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Lyle Talbot
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Actor Born: February 8, 1902 in Pittsburgh, PA Death: March 3, 1996 in San Francisco CA Biography:Born into a family of travelling show folk, "Lyle Talbot" toured the hinterlands as a teen-aged magician. Talbot went on to work as a regional stock-company actor, pausing long enough in Memphis to form his own troupe, the Talbot Players. Like many other barnstorming performers of the 1920s, Talbot headed to Hollywood during the early-talkie era. Blessed with slick, lounge-lizard good looks, he started out as a utility lead at Warner Bros. Talbot worked steadily throughout the 1930s, playing heroes in B pictures and supporting parts in A pictures. During a loanout to Monogram Pictures in 1932, he was afforded an opportunity to co-star with "Ginger Rogers" in a brace of entertaining mysteries, "The 13th Guest" and "The Shriek and the Night", which were still making the double-feature rounds into the 1940s. In 1935, Talbot and 23 other film players organized the Screen Actors Guild; to the end of his... Full Biography
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