# Kevin Bacon filmography

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.

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1978 | National Lampoon's Animal House | Chip Diller | |
| 1979 | Starting Over | Husband - Young Couple | |
| 1980 | Hero at Large | 2nd Teenager | |
| 1980 | Friday the 13th | Jack Burrell | |
| 1981 | Only When I Laugh | Don Holcroft | |
| 1982 | Diner | Timothy Fenwick Jr. | |
| 1982 | Forty Deuce | Ricky | |
| 1983 | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Dennis | |
| 1984 | Footloose | Ren McCormack | |
| 1985 | The Little Sister | Probation Officer | Uncredited |
| 1986 | Quicksilver | Jack Casey | |
| 1987 | White Water Summer | Vic | |
| 1987 | End of the Line | Everett | |
| 1987 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles | Taxi Racer | |
| 1988 | She's Having a Baby | Jefferson "Jake" Edward Briggs | |
| 1989 | Criminal Law | Martin Thiel | |
| 1989 | The Big Picture | Nick Chapman | |
| 1990 | Tremors | Valentine "Val" McKee | |
| 1990 | Flatliners | David Labraccio | |
| 1991 | Pyrates | Ari | |
| 1991 | Queens Logic | Dennis | |
| 1991 | He Said, She Said | Dan Hanson | |
| 1991 | JFK | Willie O'Keefe | |
| 1991 | A Little Vicious | Narrator | Short film |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | Captain Jack Ross | |
| 1994 | The Air Up There | Jimmy Dolan | |
| 1994 | The River Wild | Wade | |
| 1994 | New York Skyride | Narrator | Short film |
| 1995 | Murder in the First | Henri Young | |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Jack Swigert | |
| 1995 | Balto | Balto (voice) | |
| 1996 | Sleepers | Sean Nokes | |
| 1996 | Losing Chase | — | Director only |
| 1997 | Picture Perfect | Sam Mayfair | |
| 1997 | Destination Anywhere | Mike | |
| 1997 | Digging to China | Ricky Schroth | |
| 1997 | Telling Lies in America | Billy Magic | |
| 1998 | Wild Things | Sgt. Ray Duquette | |
| 1999 | Stir of Echoes | Tom Witzky | |
| 2000 | My Dog Skip | Jack Morris | |
| 2000 | We Married Margo | Himself | |
| 2000 | Hollow Man | Sebastian Caine | |
| 2001 | Novocaine | Lance Phelps | |
| 2002 | Trapped | Joe Hickey | |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Sean Devine | |
| 2003 | In the Cut | John Graham | |
| 2003 | Imagine New York | Himself | Short film |
| 2004 | The Woodsman | Walter | |
| 2004 | Cavedweller | Randall Pritchard | |
| 2004 | Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature | Narrator | Short film |
| 2005 | Loverboy | Marty Stoll | Also director and producer |
| 2005 | Beauty Shop | Jorge Christophe/George Christie | |
| 2005 | Where the Truth Lies | Lanny Morris | |
| 2007 | Death Sentence | Nick Hume | |
| 2007 | Rails & Ties | Tom Stark | |
| 2007 | Saving Angelo | Brent | Short film |
| 2008 | The Air I Breathe | Love | |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Jack Brennan | |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Man | These Vagabond Shoes segment cut from theatrical release |
| 2009 | My One and Only | Dan Devereaux | |
| 2009 | These Vagabond Shoes | Tom | Short film |
| 2009 | Beyond All Boundaries | Robert Sherrod (voice) | Short film |
| 2010 | Super | Jacques | |
| 2011 | Elephant White | Jimmy the Brit | |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | Sebastian Shaw | |
| 2011 | Crazy, Stupid, Love | David Lindhagen | |
| 2012 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Carroll Caldwell | |
| 2013 | R.I.P.D. | Bobby Hayes | |
| 2013 | Skum Rocks! | Himself | |
| 2015 | Cop Car | Sheriff Kretzer | |
| 2015 | Black Mass | Charles McGuire | |
| 2016 | The Darkness | Peter Taylor | |
| 2016 | Patriots Day | Richard DesLauriers | |
| 2020 | You Should Have Left | Theo Conroy | |
| 2022 | Space Oddity | Jeff McAllister | |
| 2022 | They/Them | Owen Whistler | |
| 2022 | One Way | Fred Sullivan Sr. | |
| 2023 | The Toxic Avenger | Bob Garbinger | |
| 2023 | Leave the World Behind | Danny | |
| 2024 | MaXXXine | John Labat | |
| 2024 | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Captain Cade Grant | |
Key :
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |

## Television

Film :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1979 | Search for Tomorrow | Todd Adamson | |
| 1979 | The Gift | Teddy | Television film |
| 1980–1981 | Guiding Light | T. J. 'Tim' Werner # 2 | 7 episodes |
| 1983 | The Demon Murder Case | Kenny Miller | Television film |
| 1984 | Mister Roberts | Ens. Frank Pulver | Television film |
| 1986 | American Playhouse | Probation Officer | Episode: "The Little Sister" |
| 1988 | Lemon Sky | Alan | Television film |
| 1991 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: "Kevin Bacon/INXS" |
| 1994 | Frasier | Vic (voice) | Episode: "Adventures in Paradise: Part 2" |
| 2000 | God, the Devil and Bob | Himself (voice) | Episode: "Bob Gets Involved" |
| 2002, 2006 | Will & Grace | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2006–2009 | The Closer | — | 4 episodes; director only |
| 2009 | Taking Chance | Lt. Col. Michael Strobl | Television film |
| 2009 | The Magic 7 | Himself | Television film |
| 2009 | Human Family Tree | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2010 | Bored to Death | Himself | Episode: "Forty-Two Down!" |
| 2011 | Robot Chicken | Pringle / Ren McCormack (voices) | 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 |
| 2017 | Story of a Girl | Michael | Television film |
| 2019 | SMILF | Himself | Episode: "So Maybe I Look Feminine" |
| 2019–2022 | City on a Hill | Jackie Rohr | Main role |
| 2019 | Live in Front of a Studio Audience | Pinky Peterson | 2 episodes |
| 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 | Himself | Television special |
| 2023 | RuPaul's Drag Race | Himself (special guest) | Episode: "Reunited!" |
| 2025 | American Dad! | Himself (voice) | Episode: "The Legend of Mike Madonia, the Rototiller Man" |
| 2025 | The Bondsman † | Hub Halloran | Lead role |
| 2025 | Sirens † | Peter Kell | Lead role, Limited Series; Post-production |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Voice |
| 1996 | You Don't Know Jack Volume 2 | Himself |