Nita Talbot

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Nita Talbot
Talbot in 1956
Born
Anita Sokol

(1930-08-08) August 8, 1930 (age 93)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1949–1997
Spouses
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(m. 1954; div. 1958)​
Thomas A. Geas
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(m. 1961; div. 1964)​
Children1

Nita Talbot (born Anita Sokol)[1] (born August 8, 1930)[2] is an American actress. She received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the 1967–68 season of Hogan's Heroes.

Film

Born in New York City on August 8, 1930, Talbot began her acting career appearing as a model in the 1949 film It's a Great Feeling. She was afforded a wealth of varied screen roles, from the love-starved switchboard operator in A Very Special Favor (1965) to the sharp-tongued Madame Esther in Buck and the Preacher (1972). She also appeared in such films as Bright Leaf (1950), This Could Be the Night (1957), I Married a Woman (1958), Who's Got the Action? (1962), Girl Happy (1965), The Day of the Locust (1975), Serial (1980), Night Shift (1982), Chained Heat (1983), Fraternity Vacation (1985), and Puppet Master II (1990).

Television

Appearing in many TV series, Talbot was seen as Mabel Spooner opposite Larry Blyden's Joe Spooner in Joe and Mabel[3]: 536  (1956); Iris Anderson in the 1958 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"; con-woman Blondie Collins in the second season of The Thin Man[3]: 1071  (1958–59); con-woman/struggling actress Susan Reed in the first-season episode "Beautiful, Blue and Deadly" of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–59); the immigrant wife in "Land Deal" (season 4, episode 9) on Gunsmoke (1958); and as Belle in "Belle's Back" (1960). In 1960, she also appeared in The Tab Hunter Show episode "Be My Guest."

She was in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Maria" (1961), as a circus blonde who abandons her husband to an evil dwarf woman (whose act consists of playing a monkey able to draw what it sees) who made her believe her husband had been unfaithful. She appeared with Jack Kelly in the Maverick third-season episode "Easy Mark" (1959) as a woman hired to "distract" Bart masquerading as millionaire Cornelius Van Rennselaer Jr., and played against type in the Maverick third-season episode "The Resurrection of Joe November" with James Garner (1960). She was the resourceful Girl-Friday, Dora Miles, on The Jim Backus Show[3]: 533  (also known as Hot Off the Wire), snooty socialite Judy Evans in Here We Go Again (1973),[3]: 453  and hypercynical Rose opposite Bill Daily in Starting from Scratch (1988).[3]: 1016 

Between 1966 and 1971, she appeared in seven episodes of Hogan's Heroes as "White Russian" spy Marya,[3]: 465–466  a role for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1968 for the episode "The Hostage".[4][5] Talbot was a recurring guest star on several other series, including Man Against Crime, Bourbon Street Beat (four episodes as Lusti Weather),[3] The Secret Storm, Mannix[6] and Supertrain,[3]: 1040  while also appearing in single episodes of other shows, including the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode, 'The Werewolf'. Talbot also had long-running roles in Search for Tomorrow and General Hospital. On General Hospital, she portrayed Delfina from 1981 to 1983 (and again in 1992), Tiffany Hill's old friend who takes over designing Luke and Laura's wedding.

In 1971, Talbot was cast in the pilot episode of the CBS sitcom Funny Face starring actress-comedian Sandy Duncan as Sandy Stockton, a young UCLA student from Illinois majoring in education and making ends meet by working part-time as an actress in television commercials for the Prescott Advertising Agency. Talbot played Sandy's agent, Maggie Prescott. Shortly after filming the pilot, CBS picked up the program for the fall of 1971, but revised the format slightly, resulting in Talbot being dropped from the cast.[citation needed] She appeared in "A Stitch in Crime", episode 6 of the second season of Columbo (1973). Her last acting role was in 1997, when she voiced the character of Anastasia Hardy, the businesswoman mother of Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, in the animated series Spider-Man.[citation needed]

Personal life

Talbot was married twice—first to actor Don Gordon (September 7, 1954, to April 11, 1958; divorced) and then to actor Thomas A. Geas (from August 13, 1961, until their divorce in 1964).[7][1][8]

Selected credits

From Hollywood.com[9]

