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Whit Bissell

Actor

Whit Bissell

Acting
1948 — 1963 · 11 films
Lived
25 October 1909 — d. 1996
From
New York City, New York, USA

Whit Bissell (born Whitner Nutting Bissell) was an American character actor. His career in film and television spanned the years 1940 to 1984.

Career Signature

How Whit Bissell’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.

crowd-pleaser
kinetic urgency
anxious dread
emotionally restrained
tightly wound

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every acted-in film.

Tonal kin

Morris AnkrumMorris Ankrum19 filmsJohn HoytJohn Hoyt20 filmsDick ForanDick Foran16 filmsRichard CarlsonRichard Carlson18 filmsJulie AdamsJulie Adams10 filmsJohn AgarJohn Agar15 filmsCathy DownsCathy Downs6 filmsYoshio TsuchiyaYoshio Tsuchiya17 films

Filmography

Hud

1963

The Time Machine

1960

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

1957

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

1957

Johnny Tremain

1957

Shack Out on 101

1955

Creature from the Black Lagoon

1954

It Should Happen to You

1954

Lost Continent

1951

He Walked by Night

1949

That Lady in Ermine

1948