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Lyle Talbot
Known for: ActingLyle 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.
Filmography 52
Plan 9 from Outer Space
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as General Roberts 
There's No Business Like Show Business
as Stage Manager (uncredited) 
Jail Busters
as Cy Bowman 
One Body Too Many
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as Jim Davis 
Three on a Match
as Michael Loftus 
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Bud Saunders 
The Mad Magician
as Program Hawker (uncredited) 
Champagne for Caesar
as Executive No. 2 
One Night of Love
as Bill Houston 
Glen or Glenda
as Inspector Warren 
The Dragon Murder Case
as Gale Leland 
Mesa of Lost Women
as Narrator (voice) 
Ladies They Talk About
as Don 
Batman and Robin
as Commissioner Jim Gordon 
Up in Arms
as Sergeant Gelsey 
Call of The Yukon
as Hugo Henderson 
The Case of the Lucky Legs
as Dr. Robert Doray 
Our Little Girl
as Rolfe Brent 
Quick on the Trigger
as Garvey Yager 
Murder by an Aristocrat
as Allen Carick 
Guns Don't Argue
as Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon 
A Shriek in the Night
as Ted Rand 
Colorado Ambush
as Sheriff Ed Lowery 
Go West Young Man
as Francis X. Harrigan 
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
as George Pierce 
Outlaw Women
as Judge Roger Dixon 
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
as Capt. Pace 
The Purchase Price
as Eddie Fields 
Sky Dragon
as Andrew J. Barrett 
Fighting Fools
as Blinky Harris 
Sunrise at Campobello
as Mr. Brimmer 
Jail Bait
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as Inspector John 
The Thirteenth Guest
as Phil Winston 
A Lost Lady
as Neil 
While the Patient Slept
as Ross Lonergan 
Murder Is My Business
as Buell Renslow 
Miss Pinkerton
as Newspaper Editor (uncredited) 
Sonic Boom
as French Representative 
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
as Bill Peck 
Hurricane Island
as Doctor (uncredited) 
Gold Raiders
as Taggart 
North of the Border
as Sgt. Jack Craig 
African Treasure
as Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy 
The Secret Bride
as Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 
Lucky Losers
as Bruce McDermott 
Feudin' Fools
as Big Jim, bank robbery leader 
Mask of the Dragon
as Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin 
Tumbleweed
as Weber 
Clipped Wings
as Captain Blair