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Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot

Actor · 1902 – 1996 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Lyle Talbot (born Lisle Henderson) was an American actor on stage and screen, known for his career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. He played Ozzie Nelson's friend and neighbor, Joe Randolph, for ten years in the ABC situation comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He began his movie career under contract with Warner Brothers in the early days of sound film. He appeared in more than 150 films, first as a young matinee idol and later as a character actor and star of many B movies. He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild and later served on its board. Talbot's long career as an actor is recounted in a book by his youngest daughter, The New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot, entitled The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books 2012). Most notable among Talbot's film work were his appearances in Three on a Match and 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (both 1932). He played a star running back in College Coach (1933) with Pat O'Brien and Dick Powell, romanced opera singer Grace Moore in One Night of Love in 1934, and pursued Mae West in Go West, Young Man (1936). He was a gangster in Ladies They Talk About and Heat Lightning and a doctor kicking a drinking habit in Mandalay. He co-starred with Pat O'Brien in Oil for the Lamps of China (1935). He appeared opposite Ann Dvorak, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, as well as sharing the screen with Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and Tyrone Power. Overall, Talbot appeared in some 150 movies.

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  • Movie6.9

    42nd Street

    1933 · 224 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Plan 9 from Outer Space

    1957 · 626 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.3

    Three on a Match

    1932 · 75 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Tobor the Great

    1954 · 33 votes

  • Movie6.9

    That's Dancing!

    1985 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.1

    With a Song in My Heart

    1952 · 17 votes

  • Movie2.5

    Mesa of Lost Women

    1953 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Mad Magician

    1954 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Strange Impersonation

    1946 · 21 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Triple Trouble

    1950 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Federal Man

    1950 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie5.0

    Ringside

    1949 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Fog Over Frisco

    1934 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Our Little Girl

    1935 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Mary Stevens, M.D.

    1933 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Wings of the Hawk

    1953 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Jail Busters

    1955 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.6

    He Married His Wife

    1940 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Gun Town

    1946 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie6.1

    Ladies They Talk About

    1933 · 44 votes

  • Movie5.6

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV7.1

    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV7.4

    Who's the Boss?

    1984 · 311 votes

  • TV7.2

    Newhart

    1982 · 65 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Lucy Show

    1962 · 53 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV7.2

    Green Acres

    1965 · 80 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV7.8
  • TV6.8
  • TV6.9

    Leave It to Beaver

    1957 · 90 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Lone Ranger

    1949 · 36 votes

  • TV6.7

    Here's Lucy

    1968 · 31 votes

  • TV6.2