Irving Bacon

Irving Ernest Bacon (September 6, 1893 – February 5, 1965) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 500 films.

Early years Bacon was the son of entertainers Millar West Bacon (who was a teenager) and Myrtle Vane. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, and grew up in San Diego, California. His parents divorced in 1900. His father remarried, to Lena Ann Davis in Spokane later that year.

Career Bacon played on the stage for a number of years before getting into films in 1912 in Mack Sennett productions.

Personal life He worked as a Carburetor and Magneto Machinist for the San Diego Battery and Ignition Company according to his 1917 WWI draft Registration Card."

Bacon was married to Freda Lee Scoville until her death in 1928; they had a son and a daughter. In June 1930, Bacon married Margaret Beaver; they had a son, Frank.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1923 Anna Christie Minor Role Uncredited1927 California or Bust Wade Rexton His First Flame Man Who Jumps Out of Window Uncredited The Girl from Everywhere The Casting Director1928 Three Sinners Uncredited The Head Man Mayor The Good-Bye Kiss Col. Von Stein1929 Tide of Empire Townsman Uncredited Two Sisters Chumley Side Street Henchman Slim Uncredited The Saturday Night Kid McGonigle Uncredited Half Way to Heaven Slim1930 Burning Up Yokel Driver Uncredited Street of Chance Harry Night Work Bit Uncredited Second Honeymoon Waiter Uncredited1931 Scandal Sheet Reporter Kent Uncredited Fighting Caravans Mustachioed Barfly Uncredited It Pays to Advertise Photographer Uncredited The Vice Squad Masher Uncredited Big Business Girl Waiter Uncredited Alias – the Bad Man Ranger Repeater Bad Girl Expectant Father Uncredited Branded Men Ramrod Her Majesty, Love Hotel Valet Uncredited Ladies of the Big House Juror Uncredited1932 Union Depot Depot Hotel Waiter Uncredited No One Man Henry - License Clerk The Big Timer Slim Dugan Uncredited This Is the Night Sparks The Strange Case of Clara Deane Rural Service Station Attendant Uncredited Week-End Marriage Grocery Clerk Uncredited Million Dollar Legs Secretary of War Uncredited Madame Racketeer Gus, the Desk Clerk Uncredited The Big Broadcast Prisoner They Call It Sin First Hotel Clerk Uncredited I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Bill - Barber Uncredited If I Had a Million China Shop Salesman Uncredited Central Park Oscar Uncredited Lawyer Man Court Guard Uncredited The Match King Messenger with Bracelet Uncredited1933 File 113 Lagors Hello, Everybody! Radio Announcer Uncredited He Learned About Women Stage Door Man Sing, Bing, Sing Helen's father Short The Keyhole Grover - Brooks' Chauffeur Uncredited The Mind Reader Reporter Uncredited Central Airport Amarillo Weatherman Uncredited Song of the Eagle Assistant Burgher / Photographer Uncredited Lilly Turner Earle Yokum Uncredited Trouble Busters Deputy Uncredited Private Detective 62 Cab Driver I Love That Man Prison Doctor Uncredited Laughing at Life Construction Engineer Surveyor Uncredited Double Harness Crab Counterman Uncredited Lady for a Day Pool Hall Dupe Uncredited Golden Harvest Rev. Dr. Simmons Uncredited Ann Vickers Waiter Uncredited The Bowery Hick Uncredited Tillie and Gus Nosy Man at Gambling Table Uncredited Big Executive Storekeeper Uncredited Female Gas Station Attendant Uncredited Sitting Pretty Dice Player Uncredited Lone Cowboy Zeke Uncredited Shadows of Sing Sing Highbrow1934 Eight Girls in a Boat Messenger Uncredited Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen