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Stephen Talbot
Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949) is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. 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) who worked for over 16 years for the series Frontline. Talbot has won Emmys, Peabodys, DuPonts and a George Polk Award for his documentaries.
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", "Spying on Saddam," "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.
Before becoming a journalist and filmmaker, 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).
Born in Hollywood and raised in Studio City, California, Stephen Talbot is the son of film, stage and TV actor Lyle Talbot and Paula Talbot (born Margaret Epple). Stephen graduated in 1966 from Harvard Boys School in Studio City (now called Harvard-Westlake).
In 1970, he graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he studied English and film and was also very active in anti-Vietnam War protests. He began making films about the anti-war movement, including the November 1969 March on Washington, DC III (about Vietnam Veterans Against the War), and Year of the Tiger (filmed in Vietnam).
From 1970 to 1973, he worked at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, then an experimental college on Long Island. He began as assistant to the school's president John Maguire and subsequently became a lecturer in the American Studies program.
Talbot's first appearance as Gilbert on Leave It to Beaver was in a 1959 episode called "Beaver and Gilbert", in which he played an insecure new kid in town who is prone to telling tall tales. Over the next five years, he would appear in 57 episodes of the series, which ended in June 1963. The conniving Gilbert frequently got the hapless Beaver into trouble, once declaring, "I may be a dirty rat, but I'm not a dumb rat." In a signature episode, he tricked Beaver into making a face during a school picture. In perhaps his funniest role, he played the "mother" to Beaver's "father" as they pretended to take their kids for a drive in the Cleaver family car -- until it rolled down the driveway into the street. As the series developed, Gilbert became Beaver's best friend.
Talbot guest-starred on many television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including three episodes of Lassie, "Growing Pains," "The Flying Machine," and "The Big Race." He appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: "Static" and "The Fugitive". In 1960, he played Jimmie Kendall, son of the title character in CBS's Perry Mason in the episode, "The Case of the Wandering Widow".
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Stephen Talbot
Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949) is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. 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) who worked for over 16 years for the series Frontline. Talbot has won Emmys, Peabodys, DuPonts and a George Polk Award for his documentaries.
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", "Spying on Saddam," "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.
Before becoming a journalist and filmmaker, 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).
Born in Hollywood and raised in Studio City, California, Stephen Talbot is the son of film, stage and TV actor Lyle Talbot and Paula Talbot (born Margaret Epple). Stephen graduated in 1966 from Harvard Boys School in Studio City (now called Harvard-Westlake).
In 1970, he graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he studied English and film and was also very active in anti-Vietnam War protests. He began making films about the anti-war movement, including the November 1969 March on Washington, DC III (about Vietnam Veterans Against the War), and Year of the Tiger (filmed in Vietnam).
From 1970 to 1973, he worked at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, then an experimental college on Long Island. He began as assistant to the school's president John Maguire and subsequently became a lecturer in the American Studies program.
Talbot's first appearance as Gilbert on Leave It to Beaver was in a 1959 episode called "Beaver and Gilbert", in which he played an insecure new kid in town who is prone to telling tall tales. Over the next five years, he would appear in 57 episodes of the series, which ended in June 1963. The conniving Gilbert frequently got the hapless Beaver into trouble, once declaring, "I may be a dirty rat, but I'm not a dumb rat." In a signature episode, he tricked Beaver into making a face during a school picture. In perhaps his funniest role, he played the "mother" to Beaver's "father" as they pretended to take their kids for a drive in the Cleaver family car -- until it rolled down the driveway into the street. As the series developed, Gilbert became Beaver's best friend.
Talbot guest-starred on many television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including three episodes of Lassie, "Growing Pains," "The Flying Machine," and "The Big Race." He appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: "Static" and "The Fugitive". In 1960, he played Jimmie Kendall, son of the title character in CBS's Perry Mason in the episode, "The Case of the Wandering Widow".
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