Stephen Talbot

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1949-02-28

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Lassie		61
2	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Jonathan	55
3	1957	Sugarfoot	Ab Martin	48
4	1957	Perry Mason	Jimmie Kendall	77
5	1957	Leave It to Beaver	Gilbert	70
6	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Rufe Meecham	69
7	1958	The Donna Reed Show		62
8	1958	Lawman		56
9	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Ronnie Kramer	63
10	1959	Law of the Plainsman	Stevie Mullen	60
11	1959	The Twilight Zone	Howie Gutliff	84
12	1959	The Twilight Zone	The Boy	84
13	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show		62
14	1962	The Lucy Show	Cadet Clark	70

Stephen Talbot

Film

Television