
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 Great Man's Lady

Tropic Holiday

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Whispering Smith

Riding High

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Hello, Everybody!

The Big Broadcast

Here Comes the Groom

Spellbound

Private Worlds

Forgotten Faces

The Vice Squad

You Belong to Me

Golden Harvest

Two-Fisted

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

El Paso

Exclusive

A Son Comes Home

Dear Wife

Million Dollar Legs

Millions in the Air

Out of This World

Timothy's Quest

Murder with Pictures

If I Had a Million

Hollywood Boulevard

Scandal Sheet

Wives Never Know

It's a Great Life

Street of Chance

Sitting Pretty

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Here Comes Cookie

He Learned About Women

Tip-Off Girls

Drift Fence

Give Me a Sailor

Ship Cafe

Sing, You Sinners

Manhandled

Run for Cover

Dear Ruth

No One Man

True Confession

Caught in the Draft

Let's Make a Million

Lone Cowboy

The Saturday Night Kid

Albuquerque

Holiday Inn

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

The Pursuit of Happiness

Burning Up

Internes Can't Take Money

California's Golden Beginning

Lady Be Careful

This Is the Night

Henry Aldrich for President

Dynamite
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