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Stephen Talbot

Stephen Talbot

Known For Acting
Birthday Feb 28, 1949 (76)
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, USA
Popularity 0.4 (history)
Updated Jan 11, 2026
Entry Date May 31, 2024
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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.

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The Lucy Show

as Cadet Clark

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1962

The Twilight Zone

as Howie Gutliff

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Perry Mason

as Jimmie Kendall

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

The Twilight Zone

as The Boy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Rufe Meecham

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1958

Sugarfoot

as Ab Martin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1957

Law of the Plainsman

as Stevie Mullen

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1959

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Jonathan

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1956

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Ronnie Kramer

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1959

Leave It to Beaver

as Gilbert

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1957

Lassie

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 12, 1954

The Donna Reed Show

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1958

Lawman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1958

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1960

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