- Stephen Talbot's 1982 PBS biography of San Francisco mystery writer Dashiell Hammett won both a George Foster Peabody Award and a special "Edgar Allen Poe" Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
- Son of Lyle Talbot
- Steve's youngest sister, Margaret Talbot, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has written a family memoir and a biography of their father, actor Lyle Talbot, entitled, "The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century" (2012).
- Turned down all offers to appear on "Leave it to Beaver" reunion shows
- A documentary filmmaker
- Named his son Dashiell after San Francisco mystery writer Dashiell Hammett.
- His daughter, Caitlin Talbot, was an actress in New York, after graduating from the American Conservatory of Theater in San Francisco, where she starred in the play, "Orlando.".
- Brother of journalist David Talbot, editor of Salon.com.
- Brother of journalist Margaret Talbot, a staff writer at the New Yorker
- In the early 1980s, producer/writer Stephen Talbot and KQED-TV San Francisco won George Foster Peabody Awards for two very different documentaries: an investigative report, "Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here?" (1981 Peabody) and "The Case of Dashiell Hammett," a biography of the mystery writer (1983 Peabody).
- Stephen Talbot was one of four producers cited in winning the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America for the 2004 season of the PBS series, Frontline World.
- Lives and works in San Francisco. He is married to Pippa Gordon and they have two grown children, Dashiell and Caitlin. From 2002-2008, Talbot was the Series Editor for Frontline/World, the PBS international news magazine. He left to form a San Francisco-based media company, The Talbot Players, with his brother, David, the founder of Salon.com. (November 2008)
- At the age of 9, after begging his reluctant parents to let him act, Steve made his professional debut in 1958, starring in "Admiral in an Outboard," an "industrial" film that was essentially an extended commercial for motorboats shot in Chicago and on Lake Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A young model, Pepe Wonso, played Steve's older sister. Changing her name to Pamela Tiffin, the beautiful young actress went on to become a leading Hollywood starlet in the '60s, co-starring with James Cagney in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three.".
- Talbot won a DuPont Award from Columbia University for the first documentary he ever produced for the PBS series Frontline: "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy" (1992) about the financing of the Bush-Clinton presidential race.
- Coined the tagline for the FRONTLINE World series on PBS: "Stories from a small planet.".
- Talbot's 1986 documentary, "World Without Walls," about African aviator Beryl Markham, co-produced with Joan Saffa and Judy Flannery, catapulted Markham's once forgotten memoir, "West with the Night," onto national bestseller lists. Diane Baker's Artemis Productions in Los Angeles then hired Talbot to adapt Markham's book for the screen. The movie was never produced, but his commission allowed Talbot to pay the down payment on a house in San Francisco for his family. He quickly returned to the work he knew best: writing and producing public television documentaries.
- Co-starred in playwright William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" with Marjorie Lord and John Russell at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1960. Two years before Stephen made his first TV appearance in an episode of the Warner Bros. Western series, "Lawman," which starred Russell.
- Briefly attended Walter Reed Junior High School in North Hollywood, California.
- Uncle of Joe Talbot, director of "The Last Black Man in San Francisco.".
- Graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he made his first documentary, March on Washington (1970).
- Graduated in 1966 from Harvard School for Boys (now Harvard-Westlake) in North Hollywood, CA.
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