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Whitner Nutting Bissell (25 October 1909 – 5 March 1996) was an American character actor. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Police plan of attack late in He Walked By Night He Walked by Night is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker. ...
October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
A character actor is an actor, especially in motion pictures, who predominantly performs in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ...
Born in New York City, Bissell was trained in 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. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ...
Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ...
Winged Victory is a now out of print, 1934 novel by an English World War I fighter pilot named V.M. Yeates. ...
In a career that began in 1943 with the film Holy Matrimony, Bissell appeared in literally hundreds of films and television series episodes. See also: 1942 in film 1943 1944 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America For Whom the Bell Tolls The Song of Bernadette This is the Army Stage Door Canteen Random Harvest Star Spangled Rhythm Casablanca Journey Into Fear Academy Awards Best...
Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...
Viewers of 1950s low-budget science fiction and horror films 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 the psychiatrist who treats Kevin McCarthy's character in the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and in the original 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon. He also played Nixy, a small time crook in "The Cases of Eddie Drake" (episode - "Shoot the Works" 1952), not in imdb. See also: 1949 in film 1950 1951 in film 1950s in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events February 15 - Walt Disney Studios animated film Cinderella debuts. ...
Poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey, an archetypal science fiction film Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft, robots, or other technologies. ...
1922s Nosferatu Horror films are films of the horror genre that are designed to elicit fright, fear, terror, disgust or horror from viewers. ...
Caucasian, male, aging, crooked teeth, messy hair, lab coat, spectacles/goggles, dramatic posing, beaker with strange colored liquid — one popular stereotype of a mad scientist. ...
// October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens. ...
I Was a Teenage Werewolf is a 1957 horror film starring Michael Landon as a troubled teenager and Whit Bissell as the primary adult. ...
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ...
Actor Kevin McCarthy in the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers Kevin McCarthy (born February 15, 1914 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor. ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 science fiction film. ...
Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 black-and-white science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. ...
In 1960, he appeared in George Pál's production of The Time Machine, as Walter Kemp, one of the Time Traveller's dining friends. Thirty-three years later, in the Time Machine: The Journey Back. He recreated his role as Walter providing the on-camera opening to the mini-sequel to George Pal's "The Time Machine" reuniting George (Rod Taylor) and Filby (Alan Young). It was Mr. Bissell's last acting performance directed by Clyde Lucas. Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
George Pál in 1979 George Pal (February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) (birth name: Györgi Pál Marczincsák) was a Hungarian-born animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. ...
The Time Machine (also sometimes known as to avoid confusion with the 2002 film of the same name) is a 1960 movie filmed by George Pál, who also made a famous 1953 modernized version of Wells The War of the Worlds. ...
Bissell was a regular for the last two seasons of the television series Bachelor Father (1959-1961) and appeared as a guest star in practically every dramatic television series that aired between the early 1950s and the mid 1970s, with more sporadic appearances after that. Sitcom starred John Forsythe and debuted in the Fall of 1957 on CBS. The setup of the show was a wealthy attorney and bachelor named Bentley Gregg is living in Beverly Hills and must assume the responsibility of raising his niece, Kelly, whose parents died in an auto accident. ...
See also: 1958 in television, other events of 1959, 1960 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1959-60 American network television schedule. ...
See also: 1960 in television, other events of 1961, 1962 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1961-62 American network television schedule. ...
See also: 1949 in television, other events of 1950, 1951 in television and the list of years in television. // Events February 12 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) inaugurated. ...
See also: 1969 in television, other events of 1970, 1971 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1970-71 American network television schedule. ...
His most prominent television role came when he co-starred as General Heywood Kirk in the 1966-1967 science-fiction television series The Time Tunnel. He often played silver-haired figures of authority, here as in many other roles (as described by All Movie Guide) "instantly establishing his standard screen characterization of fussy officiousness," leavened in this case with a military bearing. Whit Bissell was an actor from the old school: even with the sound turned down, it was always possible to know what General Kirk was about to do, as Bissell used a varied set of facial expressions and postures to indicate thought, mood, and imminence of action. The year 1966 in television involved some significant events. ...
The year 1967 in television involved some significant events. ...
The Time Tunnel is a 1966-1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series. ...
All Movie Guide is a commercial database of information about movie stars, movies and television shows. ...
Old school, variously spelled old skool, oldschool or oldskool, is a slang term referring to an older school of thinking or acting and to old objects in general, within the context of newer, more modern times. ...
Star Trek fans knew Bissell from his appearance in the classic episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", footage of which was re-used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Trials and Tribble-ations". The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ...
The Trouble with Tribbles is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on December 29, 1967 and repeated June 21, 1968. ...
Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ...
Trials and Tribble-ations is a fifth season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that was written as a tribute to the original series of Star Trek. ...
Bissell's most-screened motion picture role is as the undertaker (who sees every man, no matter his race, as "just another future customer") in The Magnificent Seven (1960). The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen tasked with protecting a Mexican village from bandits. ...
See also: 1959 in film 1960 1961 in film 1950s in film 1960s in film years in film film // Events April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues August 10 - Filming of West...
Bissell received a life career award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1994. He also served for many years on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild, as well as representing the actors to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors. Saturn Award The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. ...
The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ...
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, California Founded on May 11, 1927 in California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. ...
Bissell was married three times and had three daughters and a stepson.
Bissell died in 1996 in Woodland Hills, California from the effects of Parkinson's disease. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...
Cemetery view looking South-East. ...
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