Whit Bissell
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| Born |
Whitner Nutting Bissell October 25, 1909 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 5, 1996 (aged 86) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Parkinson's disease |
| Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1940-1984 |
| Spouse(s) | Adrienne Marden (1938-1954, divorced) 2 children Dilys Mary Shan Jukes (1954-1958, her death) 1 child Jennifer Raine (1967-1993, her death) |
| Children | Kathy Marden Victoria Brown Amanda Whiteley Brian Forster |
Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996), better known as Whit Bissell, was an American character 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 an airman.
In a career that began with the film Holy Matrimony (1943), Bissell appeared in hundreds of films and television episodes as a prominent character actor. Regularly cast in low-budget science fiction and horror films, his roles include a mad scientist in the film I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and Professor Frankenstein in I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (also 1957). He also played the attending psychiatrist who treats the protagonist, Dr. Miles Bennell, played by Kevin McCarthy, in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and appeared in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
Bissell appeared as a guest star in many television drama series between the early 1950s and the mid-1970s, with more sporadic appearances after that. He guest-starred in a couple of episodes of The Lone Ranger. He also appeared on other syndicated series, including Sheriff of Cochise, Whirlybirds, and The Brothers Brannagan. He was cast too in the religion series Crossroads and Going My Way, and in the NBC education drama series Mr. Novak. Bissell played murderer Larry Sands on CBS's Perry Mason ("The Case of the Crooked Candle", 1957). He made three other Perry Mason appearances, including the role of Max Pompey in "The Case of the Lavender Lipstick" (1960), and Laurence Barlow in "The Case of the Nautical Knot" (1964). He played different roles in multiple episodes of the ABC series The Rifleman. From 1959 to 1961, Bissell was a regular for the third and fourth seasons of the television series Bachelor Father, costarring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. He was cast three times on the long-running NBC western series The Virginian.
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