this is amazing. Whit Bissel. does anyone but me remember him?

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so i'm watching "not as a stranger" on tcm tonight. and one of my favorite character actors ever, whit bissel, is in the cast.

on a lark, i went to imdb to check out his credits (i do that, as i'm watching movies, i'm weird that way.)

whit bissel:



whit bissel appeared in over 200+ movies!

and...

whit bissel was in just about every television show when i was growing up ("wagon train", "perry mason", "i dream of jeannie", "star trek", "the mod squad", "mannix", "marcus welby, m.d.", "barnaby jones", "ironside", "kojak", "the bionic woman", "quincy m.e.", "the dukes of hazzard", "hart to hart", "falcon crest"... and i'm omitting the ones i didn't watch.

whit bissel has like 284 credits on imdb. i've never seen a character actor with such a body of work.



i just wanted to give the much underrated whit bissel a little love tonight. every time you appeared onscreen, mr. bissel, i took notice.

thank you...

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. To me, he'll always be

Lt. General Heywood Kirk in "The Time Tunnel."







But I also remember him as Lurie in "The Trouble With Tribbles," and I think he was also a doctor at the end of the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" — the one who finally believes Kevin McCarthy when the orderly tells him about the truck filled with pods.

[terrya]

2. I remember Whit Bissel.

He was ubiquitous on television...like Charles Lane or John McGiver.

Whit Bissel always was good and professional in every role he was in.

Good character actor.

[mitchum]

3. John Mc Giver was the one for me...

in my childhood, he was almost as much an ubiquitous presence as my mom and dad.
I can still imitate his voice.
Other favorites were:
Richard Deacon
Neville Brand
William Windom
Joe Flynn

[KG]

4. he must have had a really good agent!

[Parche]

5. Outer Limits ' Nightmare'