Lyle Talbot Filmography

The Dukes of Hazzard: Heiress Daisy Duke

Synopsis: The Dukes are dumbfounded when Daisy (Catherine Bach) is identified as the long-lost granddaughter of millionaire Carter Stewart (played by versatile veteran Lyle Talbot). Though Boss Hogg doubts that Daisy is indeed the heiress, he hires the disreputable Professor Crandall (Walker Edmiston) to Read More

Adam-12: Capture

Synopsis: Hoping to solve a series of burglaries, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) set their sights on Reno West (Jed Allan), an ex-convict whom they'd confronted in the previous episode "Hot Shot". Elsewhere, the cops search high and low for a nasty marauding dog. And yet Read More

Green Acres: King Oliver I

Actors: Lyle Talbot, William Sylvester

Synopsis: When the governor announces a 52 percent tax hike, the town of Hooterville secedes from the state. Cutting themselves off from their neighbors by sabotaging the bridge over the local swamp, the Hootervillians declare that they are subjects of an independent monarchy. Carrying the situation to its Read More

Green Acres: The Road

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Dave Willock, Edwin Max

Synopsis: Gentleman farmer Oliver (Eddie Albert) is outraged that Hooterville's unpaved road continues to kick up a veritable dust storm, seriously endangering the local crops. On behalf of their fellow agrarians, Oliver and Lisa (Eva Gabor) head to the state capitol, there to demand that the road be paved. Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Reserve Program

Synopsis: Still anxious to serve his country in the military, Jethro heads to what he thinks is an Army-reserve recruiting office, and is immediately inducted into the ranks of the costumed movie extras appearing in a Civil War epic. The confusion is compounded when Granny, spotting the maneuvers of the Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The South Rises Again

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story arc, Granny is still convinced that the Civil War epic being filmed near the mansion is an actual battle between North and South. A loyal daughter of Dixie, Granny forms her own "Confederate Army" to fight the actors dressed as Union soldiers. Lyle Talbot Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jethro In the Reserve

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story arc, Granny captures General Ulysses S. Grant (William Mimms) and wins the Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy. Actually, Granny has merely captured an actor dressed as Grant, who is appearing in a war film being shot near the Clampett estate. But rather Read More

Green Acres: Lisa's First Day On the Farm

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Smiley Burnette, Rufe Davis, Iris Adrian

Synopsis: Upon taking possession of their new farm in Hooterville, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) discover that former owner Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) has taken all the furniture and accessories with him. Making matters worse, the wily Haney has compiled a list of "hidden charges" to further Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Art Game

Synopsis: Veteran character actors Lyle Talbot, Olan Soule and Ian Wolfe are seen in this episode, a gentle spoof of the "modern art" world. When a visiting art dealer purchasing one of Uncle Joe's own paintings, Joe (Edgar Buchanan) thinks he has a lucrative future as a brush-pusher. In truth, the dealer Read More

The Lucy Show: Kiddie Parties, Inc.

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Jimmy Gaines, Ronnie Dapo, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Strapped for cash as usual, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) cook up yet another get-rich-quick scheme. This time, the girls set up a business arranging children's birthday parties in the Danville area. What could go wrong with such a foolproof scheme? Well, just about Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Great Feud

Synopsis: When Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye) runs off in terror at the prospect of marrying Elly May, the Clampetts grab their shootin' irons and prepare for a feud against the Drysdale family. Descending upon the Drysdale manion, the hillbillies take "Mister Butler" (aka Ravenswood) prisoner, but Granny Read More

Bonanza: The Courtship

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Julie Adams

Synopsis: Julie Adams guest-stars as Helen, the widow of Ben Cartwright's old friend Josh Layton. As beautiful as she is charming, Helen has a fatal flaw: She is a chronic gambler, one who tends to drag her lovers down into her own bottomless pit of debt and despair. Now Helen has caught the eye of Read More

Sunrise at Campobello

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker

Synopsis: One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that attempts to illustrate the statesman's courageous battle against infantile paralysis and his political foes. While in the prime of his life Read More

Maverick: Two Tickets to Ten Strike

Synopsis: En route from Tucson to the town of Ten Strike, Bret (James Garner) makes the acquaintance of Frankie French (Connie Stevens), a former saloon dancer. Frankie has been summoned to Ten Strike by a mysterious benefactor whom she has never met. Upon her arrival in town, Frankie discovers that her Read More

