Abby Singer

There are all sorts of ways to achieve immortality in Hollywood: an Oscar, a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, getting your handprints in cement in front of Mann's Chinese Theater. But how many people get to say they have a film shot named after them? Pretty much only Hollywood legend Abby Singer. Singer was an assistant director and production manager who became famous for encouraging his actors and crew at the end of the day with the line, "This and one more." In the decades since Singer began working in the 1950s, the "Abby Singer shot" has become part of international television and movie vocabulary. The many productions that Singer worked on include the 1951 movie version of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," the TV Western series "The Virginian," the Michael Cimino film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges), and "The Bob Newhart Show."