Irving Bacon

83 films on Best Blurays6 in 4K50 in HD17 in SD10 with no official release

Irving Bacon (September 6, 1893 – February 5, 1965) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 500 films. Bacon played on the stage for a number of years before getting into films in 1920. He was sometimes cast in films directed by Lloyd Bacon (incorrectly named as his brother in some sources) such as The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). He often played comical "average guys". In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he played the weary postman Mr. Crumb in Columbia Pictures' Blondie film series. One of his bigger roles was as a similarly flustered postman in the thriller Cause for Alarm! in 1952. During the 1950s, Bacon worked steadily in a number of television sitcoms, most notably I Love Lucy, where he appeared in two episodes, one which cast him as Ethel Mertz's father.

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This Is the Night (1932)

Supporting role · Director: Frank Tuttle

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Universal Blu-ray seems to be an old HD scan and doesn't look too good

3.3

Room for One More (1952)

Supporting role · Director: Norman Taurog

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

Internes Can't Take Money (1937)

Supporting role · Director: Alfred Santell

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Barbara Stanwyck Collection Blu-ray

3.3

Holiday Inn (1942)

Supporting role · Director: Mark Sandrich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray, 80th Anniversary Edition

The Saturday Night Kid (1929)

Supporting role · Director: A. Edward Sutherland

Best English-Friendly & Video:

AlphaVideo DVD

Sources: filmforum.org (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Otherwise, it only has 35mm available, no Blu-ray release

3.1

A Star Is Born (1954)

Supporting role · Director: George Cukor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical cut / Roadshow cut: 35mm scans

Restored cut: WB Blu-ray

3.9

Guest Wife (1945)

Supporting role · Director: Sam Wood

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

3.3

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Supporting role · Director: Anthony Mann

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Shout Factory Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and 2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.