The following is the filmography for American actor Kevin Bacon. His most notable roles have been in: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), Diner (1982), Footloose (1984), Quicksilver (1986), White Water Summer (1987) She's Having a Baby (1988), Flatliners and Tremors (both 1990), He Said, She Said and JFK (both 1991), A Few Good Men (1992), The River Wild (1994), The Air Up There (1994), Murder in the First and Apollo 13 (both 1995), Sleepers (1996), Wild Things (1998), Stir of Echoes (1999), Hollow Man and My Dog Skip (both 2000), Trapped (2002), Mystic River (2003), The Woodsman (2004), Death Sentence (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), X-Men: First Class and Crazy, Stupid, Love (both 2011), Black Mass (2015), Patriots Day (2016), The Darkness (2016) and MaXXXine (2024).
In 2009, he starred in the television movie Taking Chance , for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. He had previously won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1995 as part of the ensemble cast of Apollo 13 . In 2013, Bacon starred in the Fox television series The Following in his first regular role on television, for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1978 | Animal House | Chip Diller | ||
1979 | Starting Over | Husband - Young Couple | ||
1980 | Hero at Large | 2nd Teenager | ||
Friday the 13th | Jack Burrell | |||
1981 | Only When I Laugh | Don Holcroft | ||
1982 | Diner | Timothy Fenwick Jr. | ||
Forty Deuce | Ricky | |||
1983 | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Dennis | ||
1984 | Footloose | Ren McCormack | ||
1986 | Quicksilver | Jack Casey | ||
1987 | White Water Summer | Vic | ||
End of the Line | Everett | |||
Planes, Trains and Automobiles | Taxi Racer | |||
1988 | She's Having a Baby | Jefferson "Jake" Edward Briggs | ||
1989 | Criminal Law | Martin Thiel | ||
The Big Picture | Nick Chapman | |||
1990 | Tremors | Valentine "Val" McKee | ||
Flatliners | David Labraccio | |||
1991 | Pyrates | Ari | ||
Queens Logic | Dennis | |||
He Said, She Said | Dan Hanson | |||
JFK | Willie O'Keefe | |||
A Little Vicious | The Narrator | Short film | ||
1992 | A Few Good Men | Captain Jack Ross | ||
1994 | The Air Up There | Jimmy Dolan | ||
The River Wild | Wade | |||
New York Skyride | The Narrator | Short film | ||
1995 | Murder in the First | Henri Young | ||
Apollo 13 | Jack Swigert | |||
Balto | Balto | Voice | ||
1996 | Sleepers | Sean Nokes | ||
1997 | Picture Perfect | Sam Mayfair | ||
Digging to China | Ricky Schroth | |||
Telling Lies in America | Billy "Magic" | |||
1998 | Wild Things | Sergeant Ray Duquette | Also executive producer | |
1999 | Stir of Echoes | Tom Witzky | ||
2000 | My Dog Skip | Jack Morris | ||
We Married Margo | Himself | |||
Hollow Man | Sebastian Caine | |||
2001 | Novocaine | Lance Phelps | ||
2002 | Trapped | Joe Hickey | ||
2003 | Mystic River | Detective Sean Devine | ||
In the Cut | John Graham | |||
Imagine New York | Himself | Short film | ||
2004 | The Woodsman | Walter | ||
Cavedweller | Randall Pritchard | |||
Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature | The Narrator | Short film | ||
2005 | Loverboy | Marty Stoll | Also director and producer | |
Beauty Shop | Jorge Christophe / George Christie | |||
Where the Truth Lies | Lanny Morris | |||
2007 | The Air I Breathe | Dr. Love | ||
Death Sentence | Nick Hume | |||
Rails & Ties | Tom Stark | |||
Saving Angelo | Brent | Short film | ||
