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Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon

12 films · 1,014 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19802024

Born 8 July 1958 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and appeared in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical drama 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).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 1,014 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19802024

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film2009
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
  • Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television2013
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,014 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kevin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 12 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Kevin takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night34%
Interior10%

Lighting

Natural55%
Low key29%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium46%
Closeup24%
Wide20%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense21%
Ominous6%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,014 frames from Kevin Bacon's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.