L.B. Abbott
Born: 1908-06-13 in Pasadena, California, USA.
Died: 1985-09-28
Known For: Visual Effects
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article L.B. Abbott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2020
- Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet ... (Special Effects Supervisor)
1978
- The Swarm ... (Visual Effects)
1977
- Flood! ... (Special Effects)
1976
- Logan's Run ... (Visual Effects Designer)
1973
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull ... (Special Effects)
1972
- The Poseidon Adventure ... (Special Effects)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Visual Effects)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes ... (Special Effects)
- M*A*S*H ... (Visual Effects)
- Patton ... (Visual Effects)
- Myra Breckinridge ... (Visual Effects)
- The Challenge ... (Special Effects)
- The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' as Self
1969
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ... (Special Effects)
- Justine ... (Visual Effects)
- Daughter of the Mind ... (Special Effects)
- Hard Contract ... (Visual Effects)
1968
- Planet of the Apes ... (Visual Effects)
- Bandolero! ... (Visual Effects)
- The Boston Strangler ... (Visual Effects)
- The Detective ... (Visual Effects)
- Lady in Cement ... (Visual Effects)
1967
- Valley of the Dolls ... (Visual Effects)
- In Like Flint ... (Special Effects)
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre ... (Visual Effects)
1966
- Fantastic Voyage ... (Special Effects)
- Way... Way Out ... (Special Effects)
1965
- Lost in Space ... (Visual Effects)
- Von Ryan's Express ... (Visual Effects)
- The Flight of the Phoenix ... (Visual Effects)
- Morituri ... (Visual Effects)
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! ... (Visual Effects)
- Dear Brigitte ... (Special Effects)
- The Reward ... (Special Effects)
1964
- What a Way to Go! ... (Special Effects)
- Goodbye Charlie ... (Special Effects)
- Shock Treatment ... (Special Effects)
1963
- Move Over, Darling ... (Special Effects)
1962
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ... (Special Effects)
- Tender Is the Night ... (Visual Effects)
1961
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... (Visual Effects)
- Bachelor Flat ... (Visual Effects)
1960
- From the Terrace ... (Special Effects)
1959
- Journey to the Center of the Earth ... (Visual Effects)
- The Diary of Anne Frank ... (Special Effects Coordinator)
1958
- The Fly ... (Visual Effects)
- The Young Lions ... (Visual Effects)
- The Long, Hot Summer ... (Special Effects)
- South Pacific ... (Special Effects)
- Fraulein ... (Visual Effects)
- From Hell to Texas ... (Visual Effects)
- The Fiend Who Walked the West ... (Visual Effects)
1957
- An Affair to Remember ... (Special Effects)
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ... (Visual Effects)
- The Wayward Bus ... (Visual Effects)
1932
- Me and My Gal ... (Assistant Camera)
1931
- There Were Thirteen ... (Assistant Camera)