#Who played gilbert on leave it to beaver series#
Talbot played the role of Ronnie Kramer in the CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson episode "Hit and Run". He appeared in comedy sketches with Bob Newhart in the early '60s NBC variety program, The Bob Newhart Show. Talbot also appeared in M Squad, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Blue Angels, Men Into Space, Lawman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Law of the Plainsman, The Donna Reed Show, Mr. The "twister" in the title of the episode is a tornado that wipes out a western town. In the episode, he recites to his dying teacher, Roy Cantwell (Fred Beir) a part of Patrick Henry's 1775 address at St. In 1959, he was cast as Ab Martin, a grade-school pupil in the episode "The Twister" of the ABC/ Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins in the title role. And 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". Talbot appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: " Static" and " The Fugitive". Talbot guest-starred on many television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including three episodes of Lassie.
#Who played gilbert on leave it to beaver tv#
Afterwards, Gilbert tells Beaver, "I may be a dirty rat, but I'm not a dumb rat." But as the series went on Gilbert became a more genuine friend of the Beav, really his closest friend, as seen in episodes like "Beaver on TV" (1963) when Gilbert is the only one to believe Beaver had been on a local TV show (which was supposed to air live but had been taped for later broadcast, a new concept at the time). In "The School Picture" (1961) Gilbert tricks Beaver into making a goofy face in a class photo. Early on in the series, the Gilbert character was someone constantly getting the hapless Beaver into trouble. Talbot's first appearance as Gilbert on Leave It to Beaver was in a 1959 episode called "Beaver and Gilbert", where he plays an insecure new kid in town who is prone to telling tall tales. 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 and subsequently became a lecturer in the American Studies program. 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). In 1970, he graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he studied English and film and was very active in anti-Vietnam War protests. Stephen graduated from Harvard High School in Studio City (now called Harvard-Westlake) in 1966. 7 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and freelance productionīorn in Hollywood and raised in Studio City, California, Stephen Talbot is the son of Lyle Talbot, a film and TV actor, and Paula Talbot (born Margaret Epple).He is 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). īefore becoming a journalist and documentary producer, Talbot was a television child actor in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Talbot has also worked as a producer and senior producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting and since 2015 has been the senior producer for short, journalistic videos for ITVS and the PBS series, Independent Lens.
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 was co-creator and executive producer of the PBS music specials, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders, and an online series of music videos Quick Hits. 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. His more than 40 documentaries include the Frontline episodes "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". Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949) is an American TV documentary producer, reporter, writer, and longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the series Frontline.