Stephen Talbot

Known for ActingBorn 1949-02-28 (age 77)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Twilight Zone

Perry Mason

Law of the Plainsman

The Lucy Show

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Leave It to Beaver

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The Donna Reed Show

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Lassie

Because They're Young

Lawman

Sugarfoot

Under the Bridge: The Criminalization of Homelessness