Lyle Talbot
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-02-08
Day of Death
1996-03-02 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lyle Talbot
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2015)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(1996)
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
as Himself
(1995)
Inside the Dream Factory
as Self
(1989)
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
as Self / Commissioner Gordon (archive footage)
(1986)
(1985)
That's Dancing!
as Self
(1982)
The Case of Dashiell Hammett
as Dashiell Hammett
(1974)
Sonic Boom
as French Representative
(1960)
Sunrise at Campobello
as Mr. Brimmer
(1959)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
as General Roberts
(1959)
City of Fear
as Chief Jensen
(1958)
High School Confidential!
as William Remington Kane
(1958)
The Notorious Mr. Monks
as Leonardo, Prosecuting Attorney
(1958)
The Hot Angel
as Van Richards
(1957)
God Is My Partner
as Dr. Warburton, Psychiatrist
(1957)
Guns Don't Argue
as Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon
(1956)
The Great Man
as Harry Connors
(1956)
Calling Homicide
as Tony Fuller
(1955)
Jail Busters
as Cy Bowman
(1955)
Sudden Danger
as Harry Woodruff
(1954)
Jail Bait
as Inspector John
(1954)
There's No Business Like Show Business
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
(1954)
The Mad Magician
as Program Hawker (uncredited)
(1954)
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
as Capt. Pace
(1954)
Tobor the Great
as An Admiral
(1954)
Gunfighters of the Northwest
as Inspector Wheeler
(1954)
The Desperado
as Judge
(1954)
With This Ring
as Miller Executive
(1954)
The Steel Cage
as Square, Convict, segment "The Hostages"
(1954)
Trader Tom of the China Seas
as Barent
(1954)
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
as Mr. Elliot, Health Inspector (uncredited)
(1953)
Mesa of Lost Women
as Narrator (voice)
(1953)
Tumbleweed
as Weber
(1953)
Glen or Glenda
as Inspector Warren
(1953)
(1953)
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Major Gerald Curwin
(1953)
Star of Texas
as Telegraph Operator
(1953)
Clipped Wings
as Captain Blair
(1953)
White Lightning
as Rocky Gibraltar
(1953)
Six Gun Decision
as Blackburn
(1952)
With a Song in My Heart
as Radio station director
(1952)
The Old West
as Doc Lockwood
(1952)
Montana Incident
as Mooney
(1952)
Outlaw Women
as Judge Roger Dixon
(1952)
The Pathfinder
as British Ship Captain
(1952)
African Treasure
as Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy
(1952)
Son of Geronimo
as Col. Foster [Chs.5-6]
(1952)
Untamed Women
as Col. Loring
(1952)
Sea Tiger
as Mr. Williams, Insurance Man
(1952)
Feudin' Fools
as Big Jim, bank robbery leader
(1952)
Desperadoes' Outpost
as Walter Fleming
(1952)
Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
as Bart Miller
(1952)
Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics
as Mr. Casey
(1952)
Wyoming Roundup
as Franklin
(1952)
Texas City
as Captain Hamilton
(1951)
The Scarf
as City Detective
(1951)
Fury of the Congo
as Grant
(1951)
Gold Raiders
as Taggart
(1951)
Fingerprints Don't Lie
as Police Lt. Grayson
(1951)
Abilene Trail
as Dr. Martin
(1951)
Hurricane Island
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1951)
Purple Heart Diary
as Maj. Green
(1951)
Varieties on Parade
as Himself
(1951)
Man from Sonora
as Sheriff Frank Casey
(1951)
Jungle Manhunt
as Dr. Mitchell Heller
(1951)
Colorado Ambush
as Sheriff Ed Lowery
(1951)
Mask of the Dragon
as Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin
(1951)
Blue Blood
as Teasdale
(1950)
Champagne for Caesar
as Executive No. 2
(1950)
Johnny One-Eye
as Official from District Attorney's Office
(1950)
The Jackpot
as Fred Burns
(1950)
Atom Man vs. Superman
as Luthor, alias The Atom Man
(1950)
Triple Trouble
as Prison Yard Guard
(1950)
One Too Many
as Mr. Boyer
(1950)
Lucky Losers
as Bruce McDermott
(1950)
Federal Man
as Agent Johnson
(1950)
Revenue Agent
as Augustus 'Gus' King
(1950)
The Daltons' Women
as Jim Thorne
(1950)
Big Timber
as Logger #1
(1950)
Everybody's Dancin'
as Contractor
(1950)
The Du Pont Story
as Eugene du Pont
(1950)
Border Rangers
as Ranger Captain McLain
(1950)
Cherokee Uprising
as Chief Marshal
(1949)
Batman and Robin
as Commissioner Jim Gordon
(1949)
Wild Weed
as Capt. Hayes
(1949)
Sky Dragon
as Andrew J. Barrett
(1949)
Ringside
as Radio Announcer
(1949)
Fighting Fools
as Blinky Harris
(1949)
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
as Lt. Muldoon
(1949)
The Mutineers
as Capt. Jim Duncan
(1949)
Mississippi Rhythm
as O'Neill
(1948)
Parole, Inc.
