Kevin Bacon

Born 1958 · American actor

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades such as a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards.

Kevin Bacon, in order

1978 Animal House: acted · directed by John Landis · critics 88%, audiences 89% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, MGM+
1979 Starting Over: acted · directed by Alan J. Pakula
1979 The Gift (TV movie): acted · directed by Don Taylor
1980 Friday the 13th: acted · directed by Sean S. Cunningham
1981 Only When I Laugh: acted · directed by Glenn Jordan
1982 Diner: acted · directed by Barry Levinson · critics 92%, audiences 77%
1982 Forty Deuce: acted · directed by Paul Morrissey
1984 Footloose: acted · directed by Herbert Ross
1984 Mister Roberts (TV movie): acted · directed by Melvin Bernhardt
1986 Quicksilver: acted · directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly
1987 End of the Line: acted · directed by Jay Russell
1987 Planes, Trains and Automobiles: acted · directed by John Hughes
1987 White Water Summer: acted · directed by Jeff Bleckner
1988 Criminal Law: acted · directed by Martin Campbell · critics 30%, audiences 27% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
1988 She's Having a Baby: acted · directed by John Hughes
1989 The Big Picture: acted · directed by Christopher Guest
1990 Flatliners: acted · directed by Joel Schumacher · critics 51%, audiences 59% · streaming on Tubi
1990 Tremors: acted · directed by Ron Underwood · critics 88%, audiences 76%
1991 He Said, She Said: acted · directed by Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver
1991 JFK: acted · directed by Oliver Stone · critics 84%, audiences 88% · streaming on Prime Video, YouTube (free)
1991 Pyrates: acted · directed by Noah Stern
1991 Queens Logic: acted · directed by Steve Rash
1992 A Few Good Men: acted · directed by Rob Reiner · critics 85%, audiences 89% · streaming on fuboTV, Philo
1993 The Air Up There: acted · directed by Paul Michael Glaser
1994 The River Wild: acted · directed by Curtis Hanson · critics 67%, audiences 52% · streaming on Prime Video
1995 Apollo 13: acted · directed by Ron Howard · critics 92%, audiences 87% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, MGM+
1995 Murder in the First: acted · directed by Marc Rocco
1996 Losing Chase (TV movie): directed
1996 Sleepers: acted · directed by Barry Levinson · critics 76%, audiences 85%
1997 Destination Anywhere: acted · directed by Mark Pellington
1997 Digging to China: acted · directed by Timothy Hutton
1997 Picture Perfect: acted · directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
1997 Telling Lies in America: acted · directed by Guy Ferland
1998 Wild Things: produced, acted · directed by John McNaughton
1999 Stir of Echoes: acted · directed by David Koepp
2000 Hollow Man: acted · directed by Paul Verhoeven · critics 24%, audiences 28%
2000 My Dog Skip: acted · directed by Jay Russell
2000 We Married Margo: acted · directed by J. David Shapiro
2001 Novocaine: acted · directed by David Atkins
2002 Trapped: acted · directed by Luis Mandoki · critics 18%, audiences 48% · streaming on Tubi
2003 In the Cut: acted · directed by Jane Campion · critics 35%, audiences 34%
2003 Mystic River: acted · directed by Clint Eastwood · critics 89%, audiences 89%
2004 Cavedweller: acted · directed by Lisa Cholodenko
2004 The Woodsman: acted · directed by Nicole Kassell
2005 Beauty Shop: acted · directed by Bille Woodruff
2005 Loverboy: directed, produced, acted
2005 Where the Truth Lies: acted · directed by Atom Egoyan · critics 41%, audiences 46% · streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film: acted · directed by Jeff McQueen
2006–09 The Closer (TV series): directed
2007 Death Sentence: acted · directed by James Wan
2007 Rails & Ties: acted · directed by Alison Eastwood
2007 The Air I Breathe: acted · directed by Jieho Lee
2008 Connected: The Power of Six Degrees: acted
2008 Frost/Nixon: acted · directed by Ron Howard · critics 93%, audiences 88%
2009 My One and Only: acted · directed by Richard Loncraine
2009 Taking Chance (TV movie): acted · directed by Ross Katz
2009 The Magic 7 (TV movie): acted · directed by Roger Holzberg
2010 Super: acted · directed by James Gunn · critics 50%, audiences 56% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Philo
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love.: acted · directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
2011 Elephant White: acted · directed by Prachya Pinkaew
2011 X-Men: First Class: acted · directed by Matthew Vaughn · critics 86%, audiences 87% · streaming on Disney+, HBO Max
2012 Jayne Mansfield's Car: acted · directed by Billy Bob Thornton
2013 R.I.P.D.: acted · directed by Robert Schwentke
2013 Skum Rocks!: acted · directed by Clay Westervelt
2013 The Following (TV series): acted
2015 Black Mass: acted · directed by Scott Cooper
2015 Cop Car: acted · directed by Jon Watts · critics 82%, audiences 53%
2015 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: acted · directed by Douglas Tirola · critics 87%, audiences 69% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
2016 I Love Dick (TV series): acted
2016 Patriots Day: acted · directed by Peter Berg
2016 The Darkness: acted · directed by Greg McLean
2017 Story of a Girl (TV movie): acted · directed by Kyra Sedgwick
2019 City on a Hill (TV series): acted · directed by Michael Cuesta
2020 You Should Have Left: acted · directed by David Koepp
2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Four (TV series): acted
2022 North Star: acted
2022 One Way: acted · directed by Andrew Baird
2022 Space Oddity: acted · directed by Kyra Sedgwick
2022 They/Them: acted · directed by John Logan
2023 Leave the World Behind: acted · directed by Sam Esmail
2023 The Toxic Avenger: acted · directed by Macon Blair · critics 86%, audiences 80% · streaming on Prime Video
2024 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F: acted · directed by Mark Molloy
2025 Sirens (TV series): acted
2025 The Best You Can: produced · directed by Michael J. Weithorn
2025 The Bondsman (TV series): acted
2027 Beach Read: acted