Kevin Bacon

Biography

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors and Frost/Nixon.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known For

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self

The Daily Show

Self

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Self - Guest

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	The Best You Can	Stan Olszewski
2025	The Toxic Avenger	Bob Garbinger
2024	MaXXXine	John Labat
2024	Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F	Captain Cade Grant
2023	Leave the World Behind	Danny
2023	Space Oddity	Jeff McAllister
2022	They/Them	Owen Whistler
2022	Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough	Self
2022	North Star
2022	The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special	Kevin Bacon
2022	One Way	Fred Sr.
2021	Val	Self (archive footage)
2020	The Legend of Burt Gummer	self
2020	Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw	Self
2020	You Should Have Left	Theo Conroy
2020	Find Your Groove	Self
2020	Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine	Self
2020	Tremors: Making Perfection	Himself
2019	Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives	Self
2019	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"	Pinky Peterson
2017	Story of a Girl	Michael
2017	Tour de Pharmacy	Ditmer Klerken
2017	The Words That Built America	Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2016	The Darkness	Peter Taylor
2016	Paparazzi: Full Throttle LA	Self (archive footage)
2016	Patriots Day	Richard DesLauriers
2015	Cop Car	Sheriff Kretzer
2015	Black Mass	FBI Agent Charles McGuire
2015	Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead	Self - Actor
2013	R.I.P.D.	Bobby Hayes
2013	Jayne Mansfield's Car	Carroll Caldwell
2013	Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story	Self
2013	Skum Rocks!	Self
2013	The Presidents' Gatekeepers	Self - Narrator (voice)
2012	Vanilla Ice Archive	Self (archive footage)
2012	8	Charles J. Cooper
2012	X-Men: First Class 35mm Special	Self - Sebastian Shaw
2011	X-Men: First Class	Sebastian Shaw
2011	Crazy, Stupid, Love.	David Lindhagen
2011	Elephant White	Jimmy the Brit
2011	Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2010	Super	Jacques
2009	Taking Chance	LtCol Mike Strobl
2009	My One and Only	Dan Devereaux
2009	The Human Family Tree	Himself - Narrator
2009	These Vagabond Shoes	Tom
2009	Beyond All Boundaries	Robert Sherrod
2009	New Orleans Animal Rescue	Himself
2008	Frost/Nixon	Jack Brennan
2008	Connected: The Power of Six Degrees	Kevin Bacon
2008	Animal House: The Inside Story	Self
2007	Death Sentence	Nick Hume
2007	The Air I Breathe	Love
2007	Rails & Ties	Tom Stark
2005	Where the Truth Lies	Lanny
2005	Beauty Shop	Jorge
2005	Loverboy	Marty
2004	The Woodsman	Walter
2004	Forces Of Nature	Himself - Narrator
2004	Cavedweller	Randall Pritchard
2003	Mystic River	Sean Devine
2003	In the Cut	John Graham (uncredited)
2002	Trapped	Joe Hickey
2001	Novocaine	Actor Lance Phelps
2001	Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2000	Hollow Man	Sebastian Caine
2000	My Dog Skip	Jack Morris
2000	We Married Margo	Self
1999	Stir of Echoes	Tom Witzky
1999	Diner: On The Flip Side	Self
1998	Wild Things	Sergeant Ray Duquette
1998	The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion	Self - Chip Diller
1997	Digging to China	Ricky Schroth
1997	Picture Perfect	Sam
1997	Telling Lies in America	Billy Magic
1997	Destination Anywhere	Mike
1997	Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life	Self
1996	Sleepers	Sean Nokes
1996	Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13	Self
1995	Apollo 13	Jack Swigert
1995	Balto	Balto (voice)
1995	Murder in the First	Henri Young
1994	The River Wild	Wade
1994	The Air Up There	Jimmy Dolan
1992	A Few Good Men	Capt. Jack Ross
1991	JFK	Willie O'Keefe
1991	He Said, She Said	Dan Hanson
1991	Queens Logic	Dennis
1991	Pyrates	Ari
1991	A Little Vicious	Narrator
1991	America's Funniest Dirty Jokes	Himself
1990	Flatliners	David Labraccio
1990	Tremors	Valentine McKee
1989	Criminal Law	Martin Thiel
1989	The Big Picture	Nick Chapman
1988	She's Having a Baby	Jake Briggs
1988	Lemon Sky	Alan
1987	Planes, Trains and Automobiles	Taxi Racer
1987	End of the Line	Everett
1987	White Water Summer	Vic
1986	Quicksilver	Jack Casey
1986	John Hughes: Time Capsule	Himself
1986	The Tender Age	Probation Officer (uncredited)
1984	Footloose	Ren
1984	Mister Roberts	Ens. Frank Pulver
1983	The Demon Murder Case	Kenny Miller
1983	Enormous Changes at the Last Minute	Dennis
1982	Diner	Timothy Fenwick Jr.
1982	Forty Deuce	Ricky
1981	Only When I Laugh	Don
1980	Friday the 13th	Jack
1980	Hero at Large	2nd Teenager
1979	Starting Over	Husband - Young Couple
1979	The Gift	Teddy
1978	Animal House	Chip Diller
	The Bloody Plumage from Another World	Evil Chicken
	Family Movie

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	The Bondsman	Hub Halloran
2025	Sirens	Peter Kell
2022	Colin from Accounts	Kevin Bacon
2022	Last Meals
2021	Ben & Jerry's: Clash of the Cones	Self
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self
2019	City on a Hill	Jackie Rohr
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show
2018	Tremors	Valentine 'Val' McKee
2017	SMILF	Kevin Bacon
2017	Carpool Karaoke: The Series	Self
2017	No Activity	Kevin Bacon (voice)
2016	I Love Dick	Dick
2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self - Guest
2015	Hot Ones	Self
2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self
2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self
2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self
2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self
2013	The Following	Ryan Hardy
2013	@midnight with Chris Hardwick	Self
2012	Finding Your Roots	Self
2012	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Self
2010	Conan	Self
2009	Bored to Death	Himself
2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Video Message
2009	Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2006	America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions	Self - Narrator (voice)
2005	The Colbert Report
2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self
2005	American Dad!	Kevin Bacon (voice)
2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest
2004	On Air with Ryan Seacrest	The Bacon Brothers (performance)
2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self
2003	Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
2002	American Idol	Self
2001	Critics Choice Awards	Self - Presenter
2000	God, the Devil and Bob	Kevin Bacon (voice)
1999	The Early Show	Self
1999	The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	Self - Guest
1998	Will & Grace	Kevin Bacon
1997	The View	Self
1997	Leute heute	Self
1997	The View	Self - Guest
1996	The Daily Show	Self
1995	The Frank Skinner Show	Self
1993	Frasier	Vic (voice)
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self
1992	Mad About You	Kevin Bacon
1992	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Self
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self
1988	POV	Self - Narrator (voice)
1986	ZDF-Fernsehgarten	Self
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self
1951	Search for Tomorrow