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Whit Bissell

Whit Bissell
Whit Bissell
Born: Oct 25, 1909 in New York City, New York
Died: Mar 06, 1996 in California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Western
Career Highlights: Hud, The Tall Stranger, Somewhere in the Night
First Major Screen Credit: Somewhere in the Night (1946)
15 Videos for Whit Bissell
Flood! (1976) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) The Time Machine (1960) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Airport (1970) Never So Few (1959) Target Earth (1954)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) The Defiant Ones (1958) The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) A Double Life (1947)
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Biography:

Whit Bissell was an alumnus of the Carolina Playmakers, the prestigious amateur-theatrical arm of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He entered films with 1943's Holy Matrimony, instantly establishing his standard screen characterization of fussy officiousness. Twice as busy on TV as he was in theatrical films, Bissell was starred as Woodrow Wilson on a 1965 episode of the Profiles in Courage anthology and was co-starred on the futuristic adventure series Time Tunnel.

Lovers of low-budget 1950s horror films have a special place in their hearts for Whit Bissell's brace of mad scientist portrayals in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957); it was in the latter film that the admirably straight-faced Bissell uttered the immortal line: Answer me! I know you have a civil tongue in your mouth-I sewed it there myself! For his contributions to science fiction films, Bissell received a life career award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1994.

He served on the Screen Actors Guild board of directors for nearly two decades. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.