City of Fear

Actors: Vince Edwards, John Archer, Steven Ritch, Patricia Blair, Kelly Thordsen

Synopsis: Fairly fast-paced, with only a lull here and there, this standard thriller by director Irving Lerner was one of his most successful films. It stars (Vince Edwards) as Vince, an escaped convict who grabs a metal vial from the prison's hospital before he makes his break. He thinks it is his ticket Read More

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hot Angel

Actors: Jackie Loughery, Ed Kemmer, Mason Alan Dinehart, Emory Parnell, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: In this drama, a Korean war vet becomes a pilot who must take care of his late war buddy's little sister and brother. The sister is upset when her brother begins hanging around with a bad biker gang. The vet manages to turn the kid around by convincing him that he would have more fun flying an Read More

High School Confidential

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Mamie van Doren, Diane Jergens, Ray Anthony, Jackie Coogan, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Producer Albert Zugsmith serves up another all-star exposé with High School Confidential. Delivering a superb performance under the circumstances, Russ Tamblyn heads the cast as "typical" high schooler Tony Baker. Usually seen in the company of his voluptuous "aunt" Gwen Dulaine (the truly Read More

Love That Bob: Season 05

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Still on NBC after moving from CBS a year earlier, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fifth and final season in first-run prime time. Bob Cummings returns in his signature role as professional photographer and self-styled ladies' man Bob Collins, with Ann B. Davis as Bob's Read More

Love That Bob: Season 04

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from its familiar Thursday night time slot to a Tuesday evening berth, and leaving CBS to return to NBC in the bargain, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fourth season. Even after all these years, Bob Collins (Bob Cummings), the series' cheerfully lascivious Read More

Guns Don't Argue

Synopsis: The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Leave It to Beaver: The Perfect Father

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Richard Smiley

Synopsis: Ward (Hugh Beaumont) is bit hurt when it seems that Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) would rather spend time with the father of one of their neighborhood friends. It turns out that the boys are attracted to Mr. Dennison (Lyle Talbot) because he has set up a basketball hoop and backboard Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Party Invitation

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Claudia Bryar

Synopsis: Beaver (Jerry Mathers) happily accepts a party invitation from Linda Dennison -- only to discover that he will be the only boy at the affair. When he tries to wangle out of the invitation, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley), unaware of Beaver's plight, order him to go and won't Read More

Calling Homicide

Actors: Don Haggerty, Kathleen Case, Myron Healey, Jeanne Cooper

Synopsis: Calling Homicide was another of Bill Elliot's "working-man detective" efforts of the 1950s. This time, Elliot plays LA sheriff's department operative Lieutant Doyle. While searching for a cop killer, Doyle discerns a connection between the first murder and the strangling of a pretty model. The Read More

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Actors: Criswell, Tor Johnson, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi, Carl Anthony, Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: With its incoherent plot, jaw-droppingly odd dialogue, inept acting, threadbare production design, and special effects so shoddy that they border on the surreal, Plan 9 From Outer Space has often been called the worst movie ever made. But it's an oddly endearing disaster; boasting genuine Read More

The Great Man

Actors: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London, Joanne Gilbert

Synopsis: Based on a novel by television producer Al Morgan, The Great Man is a Citizen Kane-style look at the private life of a public figure. The Great Man is a beloved radio and television personality who dies suddenly. Jose Ferrer (who also directed) plays a writer/commentator who has a chance to break Read More

Love That Bob: Season 03

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Happy-go-lucky photographer Bob Collins (Bob Cummings) continues to ardently pursue his lovely models -- and for that matter, any other lovely lady who tickles his fancy -- as Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its third season. Also still on hand are future Brady Bunch Read More

Jail Busters

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, the Bowery Boys must help a reporter who was beaten up during an undercover investigation at a local prison. With the consent of the reporter's editor, the boys pull off a phony jewel caper and two of them are imprisoned. In the pokey, they learn that the Read More

Sudden Danger

Actors: Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Dayton Lummis, Helene Stanton

Synopsis: Having forsaken westerns for detective melodramas in Dial Red O, William "Wild Bill" Ellliot continues in this vein in Sudden Danger. Elliot is cast as detective lieutenant Doyle, who at present is investigating the alleged suicide of a clothing manufacturer. Doyle suspects that the victim was Read More

Love That Bob: Season 02

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from NBC to CBS for its second season, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) also moved to a more advantageous time slot, Thursday nights at 8:00 PM. Here it would remain for the next two years -- never a huge ratings hit, but always consistently popular with its target audience Read More

