Whit Bissell (born Whitner Nutting Bissell) was an American character actor. His career in film and television spanned the years 1940 to 1984.
Whit Bissell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Whit Bissell |
| Also Know | Whitner Nutting Bissell, Whitner Bissell, Whitt Bissell, Whit Bissel |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1909-10-25 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday | 1996-03-05 |
Whit Bissell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | Prof. Frankenstein | 1957-11-23 | Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart…. |
| Destination Nightmare | Dr. Will Madison | 1958-03-08 | Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) – “Whatever Happened to Peggy,” “Destination Nightmare,” “The Return of Madame Verno… |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Dr. Alfred Brandon | 1957-06-19 | A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf…. |
| Canon City | Heilman | 1948-06-30 | Prisoners battle each other — and the police — when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary…. |
| The Lincoln Conspiracy | Sen. John Conness | 1977-10-01 | Speculative Sunn Classics chestnut detailing a wide-ranging government conspiracy to murder the 16th American President and the subsequent cover up an… |
| Time Machine: The Journey Back | Walter Kemp | 1993-08-25 | Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of “The Time Machine”… |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Mr. Mays | 1972-02-06 | This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed…. |
| He Walked by Night | Paul Reeves | 1949-02-06 | This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop…. |
| The Time Machine | Ralph Branly | 1978-11-05 | A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for…. |
| The Wayward Girl | Ira Molson | 1957-09-22 | Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket…. |
| Hud | Mr. Burris | 1963-05-28 | Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for… |
| Shack Out on 101 | Eddie | 1955-12-04 | A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets…. |
| The Tall Stranger | Adam Judson | 1957-11-17 | A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-b… |
| The Atomic Kid | Dr. Edgar Pangborn | 1954-12-08 | A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI … |
| The Shanghai Story | Paul Grant | 1954-09-01 | Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the s… |
| Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Dr. Henry Blodgett | 1979-05-13 | A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to re… |
| Casey’s Shadow | Dr. Williamson | 1978-01-01 | Casey’s family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey’s Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may … |
| The Young Stranger | Grubbs | 1957-02-01 | The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater … |
| Tales of Robin Hood | Will | 1951-12-21 | The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the fe… |
| The Time Machine | Walter Kemp | 1960-05-25 | A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species…. |
| Creature from the Black Lagoon | Dr. Edwin Thompson | 1954-03-05 | When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link†connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But th… |
| Lost Continent | Stanley Briggs | 1951-08-17 | When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down … |
| Man from Del Rio | Breezy Morgan | 1956-10-30 | Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town’s outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man’s shoes. But a tin star doesn’t bring aut… |
| At Gunpoint | Clem Clark | 1955-12-25 | A general-store keeper (Fred MacMurray) scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back…. |
| In Broad Daylight | Capt. Moss | 1971-10-16 | A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it…. |
| Once You Kiss a Stranger… | Dr. David Haggis | 1969-11-12 | Jerry, a Southern California golf pro is the target for Diana a disturbed young woman who desires the death of her shrink, who alone realizes her psyc… |
| The Crime Doctor’s Diary | Pete Bellem | 1949-03-15 | A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges…. |
| The Final Hour | 1965-05-27 | two episodes of the TV series “The Virginan” edited together…. | |
| Three Hours to Kill | Deke | 1954-11-04 | After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but … |
| The Andersonville Trial | Doctor Ford | 1970-05-17 | A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia…. |
| It Should Happen to You | Robert Grau | 1954-01-15 | Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it’s love at firs… |
| Target Earth | Tom | 1954-11-07 | Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating… |
| Monster on the Campus | Dr. Oliver Cole | 1958-12-17 | A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood… |
| Johnny Tremain | Josiah Quincy | 1957-06-19 | When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith’s apprentice Johnny Tremain (Hal Stalmaster) finds a new life in th… |
| City Beneath the Sea | Prof. Holmes | 1971-07-16 | A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. gover… |
| Wyoming Mail | Sam | 1950-10-10 | In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized … |
| Devil’s Canyon | Virgil Gates | 1953-08-13 | An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun…. |
| The Black Orchid | Harmon | 1958-09-03 | An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster’s widow…. |
| When Willie Comes Marching Home | Lt. M.J. Hanley – Psychiatrist (uncredited) | 1950-02-01 | When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home … |
| Donner Pass: The Road to Survival | Uncle Billy Graves | 1978-10-24 | A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach Ca… |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | Dr. Ellis | 1962-07-04 | After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro… |
| The Defiant Ones | Lou Gans | 1958-08-14 | Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other…. |
| Seven Days in May | Sen. Frederick Prentice | 1964-02-01 | A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him…. |
| The Senator Was Indiscreet | Robert Oakes | 1947-12-31 | A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary … |
| Spencer’s Mountain | Dr. Campbell | 1963-05-16 | Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand…. |
| Dakota Incident | Mark Chester | 1956-07-23 | Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off…. |
| Anna Lucasta | Stanley | 1949-07-11 | A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some… |
| A Covenant with Death | Bruce Donnelly | 1967-02-15 | An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he’s about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a… |
| It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog | Chester Frye (uncredited) | 1946-07-01 | A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool’s Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspa… |
| Last Of The Mohicans | Gen. Webb | 1977-11-23 | During the French and Indian War in colonial America, a white scout, with two of his Indian brothers, helps a British officer escort two women through… |
