Whit Bissell

Gender: Male
Born: 25th October 1909
Died: 5th March 1996
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Time Tunnel, Days of our Lives
Movies: He Walked by Night, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, The Time Machine, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Soylent Green, Canon City, Dakota Incident, The Shanghai Story, The Defiant Ones, A Double Life, The Black Orchid, Casey's Shadow, The Desperate Hours, Johnny Tremain, Birdman of Alcatraz, 5 Card Stud, The Proud Ones, Hud, Target Earth, Seven Days in May, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Destination Nightmare, The Hallelujah Trail, Lost Continent, Monster on the Campus, Spencer's Mountain, It Should Happen to You, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Andersonville Trial, That Lady in Ermine, Wyoming Mail, You Are There: The American Revolution Prepares, The Sellout, Man from Del Rio, Skirts Ahoy!, Once You Kiss A Stranger, Aliens from Another Planet

Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996), better known as Whit Bissell, was an American actor.

Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had a number of roles in Broadway theatre, including the Air Force show Winged Victory, when he was a private.

In a career that began in 1943 with the film Holy Matrimony, Bissell appeared in literally hundreds of films and television series episodes, including Sheriff of Cochise and Rod Cameron's syndicated City Detective (1955), The Brothers Brannagan (1960), and The DuPont Show with June Allyson (also 1960).

Viewers of 1950s low-budget science fiction, horror films and B movies know him as one of "those actors" (perhaps the actor) that always shows up somewhere in such movies. Some of the most well-known of these roles were as a mad scientist in the 1957 film I Was a Teenage Werewolf, as well as Professor Frankenstein in I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957). He also played the doctor who treats Kevin McCarthy's character in the 1956 classic Invasion

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