Robert Gist
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1917
- Died
- May 21, 1998 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Robert Marion Gist (October 1, 1917 – May 21, 1998) was an American actor and film director. Gist was reared around the stockyards of Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. Reform school-bound after injuring another boy in a fistfight, Gist instead ended up at Chicago's Hull House, a settlement house originally established by social worker Jane Addams. There he first became interested in acting. Work in Chicago radio was followed by stage acting roles in Chicago and on Broadway (in the long-running Harvey with Josephine Hull).[citation needed] While acting in Harvey, he made his motion picture debut in 20th Century-Fox's Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Gist was also seen on Broadway in director Charles Laughton's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1954) with Henry Fonda and John Hodiak. While shooting Operation Petticoat (1959), Gist told director Blake Edwards that he was interested in directing. Edwards later hired Gist to helm episodes of the TV series Peter Gunn. Gist also directed episodes of TV shows Naked City, The Twilight Zone, Route 66 and many others.
Known For
Filmography
Nichols
TV · as Gulley · 2 eps
Jack the Giant Killer
Movie · as Scottish Captain
Blueprint for Robbery
Movie · as Chips McGann
The Americans
TV · 1 ep
Operation Petticoat
Movie · as Lieutenant Watson
Al Capone
Movie · as Dion O'Banion
The FBI Story
Movie · as Medicine Salesman
Hawaiian Eye
TV · 1 ep
Rawhide
TV · as Sheriff Ed Stockton, Harleck · 1 ep
Hennesey
TV · 96 eps
Men Into Space
TV · 1 ep
Black Saddle
TV · as Milo Dawes · 1 ep
The Detectives
TV · 1 ep
Johnny Ringo
TV · as Kincaid · 1 ep
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV · as Lennie · 1 ep
Wolf Larsen
Movie · as Matthews
The Naked and the Dead
Movie · as Red
Sea Hunt
TV · 1 ep
Peter Gunn
TV · 3 eps
Perry Mason
TV · as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm · 1 ep
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 5 eps
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV · as Joe Quincy · 1 ep
The Walter Winchell File
TV · 1 ep
D-Day the Sixth of June
Movie · as Dan Stenick
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Casey Hydecker · 1 ep
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Movie
Gunsmoke
TV · as Rabb Briggs, Rourke, Cam Speegle · 1 ep
Matinee Theater
TV · 1 ep
The Band Wagon
Movie · as Hal
Angel Face
Movie · as Miller
General Electric Theater
TV · as Committee Chairman · 1 ep
One Minute to Zero
Movie · as Maj. Carter
Strangers on a Train
Movie · as Leslie Hennessey
I Was a Shoplifter
Movie · as Barkie Neff
The Jackpot
Movie · as Pete Spooner
Love That Brute
Movie · as Police Officer Wilson
Jigsaw
Movie · as Tommy Quigley
The Stratton Story
Movie · as Earnie
Scene of the Crime
Movie · as P.J. Pontiac
A Dangerous Profession
Movie · as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
Studio One
TV · as Coley Davis · 1 ep
Miracle on 34th Street
Movie · as Window Dresser (uncredited)