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1949 Always Leave Them Laughing Showgirl Uncredited
1950 Caged Inmate Uncredited
1950 This Side of The Law Miss Goff
1952 On Dangerous Ground Woman in bar Uncredited
1956 Bundle of Joy Mary
1958 I Married a Woman Miss Anderson
1962 Who's Got the Action? Saturday Knight
1965 Girl Happy Sunny Daze
1965 A Very Special Favor Mickey
1965 That Funny Feeling Audrey
1967 The Cool Ones Dee Dee Howitzer Alternative title: Cool Baby, Cool!
1972 Buck and the Preacher Madam Esther
1975 The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery Jasmine Cornell
1975 The Day of the Locust Joan
1980 Serial Angela Stone
1980 Island Claws Rosie Alternative title: Night of the Claw
1982 Night Shift Vivian
1982 The Concrete Jungle Shelly Meyers
1983 Frightmare Mrs. Rohmer Alternative title: Body Snatchers
1983 Chained Heat Kaufman
1985 Fraternity Vacation Mrs. Ferret
1985 Movers & Shakers Dorothy
1991 Puppetmaster II Camille Kenney Direct-to-video release
1992 Amityville: It's About Time Iris Wheeler Alternative title: Amityville 1992: It's About Time, direct-to-video release
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1952 Tales of Tomorrow Nicki 1 episode
1954 Inner Sanctum Millie 1 episode
1955 Producers' Showcase Olga 1 episode
1957 Climax! Esther Gardener 1 episode
1958 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre Sally 1 episode
1958 Mr. Adams and Eve Anna 1 episode
1958 Gunsmoke Sidna Calhoun 1 episode "Land Deal"
1958 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Louise Williams Season 3 Episode 14: "The Percentage"
1958 Perry Mason Iris Anderson 1 episode “The Case Of The Pint-Sized Client”
1958 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Susan Reed 1 episode
1959 The Lineup Donna 1 episode
1959 Maverick Jeannie 2 episodes "Easy Mark" and "Resurrection of Joe November"
1959 Peter Gunn Rowena 1 episode
1959 Johnny Staccato Narcissa 1 episode "The Man in the Pit"
1960 The Jim Backus Show Dora Miles Unknown episodes
1960 The Man from Blackhawk Kay 1 episode: "In His Steps"[10]
1960 Mr. Lucky Kitten Conner 1 episode
1960 The Untouchables Alice 1 episode
1960 Gunsmoke Belle Ainsley 1 episode
1960 The Tab Hunter Show Stephanie 1 episode "Be My Guest"
1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Carol Thorby Season 7 Episode 3: "Maria"
1961 Follow the Sun Florence 1 episode
1963 The Littlest Hobo Marguerite Marlowe 1 episode "Cry Wolf"
1964 The Lieutenant Marie Newton 1 episode
1966 The Fugitive Paula Jellison 1 episode “This’ll Kill You” with Mickey Rooney
1966 The Virginian Melinda 1 episode
1966–1971 Hogan's Heroes Marya 7 episodes, Primetime Emmy Award nomination
1966 Daniel Boone Sylvie Du Marais S2/E24 "The Search"
1967 Bonanza Gladys 1 episode
1968 The Monkees The Assistant S2:E17, "Monkees Watch Their Feet"
1967 Mannix Edna Dacey 1 episode
1968 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Pola Prevost 1 episode
1971 Love, American Style Connie 1 episode
1971 The Jimmy Stewart Show Roxy 1 episode
1972 Bewitched Mrs. Rollnick 1 episode
1972 Mannix Season 5, Episode 16 1 episode
1973 Columbo Marsha Dalton 1 episode, "A Stitch in Crime"
1973 Needles and Pins 1 episode, "The Endangered Species"
1973 The Partridge Family Doris Stevens 1 episode
1973 Here We Go Again Judy Evans 13 episodes
1974 Police Story Teresa 1 episode
1974 The Rockford Files Mildred Elias 1 episode
1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker Paula Griffin 1 Episode, "The Werewolf"
1975 Police Woman Audrey Roth 1 episode
1977 All In The Family Marcia (woman arguing with husband on subway) 1 episode
1978 CHiPS Driving Instructor 1 episode
1978 Hawaii-Five-O Eudora 1 episode
1977–1978 Soap Sheila Fine 3 episodes
1979 Charlie's Angels Willamena 1 episode
1979 Supertrain Rose Casey 5 episodes
1980 Nobody's Perfect Lush 1 episode
1981–1982 General Hospital Delfina
1984 Remington Steele Shirley Mellish 1 episode
1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Wilma 1 episode
1987 It's a Living Rose 1 episode
1989 Jake Spanner, Private Eye Nurse Television movie
1990 Gabriel's Fire Laura Pickles 1 episode
1991 The New Adam-12 Madam Lousanga 1 episode
1994 Empty Nest Mrs. Koontz 1 episode
1995 Pig Sty Cecile 1 episode
1997 Spider-Man: The Animated Series Anastacia Hardy Voice

References

  1. ^ a b Mark, Norman (February 10, 1973). "Star of New Comedy Series Enjoys Talking". Pottstown Mercury. Pennsylvania, Pottstown. Chicago Daily News Service. p. 29. Retrieved June 9, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Tucker, David C. (2010). Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7864-4466-3 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  4. ^ "Emmy Awards search". EMMYS. Television Academy. Archived from the original on June 10, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  5. ^ Biography, hollywood.com; accessed March 24, 2018.
  6. ^ "Mannix". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  7. ^ Mercer, Charles (July 14, 1955). "Nita Talbot Tabbed as New Star". The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Corpus Christi, TX. Associated Press. p. 38. Retrieved June 9, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ^ Carroll, Harrison (April 15, 1964). "Russian Crown Jewel Due Bride of Melchior". Republican and Herald. Pottsville, PA – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Filmography @ hollywood.com
  10. ^ "The Man from Blackhawk". Classic Television Archive. Retrieved January 30, 2013.

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