Philip Abbott (March 20, 1924 â€" February 23, 1998) was an American
character actor. He appeared in several films and numerous television
series, including a lead role as Arthur Ward in the crime series The
F.B.I. Abbott was also the founder of Theatre West in Los Angeles.A
native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott attended Fordham University in New
York City, and later studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse.Abbott
was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s,
including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).He made more than one
hundred guest appearances on various television series from
1952â€"1995, including NBC's Justice about the Legal Aid Society 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. He made two guest appearances on Perry Mason:
in 1961 he played journalist Edmond Aitken in "The Case of the Envious
Editor," and in 1965 he played Harry Grant in "The Case of the
Wrongful Writ." He guest starred on Jack Lord's ABC series, Stoney
Burke, and in Dennis Weaver's NBC sitcom, Kentucky Jones, in the
episode "The Music Kids Make". 1986 Grant Stevens In the daytime soap
The Young And Restless.
character actor. He appeared in several films and numerous television
series, including a lead role as Arthur Ward in the crime series The
F.B.I. Abbott was also the founder of Theatre West in Los Angeles.A
native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott attended Fordham University in New
York City, and later studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse.Abbott
was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s,
including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).He made more than one
hundred guest appearances on various television series from
1952â€"1995, including NBC's Justice about the Legal Aid Society 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. He made two guest appearances on Perry Mason:
in 1961 he played journalist Edmond Aitken in "The Case of the Envious
Editor," and in 1965 he played Harry Grant in "The Case of the
Wrongful Writ." He guest starred on Jack Lord's ABC series, Stoney
Burke, and in Dennis Weaver's NBC sitcom, Kentucky Jones, in the
episode "The Music Kids Make". 1986 Grant Stevens In the daytime soap
The Young And Restless.
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