#Leave it to beaver cast series#

Talbot guest-starred on many television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including three episodes of Lassie.

#Leave it to beaver cast series#

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 productionД«orn 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). Д«efore 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.