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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-03-21 (102 years old)

Place of Birth

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Philip Abbott

Biography:

Philip Abbott (March 21, 1923; Lincoln, Nebraska – February 23, 1998; Tarzana, California) was an American character actor and occasional voice actor.

Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s. Miracle of the White Stallions (1963). He made more than one hundred guest appearances on various television programs from 1952–1995, including NBC's Justice about the Legal Aid Societ of New York and The Eleventh Hour, a medical drama about psychiatry. He appeared on the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure and The Lloyd Bridges Show. In 1965, he appeared in Dennis Weaver's NBC sitcom, Kentucky Jones, in the episode "The Music Kids Make".

Abbott is best remembered as Assistant Director Arthur Ward on the TV series The F.B.I. He died of cancer in 1998.

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Known For

Acting

1999

Starry Night as Dr. Ruby

1998

Pumpkin Man as Grandpa

1994

Spring Awakening as Mr. Pierson
Spider-Man as Nick Fury (voice)
Iron Man as Nick Fury (voice)
Spider-Man as Wardell Stromm (voice)

1993

1991

1990

The First Power as Cardinal

1988

1987

1985

1984

Night Court as Roy Pritchard
Airwolf as Johnson
Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Trebaro (uncredited)
Murder, She Wrote as Ed Cullen
Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Hubbard Dabney

1982

Savannah Smiles as Chief Pruett
Remington Steele as Whit Sterling

1981

Falcon Crest as Dr. Hile

1980

Hangar 18 as Frank Morrison

1978

Cops and Robin as Dist. Atty. George Garfield
A Lesson in Honesty as Uncle Phil

1977

Tail Gunner Joe as Scott Lucas
The Incredible Hulk as Dr. Murrow
Lou Grant as Lester Sorenson

1976

Delvecchio as Polson
Quincy, M.E. as Bill Sullivan
Quincy, M.E. as Dr. Lloyd Wallace

1974

1971

Columbo as Judge Foster (uncredited)

1969

Medical Center as Stoddard

1968

1965

Those Calloways as Dell Fraser
Kilroy as Ed Barrett
The F.B.I. as Arthur Ward

1964

Nightmare in Chicago as Myron Ellis

1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre as Myron Ellis
The Fugitive as Sheriff Charles Edward Shafter
The Outer Limits as Lincoln Russell
The Outer Limits as Ben Fields
Kraft Suspense Theatre as Major Charles Wheeler

1962

Sweet Bird of Youth as Dr. George Scudder
The Spiral Road as Frolick
Combat! as Capt. Correlli
Saints and Sinners as Paul Graham
The Lloyd Bridges Show as Doctor Olsen

1961

Cain's Hundred as Lt. Martin Cahurn
Dr. Kildare as Dr. David Key
The Defenders as Dr. Bill Conrad
Cain's Hundred as Howard Douglas

1960

Route 66 as Lieutenant Cook
Checkmate as Lawrence Dresher

1959

The Twilight Zone as Chris Bayles
The Twilight Zone as Stanley Eaton
Rawhide as Ben Dennis
One Step Beyond as Paul Burton
Black Saddle as Lon Jessup
The Detectives as Philip Norden
Bonanza as James Callan

1958

Naked City as Charles Alvis
Naked City as Doctor

1957

The Invisible Boy as Dr. Tom Merrinoe
The Bachelor Party as The Groom [Arnold Craig]
Perry Mason as Edmond Aitken
Perry Mason as Harry Grant

1955

Gunsmoke as Ben Corder
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mark Halliday
The Millionaire as Carl Bronson
Gunsmoke as Frank

1954

1953

1952

Omnibus as Thomas Jefferton

1951

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Dr. Glennon

1948

Studio One as Jack O'Hara
Studio One as Dr. Neil Campbell
Studio One as Peter

1947

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Directing

1965

The F.B.I. as Director

Writing

Production