Lyle Talbot
Known for: Acting
Born: February 8, 1902
Died: March 2, 1996
Place of birth: 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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Filmography
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7.8
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
1996
8.0
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
7.8
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
1989
7.4
George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
1986
6.8
227
1985
6.9
That's Dancing!
1985
7.4
Who's the Boss?
1984
5.7
St. Elsewhere
1982
7.2
Newhart
19826.5
The Case of Dashiell Hammett
1982
5.0
Goldie Gold and Action Jack
1981
6.7
Charlie's Angels
1976
5.6
Sonic Boom
1974
6.7
Here's Lucy
1968
7.1
Adam-12
1968
6.4
Laredo
1965
7.0
Mona McCluskey
1965
7.2
Green Acres
1965
7.1
Run for Your Life
1965
5.8
The Legend of Jesse James
19655.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.9
Petticoat Junction
1963
8.3
Arrest and Trial
19637.0
Ben Jerrod
1963
7.0
The Lucy Show
1962
6.9
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
7.8
87th Precinct
1961
6.8
Mister Ed
1961
NR
The Roaring 20's
1960
6.3
Surfside 6
1960
6.0
Sunrise at Campobello
1960
10.0
Around the World with Nellie Bly
1960
5.6
Hawaiian Eye
1959
6.6
Dennis the Menace
1959
6.4
Lock-Up
1959
6.8
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
7.5
Bonanza
1959
6.3
City of Fear
1959
7.2
Rawhide
19597.5
The Hot Angel
1958
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958
5.6
High School Confidential!
1958
7.0
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958
6.9
Leave It to Beaver
1957
4.4
The Restless Gun
1957
7.0
Maverick
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
1957
5.4
M Squad
1957
4.5
Guns Don't Argue
1957
7.5
God Is My Partner
1957
6.8
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
6.5
Meet McGraw
1957
4.2
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957
5.0
The Great Man
1956
6.1
Calling Homicide
19566.5
Broken Arrow
1956
6.2
Hey, Jeannie!
1956
5.5
Sudden Danger
1955
6.8
Crossroads
1955
5.2
Navy Log
1955
6.7
Jail Busters
1955
6.2
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
1955
6.0
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
5.8
The Millionaire
1955
6.3
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
6.1
There's No Business Like Show Business
1954
7.0
The Steel Cage
1954
7.0
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
6.3
December Bride
1954
5.3
Tobor the Great
1954
NR
The Whistler
1954
7.2
The Desperado
1954
5.7
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
1954
6.9
The Mad Magician
1954
3.8
Jail Bait
1954
7.0
Gunfighters of the Northwest
195410.0
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
1954
6.3
Public Defender
1954
7.2
Stories of the Century
1954
5.5
Annie Oakley
1954
10.0
Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954
6.0
With This Ring
1954
6.3
Tumbleweed
1953
9.0
Six Gun Decision
1953
5.7
Wings of the Hawk
1953
7.0
Clipped Wings
1953
2.5
Mesa of Lost Women
1953
4.7
Glen or Glenda
1953
7.5
White Lightning
1953
6.5
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953
6.0
I'm the Law
1953
7.0
Star of Texas
1953
5.6
Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
1952
4.8
The Pathfinder
1952
7.2
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
5.0
Terry and the Pirates
1952
6.5
Wyoming Roundup
1952
7.0
Son of Geronimo
1952
9.0
Desperadoes' Outpost
1952
5.0
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
6.2
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952
7.8
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
4.6
Cavalcade of America
1952
7.0
The Old West
1952
5.5
Feudin' Fools
1952
5.3
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
5.8
Cowboy G-Men
1952
4.1
Untamed Women
1952
10.0
Montana Incident
1952
6.5
Sea Tiger
1952
7.0
African Treasure
1952
4.8
Outlaw Women
1952
6.1
With a Song in My Heart
19527.0
Gang Busters
1952
NR
Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics
1952
6.5
Texas City
1952
5.3
Dangerous Assignment
1952
6.8
The Roy Rogers Show
1951
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
7.0
Purple Heart Diary
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
5.1
Jungle Manhunt
1951
6.6
Gold Raiders
1951
4.0
Boston Blackie
1951
6.0
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
6.7
Varieties on Parade
1951
6.0
Hurricane Island
1951
6.5
Racket Squad
1951
5.3
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
5.7
The Scarf
1951
9.0
Man from Sonora
1951
5.3
Mask of the Dragon
1951
5.7
Fury of the Congo
1951
5.8
Fingerprints Don't Lie
1951
8.0
Abilene Trail
1951
10.0
Blue Blood
1951
7.5
Colorado Ambush
195110.0
The du Pont Story
1950
4.0
Revenue Agent
1950
8.0
One Too Many
1950
7.0
The Jackpot
1950
7.1
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
7.0
Cherokee Uprising
1950
9.0
Border Rangers
19506.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
8.0
Dick Tracy
1950
10.0
Big Timber
1950
6.2
The Cisco Kid
1950
7.0
Triple Trouble
1950
5.5
Atom Man vs. Superman
1950
6.5
Federal Man
1950
6.6
Lucky Losers
1950
7.3
Champagne for Caesar
1950
5.1
Johnny One-Eye
1950
7.5
Everybody's Dancin'
1950
4.5
The Daltons' Women
1950
6.8
The Lone Ranger
1949
4.8
Wild Weed
1949
5.0
Ringside
1949
7.0
Mississippi Rhythm
1949
5.7
Batman and Robin
1949
8.0
Sky Dragon
1949
7.0
The Mutineers
1949
6.0
Fighting Fools
1949
6.5
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
1949
5.8
Highway 13
1948
6.5
Shep Comes Home
1948
6.5
Quick on the Trigger
1948
5.8
Appointment with Murder
1948
5.2
Parole, Inc.