2008 | New York, I Love You | Man | Segment: "These Vagabond Shoes" (cut from theatrical release) | |
Frost/Nixon | Jack Brennan | |||
2009 | My One and Only | Dan Devereaux | ||
These Vagabond Shoes | Tom | Short film | ||
Beyond All Boundaries | Robert Sherrod | Voice; short film | ||
2010 | Super | Jacques | ||
2011 | Elephant White | Jimmy "The Brit" | ||
X-Men: First Class | Sebastian Shaw | |||
Crazy, Stupid, Love | David Lindhagen | |||
2012 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Carroll Caldwell | ||
2013 | R.I.P.D. | Bobby Hayes | ||
Skum Rocks! | Himself | |||
2015 | Cop Car | Sheriff Kretzer | ||
Black Mass | FBI Agent-In-Charge Charles McGuire | |||
2016 | The Darkness | Peter Taylor | ||
Patriots Day | Richard DesLauriers | |||
2020 | You Should Have Left | Theo Conroy | ||
2022 | Space Oddity | Jeff McAllister | ||
They/Them | Owen Whistler | |||
One Way | Fred Sullivan Sr. | |||
2023 | The Toxic Avenger | Bob Garbinger | ||
Leave the World Behind | Danny | |||
2024 | MaXXXine | John Labat | [1] [2] | |
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Captain Cade Grant | [3] | ||
2025 | The Best You Can | Stan Olszewski | Also producer |
† | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1979 | Search for Tomorrow | Todd Adamson | ||
The Gift | Teddy Devlin | Television film | ||
1980–1981 | Guiding Light | T.J. "Tim" Werner # 2 | 7 episodes | |
1983 | The Demon Murder Case | Kenny Miller | Television film | [4] |
1984 | Mister Roberts | Ensign Frank Pulver | ||
1986, 1988 | American Playhouse | Probation Officer, Alan | Episodes: "The Little Sister" (uncredited) and "Lemon Sky" | |
1991 | Saturday Night Live | Himself | Host; episode: "Kevin Bacon/INXS" | |
1994 | Frasier | Vic | Voice Episode: "Adventures in Paradise: Part 2" | |
1996 | Losing Chase | — | Director only | |
1997 | Destination Anywhere | Mike | Television film | |
2000 | God, the Devil and Bob | Himself | Voice; episode: "Bob Gets Involved" | |
2002, 2006 | Will & Grace | 2 episodes | ||
2006–2009 | The Closer | — | 4 episodes; director only | |
2009 | Taking Chance | Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl | Television film | |
The Magic 7 | Himself | |||
Human Family Tree | The Narrator | Documentary | ||
2010 | Bored to Death | Himself | Episode: "Forty-Two Down!" | |
2011 | Robot Chicken | Pringle / Ren McCormack | Voice; episode: "Beastmaster and Commander" | |
2013–2015 | The Following | Ryan Hardy | 45 episodes | |
2016 | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Himself | Episode: "Kevin Bacon Wears a Blue Button Down Shirt and Brown Boots" | |
2016–2017 | I Love Dick | Dick | 8 episodes | |
2017 | Tour de Pharmacy | Ditmer Klerken | Television film | |
Story of a Girl | Michael | |||
2019 | SMILF | Himself | Episode: "So Maybe I Look Feminine" | |
Live in Front of a Studio Audience | "Pinky" Peterson | 2 episodes | [5] | |
2019–2022 | City on a Hill | Jackie Rohr | Main role | |
2021 | Ben & Jerry's: Battle of the Cone | Himself | Special guest; episode: "Six Flavors of Kevin Bacon" | |
2022 | The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special | Television special | ||
2023 | RuPaul's Drag Race | Special guest (season 15); episode: "Reunited!" | ||
2025 | American Dad! | Voice; episode: "The Legend of Mike Madonia, the Rototiller Man" | ||
The Bondsman | Hub Halloran | Lead role | [6] | |
Sirens | Peter Kell | Lead role; miniseries | ||
Year | Title | Voice |
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1996 | You Don't Know Jack Volume 2 | Himself |