Editing Lloyd Bacon (section)

==Career==
Bacon started in films as an actor with [[Charlie Chaplin]] and [[Broncho Billy Anderson]] and appeared in more than 40 total. As an actor, he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as 1915's ''[[The Tramp (film)|The Tramp]]'' and ''[[The Champion (1915 film)|The Champion]]'' and 1917's ''[[Easy Street (1917 film)|Easy Street]]''.

He later became a director and directed over 100 films between 1920 and 1955. He is best known as director of such classics as 1933's ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' and ''[[Footlight Parade]]'', 1937's ''[[Ever Since Eve (1937 film)|Ever Since Eve]]'' (from a screenplay by playwright [[Lawrence Riley]] ''et al''.), 1938's ''[[A Slight Case of Murder]]'' with [[Edward G. Robinson]], 1939's ''[[Invisible Stripes]]'' with [[George Raft]] and [[Humphrey Bogart]], 1939's ''[[The Oklahoma Kid]]'' with [[James Cagney]] and [[Humphrey Bogart]], 1940's ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'' with [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] and [[Ronald Reagan]] (as "the Gipper"), 1943's ''[[Action in the North Atlantic]]'' with Humphrey Bogart,<ref>{{cite book | last1=Higham | first1 =Charles | last2=Greenberg | first2=Joel | year = 1968 | title=Hollywood in the Forties | page=75 | publisher=A. Zwemmer Limited | location=London | isbn=0-302-00477-7}}</ref> and 1944's ''[[The Fighting Sullivans]]'' with [[Anne Baxter]] and [[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]].  He also directed ''[[Wake Up and Dream (1946 film)|Wake Up and Dream]]'' (1946).