Love That Bob: Season 01

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: "Hold it! I think you're gonna like this picture!" With this jaunty assurance, Bob Cummings calmly snuggled into the late-Sunday-night NBC time slot previously occupied by The Hunter for the first season of the breezy sitcom Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show). Little time is wasted Read More

Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl

Synopsis: Anthony Dexter, who had essayed the title role in the 1951 biopic Valentino, plays a beardless Captain Kidd. Eva Gabor, who would later costar with Arnold the Pig on TV's Green Acres, is the slave girl. Gabor has been dispatched by the villains to seduce Kidd and determine the whereabouts of the Read More

There's No Business Like Show Business

Actors: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray

Synopsis: Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman Read More

Jail Bait

Actors: Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Herbert Rawlinson, Steve Reeves, Clancy Malone

Synopsis: Jail Bait was the place where Edward D. Wood Jr.'s career as a director entered the mainstream. Having exposed the world of transvestism in Glen or Glenda, he now turned to less ambitious fare in an effort at commercial success. Loosely patterned after the television series Dragnet, Jail Bait Read More

The Siege at Red River

Actors: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow

Synopsis: Siege of Red River stars Van Johnson as a Confederate officer, who "appropriates" a shipment of gatling guns from the Northern troops in the waning days of the Civil War. Posing as a medicine show entrepreneur, Johnson smuggles the guns through enemy lines in his wagon. Renegade rebel Richard Boone Read More

Tobor the Great

Actors: Charles Drake, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Billy Chapin, Taylor Holmes, Steven Geray

Synopsis: This children's sci-fi adventure chronicles the friendship between an 11-year-old and his grandfather's robot Tobor, who was designed to explore deep space. Tobor, unlike other machines, was endowed with human emotions. Trouble erupts when the communists kidnap him and try to make him do their Read More

The Steel Cage

Actors: Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the career of progressive prison warden Clinton T. Duffy. Paul Kelly plays Duffy, while his wife is portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. Divided into three separate playlets, the Read More

Gunfighters of the Northwest [Serial]

Synopsis: Yet another serial from penny-pinching producer Sam Katzman, the fifteen chapter Gunfighters of the Northwest suffered from the usual Katzman shortcomings, including grainy stock-footage and slapdash writing. As an added economy measure, not a single scene was filmed indoors! {$Jock Mahoney plays Read More

Target, Sea of China

Actors: Harry Lauter, Aline Towne

Synopsis: A feature version of a twelve chapter Republic Pictures, this drama starred Harry Lauter as Tom Rogers, an enterprising South Seas island trader who gets involved with Nazi thugs, a native revolution and smugglers, ably assisted by a lovely emissary from the United Nations, Aline Towne. One of the Read More

Mesa of Lost Women

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill, Robert Knapp

Synopsis: Mutated spiders, mad geniuses, childlike mental patients, gold-digging blondes, and vengeful little people are only part of the madness in this legendary bit of oddball science fiction. Grant (Robert Knapp) and Doreen (Mary Hill) wander into a shack in the wastelands of Mexico's Muerto Desert Read More

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Gloria de Haven

Synopsis: This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby (William Lundigan) is ordered to make sure that his men do not fraternize with the girls at a South Sea island base. His mission is forgotten when he himself falls in love with Read More

Glen or Glenda?

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Daniel Davis [Edward D. Wood, Jr.], Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Tommy Haynes

Synopsis: In his heart-felt cinematic debut, Edward D. Wood, Jr. himself stars under the pseudonym Daniel Davis as a young man with a dilemma: should he tell his lovely young fiancee (played by real-life girlfriend Dolores Fuller) about his burning desire to cross-dress? She has begun to notice articles Read More

Clipped Wings

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Renie Riano, Todd Karns

Synopsis: When the Bowery Boys go to visit a friend on an Air Force base, they are pulled into an investigation to discover why their friend is being accused of treason. Accidentally enlisting in the service, they continue their investigation and eventually stumble on a Nazi plot. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

Star of Texas

Actors: Wayne Morris, Paul Fix, Frank Ferguson, Rick Vallin, Jack Larson

Synopsis: Wayne Morris plays a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang. Posing as a wanted killer, Morris is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff, unencumbered by the innocent ingenue (mainly because there is no innocent ingenue). The marshal learns that the brains behind the gang Read More

