L. B. Abbott

{{Infobox person

| name = L. B. Abbott

| honorific_suffix = A.S.C.

| birthname = Lenwood Ballard Abbott

| birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1908|6|13}}

| birth_place = Pasadena, California

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1985|9|28|1908|6|13}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California

| occupation = Cinematographer

| years_active =

| awards = Best Special Visual Effect
1967 Doctor Dolittle
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
Special Achievement Award
1972 The Poseidon Adventure
1976 Logan's Run

}}

Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott, A.S.C. (June 13, 1908 – September 28, 1985) was an American special effects expert, cinematographer and cameraman.

He became the head of the Special Effects Department at 20th Century Fox in 1957, a post he held until retirement in 1970.{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHzeZZOUD6QC |title=Cheap Tricks and Class Acts: Special Effects, Makeup, and Stunts from the Films of the Fantastic Fifties |date=1996 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-0093-5 |pages=383 |language=en}} He was called out of retirement, however, to work on the TV series M*A*S*H in 1972 (Abbott had worked on the film on which the series was based). Abbott was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.