Stephen Talbot
Age: N/A | From: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Aliases: Stephen Henderson Talbot
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 3
TV Involvements: 8
Most Famous Work
Biography
Stephen Henderson Talbot is a TV documentary producer, actor, writer and reporter. Talbot directed and produced "The Movement and the 'Madman' " for the PBS series American Experience in 2023. He is a longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and worked for over 16 years for the series Frontline. Before becoming a journalist and documentary producer, Talbot was a television child actor in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is best known for his role in the TV sitcom Leave It to Beaver, in which he played Gilbert Bates, friend of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers). Talbot's more than 40 documentaries include the Frontline films "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy", "Rush Limbaugh's America", "The Long March of Newt Gingrich", "Justice for Sale", and "News War: What's Happening to the News". Talbot has also written and produced PBS biographies of writers Dashiell Hammett, Beryl Markham, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos. He was co-creator and executive producer of the PBS music specials, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders.
Most Famous Work
Perry Mason
(1957) Jimmie Kendall
Wanted: Dead or Alive
(1958) Rufe Meecham
The Twilight Zone
(1959) The Boy
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Jonathan
Law of the Plainsman
(1959) Stevie Mullen
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
(1959) Ronnie Kramer
Sugarfoot
(1957) Ab Martin
Because They're Young
(1960) Eric HendryActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1962 | Cadet Clark | |
| 1960 | N/A | |
| Eric Hendry | ||
| 1959 | Howie Gutliff | |
| The Boy | ||
| Stevie Mullen | ||
| Ronnie Kramer | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
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| Rufe Meecham | ||
| 1957 | Gilbert | |
| Jimmie Kendall | ||
| Ab Martin | ||
| 1956 | Jonathan | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
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Directing
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| 2005 | Director | |
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Writing
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