Stephen Talbot
Known for Acting · 14 credits
- Born
- 1949-02-28 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as
- Stephen Henderson Talbot
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.
Known For
TV Shows (13)
Perry Mason
1957
as Jimmie Kendall
Lassie
1954
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Howie Gutliff / The Boy
Lawman
1958
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jonathan
Leave It to Beaver
1957
as Gilbert
The Lucy Show
1962
as Cadet Clark
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Rufe Meecham
Sugarfoot
1957
as Ab Martin
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Ronnie Kramer
Law of the Plainsman
1959
as Stevie Mullen
Movies (1)
About Stephen Talbot
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, frie… With 14 credits spanning from 1954 to 1962, Stephen Talbot has appeared in 1 film and 13 TV shows.
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Most Popular Stephen Talbot Movies
- Because They're Young (1960) — as Eric Hendry
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