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 19521995 including NBCs 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 Weavers 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 FBI He died of cancer in 1998 Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Abbott licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia