L.B. Abbott
Personal Info
Know For
Visual Effects
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-06-13 (77 years old)
Deathday
1985-09-28
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA.
Also known As
Bill Abbott
Lenwood Ballard Abbott
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article L.B. Abbott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Production
1970
as Special Effects
1959
as Special Effects Coordinator
1967
as Special Effects
1968
as Visual Effects
1967
as Visual Effects
1970
as Special Effects
1958
as Visual Effects
1960
as Special Effects
1957
as Visual Effects
1970
as Visual Effects
1958
as Special Effects
1969
as Visual Effects
1961
as Visual Effects
1959
as Visual Effects
1968
as Visual Effects
1977
as Special Effects
1965
as Visual Effects
1965
as Visual Effects
1958
as Visual Effects
1932
as Assistant Camera
1965
as Visual Effects
1968
as Visual Effects
1970
as Visual Effects
1968
as Visual Effects
1967
as Visual Effects
1959
as Visual Effects
1958
as Visual Effects
1976
as Visual Effects Designer
1958
as Visual Effects
1958
as Special Effects
1957
as Special Effects
1957
as Visual Effects
1970
as Visual Effects
1958
as Visual Effects
1965
as Special Effects
1965
as Special Effects
1962
as Special Effects
2020
as Special Effects Supervisor
1978
as Visual Effects
1959
as Special Effects
1972
as Special Effects
1965
as Visual Effects
1966
as Special Effects
1969
as Visual Effects
1963
as Special Effects
1961
as Visual Effects
1969
as Special Effects
1962
as Visual Effects
1973
as Special Effects
1964
as Special Effects
1966
as Special Effects
1969
as Special Effects
1931
as Assistant Camera
1964
as Special Effects
1964
as Special Effects
1970
as Visual Effects
1932
as Assistant Camera
1968
as Visual Effects
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