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Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor.
Birth Name
Whitner Nutting Bissell
Born
Monday, 25 October 1909
Died
Tuesday, 05 March 1996
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| History of the Sitcom | Mr. Colton | 2021 |
| The Sixties | Mr. Colton - episode of Julia | 2013 |
| Pioneers of Television | Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk in Time Tunnel | 2008 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Dr. Edwin Thompson | 2007 |
| The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen | Self | 1995 |
| It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | (archive footage) | 1994 |
| Time Machine: The Journey Back | Walter Kemp | 1993 |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Lurry | 1993 |
| Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Prof. Frankenstein / Prof. Frankenstein (archive footage) | 1991 |
| Horrible Horror | Doctor Alfred Brandon, In clips from 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' / Dr. Alfred Brandon in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | 1986 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| History of the Sitcom | Mr. Colton | 2021 |
| The Sixties | Mr. Colton - episode of Julia | 2013 |
| Pioneers of Television | Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk in Time Tunnel | 2008 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Dr. Edwin Thompson | 2007 |
| The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen | Self | 1995 |
| It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | (archive footage) | 1994 |
| Time Machine: The Journey Back | Walter Kemp | 1993 |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Lurry | 1993 |
| Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Prof. Frankenstein / Prof. Frankenstein (archive footage) | 1991 |
| Horrible Horror | Doctor Alfred Brandon, In clips from 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' / Dr. Alfred Brandon in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | 1986 |
| Emerald Point N.A.S. | Sidney | 1983 |
| Falcon Crest | Mr. Hobson | 1981 |
| Darkroom | Arthur | 1981 |
| Walking Tall | Mr. Proctor | 1981 |
| Hagen | Judge Bates | 1980 |
| Hart to Hart | Claude Faraday | 1979 |
| Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Dr. Henry Blodgett | 1979 |
| The Night Rider | Richards | 1979 |
| Ike: The War Years | Admiral | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Dr. James Fenwick | 1979 |
| The Time Machine | Ralph Branly | 1978 |
| Donner Pass: The Road to Survival | Uncle Billy Graves | 1978 |
| ABC Saturday Comedy Special | Mr. Lodge | 1978 |
| Project U.F.O. | Harper | 1978 |
| Casey's Shadow | Dr. Williamson | 1978 |
| The Incredible Hulk | Prof. Williams / Dr. John Zeiderman | 1977 |
| The Lincoln Conspiracy | Sen. John Conness | 1977 |
| Incredible Rocky Mountain Race | Simon Hollaway | 1977 |
| Flood | Dr. Ted Horne | 1976 |
| Quincy M.E. | Botanist / Dr. Miles Thornton | 1976 |
| The Tony Randall Show | Baker | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | Wolfe | 1976 |
| Psychic Killer | Dr. Paul Taylor | 1975 |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Governor Clairborne | 1975 |
| Barbary Coast | Minister | 1975 |
| The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One | Senator McKellar | 1974 |
| Petrocelli | Douglas Johnson | 1974 |
| Lincoln | William Seward | 1974 |
| The Manhunter | Mr. Beale | 1974 |
| Cry Rape | Judge Newcombe | 1973 |
| Kojak | Sentman | 1973 |
| The New Perry Mason | Trial Judge / Judge | 1973 |
| Soylent Green | Gov. Santini | 1973 |
| Police Story | Police Chief | 1973 |
| Harry O | Col. Zachary Mays | 1973 |
| Barnaby Jones | Roy Bantry | 1973 |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Minister / Funeral Minister | 1972 |
| Search | St. Clair | 1972 |
| The Salzburg Connection | Jim Newhart | 1972 |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Mr. Mays | 1972 |
| In Broad Daylight | Capt. Moss | 1971 |
| A Tattered Web | Mr. Harland | 1971 |
| Cannon | Billingsley / Warden Sheppard | 1971 |
| O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | Magistrate | 1971 |
| City Beneath the Sea | Prof. Holmes | 1971 |
| The Andersonville Trial | Doctor Ford | 1970 |
| Airport | Mr. Davidson | 1970 |
| McCloud | Dr. Hansen | 1970 |
