Stephen Talbot
Born: 1949-02-28 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2005
- The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation ... (Director)
1962
- The Lucy Show as Cadet Clark
1960
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show
- Because They're Young as Eric Hendry
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Howie Gutliff
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Ronnie Kramer
- Law of the Plainsman as Stevie Mullen
1958
- The Donna Reed Show
- Lawman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Rufe Meecham
1957
- Perry Mason as Jimmie Kendall
- Leave It to Beaver as Gilbert
- Sugarfoot as Ab Martin
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jonathan