=42nd Street &#124; film by Bacon &#91;1933&#93;}}</ref>