The Lloyd Bacon papers span the years 1929-1963 (bulk 1940s) and encompass approximately 9 linear feet. The collection contains production files, television files, and subject files.

Lloyd Francis Bacon, son of film actor and writer Frank Bacon, was born in 1889 in San Jose, California. He was an actor and director active in film from 1914 to 1954. He played supporting and lead roles in comedies directed by Charlie Chaplin in the 1910s, and he directed Lloyd Hamilton and Mack Sennett short comedies in the 1920s. His acting and directing careers overlapped in the 1920s, but by the 1930s Bacon was focused solely on directing feature films. As a feature director he specialized in Warner Bros. musical comedies choreographed by Busby Berkeley. In later years, he directed many different film genres while under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox.

9 linear feet of papers. 1 linear feet of photographs.

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