Philip Abbott

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 The Eleventh Hour, a medical drama about psychiatry, and the CBS anthology 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.

Partial filmography

 * Bachelor Party (1957) as Arnold (film debut)
 * Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) as Dr. George Scudder
 * Those Calloways (1965) as Dell Fraser
 * Savannah Smiles (1982) as Chief Pruitt

Selected television appearances

 * Schlitz Playhouse of Stars episode Make Way for Teddy (1952)
 * You Are There episode The Signing of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) (1953)
 * The Man Behind the Badge episode The Case of the Strategic Air Command (1954)
 * Producers' Showcase 2 episodes Dateline (1954) & Yellow Jack (1955)
 * Diagnosis: Unknown as Peter Loper in "Final Performance" (1960)
 * The F.B.I. (1965–73) (TV-Series)