1. Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor.
26 Facts About Whit Bissell
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Whit Bissell was educated at the Allen-Stevenson School and the Dalton School in New York City.
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Whit Bissell was related to Daniel Bissell, who was awarded the Badge of Military Merit, the predecessor of the Purple Heart, by George Washington.
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Whit Bissell trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in drama and English.
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Whit Bissell played the attending psychiatrist who treats the protagonist, Dr Miles Bennell, played by Kevin McCarthy, in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and appeared in Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Whit 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.
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Whit Bissell guest-starred in a couple of episodes of The Lone Ranger.
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Whit Bissell appeared on other syndicated series, including Sheriff of Cochise, Whirlybirds, Peyton Place and The Brothers Brannagan.
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Whit Bissell was cast in the religion series Crossroads and Going My Way, and in the NBC education drama series Mr Novak.
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Whit Bissell appeared in an episode of Mr Adams and Eve in 1957 and of Peter Gunn in 1958.
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Whit Bissell played different roles in multiple episodes of the ABC series The Rifleman, and as Sinclair Bruder in "The Great Guy" on Father Knows Best.
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Whit Bissell portrayed the undertaker in the film The Magnificent Seven.
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In 1960, Whit Bissell had appeared in George Pal's production of The Time Machine, as Walter Kemp, one of the Time Traveller's dining friends.
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Whit Bissell appeared in a 1978 TV movie adapting the H G Wells novel for a more modern setting.
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Thirty-three years later, in 1993 the documentary film Time Machine: The Journey Back, Whit Bissell recreated his 1960 role as Walter in the opening sequence.
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From 1959 to 1961, Whit Bissell was a regular for the third and fourth seasons of the television series Bachelor Father, costarring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong.
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Whit Bissell appeared in an episode of Straightaway in 1961.
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Whit Bissell was cast three times on the NBC Western series The Virginian.
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Whit Bissell often played silver-haired figures of authority, here as in many other roles, "instantly establishing his standard screen characterization of fussy officiousness", leavened in many instances with a military bearing.
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Whit Bissell appeared in the Barnaby Jones episode, "Murder in the Doll's House".
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Whit Bissell appeared in the classic episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" of Star Trek, footage of which was re-used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nines "Trials and Tribble-ations".
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In 1978 and 1980, Whit Bissell appeared in two episodes of The Incredible Hulk, first in the second-season episode "Kindred Spirits" as Professor Williams, and later as Professor John Zeiderman in the second part of the fourth season two-parter "Prometheus".
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Whit Bissell was a guest of honor at New York City's Tele-Fantasy Con 1975 on August 1 - 3, along with celebrities Noel Neill, Jim Danforth and Joseph Stefano, and spent the weekend meeting his fans and signing hundreds of autographs free of charge.
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Whit Bissell received a life career award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in 1994.
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Whit Bissell served for many years on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild, and represented the actors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors.
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Whit Bissell was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.