Toby Talbot

Toby Talbot (, November 29, 1928 – September 15, 2025) was an American cinema owner, writer and translator. With her husband Dan Talbot, she co-founded the distribution company New Yorker Films and ran several Manhattan theaters including Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.

Early life and education Talbot was born as Toby Tolpen in the Bronx on November 29, 1928. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. Her father owned a window-washing company and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx. She graduated from Christopher Columbus High School and went on to receive a BA in 1949 from Queens College.

Talbot was the education editor of the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario Nueva York and was a Spanish literature instructor at Columbia University and New York University, taught a documentary film course at the New School, and was a Spanish teacher at East Rockaway High School in Queens. In 2022, after her husband's death, she edited his memoir In Love with the Movies, which has a foreword by Werner Herzog.

Personal life and death From 1951, she was married to Dan Talbot, until his death in 2017. They had three daughters.

Toby Talbot died from complications of Guillain–Barré syndrome on September 15, 2025, at the age of 96.