AKA Whitner Nutting Bissell

Born: 25-Oct-1909
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 5-Mar-1996
Location of death: Woodland Hills, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated, Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Time Tunnel

Father: James Dougal Bissell (surgeon)
Mother: Helen Nutting
Wife: Adrienne Marden (actress, two daughters)
Daughter: Kathy
Daughter: Victoria
Wife: Shan Dilys Jukes (teacher, m. 5-Dec-1954, d. 11-Jan-1958, one daughter)
Daughter: Amanda
Wife: Jennifer Raines (actress, m. 24-Nov-1967, d. 5-Jan-1993)

    University: University of North Carolina

    Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors
    Risk Factors: Parkinson's

    TELEVISION
    The Time Tunnel Army Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk (1966-67)
    Bachelor Father Bert Loomis (1959-61)
    Peyton Place Calvin Hanley (1965)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (13-May-1979)
    Ike (3-May-1979)
    Casey's Shadow (17-Mar-1978) · Dr. Williamson
    The Lincoln Conspiracy (Oct-1977)
    Flood! (24-Nov-1976)
    Psychic Killer (1975)
    Soylent Green (19-Apr-1973) · Santini
    Pete 'n' Tilly (17-Dec-1972)
    The Salzburg Connection (30-Aug-1972)
    City Beneath the Sea (25-Jan-1971)
    The Andersonville Trial (17-May-1970) · Dr. Ford
    Airport (5-Mar-1970) · Mr. Davidson
    Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
    5 Card Stud (31-Jul-1968)
    A Covenant with Death (15-Feb-1967)
    Fluffy (27-Jun-1965)
    The Hallelujah Trail (23-Jun-1965)
    Where Love Has Gone (2-Nov-1964) · Prof. Bell
    Advance to the Rear (15-Apr-1964)
    Seven Days in May (12-Feb-1964) · Sen. Prentice
    Hud (28-May-1963) · Burris
    Spencer's Mountain (16-May-1963)
    Birdman of Alcatraz (3-Jul-1962) · Dr. Ellis
    The Magnificent Seven (23-Oct-1960) · Chamlee
    The Time Machine (17-Aug-1960) · Walter Kemp
    Never So Few (7-Dec-1959) · Capt. Alofson
    Warlock (1-Apr-1959)
    No Name on the Bullet (Feb-1959) · Pierce
    Monster on the Campus (17-Dec-1958) · Dr. Oliver Cole
    The Black Orchid (Sep-1958)
    The Defiant Ones (14-Aug-1958) · Lou Gans
    I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (23-Nov-1957)
    The Tall Stranger (17-Nov-1957) · Adam Judson
    Johnny Tremain (19-Jun-1957)
    I Was a Teenage Werewolf (19-Jun-1957)
    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (30-May-1957)
    The Young Stranger (1-Feb-1957) · Grubbs
    Man From Del Rio (30-Oct-1956)
    Dakota Incident (23-Jul-1956) · Mark Chester
    The Proud Ones (May-1956)
    At Gunpoint (25-Dec-1955)
    Shack Out on 101 (4-Dec-1955) · Eddie
    Trial (7-Oct-1955) · Sam Wiltse
    The Desperate Hours (5-Oct-1955)
    The Naked Street (Aug-1955) · Blaker
    Not as a Stranger (28-Jun-1955)
    The Atomic Kid (8-Dec-1954)
    Target Earth (7-Nov-1954)
    Three Hours to Kill (3-Sep-1954)
    Creature from the Black Lagoon (5-Mar-1954) · Dr. Thompson
    Riot in Cell Block 11 (28-Feb-1954)
    It Should Happen to You (15-Jan-1954) · Robert Grau
    The Shanghai Story (1954)
    Devil's Canyon (13-Aug-1953)
    The Sellout (30-May-1952) · Wilfred Jackson
    Red Mountain (Nov-1951)
    The Family Secret (24-Oct-1951)
    Lost Continent (17-Aug-1951) · Stanley Briggs
    The Killer That Stalked New York (1-Dec-1950) · Sid Bennet
    Wyoming Mail (10-Oct-1950) · Sam
    Side Street (23-Mar-1950)
    Anna Lucasta (11-Jul-1949)
    The Crime Doctor's Diary (15-Mar-1949) · Pete Bellem
    Chicken Every Sunday (18-Jan-1949)
    He Walked By Night (24-Nov-1948) · Paul Reeves
    That Lady in Ermine (24-Aug-1948) · Giulio
    Canon City (30-Jun-1948) · Heilman
    Raw Deal (26-May-1948) · Murderer
    Another Part of the Forest (18-May-1948)
    The Senator Was Indiscreet (26-Dec-1947)
    A Double Life (25-Dec-1947)
    Brute Force (30-Jun-1947) · Tom Lister

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