Lyle Talbot
Acting
Born February 8, 1902 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Films (192)
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The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
1996
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
1989
George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
1986
That's Dancing!
1985
The Case of Dashiell Hammett
1982
Sonic Boom
1974
Sunrise at Campobello
1960
Around the World with Nellie Bly
1960
City of Fear
1959
The Hot Angel
1958
High School Confidential!
1958
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958
Guns Don't Argue
1957
God Is My Partner
1957
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957
The Great Man
1956
Calling Homicide
1956
Sudden Danger
1955
Jail Busters
1955
There's No Business Like Show Business
1954
The Steel Cage
1954
Tobor the Great
1954
The Desperado
1954
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
1954
The Mad Magician
1954
Jail Bait
1954
Gunfighters of the Northwest
1954
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
1954
Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954
With This Ring
1954
Tumbleweed
1953
Six Gun Decision
1953
Wings of the Hawk
1953
Clipped Wings
1953
Mesa of Lost Women
1953
Glen or Glenda
1953
White Lightning
1953
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953
Star of Texas
1953
Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
1952
The Pathfinder
1952
Wyoming Roundup
1952
Son of Geronimo
1952
Desperadoes' Outpost
1952
The Old West
1952
Feudin' Fools
1952
Untamed Women
1952
Montana Incident
1952
Sea Tiger
1952
African Treasure
1952
Outlaw Women
1952
With a Song in My Heart
1952
Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics
1952
Texas City
1952
Purple Heart Diary
1951
Jungle Manhunt
1951
Gold Raiders
1951
Varieties on Parade
1951
Hurricane Island
1951
The Scarf
1951
Man from Sonora
1951
Mask of the Dragon
1951
Fury of the Congo
1951
Fingerprints Don't Lie
1951
Abilene Trail
1951
Blue Blood
1951
Colorado Ambush
1951
The du Pont Story
1950
Revenue Agent
1950
One Too Many
1950
The Jackpot
1950
Cherokee Uprising
1950
Border Rangers
1950
Big Timber
1950
Triple Trouble
1950
Atom Man vs. Superman
1950
Federal Man
1950
Lucky Losers
1950
Champagne for Caesar
1950
Johnny One-Eye
1950
Everybody's Dancin'
1950
The Daltons' Women
1950
Wild Weed
1949
Ringside
1949
Mississippi Rhythm
1949
Batman and Robin
1949
Sky Dragon
1949
The Mutineers
1949
Fighting Fools
1949
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
1949
Highway 13
1948
Shep Comes Home
1948
Quick on the Trigger
1948
Appointment with Murder
1948
Parole, Inc.
1948
Thunder in the Pines
1948
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948
The Vicious Circle
1948
Devil's Cargo
1948
Danger Street
1947
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
1947
North of the Border
1946
Chick Carter, Detective
1946
Strange Impersonation
1946
Song of Arizona
1946
Murder Is My Business
1946
Gun Town
1946
One Body Too Many
1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
Trail to Gunsight
1944
Dixie Jamboree
1944
Sensations of 1945
1944
Are These Our Parents?
1944
Gambler's Choice
1944
The Falcon Out West
1944
Up in Arms
1944
A Night for Crime
1943
The Meanest Man in the World
1943
Man of Courage
1943
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
They Raid by Night
1942
She's in the Army
1942
Parole Fixer
1940
He Married His Wife
1940
Miracle on Main Street
1939
Torture Ship
1939
Second Fiddle
1939
They Asked For It
1939
Forged Passport
1939
I Stand Accused
1938
The Arkansas Traveler
1938
Gateway
1938
One Wild Night
1938
Call of The Yukon
1938
Change of Heart
1938
Second Honeymoon
1937
West Bound Limited
1937
Three Legionnaires
1937
What Price Vengeance
1937
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
1937
Mind Your Own Business
1936
Go West Young Man
1936
Trapped by Television
1936
Murder by an Aristocrat
1936
The Law in Her Hands
1936
The Singing Kid
1936
Boulder Dam
1936
A Dream Comes True
1935
Broadway Hostess
1935
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
Page Miss Glory
1935
Oil for the Lamps of China
1935
Chinatown Squad
1935
It Happened in New York
1935
While the Patient Slept
1935
Red Hot Tires
1935
Our Little Girl
1935
The Secret Bride
1934
Murder in the Clouds
1934
A Lost Lady
1934
The Dragon Murder Case
1934
One Night of Love
1934
Return of the Terror
1934
Fog Over Frisco
1934
Registered Nurse
1934
And She Learned About Dames
1934
Heat Lightning
1934
Mandalay
1934
Havana Widows
1933
College Coach
1933
A Shriek in the Night
1933
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
She Had to Say Yes
1933
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
42nd Street
1933
Girl Missing
1933
The 42nd Street Special
1933
Ladies They Talk About
1933
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
No More Orchids
1932
Three on a Match
1932
Big City Blues
1932
Klondike
1932
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
The Purchase Price
1932
Love is a Racket
1932
Unholy Love
1932
Miss Pinkerton
1932
The Clyde Mystery
1931
Stranger in Town
1931