Irving Bacon
1893-1965
Known for It Happened One Night, Shadow of a Doubt, Gone with the Wind.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movie Credits
Midnight Intruder (1938)
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Woman in Hiding (1950)
Holiday Inn (1942)
Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)
Made for Each Other (1939)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Big Town Girl (1937)
Run for Cover (1955)
Meet John Doe (1941)
The Keyhole (1933)
Moonrise (1948)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Blondie in Society (1941)
Good Sam (1948)
State of the Union (1948)
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
Fort Massacre (1958)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Bad Girl (1931)
At the Circus (1939)
A Star Is Born (1937)
Lilly Turner (1933)
Exclusive (1937)
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Sisters (1938)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
San Francisco (1936)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
High Wall (1947)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