Joel Prentiss Massacre Secretary Uncredited Six of a Kind Hotel Desk Clerk in Philipsburg Uncredited It Happened One Night Gas Station Attendant Uncredited George White's Scandals Hick Uncredited House of Mystery Police Insp. Ned Pickens Honor of the Range Townsman Uncredited Merry Wives of Reno Cook (scenes deleted) Now I'll Tell Gambling House Attendant Uncredited Money Means Nothing Navy Secretary (scenes deleted) The Hell Cat Regan Hat, Coat, and Glove Coat Salesman Uncredited Friends of Mr. Sweeney Hat Attendant Uncredited You Belong to Me Stage Manager The Pursuit of Happiness Bijah No Ransom Heinie By Your Leave Harry Uncredited The President Vanishes Gray Shirt Garage Attendant Uncredited Ready for Love Milkman Uncredited Broadway Bill Hamburger Stand Owner Uncredited Babbitt Harry - Bartender Uncredited Little Men Silas Uncredited The Gay Bride Weight-Guesser Uncredited West of the Pecos Court1935 Romance in Manhattan Counterman Uncredited Murder on a Honeymoon Man With Pelican Uncredited Private Worlds McLean (male nurse) I'll Love You Always Theater Manager Uncredited It's a Small World Cal Goin' to Town Cowboy Uncredited Mary Jane's Pa Clerk Getting Tied Up Uncredited The Glass Key Waiter Uncredited Men Without Names Town Character Uncredited Manhattan Moon Lunch Man The Murder Man Merry-Go-Round Operator Uncredited Bright Lights Postal Worker Uncredited The Farmer Takes a Wife Mr. Vernoy Uncredited Welcome Home Cornelius Uncredited Page Miss Glory Waiter Uncredited The Affair of Susan Cabby Uncredited Diamond Jim Passenger Uncredited Redheads on Parade Entwhistle Uncredited Wanderer of the Wasteland Bartender #1 Here Comes Cookie Thompson The Virginia Judge Gus Skinner Powdersmoke Range Gun Store Proprietor It's a Great Life Slim Uncredited Two-Fisted Brick Briggs She Couldn't Take It Man at Toll Gate Uncredited Bad Boy Butcher Uncredited Ship Cafe Slim Millions in the Air Mr. Perkins Man of Iron Jake - a Factory Worker Uncredited Hitch Hike Lady Ed Simpson1936 Timothy's Quest Henry - the Drunken Wagon Driver Uncredited Drift Fence Windy Watkins, Traft Foreman The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Mailman The Music Goes 'Round Stuttering Man Uncredited Love on a Bet Farmer on Hay Wagon Uncredited Petticoat Fever Carl The Singing Kid Maine Driver Uncredited Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Frank Uncredited Forgotten Faces Pretty Nobody's Fool Chauffeur Uncredited Three Cheers for Love Rider - Dance Director San Francisco Picnicker Uncredited Rhythm on the Range Rodeo Announcer Uncredited The Bride Walks Out Hugh's Chauffeur Uncredited Earthworm Tractors Taxicab Driver A Son Comes Home Hamburger Stand Proprietor Uncredited To Mary – with Love Chauffeur Pepper Fireworks Salesman Uncredited China Clipper Charlie - the Janitor Uncredited Hollywood Boulevard Gus - Trocadero Bartender The Texas Rangers David's Father Uncredited Lady Be Careful Happy Wives Never Know Dr. Mumford Uncredited Murder with Pictures Keough Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Drug Store Clerk The Big Broadcast of 1937 Property Man Hopalong Cassidy Returns Peg Leg Holden The Plainsman Hysterical Trooper Uncredited Arizona Mahoney Smokey Let's Make a Million Jerry1937 Dangerous Number Detective Uncredited Internes Can't Take Money Jeff A Star Is Born Station Agent Uncredited They Gave Him a Gun Tall Soldier Uncredited There Goes My Girl Policeman Guarding Front Entrance Uncredited Angel's Holiday Fingerprint Expert Uncredited The Jones