
John Albert Chamberlain Kefford was an English character actor professionally known as John Abbott. His memorable roles include the invalid Frederick Fairlie in the 1948 film The Woman in White and the pacifist Ayelborne in the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy". as well as a Shakespearean actor. In 1934, he began his career in show business when he made his professional stage debut in a revival of Dryden's Aureng-zebe with Sybil Thorndike. He then joined the Old Vic Company and appeared in Shakespearean roles, including Claudius in a production of Hamlet at Elsinore Castle in Denmark with Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Alec Guinness. His first Broadway role was that of Count Mancini in He Who Gets Slapped in 1946. He also appeared on Broadway in Monserrat and The Waltz of the Toreadors. He made his film debut in Mademoiselle Docteur in 1937 and went on to act in scores of films in the next 30 years. Among his film credits are Mission to Moscow, Jane Eyre, A Thousand and One Nights, Humoresque, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. His television appearances in that time were even more numerous, beginning with pioneering broadcasts by the BBC before the Second World War. In the early days of the Second World War, Abbott worked at the British Embassy in Stockholm. When the time came to leave, he had to by way of the United States. While in the U.S., he was offered a part in Hollywood in 1941 and ended up living there for the rest of his life. On American television between the 1950s and 1970s, Abbott had roles on a wide variety of series such as Kraft Television Theatre, Studio 57, Gunsmoke, Matinee Theatre, Bonanza, Thriller, Star Trek, Mannix, Iron Horse, and Bewitched. Although he was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950s, a producer who wanted to hire him eventually succeeded in getting the actor removed from the list.In his final years, Abbott taught acting to students free of charge. Abbott died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from natural causes on 24 May 1996 at the age of 90.

Hallmark Hall of Fame

宇宙大作戦

The Islanders

それ行けスマート

奥さまは魔女

A Hazard of Hearts

Garrison's Gorillas

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

Ten Days in Paris

Timeslip

ジャングル・ブック

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Rogues

Lost in Space

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Rifleman

ミニヴァー夫人

The Web

The Mask of Dimitrios

Humoresque

Gambit

死刑執行人もまた死す

Pursuit to Algiers

ジェーン・エア

じゃじゃ馬億万長者

Mademoiselle Docteur

Madame Bovary

Who's Minding the Store?

Land of the Giants

The Epic That Never Was

This Above All

Mannix

Gunsmoke

Deception

If Winter Comes

Thriller

Quest

Joan of Paris

Peter Gunn

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Steel Lady

General Electric Theater

Thunder on the Hill

上海ジェスチャー

The Cross of Lorraine

Laredo

Telephone Time

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

恋の手ほどき

The Merry Widow

Outlaws

Edward and Mrs Simpson

Flipper

The Detectives

Medical Center

Anna and the King of Siam

The Falcon in Hollywood

Navy Bound

2000 Years Later

Abroad with Two Yanks

Honeymoon Ahead

U-Boat Prisoner

Dangerous Blondes

Public Pigeon No. 1

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Burke's Law

Sherlock Holmes in New York

They Got Me Covered

A Thousand and One Nights

The Power of the Whistler

Rogue's March

The Crime Doctor's Warning

Smorgasbord

Saratoga Trunk

The Commissioner

Adventures in Paradise

Omar Khayyam

Crosswinds

The Saint in London

Once Upon a Time

Mission to Moscow

The Woman in White

The Notorious Lone Wolf

One More Tomorrow

Thunder in the East

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Summer Storm

The Vampire's Ghost

The Miracle on 34th Street

End of the Road

The Gorilla Man

London Blackout Murders

Time Out of Mind

Three Guns for Texas

The Cat Creature

Nightmare

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

Studio One

Ichabod and Me

Matinee Theater

Cool Million

Adventure Island

This Man Is News

Cry of the Werewolf

The Black Bird

Rubber Racketeers

The Conquest of the Air

The Great Commandment

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Get Hep to Love

Sombrero

Cavalcade of America

Slapstick of Another Kind

Sideshow

Under Secret Orders

Wendy and Me

Rango

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen