Philip Abbott
Birth : 1923-03-21, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Death : 1998-02-23
History
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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Dist. Atty. George Garfield
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him.
Dr. Ruby
Comedy - Vincent Van Gogh comes back to life after being the recipient of a magic potion. He finds that his work has become quite valuable, and begins stealing his works. At the same time, he has a hard time getting anyone to believe he's really Van Gogh. - David Abbott, Lisa Waltz, Lou Wagner
Grandpa
The week before Halloween, Jason Hollway's parents separate, and his dad moves out. Jason is depressed and doesn't want to go trick or treating with his friends Jenn, Ted, and Austin. His mom and grandpa encourage him, first by a trip to a pumpkin patch and then with the promise of a party at the end of the evening. The neighborhood has a scary story of a son's murder of his father 25 years before, so all the kids are frightened of Sam Hain: they ring his doorbell and run. All evening, the kids talk about the Sam Hain house: one by one, Jason's pals disappear; soon, it's just him and a silent Pumpkin Man walking up to Sam Hain's door. What will Jason do?
Mr. Pierson
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
Cardinal
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.
Manning
Gary Coleman plays the son of a U.S. diplomat who imagines himself in fantastic situations.
Chief Pruett
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.
Uncle Phil
Educational short film
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Uncle Phil
The film teaches how to stand up to a bully through self-assertion.
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The film teaches how to stand up to a bully through self-assertion.
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The film teaches how to stand up to a bully through self-assertion.
Uncle Phil
How change, in friends and environment, can be faced.
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How change, in friends and environment, can be faced.
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How change, in friends and environment, can be faced.
Uncle Phil
The important lesson that warnings should not be ignored is stressed in this film.
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The important lesson that warnings should not be ignored is stressed in this film.
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The important lesson that warnings should not be ignored is stressed in this film.
Uncle Phil
The film shows that trying to get more than you need or deserve only leads to trouble.
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The film shows that trying to get more than you need or deserve only leads to trouble.
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The film shows that trying to get more than you need or deserve only leads to trouble.
Frank Morrison
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
Uncle Phil
The film stresses appreciating others for their differences is an important quality in mature young people.
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The film stresses appreciating others for their differences is an important quality in mature young people.
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The film stresses appreciating others for their differences is an important quality in mature young people.
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The film stresses appreciating others for their differences is an important quality in mature young people.
Uncle Phil
The film stresses the importance of sharing attention when a new baby joins a family.
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The film stresses the importance of sharing attention when a new baby joins a family.
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The film stresses the importance of sharing attention when a new baby joins a family.
Uncle Phil
Cooperating, even in chores, can be a rewarding experience.
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Cooperating, even in chores, can be a rewarding experience.
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Cooperating, even in chores, can be a rewarding experience.
Uncle Phil
Trying something new, like riding a bicycle, is not always successful the first time.
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Trying something new, like riding a bicycle, is not always successful the first time.
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Trying something new, like riding a bicycle, is not always successful the first time.
Uncle Phil
A boy who plays hooky from school learns that lies only increase a problem.
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A boy who plays hooky from school learns that lies only increase a problem.
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A boy who plays hooky from school learns that lies only increase a problem.
Harry Webb
A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends the law after her. The arresting officer, however, takes pity on Maggie and tries to help her escape the despot's clutches.
Scott Lucas
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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After receiving an anonymous phone call, the cops pick up a young woman who is wandering around alone in the desert. She tells them that she was given a lift by a stranger, who abandoned her there. Or are there more sides to one story? Part of a series of scare movies called Under the Law, distributed by Disney in the 1970s.
Narrator
From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.
Dell Fraser
Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market. He uses the little money they get for a down payment on the lake, thereby losing their house when he can't make the mortgage payment. They move to the lake, where their friends help them build a cabin. A salesman stops in town, and tries to get the people to sell their land for a tourist venture; Cam is outraged at his tactics and takes desperate measures after he himself is tricked.
Myron Ellis
The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.
Colonel Reed
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
Frolick
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Dr. George Scudder
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Dr. Tom Merrinoe
A Super Computer plans world domination with the help of Robbie the robot and a 10 year old boy who is the son the computer's inventor.
Arnold Craig
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
