Archie J. Bacon

Nacimiento : 1919-09-05, Denver, Colorado, USA

Películas

When She Says No
Art Direction
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them of rape, but the men say otherwise.
Cowboy
Production Design
A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people running the town want his land.
Washington Mistress
Art Direction
Maggie Parker, a U.S. Senator's ambitious aide, falls head over heels for her boss' chief adversary, Michael Reynolds, a high-powered lobbyist who happens to be married with children. Both mismatched lovers become involved in a long-running affair.
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Art Direction
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Back to the Planet of the Apes
Art Direction
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an eathquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Art Direction
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat mentally challenged young man who wants to win bodybuilding championships, but needs some help and direction--and the promoter thinks he's just the one to do it.
Waikiki
Art Direction
A couple of private eyes, a laid-back Californian and a streetwise New Yorker, team up to track down a killer in Hawaii known as "The Cane Field Murderer" in this unsuccessful pilot to a detective series.
True Grit: A Further Adventure
Art Direction
The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.
King Kong
Art Direction
La "Petrox Company" envía una expedición, dirigida por Fred Wilson, a la Micronesia con la intención de encontrar petróleo. Con ellos va Jack Prescott, cuyo objetivo es encontrar un monstruo prehistórico. Durante la travesía, se encuentran un bote con una mujer que se ha salvado del naufragio del barco en que viajaba con un productor de cine. Cuando desembarcan, descubren una gran empalizada, y dentro observan que unos nativos colocan a una mujer nativa en una plataforma, mientras invocan a una misteriosa deidad animal.
State Fair
Art Direction
Melissa and Jim Bryant live on an Iowa farm with their adult son Chuck, their adult daughter Karen, and their teenage son Wayne, who is a high school sophomore. Wayne is a talented singer and guitarist who dreams of country music stardom. Karen, newly separated from her husband, has recently rejoined the family with her own young son Tommy, who misses his father. This was a pilot film for a proposed television series that was not picked up.
Man on the Outside
Art Direction
A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
A Cry in the Wilderness
Art Direction
The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
Hitchhike!
Art Direction
A Los Angeles woman, on her way to visit her sister in San Fransisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fails to notice his strange behavior until it is too late.
Un mes de abstinencia
Art Direction
Un experto en relaciones públicas convence al propietario de una empresa tabacalera para patrocinar un concurso en el que se ofrecen 25 millones de dólares a cualquier pueblo de EE.UU. que consiga que sus habitantes dejen de fumar durante 30 días. El Reverendo Brooks lidera a Eagle Rock para vencer en este particular desafío, a pesar de que algunos ejecutivos de la tabacalera estén empeñados en que no cumplan el objetivo. Si los ciudadanos no se vuelven locos y no se matan debido al síndrome de abstinencia, podrán ganar un fabuloso premio.
D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
Art Direction
D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.