Tumbleweed

Actors: Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson

Synopsis: Audie Murphy plays wagon train scout Jim Harvey in Universal-International's Tumbleweed. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Harvey is wrongly accused of saving himself while allowing the people under his protection to be slaughtered by Indians. With the help of sheriff Murchoree (Chill Wills Read More

White Lightning

Actors: Stanley Clements, Steve Brodie, Gloria Blondell, Barbara Bestar, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: No relation to the 1973 Burt Reynolds vehicle of the same name, White Lightning is a passable programmer about a champion ice hockey team. Stanley Clements plays Mike, an arrogant young hockey player who immediately alienates his new teammates. Team manager Jack (Steve Brodie) tries to convince Read More

Son of Geronimo [Serial]

Synopsis: The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in this typical low-budget 15 chapter serial, which benefitted from a great deal of footage from the the stock piles at Columbia Pictures. Jim Scott (Clayton Moore) and wagon train boss Tulsa (Bus Osborne Read More

Desperadoes Outpost

Actors: Allan Lane, Lyle Talbot, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, Myron Healey

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Republic's Desperadoes Outpost was regarded as one of the studio's better Allan "Rocky" Lane westerns. As was customary, Lane is cast as a federal operative, sent westward to offer aid and comfort to his old pal Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller). This time, Clark runs a Read More

Feudin' Fools

Synopsis: In this entry in the long running "Bowery Boys" series, one of the boys is bequeathed a farm in Kentucky. The boys go there and find themselves in the middle of a hillbilly feud between the Smiths and the Joneses. The warring clans unite when bank robbers break into the Jones' house and force the Read More

With a Song in My Heart

Actors: Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see Ms. Froman as a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but it doesn't take her long to rise to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries Read More

Sea Tiger

Actors: John Archer, Marguerite Chapman, Harry Lauter, Ralph Sanford, Marvin Press

Synopsis: Monogram's Sea Tiger stars John Archer as discredited sea captain Ben McGrun, on the outs for supposedly collaborating with the enemy during the war. Blackballed in the U.S., Ben manages to dig up a job in New Guinea as skipper of a rundown freighter owned by heroine Jenine (Marguerite Chapman). Read More

Texas City

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lois Hall, Lorna Thayer, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny investigates when several government gold shipments are hijacked. Someone has been tipping of the outlaws as to when and where the supposedly secret shipments will take place. The Read More

Untamed Women

Actors: Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan, Mark Lowell, Morgan Jones

Synopsis: Downed Air Force pilots find themselves contending with scantily-clad female druids and stop-motion dinosaurs when they crash land upon an uncharted South Seas island. The castaways must also deal with man-eating plants and the island's dim-bulbed hairy males, who resent the intrusion of rivals. Read More

Kansas Territory

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, House Peters, Jr., Peggy Stewart, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Kansas Territory is one of Bill Elliot's latter-day Allied Artists westerns--meaning that even the non-western fan is in for a treat (albeit a violent one). Elliot's brother is killed, which naturally prompts him to seek revenge. On his bloody quest for the guilty party, Elliot learns many facts Read More

Terry and the Pirates: The Maitland Affair

The Old West

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Lyle Talbot, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his all to this story of frontier religiosity. Left for dead in an outlaw ambush, Gene is nursed back to health by a travelling parson (House Peters Sr.) Our hero decides to help Read More

Montana Incident

Varieties on Parade

Synopsis: This vintage collection includes a cavalcade of vaudeville acts and is hosted by Jackie Coogan. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

African Treasure

Actors: Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Leonard Mudie, Arthur Space, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Number Seven in Monogram's Bomba the Jungle Boy series was African Treasure. This time Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) agrees to help geologist Arthur Space and his team locate a hidden diamond mine. Unfortunately for our hero, Space and his cohorts Lane Bradford and Lyle Talbot are actually jewel Read More

Outlaw Women

Actors: Marie Windsor, Richard Rober, Allan Nixon, Carla Balenda, Jacqueline Fontaine

Synopsis: This off-beat western is set in a remote western town that has made it illegal for men to enter. The town is owned by a powerful female gambler whose reign is toppled by a handsome and persistent cowboy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet [TV Series]

Synopsis: If anyone can be labelled a television auteur, that man was the inimitable Ozzie Nelson. Not only did Ozzie produce, direct, star and occasionally write the long-running (1952-66) TV sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, but he also supplied the cast from his own home! You remember Read More

Texas Lawmen

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lee Roberts, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time, Brown is hunting for three desperate criminals. Fortunately for Our Hero, two of the crooks -- Bart and Steve Morrow (