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Lyle Talbot (born Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996) 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
42nd Street
(1933)
Geoffrey Warning (voice) (uncredited)
The Mad Magician
(1954)
Program Hawker (uncredited)
Sonic Boom
(1974)
French Representative
Parole, Inc.
(1948)
Police Commissioner Hughes
Glen or Glenda
(1953)
Inspector Warren
Torture Ship
(1939)
Lt. Bob Bennett
Plan 9 from Outer Space
(1959)
General Roberts
Tumbleweed
(1953)
Weber
There's No Business Like Show Business
(1954)
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
City of Fear
(1959)
Chief Jensen
Full Filmography
Acting
The Clyde Mystery
(1931)
Police Capt. Dick Rugg (as Lysle Talbot)
Stranger in Town
(1931)
Ed Brice
Unholy Love
(1932)
Dr. Jerome Preston 'Jerry' Gregory
The Thirteenth Guest
(1932)
Phil Winston
Big City Blues
(1932)
Len 'Lenny' Sully
Love Is a Racket
(1932)
Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw
The Purchase Price
(1932)
Eddie Fields
No More Orchids
(1932)
Tony Gage
Klondike
(1932)
Robert Cromwell
Three on a Match
(1932)
Michael Loftus
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
(1932)
Bud Saunders
Miss Pinkerton
(1932)
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Ladies They Talk About
(1933)
Don
College Coach
(1933)
Buck Weaver
The 42nd Street Special
(1933)
Self (uncredited)
42nd Street
(1933)
Geoffrey Warning (voice) (uncredited)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
(1933)
Doc
A Shriek in the Night
(1933)
Ted Rand
Girl Missing
(1933)
Raymond Fox
Mary Stevens, M.D.
(1933)
Don A. Andrews
She Had to Say Yes
(1933)
Daniel 'Danny' Drew
Havana Widows
(1933)
Bob Jones
Return of the Terror
(1934)
Dr. Leonard Goodman
Fog Over Frisco
(1934)
Spencer Carlton
The Dragon Murder Case
(1934)
Gale Leland
Mandalay
(1934)
Dr. Gregory Burton
And She Learned About Dames
(1934)
Himself
The Secret Bride
(1934)
Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Registered Nurse
(1934)
Dr. Greg Connolly
Heat Lightning
(1934)
Jeff
Murder in the Clouds
(1934)
Bob 'Three Star' Halsey
One Night of Love
(1934)
Bill Houston
A Lost Lady
(1934)
Neil
Broadway Hostess
(1935)
Lucky Lorimer
While the Patient Slept
(1935)
Ross Lonergan
It Happened in New York
(1935)
Charley Barnes
A Dream Comes True
(1935)
Himself (uncredited)
Page Miss Glory
(1935)
Slattery
Chinatown Squad
(1935)
Ted Lacey
Red Hot Tires
(1935)
Wallace Storm
The Case of the Lucky Legs
(1935)
Dr. Robert Doray
Oil for the Lamps of China
(1935)
Jim
Our Little Girl
(1935)
Rolfe Brent
Mind Your Own Business
(1936)
Crane
Boulder Dam
(1936)
Mr. Harry Lacy
Go West Young Man
(1936)
Francis X. Harrigan
The Law in Her Hands
(1936)
Frank Gordon
Murder by an Aristocrat
(1936)
Dr. Allen Carick
The Singing Kid
(1936)
Bob Carey
Trapped by Television
(1936)
Fred Dennis
West Bound Limited
(1937)
Dave Tolliver aka Bob Kirk
What Price Vengeance
(1937)
'Dynamite' Hogan / Tom Connors
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
(1937)
Bill Peck
Second Honeymoon
(1937)
Bob Benton
Three Legionnaires
(1937)
Pvt. Jimmy Barton
The Arkansas Traveler
(1938)
Matt Collins
One Wild Night
(1938)
Singer Martin
I Stand Accused
(1938)
Charles Eastman
Gateway
(1938)
Henry Porter
Change of Heart
(1938)
Phillip Reeves
Call of The Yukon
(1938)
Hugo Henderson
Forged Passport
(1939)
Jack Scott
They Asked For It
(1939)
Marty Collins
Torture Ship
(1939)
Lt. Bob Bennett
Miracle on Main Street
(1939)
Dick Porter
Second Fiddle
(1939)
Willie Hogger
Parole Fixer
(1940)
Ross Waring
He Married His Wife
(1940)
Paul Hunter
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
(1942)
Reddy
They Raid by Night
(1942)
Capt. Robert Owen
She's in the Army
(1942)
Army Capt. Steve Russell
Man of Courage
(1943)
George Dickson
The Meanest Man in the World
(1943)
Bill Potts (uncredited)
A Night for Crime
(1943)
Joe Powell
Dixie Jamboree
(1944)
Anthony 'Tony' Sardell
Are These Our Parents?
(1944)
George Kent
Up in Arms
(1944)
Sgt. Gelsey
Trail to Gunsight
(1944)
U. S. Marshal Bill Hollister
The Falcon Out West
(1944)
Tex Irwin
One Body Too Many
(1944)
Jim Davis
Mystery of the Riverboat
(1944)
Rudolph Toller
Gambler's Choice
(1944)
Yellow Gloves Weldon
Sensations of 1945
(1944)
Randall
Murder Is My Business
(1946)
Buell Renslow
Gun Town
(1946)
Lucky Dorgan
North of the Border
(1946)
Sgt. Jack Craig
Chick Carter, Detective
(1946)
Chick Carter
Strange Impersonation
(1946)
Insp. Malloy, chief interrogator
Song of Arizona
(1946)
King Blaine
Danger Street
(1947)
Charles Johnson
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
(1947)
George Pierce
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
(1948)
Henerson
Parole, Inc.
