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L.B. Abbott

Known For
Visual Effects

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
June 13, 1908 (118 years old)

Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA.

L.B. Abbott

Biography

Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott, A.S.C. (June 13, 1908 – September 28, 1985) was an American special effects expert, cinematographer and cameraman.

He became the head of the Special Effects Department at 20th Century Fox in 1957, a post he held until retirement in 1970. However, he was called out of retirement to work on the TV series M*A*S*H in 1972 (Abbott had worked on the film on which the series was based). Abbott was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

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Known For

Visual Effects

2020Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet...Special Effects Supervisor
1978The Swarm...Visual Effects
1976Logan's Run...Visual Effects Designer
1970Myra Breckinridge...Visual Effects
1970M*A*S*H...Visual Effects
1970Tora! Tora! Tora!...Visual Effects
1970Patton...Visual Effects
1969Justine...Visual Effects
1969Hard Contract...Visual Effects
1968Lady in Cement...Visual Effects
1968The Boston Strangler...Visual Effects
1968Bandolero!...Visual Effects
1968The Detective...Visual Effects
1968Planet of the Apes...Visual Effects
1967Valley of the Dolls...Visual Effects
1967The St. Valentine's Day Massacre...Visual Effects
1965The Flight of the Phoenix...Visual Effects
1965Lost in Space...Visual Effects
1965Morituri...Visual Effects
1965Von Ryan's Express...Visual Effects
1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!...Visual Effects
1962Tender Is the Night...Visual Effects
1961Bachelor Flat...Visual Effects
1961Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...Visual Effects
1959Journey to the Center of the Earth...Visual Effects
1959The Diary of Anne Frank...Visual Effects
1958The Fiend Who Walked the West...Visual Effects
1958The Fly...Visual Effects
1958Fraulein...Visual Effects
1958From Hell to Texas...Visual Effects
1958The Young Lions...Visual Effects
1957Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?...Visual Effects
1957The Wayward Bus...Visual Effects

Crew

1977Flood!...Special Effects
1973Jonathan Livingston Seagull...Special Effects
1972The Poseidon Adventure...Special Effects
1972The Flim Flam Man...Special Effects
1970Beneath the Planet of the Apes...Special Effects
1970The Challenge...Special Effects
1969Daughter of the Mind...Special Effects
1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...Special Effects
1967In Like Flint...Special Effects
1966Way... Way Out...Special Effects
1966Fantastic Voyage...Special Effects
1965The Reward...Special Effects
1965Dear Brigitte...Special Effects
1964Goodbye Charlie...Special Effects
1964Shock Treatment...Special Effects
1964What a Way to Go!...Special Effects
1963Move Over, Darling...Special Effects
1962Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation...Special Effects
1960From the Terrace...Special Effects
1959The Diary of Anne Frank...Special Effects Coordinator
1959The Diary of Anne Frank...Special Effects
1958The Long, Hot Summer...Special Effects
1958South Pacific...Special Effects
1957An Affair to Remember...Special Effects

Camera

1932Me and My Gal...Assistant Camera
1931There Were Thirteen...Assistant Camera

Acting

1970The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'as Self