Lyle Talbot
184 movies · 74 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 8, 1902
- Died
- Mar 2, 1996 (age 94)
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Lysle Henderson · Lysle Talbot · Lyle Florenz Talbot · Lisle Henderson
Biography
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).
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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.
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Known for
Lyle Talbot: movies and TV shows
Acting (258)
- 2025 Modify
as Inspector Warren (archival audio) (uncredited)
- 1986
- 1985
- 1984
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982 The Case of Dashiell Hammett
as Dashiell Hammett
- 1981
- 1976
- 1974 Sonic Boom
as French Representative
- 1968
- 1968
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Sunrise at Campobello
as Mr. Brimmer
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 City of Fear
as Chief Jensen
- 1959
- 1958 The Hot Angel
as Van Richards
- 1958
- 1958 High School Confidential!
as William Remington Kane
- 1958 The Notorious Mr. Monks
as Leonardo, Prosecuting Attorney
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Guns Don't Argue
as Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon
- 1957 God Is My Partner
as Dr. Warburton, Psychiatrist
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Plan 9 from Outer Space
as General Roberts
- 1956 The Great Man
as Harry Connors
- 1956 Calling Homicide
as Tony Fuller
- 1956
- 1956
- 1955 Sudden Danger
as Harry Woodruff
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 Jail Busters
as Cy Bowman
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954 There's No Business Like Show Business
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1954 The Steel Cage
as Square, Convict, segment "The Hostages"
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 Tobor the Great
as An Admiral
- 1954
- 1954 The Desperado
as Judge
- 1954 Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
as Capt. Pace
- 1954 The Mad Magician
as Program Hawker (uncredited)
- 1954 Jail Bait
as Inspector John
- 1954 Gunfighters of the Northwest
as Inspector Wheeler
- 1954 So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
as Mr. Elliot, Health Inspector (uncredited)
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 Trader Tom of the China Seas
as Barent
- 1954 With This Ring
as Miller Executive
- 1953 Tumbleweed
as Weber
- 1953 Six Gun Decision
as Blackburn
- 1953
- 1953 Clipped Wings
as Captain Blair
- 1953 Mesa of Lost Women
as Narrator (voice)
- 1953 Glen or Glenda
as Inspector Warren
- 1953 White Lightning
as Rocky Gibraltar
- 1953 Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Major Gerald Curwin
- 1953
- 1953 Star of Texas
as Telegraph Operator
- 1952 Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
as Bart Miller
- 1952 The Pathfinder
as British Ship Captain
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 Wyoming Roundup
as Franklin
- 1952 Son of Geronimo
as Col. Foster [Chs.5-6]
- 1952 Desperadoes' Outpost
as Walter Fleming
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 The Old West
as Doc Lockwood
- 1952 Feudin' Fools
as Big Jim, bank robbery leader
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 Untamed Women
as Col. Loring
- 1952 Montana Incident
as Mooney
- 1952 Sea Tiger
as Mr. Williams, Insurance Man
- 1952 African Treasure
as Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy
- 1952 Outlaw Women
as Judge Roger Dixon
- 1952 With a Song in My Heart
as Radio Station Director (uncredited)
- 1952
- 1952 Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics
as Mr. Casey
- 1952 Texas City
as Captain Hamilton
- 1952
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 Purple Heart Diary
as Maj. Green
- 1951
- 1951 Jungle Manhunt
as Dr. Mitchell Heller
- 1951 Gold Raiders
as Taggart
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 Hurricane Island
as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 The Scarf
as City Detective
- 1951 Man from Sonora
as Sheriff Frank Casey
- 1951 Mask of the Dragon
as Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin
- 1951 Fury of the Congo
as Grant
- 1951 Fingerprints Don't Lie
as Police Lt. Grayson
- 1951 Abilene Trail
as Dr. Martin
- 1951 Blue Blood
as Teasdale
- 1951 Colorado Ambush
as Sheriff Ed Lowery
- 1950 The du Pont Story
as Eugene du Pont
- 1950 Revenue Agent
as Augustus 'Gus' King
- 1950 One Too Many
as Mr. Boyer
- 1950 The Jackpot
as Fred Burns
- 1950
- 1950 Cherokee Uprising
as Chief Marshal
- 1950 Border Rangers
as Ranger Captain McLain
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950 Big Timber
as Logger #1
- 1950
- 1950 Triple Trouble
as Prison Yard Guard
- 1950 Atom Man vs. Superman
as Luthor, alias The Atom Man
- 1950 Federal Man
as Agent Johnson
- 1950 Lucky Losers
as Bruce McDermott
- 1950 Champagne for Caesar
as Executive No. 2
- 1950 Johnny One-Eye
as Official from District Attorney's Office
- 1950 Everybody's Dancin'
as Contractor
- 1950 The Daltons' Women
as Jim Thorne
- 1949
- 1949 Wild Weed
as Capt. Hayes
- 1949 Ringside
as Radio Announcer
- 1949 Mississippi Rhythm
as O'Neill
- 1949 Batman and Robin
as Commissioner Jim Gordon
- 1949 Sky Dragon
as Andrew J. Barrett
- 1949 The Mutineers
as Capt. Jim Duncan
- 1949 Fighting Fools
as Blinky Harris
- 1949 Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
as Lt. Muldoon
- 1948 Highway 13
as Company Detective
- 1948 Shep Comes Home
as Dr. Wilson
- 1948 Quick on the Trigger
as Garvey Yager
- 1948 Appointment with Murder
as Fred Muller
- 1948 Parole, Inc.
as Police Commissioner Hughes
- 1948 Thunder in the Pines
as Nick Roulade
- 1948
- 1948 Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Henerson
- 1948 The Vicious Circle
as Miller
- 1948 Devil's Cargo
as Johnny Morello
- 1947 Danger Street
as Charles Johnson
- 1947 The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
as George Pierce
- 1946 North of the Border
as Sgt. Jack Craig
- 1946 Chick Carter, Detective
as Chick Carter
- 1946 Strange Impersonation
as Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator
- 1946 Song of Arizona
as King Blaine
- 1946 Murder Is My Business
as Buell Renslow
- 1946 Gun Town
as Lucky Dorgan
- 1944 One Body Too Many
as Jim Davis
- 1944 Mystery of the Riverboat
as Rudolph Toller
- 1944 Trail to Gunsight
as U. S. Marshal Bill Hollister
- 1944 Dixie Jamboree
as Anthony 'Tony' Sardell
- 1944 Sensations of 1945
as Randall
- 1944 Are These Our Parents?
as George Kent
- 1944 Gambler's Choice
as Yellow Gloves Weldon
- 1944 The Falcon Out West
as Tex Irwin
- 1944 Up in Arms
as Sergeant Gelsey
- 1943 A Night for Crime
as Joe Powell
- 1943 The Meanest Man in the World
as Bill Potts (uncredited)
- 1943 Man of Courage
as George Dickson
- 1942 Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
as Reddy
- 1942 They Raid by Night
as Capt. Robert Owen
- 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 Miracle on Main Street
as Dick Porter
- 1939 Torture Ship
as Lt. Bob Bennett
- 1939 Second Fiddle
as Willie Hogger
- 1939 They Asked For It
as Marty Collins
- 1939 Forged Passport
as Jack Scott
+ 58 more credits
Talk shows and appearances (9)
- 1996
- 1995
- 1989
- 1985
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1951
- 1935
- 1934
- 1933