Lyle Talbot
Known for Acting · 266 credits
- Born
- 1902-02-08
- Died
- 1996-03-02
- 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).
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
Perry Mason
1957
as Michael Garvin Sr.
Bonanza
1959
as The Handsome Dude in Bar
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Gibralter
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Second Psychiatrist
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
as Al Simon
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Mr. Cheever
TV Shows (74)
Perry Mason
1957
as Michael Garvin Sr.
Bonanza
1959
as The Handsome Dude in Bar
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Gibralter
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Second Psychiatrist
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
as Al Simon
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Mr. Cheever
Maverick
1957
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952
as Joe Randolph (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger
1949
as George Wilson / Roger Burnett / Fred Logan
The Lucy Show
1962
as Mr. Stanford / Howard Wilcox
Leave It to Beaver
1957
as Mr. Chuck Dennison
Who's the Boss?
1984
Studio One
1948
as Trent
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Johnny Barnes
Adam-12
1968
as Avery Dawson
Green Acres
1965
as Horace Bennett / Sen. Lyle Talbot / Gov. Carstairs
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Tom Mills
Run for Your Life
1965
as Steven Blakely
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Victor Long
Dennis the Menace
1959
as Mayor
Rawhide
1959
as Dr. Otis Gray
Here's Lucy
1968
as Lawyer / Fred Fox
Newhart
1982
as Cousin Ned
The Millionaire
1955
as Joe Price
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Mister Ed
1961
as George Hausner
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
as Paul Fonda
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Surfside 6
1960
as Alan Crandell
The Cisco Kid
1950
as Judge (uncredited) / Judge Watkins / Bob Wilkerson
227
1985
Lock-Up
1959
Navy Log
1955
December Bride
1954
as Bill Jeffries
M Squad
1957
as Paul Crowley
Racket Squad
1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
Broken Arrow
1956
as Judge Judd Hinshaw
Laredo
1965
as Sheriff
Annie Oakley
1954
as Pa Wiggins / Col. Dawson
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Paul / Johnson / O'Leary / Abner / Capt. Flood / Bowers
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
as Jimmy Dill
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Mr. Anders
The Roy Rogers Show
1951
as John Zachary
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Phil Paige
Public Defender
1954
as Dobin
87th Precinct
1961
as Woody Gaynor
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Eddie Kling
Dangerous Assignment
1952
as George
The Restless Gun
1957
as Mort Askins
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Roaring 20's
1960
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Ben Jerrod
1963
as Police Lt. Choates
Boston Blackie
1951
as Wildcat Cannon
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
The Whistler
1954
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
as W.T. Emerson / Bank Teller
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
as Warden
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Movies (192)
Federal Man
1950
as Agent Johnson
Strange Impersonation
1946
as Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator
Gun Town
1946
as Lucky Dorgan
Jail Busters
1955
as Cy Bowman
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957
as General Roberts
A Lost Lady
1934
as Neil
Colorado Ambush
1951
as Sheriff Ed Lowery
Ringside
1949
as Radio Announcer
One Night of Love
1934
as Bill Houston
Batman and Robin
1949
as Commissioner Jim Gordon
Love is a Racket
1932
as Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw
Glen or Glenda
1953
as Inspector Warren
Guns Don't Argue
1957
as Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon
Atom Man vs. Superman
1950
as Luthor, alias The Atom Man
The Mad Magician
1954
as Program Hawker (uncredited)
That's Dancing!
1985
as Self
The Purchase Price
1932
as Eddie Fields
Triple Trouble
1950
as Prison Yard Guard
Chick Carter, Detective
1946
as Chick Carter
Ladies They Talk About
1933
as Don
He Married His Wife
1940
as Paul Hunter
42nd Street
1933
as Geoffrey Warning (voice) (uncredited)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
as Bud Saunders
Johnny One-Eye
1950
as Official from District Attorney's Office
The Steel Cage
1954
as Square, Convict, segment "The Hostages"
Gold Raiders
1951
as Taggart
Tobor the Great
1954
as An Admiral
Sunrise at Campobello
1960
as Mr. Brimmer
Up in Arms
1944
as Sergeant Gelsey
Song of Arizona
1946
as King Blaine
High School Confidential!
