You’ll find an entry on Lyle Talbot (1902-1996) in some movie encyclopedias, but not in others. In the early 1930s, he was under contract to Warner Bros., often playing “weak-willed ...

$28.95. In "The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century," Margaret Talbot celebrates the seven-decade acting career of her father, Lyle Talbot. Haven't heard of him?

Lyle Talbot began his entertainment career as a ... about three childhood friends who are reunited as young adults. Sponsor Message The movie was made at a time when studios were willfully ...

Lyle Talbot (Atom Man vs. Superman, 1950) The first on-screen Luthor came just ten years after the character’s creation, in the second Superman movie serial. Talbot played the villain as a mad ...

In “The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century,” New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot succeeds at what Hollywood failed to do for her father: She makes him a star.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford back in 2007, is nowhere near the equal of that film. Where his previous work was a study in understated subtlety and quiet reflection, ...

It’s hard to recall Lyle Talbot’s face. Reading his daughter Margaret’s story-packed book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century, my mental picture of him kept fading ...

Lyle Talbot, 94, a versatile actor whose roles in more than 150 movies ranged from natty leading men to rebellious convicts to Ozzie and Harriet’s television neighbor, died Sunday at his home in ...

Lyle Talbot began his entertainment career as a ... about three childhood friends who are reunited as young adults. The movie was made at a time when studios were willfully ignoring the Hayes ...

It's called The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century. In writing about her dad's expansive career, she also explores how show business evolved across his era. Lyle Talbot ...