as Police Commissioner Hughes
(1948)
The Vicious Circle
as Miller
(1948)
Appointment with Murder
as Fred Muller
(1948)
Devil's Cargo
as Johnny Morello
(1948)
Highway 13
as Company Detective
(1948)
Thunder in the Pines
as Nick Roulade
(1948)
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Henerson
(1948)
Shep Comes Home
as Dr. Wilson
(1948)
Quick on the Trigger
as Garvey Yager
(1947)
Danger Street
as Charles Johnson
(1947)
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
as George Pierce
(1946)
Strange Impersonation
as Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator
(1946)
Song of Arizona
as King Blaine
(1946)
Murder Is My Business
as Buell Renslow
(1946)
North of the Border
as Sgt. Jack Craig
(1946)
Gun Town
as Lucky Dorgan
(1946)
Chick Carter, Detective
as Chick Carter
(1944)
Up in Arms
as Sergeant Gelsey
(1944)
One Body Too Many
as Jim Davis
(1944)
Sensations of 1945
as Randall
(1944)
The Falcon Out West
as Tex Irwin
(1944)
Gambler's Choice
as Yellow Gloves Weldon
(1944)
Dixie Jamboree
as Anthony 'Tony' Sardell
(1944)
Mystery of the Riverboat
as Rudolph Toller
(1944)
Trail to Gunsight
as U. S. Marshal Bill Hollister
(1944)
Are These Our Parents?
as George Kent
(1943)
The Meanest Man in the World
as Bill Potts (uncredited)
(1943)
A Night for Crime
as Joe Powell
(1943)
Man of Courage
as George Dickson
(1942)
They Raid by Night
as Capt. Robert Owen
(1942)
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
as Reddy
(1942)
She's in the Army
as Army Capt. Steve Russell
(1940)
Parole Fixer
as Ross Waring
(1940)
He Married His Wife
as Paul Hunter
(1939)
Second Fiddle
as Willie Hogger
(1939)
Torture Ship
as Lt. Bob Bennett
(1939)
Forged Passport
as Jack Scott
(1939)
Miracle on Main Street
as Dick Porter
(1939)
They Asked For It
as Marty Collins
(1938)
Gateway
as Henry Porter
(1938)
I Stand Accused
as Charles Eastman
(1938)
One Wild Night
as Singer Martin
(1938)
Change of Heart
as Phillip Reeves
(1938)
Call of The Yukon
as Hugo Henderson
(1938)
The Arkansas Traveler
as Matt Collins
(1937)
Second Honeymoon
as Bob Benton
(1937)
West Bound Limited
as Dave Tolliver aka Bob Kirk
(1937)
What Price Vengeance
as 'Dynamite' Hogan / Tom Connors
(1937)
Three Legionnaires
as Pvt. Jimmy Barton
(1937)
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
as Bill Peck
(1936)
The Singing Kid
as Bob Carey
(1936)
Murder by an Aristocrat
as Dr. Allen Carick
(1936)
Go West Young Man
as Francis X. Harrigan
(1936)
The Law in Her Hands
as Frank Gordon
(1936)
Boulder Dam
as Mr. Harry Lacy
(1936)
Trapped by Television
as Fred Dennis
(1936)
Mind Your Own Business
as Crane
(1935)
The Case of the Lucky Legs
as Dr. Robert Doray
(1935)
Page Miss Glory
as Slattery
(1935)
While the Patient Slept
as Ross Lonergan
(1935)
Chinatown Squad
as Ted Lacey
(1935)
Broadway Hostess
as Lucky Lorimer
(1935)
Our Little Girl
as Rolfe Brent
(1935)
A Dream Comes True
as Himself (uncredited)
(1935)
Red Hot Tires
as Wallace Storm
(1935)
(1935)
It Happened in New York
as Charley Barnes
(1934)
The Dragon Murder Case
as Gale Leland
(1934)
Fog Over Frisco
as Spencer Carlton
(1934)
One Night of Love
as Bill Houston
(1934)
Mandalay
as Dr. Gregory Burton
(1934)
The Secret Bride
as Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1934)
Murder in the Clouds
as Bob 'Three Star' Halsey
(1934)
Registered Nurse
as Dr. Greg Connolly
(1934)
Heat Lightning
as Jeff
(1934)
A Lost Lady
as Neil
(1934)
Return of the Terror
as Dr. Leonard Goodman
(1934)
And She Learned About Dames
as Himself
(1933)
Mary Stevens, M.D.
as Don A. Andrews
(1933)
Ladies They Talk About
as Don
(1933)
42nd Street
as Geoffrey Warning (voice) (uncredited)
(1933)
College Coach
as Buck Weaver
(1933)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
as Doc
(1933)
Havana Widows
as Bob Jones
(1933)
A Shriek in the Night
as Ted Rand
(1933)
She Had to Say Yes
as Daniel 'Danny' Drew
(1933)
Girl Missing
as Raymond Fox
(1933)
The 42nd Street Special
as Self (uncredited)
(1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Bud Saunders
(1932)
Three on a Match
as Michael Loftus
(1932)
The Thirteenth Guest
as Phil Winston
(1932)
Miss Pinkerton
as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
(1932)
Love Is a Racket
as Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw
(1932)
Klondike
as Robert Cromwell
(1932)
The Purchase Price
as Eddie Fields
(1932)
No More Orchids
as Tony Gage
(1932)
Big City Blues
as Len 'Lenny' Sully (uncredited)
(1932)
Unholy Love
as Dr. Jerome Preston 'Jerry' Gregory
(1931)
Stranger in Town
as Ed Brice
(1931)
The Clyde Mystery
as Police Capt. Dick Rugg (as Lysle Talbot)