Article: OBITUARY:Lyle Talbot

In 1980, when Michael and Harry Medved were preparing The Golden Turkey Awards, their book on cinema disasters, they conducted a poll to find "The Worst Film of All Time". Winner by a landslide was Edward D. Wood Jnr's legendary cheapie Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956). Among the cast, which included a television psychic, a television late-night horror hostess and Wood's wife's chiropractor, one actor's performance stood out. In the brief role of a Pentagon general, Lyle Talbot actually surmounted the terrible dialogue, camerawork and direction to give the film's only professional performance; but then Talbot had been a professional actor since his teens. The veteran of over 200 films, he ...

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