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Kevin Bacon

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Kevin Bacon

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Also known as Kevin Norwood Bacon

American actor (born 1958)

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Kevin Bacon is an American actor born in 1958 who has had a long career in film and television. He is widely recognized in popular culture and has become notable enough that his name is associated with the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" concept, a game based on connecting actors through their film roles.

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Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, and Tremors. Together with his brother forms the duo The Bacon Brothers. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kevin+Bacon">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,908x

  2. NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 60,446x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,562x

  4. <i>Coot</i>: model-building tools for molecular graphics

    · 2004 · cited 29,256x

  5. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,494x

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Encyclopedic overview

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades such as a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards.

Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and performed in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical-drama film 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). Other credits include Friday the 13th (1980), Tremors (1990), The River Wild (1994), Balto (1995), The Woodsman (2004), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Patriots Day (2016). Bacon has also directed the films Losing Chase (1996) and Loverboy (2005).

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