Lyle Talbot

 Lyle Talbot, born Lisle Henderson (February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996)

Talbot was an actor on stage and screen, known for his career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. He played Ozzie Nelson's friend and neighbor, Joe Randolph, for ten years in the ABC situation comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He began his movie career under contract with Warner Bros. in the early days of sound film. He appeared in more than 150 films, first as a young matinee idol, the star of many B movies, and later as a character actor. He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild and later served on its board. Talbot had several brief marriages, to Elaine Melchoir (1930), Marguerite Cramer (1937-40) Abigail Adams (1942) and Keven McClure (1946) and a number of romantic entanglements. In 1948, he married for the fifth time, to actress and singer Paula Epple. She was 20, and he was a 46-year-old actor with a drinking problem. Under Epple's influence, Talbot quit drinking. The couple had four children and they worked together on stage in summer stock and community theater. They remained married for more than forty years until her death in 1989. On March 6, 1996, Talbot died at his home in San Francisco, California, aged 94, from congestive heart failure.