Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Francis Bacon ( born December 4, 1889 in San Jose, California, † November 15, 1955 in Burbank, California ) was an American actor and director.
Career
Lloyd Bacon began his career as a stage actor, and joined in 1915 on the side of Broncho Billy Anderson and Charlie Chaplin in the movie business. He went with Chaplin together in 1918 to Mutual and moved a year later to the Triangle. 1921 Lloyd Bacon began working as a director of short films by Mack Sennett's Keystone production company Corporation. From the late 1920s, Bacon, who was now at First National and following their merger of Warner Brothers developed under contract to one of the most influential directors of the studio. In 1928, he led Al Jolson with The Singing Fool, to his great financial success and soon became one of the leading musical directors in the industry. He often worked with Busby Berkeley together, so stylish strips forming as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, both from 1933, as well as Wonder Bar of 1934. Bacon got along with each genre, and soon gained a reputation as an excellent craftsman who with limited financial resources could produce good films. Through the long years as a comedian Bacon had a good sense of timing and was able to bring extensive dialogues well and alive on the canvas.