Fredric Abbott

{{Short description|Australian actor (1928–1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Fredric Abbott

|image=Actor_Fredric_Abbott.jpg

|caption= in The Saint:The Best Laid Schemes (1968)

|birth_name=Fredric William Abbott

|birth_date={{birth date|1928|10|16|df=y}}

|birth_place=Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia

|death_date={{dda|1996|7|10|1928|8|df=yes}}

|death_place=Cherrybrook, NSW, Australia

|spouse=Joanne Mavis Henthorn

}}

Fredric William Abbott (16 October 1928 – 10 July 1996) was an Australian stage, film and television actor.{{cite news|title=Frederic Abbot 1926-1996|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121421534/?terms=Frederick%2BWilliam%2BAbbott|access-date=17 August 2017|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=17 July 1996|page=36|url-access=subscription }}

Of Irish descent, Abbott was born a fifth-generation Australian in Newtown, Sydney and was educated at Newtown Boys High School. His career began in the late 1950s at Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre in North Sydney.{{cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/232068|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au}}

His TV appearances include Z-Cars (1962), The Avengers (1963),{{cite book|last=Rogers|first=Dave|title=The Avengers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0MNAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph|isbn=9780907965091}} The Saint (1963-8), Danger Man (1965-6), The Baron (1966),

The Prisoner (1967) episode Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, Man in a Suitcase (1968), Department S (1969), The Champions (1969), The Troubleshooters (1971), Special Branch (1974), and The Flying Doctors (1985).{{cite web|url=http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=24812|title=Fredric Abbott}} His film appearances include Fun and Games (1971), Tower of Evil (1972), Mistress Pamela (1974) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bacce89d0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409094126/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bacce89d0|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 April 2018|title=Fredric Abbott}}

He died in 1996 after an 18-month-long battle with cancer.