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Lyle Talbot

Born 1902-02-08

Died 1996-03-02

📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Lyle Talbot (born Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996) 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.

Filmography 263

as Inspector Warren (archival audio) (uncredited)

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

Inside the Dream Factory

Batmania: From Comics to Screen

as Self / Commissioner Gordon (archive footage)

George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head

That's Dancing!

Who's the Boss?

as Johnny Barnes

The Case of Dashiell Hammett

as Dashiell Hammett

Goldie Gold and Action Jack

as Additional Voices (voice)

Charlie's Angels

as French Representative

as Avery Dawson

as Horace Bennett

as Sen. Lyle Talbot

as Gov. Carstairs

Run for Your Life

as Steven Blakely

The Legend of Jesse James

Petticoat Junction

Arrest and Trial

as Mr. Stanford

as Howard Wilcox

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Second Psychiatrist

as Woody Gaynor

as George Hausner

The Roaring 20's

as Alan Crandell

Sunrise at Campobello

Around the World with Nellie Bly

Dennis the Menace

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as The Handsome Dude in Bar

as Chief Jensen

as Dr. Otis Gray

77 Sunset Strip

High School Confidential!

as William Remington Kane

The Notorious Mr. Monks

as Leonardo, Prosecuting Attorney

Leave It to Beaver

as Mr. Chuck Dennison

The Restless Gun

as Michael Garvin Sr.

as Paul Crowley

Guns Don't Argue

as Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon

God Is My Partner

as Dr. Warburton, Psychiatrist

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Plan 9 from Outer Space

as General Roberts

as Harry Connors

Calling Homicide

as Harry Woodruff

Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe

Buffalo Bill Jr.

The Millionaire

The Bob Cummings Show

There's No Business Like Show Business

as Stage Manager (uncredited)

as Square, Convict, segment "The Hostages"

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

as Bill Jeffries

Tobor the Great

Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl

The Mad Magician

as Program Hawker (uncredited)

as Inspector John

Gunfighters of the Northwest

as Inspector Wheeler

Public Defender

Stories of the Century

as Colonel Marsham

Trader Tom of the China Seas

as Miller Executive

Six Gun Decision

Wings of the Hawk

as Captain Blair

Mesa of Lost Women

as Narrator (voice)

as Inspector Warren

White Lightning

as Rocky Gibraltar

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

as Major Gerald Curwin

as Telegraph Operator

Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid

as British Ship Captain

The Abbott and Costello Show

Terry and the Pirates

Wyoming Roundup

Son of Geronimo

as Col. Foster [Chs.5-6]

Desperadoes' Outpost

as Walter Fleming

Mr. & Mrs. North

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

as Joe Randolph (uncredited)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

as Joe Randolph

The Ford Television Theatre

Cavalcade of America

as Doc Lockwood

as Big Jim, bank robbery leader

Hopalong Cassidy

Montana Incident

as Mr. Williams, Insurance Man

African Treasure

as Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy

as Judge Roger Dixon

With a Song in My Heart

as Radio Station Director (uncredited)

Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics

as Captain Hamilton

Dangerous Assignment

Dangerous Assignment

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Father Serra

Purple Heart Diary

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Fred Carlson

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Dr. Mitchell Heller

as Wildcat Cannon

The Adventures of Kit Carson

Varieties on Parade

Hurricane Island

as Doctor (uncredited)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as W.T. Emerson

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as City Detective

Man from Sonora

as Sheriff Frank Casey

Mask of the Dragon

as Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin

Fury of the Congo

Fingerprints Don't Lie

as Police Lt. Grayson

Colorado Ambush

as Sheriff Ed Lowery

as Augustus 'Gus' King

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Cherokee Uprising

as Chief Marshal

as Ranger Captain McLain

as Prison Yard Guard

Atom Man vs. Superman

as Luthor, alias The Atom Man

as Agent Johnson

as Bruce McDermott

Champagne for Caesar

as Executive No. 2

as Official from District Attorney's Office

Everybody's Dancin'

The Daltons' Women

The Lone Ranger

as George Wilson

The Lone Ranger

as Roger Burnett

The Lone Ranger

as Radio Announcer

Mississippi Rhythm

Batman and Robin

as Commissioner Jim Gordon

as Andrew J. Barrett

as Capt. Jim Duncan

as Blinky Harris

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

as Company Detective

Shep Comes Home

Quick on the Trigger

as Garvey Yager

Appointment with Murder

as Police Commissioner Hughes

Thunder in the Pines

as Nick Roulade

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

The Vicious Circle

as Johnny Morello

as Charles Johnson

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West

as George Pierce

North of the Border

as Sgt. Jack Craig

Chick Carter, Detective

as Chick Carter

Strange Impersonation

as Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator

Song of Arizona

Murder Is My Business

as Buell Renslow

as Lucky Dorgan

One Body Too Many

Mystery of the Riverboat

as Rudolph Toller

Trail to Gunsight

as U. S. Marshal Bill Hollister

as Anthony 'Tony' Sardell

Sensations of 1945

Gambler's Choice

as Yellow Gloves Weldon

The Falcon Out West

as Sergeant Gelsey

A Night for Crime

The Meanest Man in the World

as Bill Potts (uncredited)

as George Dickson

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

They Raid by Night

as Capt. Robert Owen

She's in the Army

as Army Capt. Steve Russell

He Married His Wife

Miracle on Main Street

as Lt. Bob Bennett

as Willie Hogger

Forged Passport

I Stand Accused

as Charles Eastman

The Arkansas Traveler

as Matt Collins

as Henry Porter

as Singer Martin

Call of The Yukon

as Hugo Henderson

Change of Heart

as Phillip Reeves

Second Honeymoon

West Bound Limited

as Dave Tolliver aka Bob Kirk

What Price Vengeance

as 'Dynamite' Hogan / Tom Connors

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

Mind Your Own Business

Go West Young Man

as Francis X. Harrigan

Trapped by Television

Murder by an Aristocrat

as Allen Carick

The Law in Her Hands

as Frank Gordon

The Singing Kid

as Mr. Harry Lacy

A Dream Comes True

as Himself (uncredited)

Broadway Hostess

as Lucky Lorimer

The Case of the Lucky Legs

as Dr. Robert Doray

Page Miss Glory

Oil for the Lamps of China

Chinatown Squad

It Happened in New York

as Charley Barnes

While the Patient Slept

as Ross Lonergan

as Wallace Storm

Our Little Girl

The Secret Bride

as Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Murder in the Clouds

as Bob 'Three Star' Halsey

The Dragon Murder Case

One Night of Love

as Bill Houston

Return of the Terror

as Dr. Leonard Goodman

Fog Over Frisco

as Spencer Carlton

Registered Nurse

as Dr. Greg Connolly

And She Learned About Dames

as Dr. Gregory Burton

A Shriek in the Night

Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Don A. Andrews

She Had to Say Yes

as Daniel 'Danny' Drew

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

as Geoffrey Warning (voice) (uncredited)

The 42nd Street Special

as Self (uncredited)

Ladies They Talk About

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

as Bud Saunders

No More Orchids

Three on a Match

as Michael Loftus

as Len 'Lenny' Sully (uncredited)

as Robert Cromwell

The Thirteenth Guest

as Phil Winston

The Purchase Price

as Eddie Fields

Love is a Racket

as Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw

as Dr. Jerome Preston 'Jerry' Gregory

as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)

Stranger in Town