
October 25, 1909 · 116 years old
Whit Bissell (born Whitner Nutting Bissell) was an American character actor. His career in film and television spanned the years 1940 to 1984.

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

A young man with a pregnant wife steals blackmail money for murder.

During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.

Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect.

Tillie Shlai is not looking forward to meeting yet another blind date. This one's name is Pete Seltzer. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heaven; he uses wisecracking and constant flirtations with women to mask his own insec...

Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer helps a wagon train of former Confederates to settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle rustling and land grabbing feuds.

Willie Kluggs enters the service with hopes of going overseas, but his uncanny marksmanship keeps him at home as a shooting instructor... much to his embarrassment.

An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.

In 1865 Confederate Capt. Sherwood is heading to Colorado where Confederate Gen. Quantrill is stirring up rebellion using various Indian Nations.

Casey is a young boy in a family that trains racehorses. His best friend, a foal they call "Casey's Shadow", looks to be a loser, but comes out a champion.

A lawyer faces a difficult decision when his son accidentally kills his best friend with no witnesses present, and a rift develops when his mother and father offer contradictory solutions to their son's dilemma.

After WW2, ex-mobster war hero Joe Gray goes straight, to the dismay of his New York mob boss uncle who's afraid that his nephew will testify against his outfit before a Grand Jury.

A rueful wife (circa 1910) recalls 20 years of her husband's financial fumbles, as she keeps a boarding house to support the family.

Sunn Classics "speculative fiction" film proposing a theory that the killer of Abe Lincoln escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.

An outlaw and his band sally forth from their hideout in Sherwood Forest to do battle with the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham and his oppressive tax collectors, who are stripping the poor villagers of what little they have left.