(1948)
Police Commissioner Hughes
Highway 13
(1948)
Company Detective
Thunder in the Pines
(1948)
Nick Roulade
Appointment with Murder
(1948)
Fred Muller
Devil's Cargo
(1948)
Johnny Morello
The Vicious Circle
(1948)
Miller
Shep Comes Home
(1948)
Dr. Wilson
Quick on the Trigger
(1948)
Garvey Yager
Wild Weed
(1949)
Capt. Hayes
Fighting Fools
(1949)
Blinky Harris
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
(1949)
Lt. Muldoon
Sky Dragon
(1949)
Andrew J. Barrett
Batman and Robin
(1949)
Commissioner Jim Gordon
Ringside
(1949)
Radio Announcer
The Mutineers
(1949)
Capt. Jim Duncan
Lucky Losers
(1950)
Bruce McDermott
One Too Many
(1950)
Mr. Boyer
Triple Trouble
(1950)
Prison Yard Guard
Atom Man vs. Superman
(1950)
Luthor, alias The Atom Man
Revenue Agent
(1950)
Augustus 'Gus' King
Big Timber
(1950)
Logger #1
Cherokee Uprising
(1950)
Chief Marshal
Federal Man
(1950)
Agent Johnson
The Jackpot
(1950)
Fred Burns
Everybody's Dancin'
(1950)
Contractor
The Du Pont Story
(1950)
Eugene du Pont
Border Rangers
(1950)
Ranger Captain McLain
Champagne for Caesar
(1950)
Executive No. 2
Johnny One-Eye
(1950)
Official from District Attorney's Office
The Daltons' Women
(1950)
Jim Thorne
Colorado Ambush
(1951)
Sheriff Ed Lowery
Hurricane Island
(1951)
Doctor (uncredited)
Gold Raiders
(1951)
Taggart
Jungle Manhunt
(1951)
Dr. Mitchell Heller
Fury of the Congo
(1951)
Grant
Fingerprints Don't Lie
(1951)
Police Lt. Grayson
Mask of the Dragon
(1951)
Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin
The Scarf
(1951)
City Detective
Purple Heart Diary
(1951)
Maj. Green
Man from Sonora
(1951)
Sheriff Frank Casey
Blue Blood
(1951)
Teasdale
Abilene Trail
(1951)
Dr. Martin
Varieties on Parade
(1951)
Himself
Outlaw Women
(1952)
Judge Roger Dixon
Sea Tiger
(1952)
Mr. Williams, Insurance Man
The Pathfinder
(1952)
British Ship Captain
Feudin' Fools
(1952)
Big Jim, bank robbery leader
Untamed Women
(1952)
Col. Loring
African Treasure
(1952)
Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy
With a Song in My Heart
(1952)
Radio station director
Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
(1952)
Bart Miller
The Old West
(1952)
Doc Lockwood
Desperadoes' Outpost
(1952)
Walter Fleming
Son of Geronimo
(1952)
Col. Foster [Chs.5-6]
Montana Incident
(1952)
Mooney
Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics
(1952)
Mr. Casey
Texas City
(1952)
Captain Hamilton
Wyoming Roundup
(1952)
Franklin
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
(1953)
Major Gerald Curwin
Clipped Wings
(1953)
Captain Blair
Mesa of Lost Women
(1953)
Narrator (voice)
Tumbleweed
(1953)
Weber
Glen or Glenda
(1953)
Inspector Warren
Star of Texas
(1953)
Telegraph Operator
White Lightning
(1953)
Rocky Gibraltar
Six Gun Decision
(1953)
Blackburn
Tobor the Great
(1954)
An Admiral
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
(1954)
Mr. Elliot, Health Inspector (uncredited)
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
(1954)
Capt. Pace
The Steel Cage
(1954)
Square, Convict, segment "The Hostages"
The Desperado
(1954)
Judge
With This Ring
(1954)
There's No Business Like Show Business
(1954)
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Jail Bait
(1954)
Inspector John
The Mad Magician
(1954)
Program Hawker (uncredited)
Trader Tom of the China Seas
(1954)
Barent
Gunfighters of the Northwest
(1954)
Inspector Wheeler
Jail Busters
(1955)
Cy Bowman
Sudden Danger
(1955)
Harry Woodruff
Calling Homicide
(1956)
Tony Fuller
The Great Man
(1956)
Harry Connors
God Is My Partner
(1957)
Dr. Warburton, Psychiatrist
Guns Don't Argue
(1957)
Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon
High School Confidential!
(1958)
William Remington Kane
The Hot Angel
(1958)
Van Richards
The Notorious Mr. Monks
(1958)
Leonardo, Prosecuting Attorney
City of Fear
(1959)
Chief Jensen
Plan 9 from Outer Space
(1959)
General Roberts
Sonic Boom
(1974)
French Representative
Current Affairs: The Case of Dashiell Hammett
(1982)
Dashiell Hammett
That's Dancing!
(1985)
Self
George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
(1986)
Pops
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
(1989)
Self / Commissioner Gordon (archive footage)
Inside the Dream Factory
(1995)
Self
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
(1996)
Himself
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
(2015)
Self (archive footage)