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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 8, 1902
Place of Birth:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Lyle Talbot
Biography
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Himself |
| 1995 | Inside the Dream Factory | Self |
| 1989 | Batmania: From Comics to Screen | Self / Commissioner Gordon (archive footage) |
| 1986 | George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head | Pops |
| 1985 | That's Dancing! | Self |
| 1982 | The Case of Dashiell Hammett | Dashiell Hammett |
| 1974 | Sonic Boom | French Representative |
| 1960 | Sunrise at Campobello | Mr. Brimmer |
| 1959 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | General Roberts |
| 1959 | City of Fear | Chief Jensen |
| 1958 | The Notorious Mr. Monks | Leonardo, Prosecuting Attorney |
| 1958 | The Hot Angel | Van Richards |
| 1958 | High School Confidential! | William Remington Kane |
| 1957 | Guns Don't Argue | Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon |
| 1957 | God Is My Partner | Dr. Warburton, Psychiatrist |
| 1956 | Calling Homicide | Tony Fuller |
| 1956 | The Great Man | Harry Connors |
| 1955 | Sudden Danger | Harry Woodruff |
| 1955 | Jail Busters | Cy Bowman |
| 1954 | There's No Business Like Show Business | Stage Manager (uncredited) |
| 1954 | Jail Bait | Inspector John |
| 1954 | The Mad Magician | Program Hawker (uncredited) |
| 1954 | So You Want to Be Your Own Boss | Mr. Elliot, Health Inspector (uncredited) |
| 1954 | The Steel Cage | Square, Convict, segment "The Hostages" |
| 1954 | Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl | Capt. Pace |
| 1954 | With This Ring | Miller Executive |
| 1954 | Tobor the Great | An Admiral |
| 1954 | The Desperado | Judge |
| 1954 | Gunfighters of the Northwest | Inspector Wheeler |
| 1954 | Trader Tom of the China Seas | Barent |
| 1953 | Mesa of Lost Women | Narrator (voice) |
| 1953 | Clipped Wings | Captain Blair |
| 1953 | Tumbleweed | Weber |
| 1953 | Down Among the Sheltering Palms | Major Gerald Curwin |
| 1953 | Six Gun Decision | Blackburn |
| 1953 | White Lightning | Rocky Gibraltar |
| 1953 | Star of Texas | Telegraph Operator |
| 1953 | Glen or Glenda | Inspector Warren |
| 1953 | Wings of the Hawk | |
| 1952 | With a Song in My Heart | Radio station director |
| 1952 | African Treasure | Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy |
| 1952 | Untamed Women | Col. Loring |
| 1952 | Feudin' Fools | Big Jim, bank robbery leader |
| 1952 | Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics | Mr. Casey |
| 1952 | Outlaw Women | Judge Roger Dixon |
| 1952 | The Old West | Doc Lockwood |
| 1952 | Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid | Bart Miller |
| 1952 | Montana Incident | Mooney |
| 1952 | Wyoming Roundup | Franklin |
| 1952 | Desperadoes' Outpost | Walter Fleming |
| 1952 | Son of Geronimo | Col. Foster [Chs.5-6] |
| 1952 | Texas City | Captain Hamilton |
| 1952 | The Pathfinder | British Ship Captain |
| 1952 | Sea Tiger | Mr. Williams, Insurance Man |
| 1951 | The Scarf | City Detective |
| 1951 | Fingerprints Don't Lie | Police Lt. Grayson |
| 1951 | Mask of the Dragon | Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin |
| 1951 | Jungle Manhunt | Dr. Mitchell Heller |
| 1951 | Fury of the Congo | Grant |
| 1951 | Gold Raiders | Taggart |
| 1951 | Hurricane Island | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Abilene Trail | Dr. Martin |
| 1951 | Man from Sonora | Sheriff Frank Casey |
| 1951 | Colorado Ambush | Sheriff Ed Lowery |
| 1951 | Varieties on Parade | Himself |
| 1951 | Blue Blood | Teasdale |
| 1951 | Purple Heart Diary | Maj. Green |
| 1950 | Revenue Agent | Augustus 'Gus' King |
| 1950 | Triple Trouble | Prison Yard Guard |
| 1950 | Atom Man vs. Superman | Luthor, alias The Atom Man |
| 1950 | Federal Man | Agent Johnson |
| 1950 | Everybody's Dancin' | Contractor |
| 1950 | The Du Pont Story | Eugene du Pont |
| 1950 | One Too Many | Mr. Boyer |
| 1950 | Lucky Losers | Bruce McDermott |
| 1950 | Johnny One-Eye | Official from District Attorney's Office |
| 1950 | The Daltons' Women | Jim Thorne |
| 1950 | Border Rangers | Ranger Captain McLain |
| 1950 | Cherokee Uprising | Chief Marshal |
| 1950 | Champagne for Caesar | Executive No. 2 |
| 1950 | Big Timber | Logger #1 |
| 1950 | The Jackpot | Fred Burns |
| 1949 | Batman and Robin | Commissioner Jim Gordon |
| 1949 | Fighting Fools | Blinky Harris |
| 1949 | Sky Dragon | Andrew J. Barrett |
| 1949 | Ringside | Radio Announcer |
| 1949 | The Mutineers | Capt. Jim Duncan |
| 1949 | Wild Weed | Capt. Hayes |
| 1949 | Joe Palooka in the Big Fight | Lt. Muldoon |
| 1949 | Mississippi Rhythm | O'Neill |
| 1948 | The Vicious Circle | Miller |
| 1948 | Devil's Cargo | Johnny Morello |
| 1948 | Appointment with Murder | Fred Muller |
