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- Lyle Talbot, who appeared in over 150 movies from leads in Warner Bros.' "pre-Code" pictures to countless supporting roles, and later enjoyed a steady TV career as a character actor, was born Lysle Henderson on February 8, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a small town in Nebraska, where after the early death of his mother, he was raised by her mother, Mary Hollywood Talbot, whose name he later bore professionally.
Talbot's incredibly long and varied show-business career began right after high school, when he joined a traveling tent show. Starting out as a magician-hypnotist's assistant, he worked his way up to magician before quitting the carny's life for that of the stock theater. He learned to act with stock companies throughout the Midwest, where he became a leading man, and even formed his own short-lived company in Memphis, Tennessee, "The Talbot Players," which included his actor father and stepmother, Ed and Anna Henderson.
By 1931 he was in Hollywood as the talkies were maturing. He had the good looks of a star but, more importantly, he had a rich baritone voice that the talkies needed. After a screen test in which he inadvertently mocked Warner Bros. production head Darryl Zanuck but impressed director William "Wild Bill" Wellman, Talbot was signed by Warner Bros.-First National. The studio gave him a plum part in William A. Wellman's Love Is a Racket (1932) co-staring with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak and the fast-talking Lee Tracy. He appeared in "A" pictures in the 1930s in supporting roles, including Three on a Match (1932), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), and One Night of Love (1934) (with opera star Grace Moore), but his work was mostly in "B" pictures, in which he frequently played leads. Although he thoroughly enjoyed the work, acting was practiced as an assembly line operation at the time. Actors would be assigned work usually based on 12-hour days and six-day weeks, and commit themselves to the infamous seven-year exclusive contract that included draconian suspension penalties in the fine print. Talbot, along with James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis (ironically all WB contract players), were outspoken in their commitment to change working conditions for actors. Talbot was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and the first employee of the Brothers Warners to join the union, much to their ire.
As a matinee idol during the Depression, frequently playing a gangster or tuxedo-clad man about town, Talbot co-starred with the leading actresses of the day, including Ginger Rogers, Mary Astor, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Glenda Farrell, Kay Francis, Mae West, Ann Dvorak, Loretta Young, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple.
Later, as a character actor, Talbot appeared as Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 serial Batman and Robin (1949) and was Lex Luthor in Atom Man vs. Superman (1950) the next year. Talbot took on a tremendous number of roles, either because he was not discriminating enough, always wanted to keep working, or simply appreciated the money. In the early 1950s he appeared in several of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s most notorious films, including the infamous transvestite tear-jerker Glen or Glenda (1953) and the famously inept Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). Aside from Bela Lugosi, Talbot was Wood's most famous star.
Talbot's acting career thrived on television, in which he appeared from the beginning of the medium until the 1980s. He co-starred as Ozzie Nelson's friend Joe Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) and as Robert Cummings' Air Force buddy in The Bob Cummings Show (1955) (also known as "Love that Bob") and made guest appearances on a plethora of TV series, including Leave It to Beaver (1957), The Lone Ranger (1949), Topper (1953), The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950), Perry Mason (1957), Rawhide (1959), Wagon Train (1957), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), Charlie's Angels (1976), Newhart (1982), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) and Who's the Boss? (1984).
Throughout his film and TV career, Talbot continued to perform on stage, co-starring in "Separate Rooms" on Broadway in the early 1940s and starring in national touring companies of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" and summer stock tours of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" and Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker." In 1967 he co-starred in a revival of "South Pacific" at New York's Lincoln Center with Florence Henderson.
Lyle Talbot died of natural causes on March 3, 1996, in his home in San Francisco, California, at the age of 94, the last of the SAG founders to shuffle off this mortal coil. - Actor
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Júlio Rasec was born on 4 January 1968 in Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for The Mutants: Ways of the Heart (2008), Ways of the Heart (2007) and Meu Passado Me Condena 2: O Filme (2015). He died on 2 March 1996 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actor
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Bento Hinoto was born on 7 August 1970 in Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for Por Toda Minha Vida (2006), Mamonas Pra Sempre (2009) and Mamonas Assassinas: Pelados em Santos (1995). He died on 2 March 1996 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Jaak Van Hombeek was born on 2 November 1918 in Merksem, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Midas (1967), Postbus X (1989) and Johan en de Alverman (1965). He died on 2 March 1996 in Merksem, Flanders, Belgium.
- Bernie Fidello was born on 29 January 1939. He was an actor, known for Death Mask (1998), Jack-O (1995) and Outloud (1999). He died on 2 March 1996 in Orange County, Florida, USA.
- Boris Mozhayev was born on 1 June 1923 in Pitelino, Ryazan Governorate, RSFSR, USSR [now Ryazan Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Iz zhizni Fyodora Kuzkina (1989), Vam chto, nasha vlast ne nravitsya?! (1989) and Zelyonyy dom (1964). He died on 2 March 1996 in Moscow, Russia.
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José López Rubio was born on 13 December 1903 in Motril, Granada, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Eugenia de Montijo (1944), El crimen de Pepe Conde (1946) and La mujer de otro (1967). He died on 2 March 1996 in Madrid, Spain.- Villem Indrikson was born on 21 August 1944 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Sputnik planety Uran (1990), Metskapten (1971) and Darkness in Tallinn (1993). He died on 2 March 1996 in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Sérgio Reoli was born on 30 September 1969 in Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for Por Toda Minha Vida (2006), Mamonas Pra Sempre (2009) and Mamonas Assassinas: Pelados em Santos (1995). He died on 2 March 1996 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actor
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Dinho was born on 5 March 1971 in Irecê, Bahia, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for The Mutants: Ways of the Heart (2008), Ways of the Heart (2007) and Ricos de Amor (2020). He died on 2 March 1996 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Chuck Stevens was born on 5 September 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The King of Comedy (1982) and The Confessions of Bernhard Goetz (1987). He died on 2 March 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Samuel Reoli was born on 11 March 1973 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for Por Toda Minha Vida (2006), Mamonas Pra Sempre (2009) and Mamonas Assassinas: Pelados em Santos (1995). He died on 2 March 1996 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.