Michael Talbott

Acting

Michael Talbott

Born 1955-02-02 · Waverly, Iowa, USA

Michael Talbott (born February 2, 1955) is an American actor. He portrayed Detective Stanley Switek in the crime drama television series Miami Vice (1984–1989).

Acting credits

First Blood poster
7.5

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

First Blood

1982

National Lampoon's Vacation poster
7.1

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

National Lampoon's Vacation

1983

Carrie poster
7.3

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Carrie

1976

Three Blind Mice poster
5.2

A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious district attorney, and evidence connected to the man's wife.

Three Blind Mice

2001

Big Bad Mama poster
5.7

Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.

Big Bad Mama

1974

Foolin' Around poster
6.2

A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.

Foolin' Around

1980

Used Cars poster
6.4

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

Used Cars

1980

Hero poster
6.3

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.

Hero

1992

Mommie Dearest poster
6.4

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.

Mommie Dearest

1981

Miles from Home poster
5.4

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

Miles from Home

1988

Any Which Way You Can poster
5.8

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he's pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.

Any Which Way You Can

1980

Little Vegas poster
5.0

Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn into a gambling mecca.

Little Vegas

1990

Big Wednesday poster
6.9

Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.

Big Wednesday

1978

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor poster
5.9

When a young mother is murdered, Chicago police sergeant Jack Reed sets out to find her killer. But the secret world of undercover operations rears its ugly head.

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

1993

Racing with the Moon poster
6.3

In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.

Racing with the Moon

1984

Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us poster
5.7

Jack Reed is sent to investigate a strange drive-by shooting which doesn't resemble a gang M.O..

Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us

1996

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance poster
5.3

Jack Reed is investigating a mass murder that occurred in a cemetery in broad daylight. Most individuals at the cemetery and the victims are Russian immigrants and they either fear or don't trust the police, because they have complaining about other problems to the police but they don't care or think it warrants investigating. Reed still investigates and it leads to a devious Russian who has turned some young Russians into his private army. Reed's friend, Charles Silvera, also has a problem. The son of an old friend and mayoral candidate, Gordon Thomas, has been arrested for killing someone while driving under the influence. Some of the people on Thomas' staff are afraid that this might jeopardize Thomas' bid for mayor, so they are pressuring Silvera to make it go away but Silvera relents so they threaten him to.

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

1996

Miami Vice: Freefall poster
NR

Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with double-crosses at every turn.

Miami Vice: Freefall

1989

Jack Reed: One of Our Own poster
5.4

Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

1995

Out There poster
5.0

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.

Out There

1995

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper poster
7.8

Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

1984

Dead of Night poster
6.2

This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.

Dead of Night

1977

To Race the Wind poster
8.8

A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School student trying to make his way in a sighted world.

To Race the Wind

1980

Guilty as Charged poster
4.1

A female parole officer discovers a secret death row prison under a meat plant, that's being run by the plant's unhinged vigilante owner and his reverend friend. A politician with a shady past becomes its latest "guest". But is he guilty?

Guilty as Charged

1991