| 1948 | Highway 13 | Company Detective |
| 1948 | Parole, Inc. | Police Commissioner Hughes |
| 1948 | Quick on the Trigger | Garvey Yager |
| 1948 | Thunder in the Pines | Nick Roulade |
| 1948 | Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Henerson |
| 1948 | Shep Comes Home | Dr. Wilson |
| 1947 | Danger Street | Charles Johnson |
| 1947 | The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West | George Pierce |
| 1946 | Strange Impersonation | Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator |
| 1946 | Chick Carter, Detective | Chick Carter |
| 1946 | Song of Arizona | King Blaine |
| 1946 | Murder Is My Business | Buell Renslow |
| 1946 | North of the Border | Sgt. Jack Craig |
| 1946 | Gun Town | Lucky Dorgan |
| 1944 | One Body Too Many | Jim Davis |
| 1944 | The Falcon Out West | Tex Irwin |
| 1944 | Up in Arms | Sergeant Gelsey |
| 1944 | Sensations of 1945 | Randall |
| 1944 | Mystery of the Riverboat | Rudolph Toller |
| 1944 | Gambler's Choice | Yellow Gloves Weldon |
| 1944 | Dixie Jamboree | Anthony 'Tony' Sardell |
| 1944 | Are These Our Parents? | George Kent |
| 1944 | Trail to Gunsight | U. S. Marshal Bill Hollister |
| 1943 | Man of Courage | George Dickson |
| 1943 | A Night for Crime | Joe Powell |
| 1943 | The Meanest Man in the World | Bill Potts (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Mexican Spitfire's Elephant | Reddy |
| 1942 | They Raid by Night | Capt. Robert Owen |
| 1942 | She's in the Army | Army Capt. Steve Russell |
| 1940 | He Married His Wife | Paul Hunter |
| 1940 | Parole Fixer | Ross Waring |
| 1939 | Torture Ship | Lt. Bob Bennett |
| 1939 | Second Fiddle | Willie Hogger |
| 1939 | Miracle on Main Street | Dick Porter |
| 1939 | Forged Passport | Jack Scott |
| 1939 | They Asked For It | Marty Collins |
| 1938 | Change of Heart | Phillip Reeves |
| 1938 | Call of The Yukon | Hugo Henderson |
| 1938 | The Arkansas Traveler | Matt Collins |
| 1938 | I Stand Accused | Charles Eastman |
| 1938 | Gateway | Henry Porter |
| 1938 | One Wild Night | Singer Martin |
| 1937 | Second Honeymoon | Bob Benton |
| 1937 | Affairs of Cappy Ricks | Bill Peck |
| 1937 | What Price Vengeance | 'Dynamite' Hogan / Tom Connors |
| 1937 | Three Legionnaires | Pvt. Jimmy Barton |
| 1937 | West Bound Limited | Dave Tolliver aka Bob Kirk |
| 1936 | Go West Young Man | Francis X. Harrigan |
| 1936 | Trapped by Television | Fred Dennis |
| 1936 | Boulder Dam | Mr. Harry Lacy |
| 1936 | Mind Your Own Business | Crane |
| 1936 | Murder by an Aristocrat | Dr. Allen Carick |
| 1936 | The Law in Her Hands | Frank Gordon |
| 1936 | The Singing Kid | Bob Carey |
| 1935 | The Case of the Lucky Legs | Dr. Robert Doray |
| 1935 | While the Patient Slept | Ross Lonergan |
| 1935 | Page Miss Glory | Slattery |
| 1935 | Broadway Hostess | Lucky Lorimer |
| 1935 | Oil for the Lamps of China | Jim |
| 1935 | Our Little Girl | Rolfe Brent |
| 1935 | Chinatown Squad | Ted Lacey |
| 1935 | It Happened in New York | Charley Barnes |
| 1935 | Red Hot Tires | Wallace Storm |
| 1935 | A Dream Comes True | Himself (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Return of the Terror | Dr. Leonard Goodman |
| 1934 | Fog Over Frisco | Spencer Carlton |
| 1934 | The Dragon Murder Case | Gale Leland |
| 1934 | One Night of Love | Bill Houston |
| 1934 | Heat Lightning | Jeff |
| 1934 | Murder in the Clouds | Bob 'Three Star' Halsey |
| 1934 | Registered Nurse | Dr. Greg Connolly |
| 1934 | A Lost Lady | Neil |
| 1934 | Mandalay | Dr. Gregory Burton |
| 1934 | The Secret Bride | Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1934 | And She Learned About Dames | Himself |
| 1933 | A Shriek in the Night | Ted Rand |
| 1933 | Ladies They Talk About | Don |
| 1933 | She Had to Say Yes | Daniel 'Danny' Drew |
| 1933 | College Coach | Buck Weaver |
| 1933 | Girl Missing | Raymond Fox |
| 1933 | Mary Stevens, M.D. | Don A. Andrews |
| 1933 | The Life of Jimmy Dolan | Doc |
| 1933 | Havana Widows | Bob Jones |
| 1933 | 42nd Street | Geoffrey Warning (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1933 | The 42nd Street Special | Self (uncredited) |
| 1932 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Bud Saunders |
| 1932 | Three on a Match | Michael Loftus |
| 1932 | The Purchase Price | Eddie Fields |
| 1932 | The Thirteenth Guest | Phil Winston |
| 1932 | Love Is a Racket | Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw |
| 1932 | Klondike | Robert Cromwell |
| 1932 | No More Orchids | Tony Gage |
| 1932 | Unholy Love | Dr. Jerome Preston 'Jerry' Gregory |
| 1932 | Miss Pinkerton | Newspaper Editor (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Big City Blues | Len 'Lenny' Sully (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Clyde Mystery | Police Capt. Dick Rugg (as Lysle Talbot) |
| 1931 | Stranger in Town | Ed Brice |