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George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.
Abbott was born in Forestville, New York to George Burwell Abbott (May 1858 Erie County, New York – February 4, 1942 Hamburg, New York) and Hannah May McLaury (1869 – June 20, 1940 Hamburg, New York). He later moved to the town of Salamanca, which twice elected his father mayor. In 1898, his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he attended Kearney Military Academy. Within a few years, his family returned to New York, and he graduated from Hamburg High School in 1907. Four years later, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester, where he wrote his first play, Perfectly Harmless, for the University Dramatic Club.
Abbott then went to Harvard University, to take a course in playwriting from George Pierce Baker. Under Baker's tutelage, he wrote The Head of the Family, which was performed at the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1912. He then worked for a year as assistant stage manager at the Bijou Theatre in Boston, where his play The Man in the Manhole won a contest.
Actors: Charles Durning (actor), Derren Nesbitt (actor), Semka Sokolovic-Bertok (actress), Frederick Bailey (miscellaneous crew), Jadranka Matkovic (actress), Frederick Bailey (actor), Zdenka Hersak (actress), Antony I. Ginnane (producer), Maxwell Caulfield (actor), Michael Nouri (actor), Jim Hajicosta (miscellaneous crew), Ksenija Marinkovic (actress), Vjenceslav Kapural (actor), Zarko Savic (actor), Damir Saban (actor),
Plot: In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. The NATO wants to play down the incident, but the famous TV moderator George Abbot and the no less persistent journalist Milker sense a sensational story about UFOs and start snooping around in the area with help of pilot "Bird" McNamara. Inspired by the suspiciously rigorous isolation of the whole area around the crash point and cases of an unknown desease they have a closer look at the military's activities...
Keywords: alien-abduction, aviation, biological-weapon, cattle-mutilation, cover-up, female-pilot, independent-film, investigation, norway, nudityActors: Edie Adams (miscellaneous crew), Lamont Johnson (director), Mary Alan Hokanson (actress), Scott Conrad (editor), Mike Genovese (actor), John Glover (actor), Cloris Leachman (actress), Jeff Goldblum (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Anne Murray (actress), Edie Adams (actress), Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Jordan Charney (actor), Elsa Raven (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Al Hill (actor), Ed Hinton (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Merv Griffin (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), David Bond (actor), King Donovan (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Robert Carson (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Alex Gerry (actor), John Crawford (actor), Everett Glass (actor), Raymond Greenleaf (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,