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Kevin Bacon

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Kevin Bacon

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Also known as Kevin Norwood Bacon

American actor (born 1958)

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Kevin Bacon is an American male composer and author. Born on July 8, 1958, he began his professional work period in 1978. His written works include *E-Government* and *Apollo 13/Widescreen/Clv*. He has two children and maintains an official website.

Bacon is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His music has been played 32,977 times by 8,011 listeners on Last.fm. He has 805,926 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • E-Government
  • Apollo 13/Widescreen/Clv

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1977-03-17
composer
DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8,011
Total plays
32,977

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, and Tremors. Together with his brother forms the duo The Bacon Brothers. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kevin+Bacon">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,908x

  2. NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 60,446x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,562x

  4. <i>Coot</i>: model-building tools for molecular graphics

    · 2004 · cited 29,256x

  5. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,494x

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Encyclopedic overview

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) 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.

Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and performed in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical-drama film Footloose (1984). Since then, he has starred in critically acclaimed films such as JFK (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Other credits include Friday the 13th (1980), Tremors (1990), The River Wild (1994), Balto (1995), The Woodsman (2004), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Patriots Day (2016). Bacon has also directed the films Losing Chase (1996) and Loverboy (2005).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kevin Bacon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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