On why Lyle Talbot decided to get out of small-town Nebraska and become an actor, "I think it's fair to say there was not a lot going on for somebody like my dad who was a good-looking, fairly ambitious young guy who had a real playful streak and wasn't going to stay and run a drugstore or be a farmer. now journalist, David Talbot and child actor Stephen Talbot. He also appeared in several television shows, including "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," where he played Ozzie Nelson's friend Joe Randolph for 11 years and the "Bob Cummings Show.". - John Cason You had to show them having two single beds. As young actors we were hell raisers. - James Coburn Tracing his heritage is quite intriguing. About She is a woman of average stature. 28-Feb-1949) TELEVISION The Beverly Hillbillies Col. Blake (1962-67) His virtuosity is exemplified by the fact that at various times, he played both Felix and Oscar in productions of The Odd Couple. - Gregg Palmer A native of Los Angeles, she now lives in Washington, D.C. 2023 Cond Nast. Lyle Talbot was married to Elaine Melchior for 0 years, Marguerite Ethel Cramer for 3 years, Abigail Adams for 0 years, Keven McClure for 1 year, and Margaret Epple (aka Paula Deaven) for 41 years. He really didnt know how much Id learned from him. He went from clean-cut detective hero to nightclub-owning crook the next year with The Vigilante (47 Columbia). Before that, she served as a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Talbot is the author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Fathers Twentieth Century, a history of twentieth-century entertainment told through the adventures of her actor father, Lyle Talbot. Then he was the star of Chick Carter, Detective at Columbia in 1946. In pictures he played opposite the bestMae West, Shirley Temple, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard. - I. Stanford Jolley Lysle never saw his father again until he was about 15. Courtesy of Margaret Talbot She has been serving as a Staff Writer at The New Yorker in Washington since 2004. We tend to get sentimental about the movies. After several days illness, at 94, the legendary Lyle Talbot died March 3, 1996, at his San Francisco apartment. - Lee Marvin Lyle Talbot, who appeared in over 150 movies from leads in Warner Bros.' "pre-Code" pictures to countless supporting roles, and later enjoyed a steady TV career as a character actor, was born Lysle Henderson on February 8, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Many of the actors, like Lysle, migrated to Hollywood, however his first film was a 20 minute short with Pat OBrien lensed in New York in 1930, The Nightingale, released by Warner Bros. Magaret earned her masters degree in History from Harvard University. He had four kids to support. He felt very fortunate, and he wanted to work all the time. "What an assortment. - Myron Healey And though he never became a superstar, Lyles picaresque through the entertainment industry continued: he had the dubious honor of being kitsch director Ed Woods favorite actorWood paid Lyle $300 a day, in wrinkled dollar billsand had a recurring role in the original television version of Superman. [7] and was a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest".[8][9]. - Rex Holman Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Brain gain: The underground world of 'neuroenhancing' drugs", "About a boy: Transgender surgery at sixteen", "Gone girl: The extraordinary resilience of Elizabeth Smart", "Home movies: Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur", "Faces of an epidemic: In Montgomery County, Ohio, opioid addiction permeates everyday life", "Dirty politics: Scott Pruitt's E.P.A. - Slim Whitaker Ad Choices. He co-starred as Ozzie Nelson's friend Joe Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) and as Robert Cummings' Air Force buddy in The Bob Cummings Show (1955) (also known as "Love that Bob") and made guest appearances on a plethora of TV series, including Leave It to Beaver (1957), The Lone Ranger (1949), Topper (1953), The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950), Perry Mason (1957), Rawhide (1959), Wagon Train (1957), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), Charlie's Angels (1976), Newhart (1982), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) and Who's the Boss? Later in life he took some lesser parts. He was back helping Batman and Robin in 1949 at Columbia as Commissioner Gordon. A singer and actress, she gave up her career to raise their four children, but frequently appeared with her husband in summer stock. He learned to act with stock companies throughout the Midwest, where he became a leading man, and