Lenwood Ballard Abbott is a Assistant Camera, Visual Effects Designer and Special Effects American born on 13 june 1908 at Pasadena (USA)
Lenwood Ballard Abbott
Lenwood Ballard Abbott participated to
54 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
11 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Team
, 1h50
Directed by George Roy HillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
Crime,
WesternThemes Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Buddy films,
Chase films,
Gangster filmsActors Paul Newman,
Robert Redford,
Katharine Ross,
Henry Jones,
Cloris Leachman,
Ted CassidyRoles Special Effects
Rating79%
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford). The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall (Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy) as their new leader. Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces Harvey's idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first.Visual effects
, 2h52
Directed by Franklin J. SchaffnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors George C. Scott,
Karl Malden,
Michael Bates,
Karl Michael Vogler,
Stephen Young,
Carey LoftinRoles Visual Effects
Rating78%
The film's beginning has General George S. Patton (George C. Scott) giving a speech to an unseen audience of American troops (based on his speech to the Third Army), with a huge American flag in the background. The scene then shifts to North Africa at the start of 1943, where Patton takes charge of the demoralized American II Corps in North Africa after the humiliating defeat at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass. After instilling discipline in his soldiers, he leads them to victory at the Battle of El Guettar, the first American victory over the Axis, though he is bitterly disappointed to learn afterward that Erwin Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), whom he respects greatly as a general, was not his opponent. Patton's aide, Captain Jenson, is killed in the battle. Shortly after the battle, a new member of his staff, Lieutenant Colonel Codman assures Patton that, though Rommel was absent, that if Patton defeated Rommel's plan, then he had defeated Rommel.Team
, 1h57
Directed by Irwin Allen,
Ronald NeameOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes La fin du monde,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Children's films,
Disaster films,
American disaster films,
Films about seafaring accidents or incidentsActors Gene Hackman,
Ernest Borgnine,
Adam Baldwin,
Red Buttons,
Carol Lynley,
Roddy McDowallRoles Special Effects
Rating70%
The SS Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement and scrapping, makes her way across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea from New York City to Athens. Despite protests from Captain Harrison, who fears for the ship's safety, the representative of her new owners, Mr. Linarcos, insists that she make full speed towards her destination to save money, preventing her from taking on additional ballast.Visual effects
, 1h56
Directed by Robert Altman,
Fred WilliamsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ComedyThemes Military humor in film,
Medical-themed films,
Politique,
Sports films,
American football films,
Musical films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Donald Sutherland,
Elliott Gould,
Tom Skerritt,
Sally Kellerman,
Robert Duvall,
René AuberjonoisRoles Visual Effects
Rating72%
Set in 1951 in South Korea, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is assigned two replacements: Captains "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest, who arrive in a stolen Jeep. They are insubordinate, womanizing, mischievous rule-breakers but they soon prove to be excellent combat surgeons. They immediately clash with their new tent mate Frank Burns, who is both a religious man and an inferior, stubborn, inept and incompetent surgeon who, when he causes mistakes, selfishly accuses anyone that is aside him. Hawkeye and Duke pressure Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, the unit CO, to have Burns removed from "their" tent. They also ask him to apply for a specialist thoracic surgeon to be assigned to the 4077th. Their wish is granted when Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre arrives at the 4077th., 2h24
Directed by Richard Fleischer,
Kinji Fukasaku,
Toshio MasudaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Martin Balsam,
Joseph Cotten,
Sō Yamamura,
E. G. Marshall,
James Whitmore,
Jason RobardsRoles Visual Effects
Rating74%
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities., 1h52
Directed by Franklin J. SchaffnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Action,
Adventure,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictionThemes Films about animals,
Films about computing,
Post-apocalyptic films,
Psychologie,
Films about racism,
Films about religion,
Time travel films,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Films set in the future,
Films about apes,
Political films,
Cyberpunk films,
Dystopian films,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifère,
Arme nucléaire,
Disaster films,
LobotomieActors Charlton Heston,
Roddy McDowall,
Maurice Evans,
Kim Hunter,
James Whitmore,
James DalyRoles Visual Effects
Rating79%
Astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner), Dodge (Jeff Burton) and Stewart are in deep hibernation when their spaceship crashes in a lake on an unknown planet after a long near-light speed voyage, during which, due to time dilation, the crew ages only 18 months. As the ship sinks, Taylor finds Stewart dead and her body desiccated. They throw an inflatable raft from the ship and climb down into it; before departing the ship, Taylor notes that the date is November 25, AD 3978, approximately two millennia after their departure in 1972. Once ashore, Dodge performs a soil test and pronounces the soil incapable of sustaining life.Team
, 1h35
Directed by Chuck Roberson,
Ted PostOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Adventure,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictionThemes Films about animals,
Films about computing,
Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Time travel films,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Films set in the future,
Films about apes,
Political films,
Cyberpunk films,
Dystopian films,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifère,
Arme nucléaire,
Disaster filmsActors James Franciscus,
Kim Hunter,
Maurice Evans,
David Watson,
Roddy McDowall,
Linda HarrisonRoles Special Effects
Rating60%
Following the events of Planet of the Apes, time-displaced astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) and the mute Nova (Linda Harrison) are riding on horseback through the desert of the Forbidden Zone. Without warning, fire shoots up from the ground and deep chasms open. Confused by the strange phenomenon, Taylor investigates a cliff wall and disappears before Nova's eyes.Visual effects
, 1h57
Directed by Mark RobsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Prison films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Rail transport films,
Political films,
Évasion,
Children's films,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidentsActors Frank Sinatra,
Trevor Howard,
Raffaella Carrà,
Adolfo Celi,
Sergio Fantoni,
Brad DexterRoles Visual Effects
Rating70%
Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who is shot down over Italy. He is captured by Italian troops and taken to a POW camp, run by the cruel Blackshirt Major Basilio Battaglia (Adolfo Celi). The camp is mainly populated by British prisoners.Team
, 1h40
Directed by Richard FleischerOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Action,
AdventureThemes Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Underwater action films,
Submarine films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Stephen Boyd,
Raquel Welch,
Edmond O'Brien,
Donald Pleasence,
John Arthur Kennedy,
Arthur O'ConnellRoles Special Effects
Rating67%
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for a limited amount of time, depending on how small the item is miniaturized.Visual effects
, 2h47
Directed by Edward DmytrykOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ActionThemes Political films,
Children's filmsActors Marlon Brando,
Montgomery Clift,
Dean Martin,
Hope Lange,
May Britt,
Maximilian SchellRoles Visual Effects
Rating70%
German ski instructor Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity to Germany, so when war breaks out he joins the army as a lieutenant. Dissatisfied with police duty in Paris, he requests to be transferred and is assigned to the front in North Africa. He sees what the war has done to his captain (Maximilian Schell) and the captain's wife (May Britt), and he is sickened by their behavior., 2h55
Directed by Nina Foch,
George Stevens,
David S. HallOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on plays,
Children's filmsActors Douglas Spencer,
Millie Perkins,
Lou Jacobi,
Joseph Schildkraut,
Shelley Winters,
Richard BeymerRoles Visual Effects
Rating73%
In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies (Dodie Heath) and Mr. Kraler (Douglas Spencer), factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter, Anne. Miep promptly retrieves the journal for Otto, and he receives solace reading the words written by his young daughter three years earlier.