Lyle Talbot

Known for ActingBorn 1902-02-08Died 1996-03-02Pittsburgh, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Around the World with Nellie Bly

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

Trader Tom of the China Seas

Montana Incident

Colorado Ambush

Blue Blood

Everybody's Dancin'

The du Pont Story

Big Timber

North of the Border

Trail to Gunsight

She's in the Army

Mind Your Own Business

Six Gun Decision

Desperadoes' Outpost

Man from Sonora

Border Rangers

I Stand Accused

The Clyde Mystery

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Inside the Dream Factory

Arrest and Trial

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

Batmania: From Comics to Screen

Abilene Trail

One Too Many

Dick Tracy

Sky Dragon

Murder Is My Business

87th Precinct

Three Legionnaires

Perry Mason

The Ford Television Theatre

Who's the Boss?

George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head

One Wild Night

Bonanza

The Hot Angel

God Is My Partner

White Lightning

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

That's Dancing!

Newhart

Chinatown Squad

Green Acres

And She Learned About Dames

Rawhide

Champagne for Caesar