Whit Bissell Movies and Career Information

Whitner Nutting "Whit" Bissell (October 29, 1909 – March 5, 1996) was an American actor. Born in New York City, Bissell 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 a private. In a career that began in 1943 with the film Holy Matrimony, Bissell appeared in literally hundreds of films and television series episodes, including Sheriff of Cochise and Rod Cameron's syndicated City Detective (1955), The Brothers Brannagan (1960), and The DuPont Show with June Allyson (also 1960). Viewers of 1950s low-budget science fiction, horror films and B movies 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 well as Professor Frankenstein in I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957). He also played the doctor 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. In