1948
5.2
Thunder in the Pines
1948
5.4
Studio One
1948
7.5
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948
5.8
The Vicious Circle
1948
5.9
Devil's Cargo
1948
6.5
Danger Street
1947
7.2
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
1947
10.0
North of the Border
1946
5.3
Chick Carter, Detective
1946
6.1
Strange Impersonation
1946
4.6
Song of Arizona
1946
8.0
Murder Is My Business
1946
7.0
Gun Town
1946
5.2
One Body Too Many
1944
6.5
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
10.0
Trail to Gunsight
1944
5.4
Dixie Jamboree
1944
6.6
Sensations of 1945
19447.0
Are These Our Parents?
1944
6.2
Gambler's Choice
1944
5.3
The Falcon Out West
1944
5.7
Up in Arms
1944
4.6
A Night for Crime
1943
6.9
The Meanest Man in the World
1943
5.6
Man of Courage
1943
5.4
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
5.3
They Raid by Night
1942
10.0
She's in the Army
1942
5.0
Parole Fixer
1940
5.6
He Married His Wife
1940
5.4
Miracle on Main Street
1939
3.8
Torture Ship
1939
5.1
Second Fiddle
19395.0
They Asked For It
1939
6.5
Forged Passport
1939
9.0
I Stand Accused
1938
6.7
The Arkansas Traveler
1938
7.4
Gateway
1938
7.8
One Wild Night
1938
6.0
Call of The Yukon
1938
7.0
Change of Heart
1938
6.4
Second Honeymoon
1937
7.0
West Bound Limited
19378.0
Three Legionnaires
1937
7.0
What Price Vengeance
1937
4.8
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
1937
10.0
Mind Your Own Business
1936
5.5
Go West Young Man
1936
6.9
Trapped by Television
1936
5.0
Murder by an Aristocrat
1936
6.0
The Law in Her Hands
1936
7.0
The Singing Kid
1936
5.7
Boulder Dam
1936
6.3
A Dream Comes True
1935
6.0
Broadway Hostess
1935
6.0
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
6.7
Page Miss Glory
1935
7.2
Oil for the Lamps of China
1935
7.5
Chinatown Squad
1935
5.2
Our Little Girl
1935
NR
It Happened in New York
1935
6.7
While the Patient Slept
1935
6.0
Red Hot Tires
1935
6.2
The Secret Bride
1934
5.1
Murder in the Clouds
1934
5.8
A Lost Lady
1934
5.9
The Dragon Murder Case
1934
5.5
One Night of Love
1934
6.5
Return of the Terror
1934
6.4
Fog Over Frisco
1934
4.8
Registered Nurse
1934
7.0
And She Learned About Dames
1934
7.2
Heat Lightning
1934
5.8
Mandalay
1934
6.6
Havana Widows
1933
4.6
College Coach
1933
5.2
A Shriek in the Night
1933
6.2
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
5.7
She Had to Say Yes
1933
6.2
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
6.9
42nd Street
1933
5.2
Girl Missing
1933
5.6
The 42nd Street Special
1933
6.1
Ladies They Talk About
1933
6.4
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
6.7
No More Orchids
1932
6.3
Three on a Match
1932
5.9
Big City Blues
1932
5.3
Klondike
1932
5.2
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
6.5
The Purchase Price
1932
5.4
Love is a Racket
1932
4.0
Unholy Love
1932
5.9
Miss Pinkerton
19329.0
The Clyde Mystery
1931
5.0
Stranger in Town
1931