even formed his own short-lived company in Memphis, Tennessee, "The Talbot Players," which included his actor father and stepmother, Ed and Anna Henderson.By 1931 he was in Hollywood as the talkies were maturing. He had the good looks of a star but, more importantly, he had a rich baritone voice that the talkies needed. I worked a lot because I liked working. There's even the old aspect of the code that people will point to and this was actually something that was added in deference to British censors: You weren't allowed to show a married couple in bed together. He sang, did a little magic and performed in a couple of sketches. Lyle continued appearing on stage in dinner theatres through the late '80s until his wife of nearly 42 years, Margaret Epple, died in 1989. Margaret is the daughter of Lyle Talbot, who was a veteran Warner Bros actor, and Margaret Epple. Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer. - Bud Osborne Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot. - Al Ferguson - Ward Bond - Scott Marlowe Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a167373899719e3 My father's. Graduating to a resident stock company, he worked in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for two years and eventually opened his own stock company, The Talbot Players, in Memphis, Tennessee. - Dick Curtis - Jack Elam Although he thoroughly enjoyed the work, acting was practiced as an assembly line operation at the time. Margarets salary is $81,540 annually. - Terry Frost - Glenn Strange Maybe its his Irish blood, his family name way back was Hollywood. Yeah, it did not seem promising at all. - Page 1 (1910-1949) The article was published on June 6, 2005, in the print edition at the New Yorker. The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an inconceivable event.. Before joining The New Yorker, Magaret spent four years from 1999 to 2003 serving for the New York Times magazine as Contributing Writer. Before The New Yorker, Magaret spent four years as Contributing Writer for the New York Times magazine from 1999 to 2003. Paul Sorenson, Ben Welden, William Watson, George Barrows. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. - Dick Alexander Anthony Comstocks crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. hide caption. Under contract to Warner Bros., Lyle was offered the singing cowboy role that made Dick Foran famous in 1935 but, because of his dislike and fear of horses, he begged off. [1] She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012). Talbot was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and the first employee of the Brothers Warners to join the union, much to their ire.As a matinee idol during the Depression, frequently playing a gangster or tuxedo-clad man about town, Talbot co-starred with the leading actresses of the day, including Ginger Rogers, Mary Astor, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Glenda Farrell, Kay Francis, Mae West, Ann Dvorak, Loretta Young, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple.Later, as a character actor, Talbot appeared as Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 serial Batman and Robin (1949) and was Lex Luthor in Atom Man vs. Superman (1950) the next year. - Fred Kohler The actor was 46 when he wed Paula Epple, 20, in 1948. - Noah Beery Sr. He was 94. Among his notable roles on television was his portrayal of Ozzie Nelson's friend . Talbot, along with James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis (ironically all WB contract players), were outspoken in their commitment to change working conditions for actors. Lyle Talbot 91 of 197 Lyle Talbor's wife and the mother of his four children, Paula Talbot (born: Margaret Epple). The action you just performed triggered the security solution. She earned her high diploma from North Hollywood high school. Margarets estimated net worth is $980,700. Margaret had interviews with a number of experts in order to rebuttal the views of the students and their schools to emphasize the importance of the valedictorian title. - Tom Bay - Al Bridge Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles and also dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music. hide caption. - Stephen McNally - George Wallace - Ted de Corsia Lyles grandfather, Mr. Hollywood, immigrated to America with his family from Ireland. Her book is called The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century. Stephen Talbot lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pippa Gordon, a medical social worker. Terry - Archives, Silent Western Reviews In the early 1950s he appeared in several of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s most notorious