Nita Talbot

Nita Talbot (born Anita Sokol; 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, of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry, 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 (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 (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 loses her husband to an evil dwarf woman (whose act consists of playing a monkey able to draw what it sees) who made her husband believe she 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 (also known as Hot Off the Wire), snooty socialite Judy Evans in Here We Go Again (1973), and hypercynical Rose opposite Bill Daily in Starting from Scratch (1988).

Between 1966 and 1971, Talbot appeared in seven episodes of Hogan's Heroes as pretend White Russian spy Marya, 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". She was a recurring guest star on several other series, including Man Against Crime, Bourbon Street Beat (four episodes as Lusti Weather), The Secret Storm, Mannix and Supertrain, 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 programme for the autumn of 1971, but revised the format slightly, resulting in Talbot being dropped from the cast. 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.

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). She has one daughter, Nicole Andrea Geas, who was born in Los Angeles on May 28, 1962. Talbot is Jewish.

Selected credits From Hollywood.com Film Year Film Role Notes 1949 Always Leave Them Laughing Showgirl Uncredited 1950 Caged Inmate Uncredited This Side of the Law Miss Goff 1951 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 A Very Special Favor Mickey 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 The Day of the Locust Joan 1980 Serial Angela Stone Island Claws Rosie Alternative title: Night of the Claw 1982 Night Shift Vivian The Concrete Jungle Shelly Meyers 1983 Frightmare Mrs. Rohmer Chained Heat Kaufman 1985 Fraternity Vacation Mrs. Ferret Movers & Shakers Dorothy 1991 Puppet Master 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 1956 Joe and Mabel Mabel 13 episodes 1957 Climax! Esther Gardener 1 episode 1958 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre Sally 1 episode Mr. Adams and Eve Anna 1 episode Gunsmoke Sidna Calhoun 1 episode "Land Deal" Alfred Hitchcock Presents Louise Williams Season 3 Episode 14: "The Percentage" Perry Mason Iris Anderson 1 episode "The Case Of The Pint-Sized Client" Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Susan Reed 1 episode 1959 The Lineup Donna 1 episode Maverick Jeannie 2 episodes "Easy Mark" and "Resurrection of Joe November" Peter Gunn Rowena 1 episode Johnny Staccato Narcissa 1 episode "The Man in the Pit" Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mimi 1 episode "Save Me in San Salvador" The Lawless Years Selma Kasoff 1 episode "The Muddy Kasoff Story" 1960 The Jim Backus Show Dora Miles Unknown episodes The Man from Blackhawk Kay 1 episode: "In His Steps" Mr. Lucky Kitten Conner 1 episode The Untouchables Alice 1 episode Gunsmoke Belle Ainsley 1 episode The Tab Hunter Show Stephanie 1 episode "Be My Guest" 1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Carol Thorby Season 7 Episode 3: "Maria" Follow the Sun Florence 1 episode The Lawless Years Mildred Greyson 1 episode "Triple Cross" 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 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 Mannix Gloria Turnbull 1 episode Bonanza Gladys 1 episode 1968 The Monkees The Assistant 1 episode, "Monkees Watch Their Feet" Gomer Pyle – USMC Pola Prevost 1 episode 1971 Love, American Style Connie 1 episode The Jimmy Stewart Show Roxy 1 episode 1972 Bewitched Mrs. Rollnick 1 episode Mannix Joan Martin 1 episode 1973 Columbo Marsha Dalton 1 episode, "A Stitch in Crime" Needles and Pins Francine 1 episode, "The Endangered Species" The Partridge Family Doris Stevens 1 episode Here We Go Again Judy Evans 13 episodes 1974 Police Story Teresa 1 episode The Rockford Files Mildred Elias 1 episode Kolchak: The Night Stalker Paula Griffin 1 Episode, "The Werewolf" 1975 Police Woman Audrey Roth 1 episode 1977 All in the Family Marcia 1 episode 1977–1978 Soap Sheila Fine 3 episodes 1978 CHiPs Driving Instructor 1 episode Hawaii-Five-O Eudora 1 episode 1979 Charlie's Angels Willamena 1 episode 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