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Kevin Bacon's career in pictures
18 ImagesKevin Bacon built his career on movies, but his recent jump into television might be his most distinguished.
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Kevin Bacon stars in the 1978 comedy National Lampoon's Animal House.
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Kevin Bacon opts for the independent life of a bicycle messenger in Quicksilver.Credit:Columbia Pictures
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The 1984 smash hit Footloose starring Kevin Bacon.Credit:Moviestore collection Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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Kevin Bacon and Gary Oldman from the movie Criminal Law.
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Cavedweller starring Kevin Bacon.
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Where The Truth Lies starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth.
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Queen Latifah and Kevin Bacon in the film Beauty Shop.Credit:20th Century Fox
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Murder in the First: Kevin Bacon plays Henri Young, a petty thief who has been sent to Alcatraz.
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Mystic River starring Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn.
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Actress Elisabeth Shue and actor Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man about a scientist who develops a serum for invisibility.Credit:REUTERS/Sony Pictures Imageworks
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A scene from Hollywood Pictures' 1994 basketball comedy The Air Up There, starring Kevin Bacon as Jimmy Dolan.Credit:Roadshow Film Distributors
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Apollo 13 starring, from left, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Tom Hanks.
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Kevin Bacon in The Woodsman.
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Race against time: Kevin Bacon, Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman as Boston bombing investigators in Patriots Day.Credit:Karen Ballard/CBS Films
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Kathryn Hahn, left, and Kevin Bacon in I Love Dick, by Jill Soloway.Credit:AP
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Kevin Bacon and Jeannine Taylor in Friday the 13th.
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Kevin Bacon in TV hit The Following.
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Kevin Bacon as Jackie Rohr in City on a Hill, streaming exclusively on Stan.Credit:Claire Folger/SHOWTIME
