Whit Bissell

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Whitner Nutting Bissell (25 October, 1909 – 5 March 1996) was an American character actor. <p>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. <p>In a career that began in 1943 with the film Holy Matrimony, Bissell appeared in literally hundreds of films and television series episodes. <p>Viewers of 1950s low-budget science fiction and horror films 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 the psychiatrist 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. <p>In 1960, he appeared in George Pál's production...