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Stephen Talbot
Los Angeles, California, USA
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 Experi…
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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.
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2005
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
Movie Director
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1962
The Lucy Show
TV show Cadet Clark
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1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV show
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1960
Because They're Young
Movie Eric Hendry
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1959
The Twilight Zone
TV show Howie Gutliff
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1959
Law of the Plainsman
TV show Stevie Mullen
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1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV show Ronnie Kramer
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1958
Lawman
TV show
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1958
The Donna Reed Show
TV show
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1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV show Rufe Meecham
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1957
Leave It to Beaver
TV show Gilbert
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Jimmie Kendall
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1957
Sugarfoot
TV show Ab Martin
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Jonathan
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1954
Lassie
TV show
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