| Once You Kiss a Stranger... | Dr. David Haggis | 1969 |
| The Young Lawyers | James Carlton | 1969 |
| The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Jack Alexander | 1969 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Dr. Arnold Winnick / Dr. Myron Emrick | 1969 |
| Mod Squad | Max | 1968 |
| Here's Lucy | Ted Driscoll | 1968 |
| Land of the Giants | Dr. Krane | 1968 |
| The Name of the Game | Wainwright / Donald Merrick | 1968 |
| The Outsider | Dr. Kingsland | 1968 |
| Julia | Mr. Colton | 1968 |
| 5 Card Stud | Dr. Cooper | 1968 |
| It Takes a Thief | James Jenkins | 1968 |
| Mannix | Harry Meacham | 1967 |
| Ironside | Simon Cole / Walter Eustis | 1967 |
| Judd for the Defense | Moss | 1967 |
| A Covenant with Death | Bruce Donnelly | 1967 |
| The Invaders | Col. Harris | 1967 |
| Jericho | Franz Neustadt | 1966 |
| The Felony Squad | Milroy | 1966 |
| Iron Horse | McDougall | 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk / General Heywood Kirk / French General Querque | 1966 |
| Star Trek | Lurry | 1966 |
| The Loner | Ab Nichols | 1965 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | Horace Sedgwick | 1965 |
| Camp Runamuck | Gibbons | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | Gen. Kammler | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Carter | 1965 |
| The Long, Hot Summer | Phil McDermott | 1965 |
| Laredo | Burke | 1965 |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Harry Draden | 1965 |
| A Man Called Shenandoah | Henry Claymoor | 1965 |
| Fluffy | Dr. Braden | 1965 |
| The Hallelujah Trail | Hobbs | 1965 |
| Profiles in Courage | Woodrow Wilson / Myles / Bridgham | 1964 |
| Where Love Has Gone | Professor Bell | 1964 |
| Gomer Pyle: USMC | Chaplain | 1964 |
| Daniel Boone | The Trapper | 1964 |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Prof. Harvey Glomm | 1964 |
| Slattery's People | Combs | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | George Richardson | 1964 |
| Peyton Place | Calvin Hanley / Calvin Hanley (credit only) | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Connors | 1964 |
| Advance to the Rear | Capt. Queeg | 1964 |
| Seven Days in May | Sen. Frederick Prentice | 1964 |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Gus Hickman | 1963 |
| The Great Adventure | Benjamin Silliman | 1963 |
| Glynis | Crown | 1963 |
| Petticoat Junction | Ralph Denton | 1963 |
| Mr. Novak | Karl Bellini | 1963 |
| Burke's Law | Dr. Freestone | 1963 |
| Channing | Richard Brubaker | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | John Gibson | 1963 |
| The Outer Limits | Commanding General | 1963 |
| Arrest and Trial | Mr. Prescott | 1963 |
| Third of a Man | Maxwell | 1963 |
| Hud | Mr. Burris | 1963 |
| Spencer's Mountain | Dr. Campbell | 1963 |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Medical Officer | 1962 |
| Going My Way | Dr. Howard Stevens | 1962 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Adam Driscoll | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Whit Parsons / Burns / Andrew Cass | 1962 |
| Saints and Sinners | Clements | 1962 |
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | Ludstrum | 1962 |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | Dr. Ellis | 1962 |
| The Dakotas | Owen Teed | 1962 |
| Straightaway | Covey | 1961 |
| Ben Casey | Dr. Ellis Turner | 1961 |
| Bus Stop | Mitchell | 1961 |
| Dr. Kildare | Dr. Kenneth Kline | 1961 |
| Ripcord | Elmo Gossett | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Sims | 1961 |
| Follow the Sun | Martin Poole | 1961 |
| The Roaring 20's | Judge Seward | 1960 |
| Klondike | Josiah Hariess | 1960 |
| Route 66 | Jim Slade | 1960 |
| The Law and Mr. Jones | Howard Barron | 1960 |
| The Jim Backus Show | George Stanton | 1960 |
| Stagecoach West | Harmony Bell / Dr. Frederick Ainsworth | 1960 |
| Surfside 6 | Quincey Tibbles / Hank Fenton | 1960 |
| Guestward Ho! | George Duncan | 1960 |
| The Tom Ewell Show | Harry Burton | 1960 |
| The Brothers Brannagan | Sanford | 1960 |
| The Time Machine | Walter Kemp | 1960 |
| The Magnificent Seven | Chamlee | 1960 |
| Never So Few | Capt. Alofson - Psychiatrist | 1959 |
| The Detectives | Mortmain | 1959 |
| Hawaiian Eye | Jason Plain / Dr. Joseph Loring / Arthur Dane | 1959 |
| Philip Marlowe | Allen Wade | 1959 |
| Bourbon Street Beat | Henry Lombard and Norman Lombard | 1959 |
