Prolific American character actor (1909–1996) who played Mr Lurry, manager of Deep Space Station K-7, in the Original Series episode The Trouble with Tribbles.
Whit Bissell was an American actor, born in 1909, who appeared in a great many films and television programmes, with a notable line in science fiction: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), The Time Machine (1960) and the series The Time Tunnel, in which he played General Heywood Kirk.
In The Trouble with Tribbles he played Lurry, the harassed civilian manager of the space station where the quadrotriticale grain is stored. Lurry is caught between Under-Secretary Nilz Baris, Captain Kirk and the Klingon Captain Koloth, who claims shore leave rights for his crew.
Footage of Bissell was incorporated into the Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble-ations. He died in 1996.