Walter Bacon

Walter Bacon

Born: May 13, 1891
Died: November 7, 1973
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Walter Bacon...

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Title: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Character: Treasure Hunter (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
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Munster, Go Home!
Title: Munster, Go Home!
Character: Pub Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn't named Lord Munster. An on-board romance had blossomed between Marilyn and Roger, but on land Marilyn discovers Roger's family holds a longstanding grudge against the Munsters.
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Mary Poppins
Title: Mary Poppins
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Title: Robin and the 7 Hoods
Character: Derelict
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?
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Seven Days in May
Title: Seven Days in May
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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Twilight of Honor
Title: Twilight of Honor
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a retired, legendary lawyer for help.
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Critic's Choice
Title: Critic's Choice
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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Gypsy
Title: Gypsy
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
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The Chapman Report
Title: The Chapman Report
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
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Advise & Consent
Title: Advise & Consent
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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Psycho
Title: Psycho
Character: Church Member (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1960
Type: Movie
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Title: Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Character: Circus Spectator
Released: January 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Beauty Contest Guest
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Westbound
Title: Westbound
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1959
Type: Movie
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Man at Campaign HQ (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Witness for the Prosecution
Title: Witness for the Prosecution
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.
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Chicago Confidential
Title: Chicago Confidential
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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The Fastest Gun Alive
Title: The Fastest Gun Alive
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Church Member (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
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The Proud Ones
Title: The Proud Ones
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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The Bigamist
Title: The Bigamist
Character: Attorney
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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The Iron Mistress
Title: The Iron Mistress
Character: Casino Patron
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
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Glory Alley
Title: Glory Alley
Character: Boxing Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
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Bannerline
Title: Bannerline
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Title: A Streetcar Named Desire
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
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Roadblock
Title: Roadblock
Character: Caleb (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1951
Type: Movie
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
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In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Storm Warning
Title: Storm Warning
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister (Day).
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Bright Leaf
Title: Bright Leaf
Character: Man at Tobacco Auction (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Reign of Terror
Title: Reign of Terror
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
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The Man from Colorado
Title: The Man from Colorado
Released: August 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
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The Miracle of the Bells
Title: The Miracle of the Bells
Character: Townsman
Released: March 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Pursued
Title: Pursued
Character: Townsman at Trial (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Commuter (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Barfly
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Commuter (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Pedestrian
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Passerby (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Spy (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: City Room Employee (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Onlooker (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Title: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Character: Sidewalk Passerby (extra)
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.