| Johnny Ringo | Sheriff Arson | 1959 |
| Men Into Space | Prof. Oliver Farrar | 1959 |
| Lock Up | Warden | 1959 |
| The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Henry | 1959 |
| The Deputy | Will Culp | 1959 |
| The Man and the Challenge | Dr. Robert Widener | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Henry Neighbors | 1959 |
| Tightrope | David Johnson | 1959 |
| Markham | George Conrad | 1959 |
| Warlock | Petrix | 1959 |
| The Black Orchid | Mr. Harmon / Harmon | 1959 |
| No Name on the Bullet | Pierce | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | Pat Danning | 1959 |
| One Step Beyond | Capt. Will Fielding | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Doc Taggert / Sam Harris | 1959 |
| Monster on the Campus | Dr. Oliver Cole | 1958 |
| Lawman | Thornton Eggles / Edgar Chase / Alexander Burrell / Al Skinner | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | Volney Adams / Sam Barrows / Henry Waller / Gabe Fenway | 1958 |
| The Texan | Shep Crawford | 1958 |
| The Donna Reed Show | Mr. Herbert | 1958 |
| Peter Gunn | Daniel Swink | 1958 |
| Colgate Theatre | 1958 | |
| The Defiant Ones | Lou Gans | 1958 |
| Gang War | Mark | 1958 |
| Destination Nightmare | Dr. Will Madison | 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | Mission Team Manager / Ed Harris | 1958 |
| The Veil | Dr. Madison | 1958 |
| I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | Prof. Frankenstein | 1957 |
| The Tall Stranger | Adam Judson | 1957 |
| Man Without a Gun | Mark Ryan | 1957 |
| Zorro | Comandante Luis de Guerro | 1957 |
| Alcoa Theatre | Chris Wallis | 1957 |
| The Court of Last Resort | George Brower | 1957 |
| Trackdown | Pendleton | 1957 |
| The Real McCoys | Mr. Curtis / Mr. Murdock | 1957 |
| Suspicion | Henry Bolton | 1957 |
| Goodyear Theatre | Doc | 1957 |
| The Californians | Dr. Thad Haley | 1957 |
| The Restless Gun | Jonas Pilgrim | 1957 |
| The Wayward Girl | Ira Molson | 1957 |
| Maverick | Clement Samuels | 1957 |
| Perry Mason | Max Pompey / Laurence Barlow / Larry Sands / Dennison Groody | 1957 |
| M Squad | Tommy Hatch | 1957 |
| The Thin Man | Smitty - Newsdealer | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Mr. Moore / Mac McLeod / Frank Lane / Dr. Morton Hicks / Albert Sykes | 1957 |
| Bachelor Father | Bert Loomis / Matt Corey / Frank Gibson | 1957 |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | Fairchild, the serial wife-murderer / Storekeeper Jonas / Vance Crawford | 1957 |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Dr. Alfred Brandon | 1957 |
| Johnny Tremain | Josiah Quincy | 1957 |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | John P. Clum / 'Tombstone Epitaph' Editor John P. Clum | 1957 |
| Code 3 | Charles Ellsworth | 1957 |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | Charlie / Jennings | 1957 |
| Panic! | Lead / Frank Chambers | 1957 |
| The Young Stranger | Grubbs | 1957 |
| Mr. Adams and Eve | Manager | 1957 |
| Whirlybirds | Henry Thompson / Morrison | 1957 |
| Man from Del Rio | Breezy Morgan | 1956 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Kerney Boles / Major Ralph McConnell | 1956 |
| West Point | Colonel W. E. McCall | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Mayor Chandos / Otis Elwell | 1956 |
| Dr. Christian | Breen / Layton | 1956 |
| The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna | Mr. Burke | 1956 |
| Broken Arrow | Lyle Bailey | 1956 |
| The Sheriff of Cochise | Barrett | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Joel Poinsette | 1956 |
| Dakota Incident | Mark Chester | 1956 |
| The Proud Ones | Mr. Sam Bolton | 1956 |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Dr. Hill in Framing Sequences / Emergency Room Psychiatrist | 1956 |
| State Trooper | Charles Bowman | 1956 |
| At Gunpoint | Clem Clark | 1955 |
| Shack Out on 101 | Eddie | 1955 |
| The Desperate Hours | FBI Agent Carson | 1955 |
| Trial | Sam Wiltse | 1955 |
| Crossroads | Cobb | 1955 |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | George Elgin / Dr. Pierce | 1955 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mr. Bliss | 1955 |
| Cheyenne | Gen. George Custer / Myron Ackelroyd | 1955 |
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Lige Fuller | 1955 |
| Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre | Mr. Addison / Wood | 1955 |