films, including the infamous transvestite tear-jerker Glen or Glenda (1953) and the famously inept Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). We respected each others acting. - Tris Coffin In 1948, he married for the fifth time, to Actress and singer Paula (ne Margaret) Epple. - Kenne Duncan In the 1950s, during a fallow professional period, he made three movies with Wood: "Glen or Glenda," the saga of a man who violates social taboos in his adoration of angora and women's lingerie; "Jail Bait," a bizarre film noir with an interminable flamenco guitar score; and "Plan 9 From Outer Space," a howler that mixes hick science, zombies, warlike pacifists from another planet and the crackpot utterances of a frenetic futurist. They are all very successful and he was very proud of them. Edition", "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Talbot&oldid=1136099064, This page was last edited on 28 January 2023, at 18:58. Between movies and sitcoms, he played local theaters and summer stock productions all over the country. Actress and Style Icon Raquel Welch Has Died at 82, What the 2023 SAG Award Winners Mean for the Oscar Race, The Remarkable Tale of Grace Kellys Two Engagement Rings, Diane Kruger on the Mysterious Pleasures of the Femme Fatale. I mean, literally thinking that. 88 of 194. - Lee Van Cleef Then Lyle did shows with Ozzie and Harriett as well as many plays. You missed your chance to be a prodigy, but theres still growth left for grownups. - Steve Clark Lyle was frequently loaned to other studios during his Warners tenure, most notably for The 13th Guest at Monogram in 32 and Trapped By Television at Columbia in 36. They would be married for over forty years and . Margaret is a woman of average stature and is 5 ft 6 in. Margaret Talbot, their daughter, is now a New Yorker writer who has written a family history in which she runs through the rise of popular entertainment in America. Performance & security by Cloudflare. - Jack Ingram Lyle Talbot (Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 March 2, 1996) was an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor. - Ted Adams - Jean Willes [4] She has also written for The New Republic,[5] The New York Times Magazine,[6] and The Atlantic Monthly. Three of the Talbots' four children have gone on to become well-known journalists. - Gregg Barton They were married in 1948 and remained together until her death in 1989. We worked together in Mexican Spitfire pictures, Lone Ranger, a commercial and more. How? - Morris Ankrum - Michael Pate - Douglas Fowley By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. . All rights reserved. She was 20, and he was a 46-year-old actor with a drinking Problem. - Archives, Daily Comic Strips . Lyle Talbot began his career as an itinerant carnival and vaudeville performer before eventually making his way to Hollywood. The couple had two daughters and two sons, and were married for more than 40 years. - Edmund Cobb - Lyle Talbot Moreover, she has a nephew Joe Talbot who serves as a filmmaker in America. In 1940-41, he starred on Broadway in "Separate Rooms," and then went on to entertain troops while he was a sergeant in the Army Air Force during World War II. Talbot was a pro, not a star. Released from his WB contract after six years, Lyle began to freelance in 1937. Talbot talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the Golden Age of Hollywood, her father's playboy past, and how he found work as an actor. The two were married until her death in 1989. They moved to Pittsburgh where Lysle was born. - Claude Akins Previously Lyle was married to Marjorie Kramer in 1937 until their divorce. Im still trying to figure out how he lived so long. Paula Talbot (born: Margaret Epple), married to Lyle Talbot from 1948 until her death in 1989. 0. - Byron Foulger She serves since 2004 in Washington, District of Columbia at The New Yorker as a Staff Writer. Margaret is the daughter of Lyle Talbot, who was a veteran Warner Bros actor, and Margaret Epple. What drives his anger? Her book is called The. Some of Margrets colleagues at The New Yorker Include: She receives decent pay as a Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Courtesy of Margaret Talbot - George Chesebro, The Stuntmen - Neil Summers At Home in Hollywood: Margaret Talbot's Memoir Recalls the Rambunctious Life and Times of Her Father, Actor Lyle Talbot "Stories were the soft golden net that enmeshed us. After a screen test in which he inadvertently mocked Warner Bros. production head Darryl Zanuck but impressed director William "Wild Bill" Wellman, Talbot was signed by Warner Bros.-First National. 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