Family in Big Business Mr. Kinney - Man with Toothache Uncredited Sing and Be Happy Palmer Uncredited Marry the Girl Happy Elmer Topper Hotel Clerk Uncredited Exclusive Dr. Boomgarten Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 Curson - Accountant Uncredited Big City Jim Sloane It's Love I'm After Elevator Operator Uncredited Merry-Go-Round of 1938 Organist Uncredited Big Town Girl Gas Station Attendant Every Day's a Holiday Quartet member True Confession The Coroner1938 City Girl Porter Uncredited Midnight Intruder Evans - The Reitter Chauffeur The Big Broadcast of 1938 Prisoner Playing Harmonica Uncredited The First Hundred Years Wilkins Mr. Moto's Gamble Sheriff Tuttle Uncredited Tip-Off Girls Sam College Swing Minor Role (scenes deleted) Kentucky Moonshine Palace Hotel Clerk Professor Beware Painter Uncredited Tropic Holiday Sol Grunnion Uncredited Passport Husband Counterman Uncredited Racket Busters Counter Man Uncredited The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Foreman of jury The Chaser Harvey, Streetcar Conductor Letter of Introduction Reporter Uncredited The Texans Pvt. Collins Uncredited Sing You Sinners Lecturer on Seals Give Me a Sailor The Druggist Uncredited Spawn of the North Cannery Official Uncredited You Can't Take It with You Henry - the Head Waiter Uncredited The Mad Miss Manton Mr. Spengler - the Process Server Uncredited There Goes My Heart Mr. Dobbs The Sisters Robert Forbes Exposed Crankpool (process server #2) Hard to Get Gas Station Attendant Uncredited The Cowboy and the Lady Chester - Smith's Secretary Uncredited Strange Facees Meggs Uncredited Blondie Mr. Beazley - the Mailman Uncredited Up the River Phil Uncredited Sweethearts Assistant Director Uncredited1939 They Made Me a Criminal Speed - Gas Station Attendant Uncredited The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt Patrol Sergeant at Italian Restaurant Uncredited Boy Slaves Store Clerk Uncredited Made for Each Other Newark Radio Operator Uncredited The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tad Uncredited The Arizona Wildcat You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Jailer Uncredited Nancy Drew... Reporter Tracy Uncredited Tail Spin Storekeeper Uncredited The Oklahoma Kid Hotel Clerk Blondie Meets the Boss 1st Mailman Uncredited The Spirit of Culver Clerk Uncredited Inside Story Gas Station Attendant Uncredited The Lady's from Kentucky Information Clerk Uncredited Big Town Czar Real Estate Man Uncredited Lucky Night Conductor Torchy Runs for Mayor Hubert Ward The Gracie Allen Murder Case Hotel Clerk Bachelor Mother Clerk at Exchange Window Uncredited Second Fiddle Harvey Vaughan News Is Made at Night Mike - Fingerprint Man Uncredited Indianapolis Speedway Fred Haskill Blondie Takes a Vacation Mailman Behind Prison Gates Convict in Prison Yard Uncredited I Stole a Million Simpson Rio 'Mushy' On Your Toes Second Stage Manager Uncredited Hollywood Cavalcade Clerk Pack Up Your Troubles Doughboy Uncredited At the Circus Telegraph Clerk Uncredited The Housekeeper's Daughter Woodbury Uncredited Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence Sheriff Clem Diggers Blondie Brings Up Baby Mailman Too Busy to Work Gilligan Gone With the Wind Corporal Hollywood Slaves1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk Paul Gillis His Girl Friday Gus Uncredited Brother Rat and a Baby Hospital Official Uncredited The Grapes of Wrath Driver Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Becker Broadway Melody of 1940 Soda Jerk Uncredited