| The Naked Street | Dist. Atty. Blaker / Blaker | 1955 |
| Not as a Stranger | Dr. Dietrich | 1955 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | Harry Grayson / Fred Lopert / Dr. Maxwell Carnaven | 1955 |
| The Big Combo | Doctor | 1955 |
| Stage 7 | Rolley / Marty Wilkins | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | James Mahoney | 1955 |
| TV Reader's Digest | Dan Carson / Meltzer | 1955 |
| The Atomic Kid | Dr. Edgar Pangborn | 1954 |
| Target Earth | Tom, Chief research scientist / Tom | 1954 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Mr. Mays / Josiah Quincy / Gov. Tryon | 1954 |
| The Halls of Ivy | Maypole | 1954 |
| Climax! | Whitfield Cook / Mr. Grubbs | 1954 |
| Father Knows Best | Sinclair Bruder | 1954 |
| The Lineup | Maxwell | 1954 |
| Studio 57 | David Combs / Ben | 1954 |
| Lassie | Jim | 1954 |
| Three Hours to Kill | Deke | 1954 |
| The Shanghai Story | Paul Grant | 1954 |
| The Caine Mutiny | Lt. Comdr. Dickson M.D. | 1954 |
| Public Defender | Peter Stone | 1954 |
| Riot in Cell Block 11 | Snader / Guard Snader | 1954 |
| Creature from the Black Lagoon | Dr. Edwin Thompson | 1954 |
| It Should Happen to You | Robert Grau | 1954 |
| The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | Bud | 1953 |
| City Detective | Joe | 1953 |
| Devil's Canyon | Virgil Gates | 1953 |
| The Plymouth Playhouse | Self / Host | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | Czadek / Dolph / Father Tracy / Joseph Goebbels / Paul Wells | 1953 |
| You Are There | George Mallory / John Adams / Maj. Forsythe / Major / Ralph Waldo Emerson / Sigmund Freud | 1953 |
| The Turning Point | Buck | 1952 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Luke | 1952 |
| The Doctor | Jan Vesley | 1952 |
| The Sellout | Wilfred Jackson | 1952 |
| Skirts Ahoy! | Mr. Yarbrough | 1952 |
| The Cases of Eddie Drake | Nixey | 1952 |
| Hoodlum Empire | Pickpocket / Filby | 1952 |
| Boots Malone | Lou Dyer | 1952 |
| Red Mountain | Miles | 1951 |
| The Family Secret | Joe Elsner | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Mark Tynan / Walter Bunch | 1951 |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Wounded Officer | 1951 |
| Lost Continent | Stanley Briggs | 1951 |
| Night Into Morning | Monument Salesman | 1951 |
| Racket Squad | Tyler Justin Osborne | 1951 |
| Sealed Cargo | Schuster | 1951 |
| Tales of Robin Hood | Will Stutely / Will | 1951 |
| The Great Missouri Raid | Bob Ford | 1951 |
| The Du Pont Story | Dr. Wallace Carothers | 1950 |
| For Heaven's Sake | Doctor | 1950 |
| Wyoming Mail | Sam | 1950 |
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Sid Bennet | 1950 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Rev. Trumbull | 1950 |
| A Life of Her Own | Rental Agent | 1950 |
| Convicted | States Attorney Owens | 1950 |
| Side Street | Harold Simpsen / Harold Simpson (chief teller) | 1950 |
| Perfect Strangers | Mr. Lister | 1950 |
| When Willie Comes Marching Home | Lt. M.J. Hanley - Psychiatrist | 1950 |
| And Baby Makes Three | Party Guest | 1949 |
| Tokyo Joe | Capt. Winnow | 1949 |
| The Big Story | Harry Neigher / Justin J. Riordan | 1949 |
| The Lone Ranger | Herman Martin / John Delroy / Roger Gillman | 1949 |
| Anna Lucasta | Stanley | 1949 |
| The Crime Doctor's Diary | Pete Bellem | 1949 |
| He Walked by Night | Paul Reeves | 1949 |
| Chicken Every Sunday | Mr. Robinson / Robby | 1949 |
| Studio One | Prof. Geoffrey Crawford / Denton | 1948 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
| That Lady in Ermine | Giulio | 1948 |
| Canon City | Richard Heilman / Heilman | 1948 |
| Raw Deal | Murderer | 1948 |
| Another Part of the Forest | Jugger | 1948 |
| The Senator Was Indiscreet | Robert Oakes | 1947 |
| A Double Life | Dr. Stauffer | 1947 |
| Night Song | Party Guest | 1947 |
| Brute Force | Tom Lister | 1947 |
| Kraft Theatre | Chips | 1947 |
| The Sea of Grass | Ted - the Clerk | 1947 |
| It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog | Chester Frye | 1946 |
| Somewhere in the Night | John - Bartender | 1946 |
| Cluny Brown | Archie | 1946 |
| Front Row Center | Mr. Green | 1945 |
| Winged Victory | Lt. Hudson | 1944 |
| Destination Tokyo | Yo Yo | 1943 |
| Holy Matrimony | Harry Leek | 1943 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | London Bobbie | 1942 |
| The Sea Hawk | Gate Guard at Palace Entrance | 1940 |