1958
as William Remington Kane
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
as Rudolph Toller
With a Song in My Heart
1952
as Radio Station Director (uncredited)
There's No Business Like Show Business
1954
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
Three on a Match
1932
as Michael Loftus
The Jackpot
1950
as Fred Burns
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
as Doc
Champagne for Caesar
1950
as Executive No. 2
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
1954
as Mr. Elliot, Health Inspector (uncredited)
Heat Lightning
1934
as Jeff
Fog Over Frisco
1934
as Spencer Carlton
Shep Comes Home
1948
as Dr. Wilson
The Great Man
1956
as Harry Connors
Purple Heart Diary
1951
as Maj. Green
Second Fiddle
1939
as Willie Hogger
The Hot Angel
1958
as Van Richards
While the Patient Slept
1935
as Ross Lonergan
The 42nd Street Special
1933
as Self (uncredited)
African Treasure
1952
as Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy
The Dragon Murder Case
1934
as Gale Leland
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
as Self
Forged Passport
1939
as Jack Scott
Our Little Girl
1935
as Rolfe Brent
Trapped by Television
1936
as Fred Dennis
Appointment with Murder
1948
as Fred Muller
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
as Reddy
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
as Phil Winston
Mesa of Lost Women
1953
as Narrator (voice)
The Pathfinder
1952
as British Ship Captain
Sky Dragon
1949
as Andrew J. Barrett
Wild Weed
1949
as Capt. Hayes
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
1989
as Self / Commissioner Gordon (archive footage)
Around the World with Nellie Bly
1960
Sea Tiger
1952
as Mr. Williams, Insurance Man
Fingerprints Don't Lie
1951
as Police Lt. Grayson
Modify
2025
as Inspector Warren (archival audio) (uncredited)
Jungle Manhunt
1951
as Dr. Mitchell Heller
White Lightning
1953
as Rocky Gibraltar
Outlaw Women
1952
as Judge Roger Dixon
Jail Bait
1954
as Inspector John
George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
1986
as Pops
Calling Homicide
1956
as Tony Fuller
Danger Street
1947
as Charles Johnson
Sensations of 1945
1944
as Randall
No More Orchids
1932
as Tony Gage
Man of Courage
1943
as George Dickson
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
as Dr. Robert Doray
What Price Vengeance
1937
as 'Dynamite' Hogan / Tom Connors
Torture Ship
1939
as Lt. Bob Bennett
With This Ring
1954
as Miller Executive
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958
as Leonardo, Prosecuting Attorney
She Had to Say Yes
1933
as Daniel 'Danny' Drew
The Scarf
1951
as City Detective
Return of the Terror
1934
as Dr. Leonard Goodman
One Body Too Many
1944
as Jim Davis
The Secret Bride
1934
as Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
They Raid by Night
1942
as Capt. Robert Owen
Wings of the Hawk
1953
Sudden Danger
1955
as Harry Woodruff
Murder in the Clouds
1934
as "Three-Star" Bob Halsey
Gateway
1938
as Henry Porter
Varieties on Parade
1951
as Himself
God Is My Partner
1957
as Dr. Warburton, Psychiatrist
Untamed Women
1952
as Col. Loring
Lucky Losers
1950
as Bruce McDermott
The Singing Kid
1936
as Bob Carey
The Meanest Man in the World
1943
as Bill Potts (uncredited)
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
1954
as Capt. Pace
The Falcon Out West
1944
as Tex Irwin
And She Learned About Dames
1934
as Himself
Second Honeymoon
1937
as Bob Benton
Highway 13
1948
as Company Detective
Tumbleweed
1953
as Weber
Star of Texas
1953
as Telegraph Operator
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
1947
as George Pierce
The Vicious Circle
1948
as Miller
Go West Young Man
1936
as Francis X. Harrigan
A Night for Crime
1943
as Joe Powell
Miss Pinkerton
1932
as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
The Desperado
1954
as Judge
Montana Incident
1952
as Mooney
Parole, Inc.
1948
as Police Commissioner Hughes
Fighting Fools
1949
as Blinky Harris
A Dream Comes True
1935
as Himself (uncredited)
Girl Missing
1933
as Raymond Fox
Page Miss Glory
1935
as Slattery
Sonic Boom
1974
as French Representative
A Shriek in the Night
1933
as Ted Rand
Son of Geronimo
1952
as Col. Foster [Chs.5-6]
Mask of the Dragon
1951
as Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin
About Lyle Talbot
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 w… With 266 credits spanning from 1931 to 2025, Lyle Talbot has appeared in 192 films and 74 TV shows.
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Most Popular Lyle Talbot Movies
- Federal Man (1950) — as Agent Johnson
- Strange Impersonation (1946) — as Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator
- Gun Town (1946) — as Lucky Dorgan
- Jail Busters (1955) — as Cy Bowman
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) — as General Roberts
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