Whit Bissell
Birthday: 1909-10-25
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Whit Bissell (born Whitner Nutting Bissell) was an American character actor. His career in film and television spanned the years 1940 to 1984.
Movies
Birdman of Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....
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The Time Machine
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostil...
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he ...
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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang....
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Airport
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots...
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It Should Happen to You
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a docum...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, t...
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Perfect Strangers
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the...
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5 Card Stud
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one....
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless ali...
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Target Earth
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has re...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...
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The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other....
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He Walked by Night
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens ...
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Seven Days in May
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him....
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Hud
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents ...
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Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to...
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The Killer That Stalked New York
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels t...
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The Sellout
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff....
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The Comedian
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demand...
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Hoodlum Empire
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify...
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Exercise No. One
A lone motorist, changing a wheel on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, is attacked by a deme...
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Monster on the Campus
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while exa...
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Riot in Cell Block 11
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...
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Brute Force
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-trippi...
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A Double Life
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin...
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Shack Out on 101
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets....
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Warlock
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff h...
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Johnny Tremain
When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice John...
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf
A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Pre...
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The Turning Point
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop fath...
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Canon City
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary....
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Lost Continent
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are ...
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Spencer's Mountain
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy ...
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Winged Victory
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pi...
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The Desperate Hours
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage....
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City Beneath the Sea
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as...
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Side Street
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money f...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from th...
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No Name on the Bullet
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading ci...
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Where Love Has Gone
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover....
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Once You Kiss a Stranger...
A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her ...
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Third of a Man
A prominent man in a small U.S. town, tries to forget his brother in a mental home, but the director...
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Man from Del Rio
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the ...
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Dakota Incident
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off...
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The Crime Doctor's Diary
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges....
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Wyoming Mail
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly temp...
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The Naked Street
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimid...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being t...
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At Gunpoint
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back....
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The Young Stranger
The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy...
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The Atomic Kid
A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are bein...
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The Tall Stranger
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in ...
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Red Mountain
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of South...
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The Time Machine
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts...
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual ...
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Devil's Canyon
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun....
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Raw Deal
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic...
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Fluffy
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, includi...
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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing...
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Anna Lucasta
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tri...
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Chicken Every Sunday
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes....
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The Shanghai Story
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel b...
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A Covenant with Death
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...
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The Family Secret
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murde...
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Somewhere in the Night
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down h...
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she i...
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Nick and Nora
Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing...
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Advance to the Rear
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his ap...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an ...
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The Night Rider
"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans ...
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Never So Few
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II....
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Trial
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom ...
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Casey's Shadow
Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey's Sh...
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That Lady in Ermine
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hun...
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The Magnificent Seven
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes....
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Three Hours to Kill
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a fla...
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The Andersonville Trial
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate ...
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The Caine Mutiny
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...
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The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement...
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The Black Orchid
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow....
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The Sea Hawk
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D...
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Psychic Killer
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection-...
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Destination Nightmare
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "D...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of ...
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The Hallelujah Trail
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance...
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Tales of Robin Hood
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de...
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Pete 'n' Tillie
A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough...
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frus...
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The Salzburg Connection
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town o...
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The Manchurian Candidate
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed...
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Time Machine: The Journey Back
Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"...
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Not as a Stranger
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He cour...
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Tokyo Joe
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life ther...
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Last of the Mohicans
During the French and Indian War in colonial America, a white scout, with two of his Indian brothers...
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A Life of Her Own
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modelin...
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A Tale of Two Cities
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up t...
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Another Part of the Forest
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family go...
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Holy Matrimony
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but the...
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In Broad Daylight
A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to...
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Cry Rape
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the vi...
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A Tattered Web
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accid...
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The Proud Ones
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia...
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The Wayward Girl
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket....
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse
This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed....
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Sealed Cargo
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small ...
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Cluny Brown
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country es...
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Destination Tokyo
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a sec...
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Flood!
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an ag...
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Night Into Morning
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son....
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The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells ...
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Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo
Boone yearns to return to Kentucky, to escape the tax collector, despite his wife’s wishes. With his...
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Rendezvous in Black
Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by k...
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The Miracle on 34th Street
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers g...
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