Blondie on a Budget Mailman Star Dust Jefferson Hotel Desk Clerk The Doctor Takes a Wife Sam Appleby - Gas Station Attendant Uncredited Edison, the Man Sheriff Uncredited Lillian Russell Soldier On Their Own You Can't Fool Your Wife Lippincott, GBG & P Clerk Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! Cab Driver Sailor's Lady Storekeeper Uncredited Manhattan Heartbeat Sweeney Blondie Has Servant Trouble Mailman Gold Rush Maisie Harry Gilpin The Return of Frank James Bystander Young People Otis The Howards of Virginia Tom Norton Dreaming Out Loud Wes Stillman Blondie Plays Cupid Mailman She Couldn't Say No Abner Flight Command Taxi Driver (scenes deleted) Michael Shayne, Private Detective Fisherman Jennie Real Estate Broker1941 Four Mothers Cigar Store Proprietor Uncredited The Wild Man of Borneo Wagon Driver Uncredited Western Union Barber Back Street Skeet Uncredited Tobacco Road Teller Blondie Goes Latin Mailman Uncredited Murder Among Friends Service Station Attendant Uncredited A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob Mr. Albert Merney The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance Projectionist Uncredited Meet John Doe Beany Barnacle Bill Deck hand Uncredited Ride on Vaquero Jailer Smoky Too Many Blondes Radio Station Manager Twitchell Million Dollar Baby Income Tax Man Uncredited Blondie in Society Mailman Caught in the Draft Cogswell Accent on Love Mr. Smedley Our Wife Doorman Uncredited It Started with Eve Raven Never Give a Sucker an Even Break The Soda Jerk Great Guns Postman Henry Aldrich for President Mr. McCloskey Moon Over Her Shoulder Conrad - Taxi Driver They Died with Their Boots On Uniform Salesman Uncredited Look Who's Laughing (scenes deleted) Skylark Ferryman (scenes deleted) Cadet Girl Train conductor Remember the Day Cecil1942 Freckles Comes Home Constable Caleb Weaver Young America Bart Munson The Bashful Bachelor Sheriff / Fire Chief Blondie's Blessed Event Mr. Crumb The Great Man's Lady Parson Uncredited The Spoilers Hotel Manager Uncredited Sweetheart of the Fleet Standish Lady in a Jam Motel Proprietor Uncredited Thru Different Eyes Stu Johnson Holiday Inn Gus Footlight Serenade Stagehand Blondie for Victory Mr. Crumb, Former Mailman Pardon My Sarong Gas Station Proprietor Uncredited Give Out, Sisters Dr. Howard Between Us Girls Soda Clerk Get Hep to Love Mr. Hardwicke Daring Young Man Crumb Uncredited Star Spangled Rhythm New England Farmer - 'Old Glory' Number Uncredited1943 Happy Go Lucky First Reporter Uncredited Shadow of a Doubt Station Master The Amazing Mrs. Holliday Ticket Agent Uncredited Two Weeks to Live Omar Tennyson Gimpel Dixie Dugan Mr. Kelly King of the Cowboys Alf Cluckus A Stranger in Town Orrin Todds Follow the Band Peterson Action in the North Atlantic Bartender Uncredited The Desperadoes Dan Walters It's a Great Life Mailman Mister Big Jimmy, Malt Shop Proprietor Hers to Hold Dr. Bacon This Is the Army Waiter Uncredited The Good Fellows 'Gas' Man Uncredited So's Your Uncle Dempster Top Man School Principal Uncredited Footlight Glamour Mr. Crum My Kingdom for a Cook Sheriff Uncredited Girl Crazy John Uncredited In Old Oklahoma Ben Alternative title: War of the Wildcats Gung Ho! Harry the Hamburger Man Uncredited A Guy Named Joe Cpl. Henderson Uncredited What a Woman! Newsman Alternative title: The Beautiful Cheat1944 Chip Off the Old Block Prof. Frost Week-End Pass Sheriff Todd Knickerbocker Holiday Peter Van Stoon Uncredited Her Primitive Man Track Man Pin Up Girl Janitor at Navy Dept. Uncredited