Stephen Talbot
| Stephen Talbot | |
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| Born |
Stephen Henderson Talbot February 28, 1949 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Other names | Steven Talbot |
| Spouse(s) | Pippa Gordon |
Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an Emmy, DuPont and Peabody award-winning TV documentary producer, writer and reporter who has been a longtime contributor to PBS, especially the series FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE World. Before becoming a journalist and producer, Talbot was a busy television child actor in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His father was the film, TV and stage actor Lyle Talbot.
As an actor, Steve is best known for his role in the iconic "baby boomer" TV series, Leave It to Beaver, in which he played "Gilbert Bates," friend of, "Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver" (Jerry Mathers). The character Gilbert was generally known to lure Beaver into mischief.
Talbot went on to become an accomplished "behind the scenes" contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service as a producer and writer for the Frontline series and as the series editor and a senior producer for FRONTLINE World. He has produced, written and reported over 40 documentaries for PBS, including biographies of fiction writers Dashiell Hammett, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes and Maxine Hong Kingston. He began his career in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at KQED-TV in San Francisco, where he also contributed feature news stories to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. He has also worked as a producer and senior producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the PBS/ITVS series Independent Lens.
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