Whit Bissell

Actor

Birth Date: October 25, 1909

Death Date: March 5, 1996

Birth Place: New York, New York

A wide-ranging character actor with Broadway experience, Bissell entered films in 1943 with "Holy Matrimony" and went on to appear in over 80 more. specializing as ineffectual types and high-strung professionals. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as the scientist who turned Michael Landon into a wolfman in "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957).

Credits

Actor Guest Producer Director Writer Music All Credits

Hart to HartStream

The Dukes of HazzardStream

Dr. James Fenwick

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

Actor

Dr. Henry Blodgett

Movie

1979

The Incredible HulkStream

Casey's ShadowStream

The Time Machine

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

Actor

Simon Holloway

Movie

1977

The Last of the Mohicans

Actor

Gen. Webb

Movie

1977

The Bionic WomanStream

Flood!

Actor

Dr. Ted Horne

Movie

1976

Barbary Coast

Harry O

Guest Star

Show

1974

Petrocelli

KojakStream

Police Story

Barnaby JonesStream

Cry Rape!

Actor

Judge Newcombe

Movie

1973

Cannon

A Tattered Web

Actor

Mr. Harland

Movie

1971

In Broad Daylight

Actor

Capt. Moss

Movie

1971

Marcus Welby, M.D.Stream

Dr. Myron Emrick

Once You Kiss a Stranger

Actor

Dr. Haggis

Movie

1969

Mod Squad

Here's LucyStream

Five Card StudStream

MannixStream

A Covenant With Death

Actor

Bruce Donnelly

Movie

1967

JerichoStream

The Felony Squad

Guest Star

Milroy

Show

1966

Iron HorseStream

The Time TunnelStream

Gen. Heywood Kirk

Star TrekStream

The Loner

Guest Star

Show

1965

Hogan's HeroesStream

I Dream of JeannieStream

Horace Sedgwick

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

A Man Called Shenandoah

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.Stream

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Stream

12 O'Clock High

Where Love Has Gone

Actor

Prof. Bell

Movie

1964

Seven Days in MayStream

Sen. Frederick Prentice

Petticoat JunctionStream

Mr. Novak

Guest Star

Show

1963

The FugitiveStream

The Outer LimitsStream

Commanding General

The Dakotas

HudStream

Spencer's MountainStream

Alfred Hitchcock HourStream

Mighty O

Actor

Show

1962

The Manchurian CandidateStream

Medical Officer

Ben Casey

Dr. Ellis Turner

Bus Stop

Guest Star

Show

1961

Dr. Kildare

Stagecoach West

Surfside 6

The Tom Ewell Show

Guest Star

Show

1960

El Tiempo en Sus Manos

Actor

Movie

1960

The Time MachineStream

The Magnificent SevenStream

The Untouchables

Hawaiian Eye

Men Into Space

Guest Star

Prof. Oliver Farrar

Show

1959

BonanzaStream

The DeputyStream

Bachelor Party

Actor

Walter

Show

1959

One Step BeyondStream

RawhideStream

WarlockStream

No Name on the BulletStream

Never So FewStream

U.S. Marshal

Guest Star

Show

1958

Lawman

The RiflemanStream

Sea HuntStream

Mission Team Manager

The Defiant OnesStream

Destination Nightmare

Actor

Movie

1958

Monster on the Campus

Actor

Dr. Oliver Cole

Movie

1958

ZorroStream

Trackdown

Guest Star

Pendleton

Show

1957

Alcoa Theatre

Actor

Chris

Show

1957

The Restless Gun

Perry MasonStream

Larry Sands - Surveyor

The Thin Man

Guest Star

Smitty

Show

1957

Wagon TrainStream

Bachelor Father

Have Gun -- Will TravelStream

Tales of Wells FargoStream

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Dr. Alfred Brandon

Obračun kod O.K. Corrala

Actor

Movie

1957

I Was a Teenage FrankensteinStream

Prof. Frankenstein

The Young Stranger

Actor

Grubbs

Movie

1957

The Tall StrangerStream

Johnny Tremain

Actor

Josiah Quincy

Movie

1957

Zane Grey Theater

Invasion of the Body SnatchersStream

The Proud OnesStream

Man from Del RioStream

Dakota IncidentStream

Hour of Stars

Actor

Dr. Pierce

Show

1955

Alfred Hitchcock PresentsStream

Cheyenne

The Life and Legend of Wyatt EarpStream

Stage 7

Actor

Rolley

Show

1955

Not as a StrangerStream

The Miracle on 34th Street

Actor

Dr. Pierce

Movie

1955

The Big ComboStream

At Gunpoint

Actor

Clem Clark

Movie

1955

Shack Out on 101

Actor

Eddie

Movie

1955

The Desperate Hours

Actor

FBI Agent Carson

Movie

1955

Trial

Actor

Sam Wiltse

Movie

1955

Agente Especial

Actor

Movie

1955

Climax!

Father Knows BestStream

Lassie

It Should Happen to You

Actor

Robert Grau

Movie

1954

Creature from the Black LagoonStream

Dr. Edwin Thompson

The Atomic KidStream

Dr. Edgar Pangborn

General Electric TheaterStream

Devil's Canyon

Showcase 39

Actor

Show

1952

Cavalcade of AmericaStream

Skirts Ahoy!

Actor

Mr. Yarbrough (uncredited)

Movie

1952

Boots Malone

Actor

Lou Dyer

Movie

1952

The Lost Continent

Actor

Stanley Briggs

Movie

1951

The Family Secret

Actor

Joe Elsner

Movie

1951

The Sellout

Actor

Wilfred Jackson

Movie

1951

The Great Missouri RaidStream

A Life of Her Own

Actor

Rental Agent (uncredited)

Movie

1950

Wyoming Mail

Side Street

Harold Simpson (chief teller)

The Lone RangerStream

Chicken Every Sunday

Actor

Mr. Robinson / Robby

Movie

1949

Anna Lucasta

Actor

Stanley

Movie

1949

Studio One

He Walked by Night

Actor

Paul Reeves

Movie

1948

Raw Deal

Actor

Murderer

Movie

1948

Another Part of the Forest

Canon City

Actor

Richard Heilman

Movie

1948

Brute Force

Actor

Tom Lister

Movie

1947

A Double Life

Dr. Roland F. Stauffer

Night Song

Actor

Party Guest

Movie

1947

Photos

WARLOCK, WHIT BISSELL, 1959, TM AND COPYRIGHT ©20TH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

LOST CONTINENT, Sid Melton, Whit Bissell, Hugh Beaumont, John Hoyt, Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler, 1951

LOST CONTINENT, Sid Melton, Whit Bissell, Hugh Beaumont, John Hoyt, Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler, 1951

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, from left: Richard Denning, Richard Carlson, Whit Bissell, Nestor Paiva, Antonio Moreno, 1954

CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY, Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Katherine Emery, Whit Bissell, 1949, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved

AIRPORT, Helen Hayes, Whit Bissell, Jacqueline Bisset, 1970