Stephen Talbot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephen Talbot

American journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1949

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: actor, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949) is an American TV documentary producer, reporter, writer, and longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service, especially the series Frontline.
Talbot has also worked as a producer and senior producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting,.
His more than 40 documentaries include the Frontline films "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy," "The Long March of Newt Gingrich," "Justice for Sale" and "News War: What's Happening to the News," as well as PBS biographies of writers Dashiell Hammett, Beryl Markham, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos.
He was co-creator and executive producer of the PBS music specials, "Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders," and an online series of music videos called, "Quick Hits." 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. Before becoming a journalist and documentary producer, Talbot was a television child actor in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
His father was the film, TV and stage actor Lyle Talbot.As an actor, Talbot is known for his role in the baby boomer TV series, Leave It to Beaver, in which he played Gilbert Bates, friend of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers).
The character Gilbert was generally known to lure Beaver into mischief.