The Story of Dr. Wassell Missionary Uncredited Song of the Open Road Man Saying 'Let's Go Pick Oranges' Uncredited Since You Went Away Bartender at Cocktail Lounge Uncredited Wing and a Prayer Sailor Projectionist Uncredited Casanova Brown Hotel Manager Heavenly Days Tower, the Butler The Thin Man Goes Home Tom Can't Help Singing Bath House Barber Uncredited1945 Under Western Skies Sheriff James Whitcolm Wyatt Roughly Speaking Customer in Music Shop Uncredited Patrick the Great Mr. Merney Out of This World Irving Krunk Hitchhike to Happiness Dennis Colby Guest Wife Nosey Stationmaster Week-End at the Waldorf Sam Skelly Spellbound Railway Gateman Uncredited1946 One Way to Love Train Conductor Night Train to Memphis Rainbow Wake Up and Dream Toll Gate Attendant1947 My Brother Talks to Horses Mr. Piper Monsieur Verdoux Pierre Couvais Saddle Pals Thaddeus Bellwether Dear Ruth Delivery Man The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Melvin Alternative title: Bachelor Knight (UK) High Wall Gas Station Owner Uncredited1948 Rocky Bert Hillman Albuquerque Dave Walton Adventures in Silverado Jake Willis State of the Union Buck Swanson The Velvet Touch Albert Good Sam Tramp Moonrise Judd Jenkins Family Honeymoon Mr. Webb Words and Music Hollywood Realtor Uncredited Whispering Smith Telegrapher Uncredited California's Golden Beginning Short1949 Dynamite Jake John Loves Mary George Beachwood Uncredited The Green Promise Mr Larkins El Paso Stage Passenger Uncredited The Big Cat Matt Cooper - Mailman Manhandled Sgt. Fayle Night Unto Night Real Estate Agent (scenes deleted) It's a Great Feeling RR Information Clerk The House Across the Street Jury Foreman Uncredited Dear Wife Mike Man Sons of New Mexico Chris Dobbs1950 Woman in Hiding "Pops" Link Wabash Avenue Harlan Uncredited Riding High Hamburger Man The Happy Years Mr. Conover Uncredited Never a Dull Moment Tunk Johnson Uncredited Born to Be Bad Jewelry Salesman Emergency Wedding Filbert - Mechanic Mr. Music Benson, Jewelry Clerk Uncredited1951 Cause for Alarm! Joe Carston Katie Did It Conductor Here Comes the Groom Baines, Butler Honeychile Abner Desert of Lost Men Sheriff Skeeter Davis1952 Room for One More Mayor Michael J. Kane Rose of Cimarron Sheriff O. Henry's Full House Ebenezer Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief"), Uncredited1953 Kansas Pacific Casey Fort Ti Sgt. Monday Wash Sweethearts on Parade Sheriff Doolittle Devil's Canyon Old Guard1954 The Glenn Miller Story Mr. Miller Duffy of San Quentin Doc Sorin Ma and Pa Kettle at Home John Maddocks Black Horse Canyon Doc A Star Is Born Graves 1955 Run for Cover Scotty 1955 At Gunpoint Al Ferguson 1955 Hidden Guns Doc Carter 1956 Dakota Incident Tully Morgan 1958 Ambush at Cimarron Pass Judge Stanfield 1958 Fort Massacre Charlie 1958 Fort Apache Television Year Title Role Notes 1951 The Bigelow Theatre 1 episode 1952 I Love Lucy Mr. Willoughby 1 episode 1953 The Ford Television Theatre 1 episode 1954 Four Star Playhouse Hamilton Carter 1 episode 1954–1955 My Little Margie Mr. Townsend - Roberta's father 2 episodes1955 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Charlie Irwin, Sr. 1 episode Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre Dad 1 episode I Love Lucy Will Potter (Ethel's Father) 1 Episode 1956 Cavalcade of America Patton 1 episode 1956–1957 December Bride Andyi 2 episodes 1957 The Gale Storm Show Crackers 1 episode1958 The Real McCoys Howard Anderson 1 episode The Donna Reed Show Mayor Webster 1 episode 1960 Laramie Tooey 1 episode