| A Tattered Web | Mr. Harland | 1971-09-24 | A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on … |
| Raw Deal | Murderer | 1948-05-21 | A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn’t commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to h… |
| Nick and Nora | 1975-03-04 | Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool…. | |
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Sid Bennet | 1950-10-06 | In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the polic… |
| Riot in Cell Block 11 | Guard Snader | 1954-02-18 | A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly…. |
| A Double Life | Dr. Stauffer | 1947-12-25 | A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character’s jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage…. |
| The Naked Street | Dist. Atty. Blaker | 1955-08-01 | To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Ros… |
| Somewhere in the Night | John (uncredited) | 1946-06-12 | George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder ca… |
| Advance to the Rear | Capt. Queeg | 1964-06-10 | As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur… |
| Psychic Killer | Dr. Paul Taylor | 1975-12-01 | Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn’t commit, learns astral projection–the art of leaving one’s physical body and transp… |
| Pete ‘n’ Tillie | Funeral Minister | 1972-12-17 | A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren’t strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing…. |
| The Salzburg Connection | Jim Newhart | 1972-08-30 | An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who’s taking pict… |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Host | 1953-05-03 | A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story…. |
| 5 Card Stud | Dr. Cooper | 1968-07-28 | The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one…. |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | ‘Tombstone Epitaph’ Editor John P. Clum | 1957-05-30 | Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr… |
| Hoodlum Empire | Pickpocket | 1952-04-15 | It’s a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain’s top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide ne… |
| No Name on the Bullet | Pierce | 1959-02-01 | When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town’s folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of… |
| Red Mountain | Miles | 1951-11-01 | Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospec… |
| Fluffy | Dr. Braden | 1965-06-27 | A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion…. |
| Chicken Every Sunday | Robby | 1949-01-18 | A woman takes in boarders to support her husband’s harebrained financial schemes…. |
| The Family Secret | Joe Elsner | 1951-10-21 | When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder…. |
| Another Part of the Forest | Jugger | 1948-05-18 | This ‘prequel’ to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way…. |
| Sealed Cargo | Schuster | 1951-05-19 | A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing… |
| Flood! | Dr. Ted Horne | 1977-06-05 | Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam…. |
| The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One | Senator McKellar | 1974-11-08 | J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang…. |
| Side Street | Harold Simpson (chief teller) | 1950-03-23 | A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a… |
| The Desperate Hours | FBI Agent Carson | 1955-10-05 | Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage…. |
| The Hallelujah Trail | Hobbs | 1965-06-23 | A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local … |
| Holy Matrimony | Harry Leek (uncredited) | 1943-08-24 | An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications…. |
| The Proud Ones | Mr. Sam Bolton | 1956-05-15 | Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattl… |
| Soylent Green | Gov. Santini | 1973-04-18 | This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The a… |
| Warlock | Petrix | 1959-05-15 | A band of murderous cowboys have imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. When the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town the residents hire t… |
| Boots Malone | Lou Dyer | 1952-01-11 | In this 1952 drama directed by William Dieterle, William Holden stars as an agent for horse jockeys who faces his greatest challenge…. |
| Trial | Sam Wiltse | 1955-10-07 | A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters…. |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Emergency Room Psychiatrist | 1956-02-05 | A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates…. |
| Not as a Stranger | Dr. Dietrich | 1955-07-01 | Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out … |
| Tokyo Joe | Capt. Winnow | 1949-10-26 | An American returns to Tokyo to try to pick up threads of his pre-World War II life there but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authori… |
| The Sellout | Wilfred Jackson | 1952-05-30 | A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff…. |
| Where Love Has Gone | Professor Bell | 1964-11-02 | A divorced couple’s teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother’s latest lover…. |
| Never So Few | Capt. Alofson – Psychiatrist | 1959-12-07 | A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II…. |
| A Life of Her Own | Rental Agent (uncredited) | 1950-09-01 | A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man…. |
| The Caine Mutiny | Lt. Comdr. Dickson M.D. | 1954-06-23 | When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial … |
| Cluny Brown | Archie | 1946-05-01 | Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate…. |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | London Bobbie (uncredited) | 1943-02-12 | In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shor… |
| The Horn Blows at Midnight | Heavenly Piccolo Player (uncredited) | 1945-04-28 | A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he’s Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl… |
| Convicted | States Attorney Owens (uncredited) | 1950-08-01 | A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted…. |
| Cry Rape | Judge Newcombe | 1973-11-27 | A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn’t him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him…. |
| Destination Tokyo | Yo Yo (uncredited) | 1943-12-31 | During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in adv… |
| Airport | Mr. Davidson | 1970-05-29 | Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved…. |
| Night Into Morning | Monument Salesman (uncredited) | 1951-06-08 | Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son…. |
| Brute Force | Tom Lister | 1947-07-10 | Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins’ dreams of e… |
| The Magnificent Seven | Chamlee | 1960-10-12 | An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes…. |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Medical Officer | 1962-10-01 | Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home,… |
| The Sea Hawk | Gate Guard at Palace Entrance | 1940-08-10 | Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures…. |
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