30 Facts About Stephen Talbot

Stephen Henderson Talbot was born on February 28,1949 and is an American TV documentary producer, reporter and writer.

Stephen Talbot is a longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service and the series Frontline.

Stephen Talbot has written and produced PBS biographies of writers Dashiell Hammett, Beryl Markham, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos.

Stephen Talbot has worked as a producer and senior producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting and for ITVS and the PBS series, Independent Lens.

Stephen Talbot is known for his role in the TV sitcom Leave It to Beaver, in which he played Gilbert Bates, friend of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver.

Stephen Talbot graduated in 1966 from Harvard High School in Studio City.

Stephen Talbot began making films about the anti-war movement, including the November 1969 March on Washington, DC III, and Year of the Tiger.

Stephen Talbot began as assistant to the school's president and subsequently became a lecturer in the American Studies program.

Stephen Talbot guest-starred on many television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including three episodes of Lassie.

Stephen Talbot appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: "Static" and "The Fugitive".

Stephen Talbot appeared in M Squad, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Blue Angels, Men Into Space, Lawman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Law of the Plainsman, The Donna Reed Show, Mr Novak and The Lucy Show.

Stephen Talbot appeared in comedy sketches with Bob Newhart in the early '60s NBC variety program, The Bob Newhart Show.

On stage, Stephen Talbot co-starred as "Sonny" in William Inge's Dark at the Top of the Stairs with Marjorie Lord at the La Jolla Playhouse.

Early in his career at KQED, Stephen Talbot produced two national PBS Peabody Award winners, Broken Arrow, about nuclear weapons accidents, and The Case of Dashiell Hammett, a biography of the crime writer.

Stephen Talbot wrote and produced several hour-long PBS biographies of noted writers, including: Dashiell Hammett, Ken Kesey, Beryl Markham, Carlos Fuentes, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Stephen Talbot has returned to KQED over the years to produce documentary specials.

Stephen Talbot has had a long association with Frontline, beginning with his documentary on the financing of the 1992 presidential campaign, The Best Campaign Money Can Buy.

Stephen Talbot continued such projects through 2007 with his documentary on the media, News War: What's Happening to the News.

Between 2002 and 2008, Stephen Talbot oversaw the editorial content of 30 hour-long television episodes and helped commission and supervise nearly 100 broadcast stories.

Stephen Talbot was the executive producer of a series of twenty Sound Tracks online music videos for PBS Digital and YouTube, including interviews with and performances by Levon Helm, Yuja Wang, Helene Grimaud, KT Tunstall, Seun Kuti, Seu Jorge, Anoushka Shankar and Of Monsters and Men.

For Oregon Public Broadcasting and PBS, Stephen Talbot wrote and directed with David Davis, The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation, a two-hour history special that aired nationally on PBS in 2005.

Stephen Talbot wrote the one-hour political biography, Moscone: A Legacy of Change, about San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, "the people's mayor" who was assassinated in 1978 along with gay Supervisor Harvey Milk.

From 2012 to 2014, Stephen Talbot was senior producer for video projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting, including feature news stories and short documentaries for the PBS Newshour, Univision, KQED-TV in San Francisco, and The New York Times.

At CIR, Stephen Talbot led the editorial team that created and ran "The I Files", the first investigative news channel on YouTube.

In 2019 Stephen Talbot began co-writing and co-producing with Christine Ni the San Francisco Bay Area NBC series Bay Area Revelations, narrated by Peter Coyote.

Stephen Talbot started with the episodes "Exploring Space" and "Loma Prieta Earthquake, 30 Years Later".

Stephen Talbot continued in 2020 with "Female Sports Icons" and "Riding the Waves", about surfing in Northern California.

Stephen Talbot produced and directed the feature documentary "The Movement and the 'Madman' " for the PBS series American Experience in 2023, revealing how anti-Vietnam war protests in the US in the fall of 1969 pressured President Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger to call off a planned major escalation of the war, including the threatened use of nuclear weapons.

Stephen Talbot's sister, Cynthia, is a medical doctor in Portland, Oregon.

Stephen Talbot has been nominated three times for best documentary script writing by the Writers Guild of America.