Stephen Talbot (Gilbert) Question

[Bugiddle]

Does anyone know what Stephen Talbot is up to these days? I saw him reporting in a documentary about abortion in the late '80s, but I don't remember the name of the program, or what station it aired on, although I'm pretty sure it was on PBS. I was really surprised to see him, but he looked very handsome!! (I always thought he was a cute kid, anyway, and he was my favorite of Beaver's friends.)

[COUGAR83159]

I Read that (Stephen Talbot) was into dragracing, and I believe he is still at it.

Cougar83159
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[liane49]

Originally Posted by COUGAR83159

I Read that (Stephen Talbot) was into dragracing, and I believe he is still at it.

Cougar83159
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You can google in his name and find out alot of good stuff about him. He also does alot of behind the seens suff in show business.

[MickeyMac]

Steve Talbot got into reporting and working behind the scenes in TV, mostly documentaries. For years he would not talk about the show and refused to do the update in the 80's because he wanted to be known more than just Gilbert. From what I have heard he has mellowed out on this and talks about his time on the show.

[JudgeGarth]

Originally Posted by COUGAR83159

I Read that (Stephen Talbot) was into dragracing, and I believe he is still at it.

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There was another actor on the show, Tommy Ivo, who became an auto racer. Tommy played that older "cool" guy who was the head of the club Wally and Eddie joined in season 3: the one where they put on a play and Wally was supposed to play a saloon girl, but he tricked Eddie into playing it instead.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by JudgeGarth

There was another actor on the show, Tommy Ivo, who became an auto racer. Tommy played that older "cool" guy who was the head of the club Wally and Eddie joined in season 3: the one where they put on a play and Wally was supposed to play a saloon girl, but he tricked Eddie into playing it instead.

Tommy appears as himself in the 1959 film Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow. His love for cars and racing is evident

[catsafterme]

Stephen Talbot wrote the following note to Jerry Mathers recently:

Hey Jerry, thanks for the birthday greetings, my friend. Unbelievably, I have now reached that age immortalized by the Beatles — “Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m 64,” an age that seemed impossibly distant when I was playing the role of your pal, Gilbert. What’s amazing to me is how vividly I remember our days at Republic Studio and then at Universal, where we’d see people like Alfred Hitchcock in the commissary or rummage through the monster masks in the costume department.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my Hollywood past these days because my youngest sister, Margaret Talbot, who is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, just wrote a book about our father, Lyle Talbot, who, as you know, had a long career as a stage, film and TV actor. The book is called, “The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century.” She even includes an analysis and appreciation of “Leave it to Beaver,” which she watches in re-runs with her son and daughter.

One thing that seemed totally normal back then, but strikes me as pretty unusual now is that while I was your pal on “Leave it to Beaver,” my Dad (who was also in several “Beaver” episodes) was playing Ozzie’s best friend and neighbor, Joe Randolph, on “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” So, my Dad and I were sidekicks on two of the most iconic American shows about suburban life in the Eisenhower and Kennedy era.

I’m hardly the first to say it, but one of the real distinctions of “Leave it to Beaver” was its portrayal of life in the ‘burbs from the point of view of the kids, something the show captured very well. It’s a baby boomer time capsule in black & white.

So, what have I been doing for the past 50 years? I became a reporter and a producer of TV documentaries, first for KQED in San Francisco, and then the PBS series, Frontline. I’m now producing a music show for PBS called “Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders” and I’m a senior producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley (right down the street from your alma mater). My wife, Pippa, and I have lived in San Francisco for over 30 years, and our two grown kids, Dash, a lawyer, and Caitlin, a yoga teacher and actress, both live in L.A.

I have very fond memories of working on the show with you, Tony Dow and the whole cast. I was lucky to have been a part of it all.

Steve Talbot

[ponytail]

Thanks for sharing the note, catsafterme! I didn't realize Lyle Talbot was his dad. I remember him well.

[MickeyMac]

Too cool