Kevin Bacon has earned over 100 movie and television credits since 1978. Here are some of our favorite highlights.
Kevin Bacon’s best role
National Lamphun Animal House (1978)
Bacon was a 19-year-old acting school student when cast as a friendship pledge chip dealer in a noisy comedy. Chip was a cautious exile.Bacon admits that he wasn’t perfectly fit for the noisy co-star either. John Belushi When Blues Magill With an Oregon set.
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Bloody fun! The low-budget slasher movie turned into box office revenue, leading to about 12 sequels and spin-offs. Bacon plays Jason Voorhees, one of the camp counselors who will inevitably be the victim of hockey mask slashers.
Diner (1982)
He is one of five Baltimore friends navigating the transition to adulthood in this bittersweet comedy set in the late 1950s.Bacon recently reunited with a co-star Tim daily, Pole Riser When Steve Guttenberg To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the movie. “It was great,” he says.
Foot loose (1984)
“This is probably the number one movie fan wants to talk to me,” says Generation X’s favorite bacon on the classic soundtrack. Indeed, he became a breakout star as a teen in an uprooted city begging a small town to lift the rules of dance bans. Losing the blues, everyone cuts the foot loose!
trembling (1990)
With him in this cult horror classic Fred Ward A handyman who leads the battle against giant and murderous killer worms. They were worms, yes, but this movie had “feet” and produced six sequels. Alas, bacon wasn’t in any of them.
JFK (1991)
Oliver StoneA controversial drama about the assassination of the president John F. Kennedy He has been nominated for Oscar eight times. Bacon played against Type as a male prostitute offering a district attorney (Kevin Costner) Important information.
A few good people (1992)
Can you handle the truth about this iconic court drama? Tom cruise A lawyer defending two Marines charged with murder. Bacon is a cheeky prosecutor assigned to the case. “He’s an excellent Marine in nature,” he says of his character.
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Torrent (1994)
Co-starring with him John C. Reilly Fall into fear Merrill Streep And her family were on a torrent journey — and Bacon nodded the Golden Globe Award for the matter. Based on his sinister work here, he jokes, “There may be six actors I killed.”
Apollo 13 (1995)
Houston, no problem!Indeed, you remember Bacon playing a real astronaut Jack Swigart With this intense smash from the director Ron Howard About the unlucky moon mission of the same name.
Mysterious river (2003)
Bacon says he is “very proud” of his work in this Clint Eastwood– A director’s drama in which three Boston friends try to deal with a traumatic incident from childhood.Co-star Sean pen When Tim Robbins I chose Oscar for their role.
Take a chance (2009)
Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for his first and only Emmy Award for his performance on this HBO film. Marines volunteered to escort the bodies of young soldiers killed in battle to their hometowns.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
It’s a bacon with a German accent to portray the supervillain Sebastian Shaw, a mutant who can absorb energy and turn it into his own power, in this snappy cartoon adaptation. ..
Less than (2013–15)
What was his first role in network television? Notorious serial killer as a distressed former FBI agent hired to track down his longtime enemy (James Pure foy) A person who has just escaped from the death row. The Fox Thriller aired over three seasons.
City on the hill (2019–)
Bacon has played Boston natives and federal agents in the past, but he says he speaks fast, isn’t good at living, and the malicious Jackie Roll is “another kind of character.” say. (And it’s not just for mustaches.)
David Bowie (2022)
This quirky indie — directed by my wife Kira Sedgwick— Recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. “It’s about a young man who wants a one-way trip to Mars,” explains Bacon. “It’s funny, romantic and has a serious message about climate change.”
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