Name
Robert Gist
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-10-01
Deathday
1998-05-21 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
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
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- 1951 Strangers on a Train as Leslie Hennessey
- 1949 Jigsaw as Tommy Quigley
- 1959 Operation Petticoat as Lieutenant Watson
- 1953 The Band Wagon as Hal
- 1949 The Stratton Story as Earnie
- 1949 Scene of the Crime as P.J. Pontiac
- 1949 A Dangerous Profession as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
- 1950 I Was a Shoplifter as Barkie Neff
- 1961 Blueprint for Robbery as Chips McGann
- 1958 Wolf Larsen as Matthews
- 1955 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
- 1959 Al Capone as Dion O'Banion
- 1947 Miracle on 34th Street as Window Dresser (uncredited)
- 1958 The Naked and the Dead as Red
- 1956 D-Day the Sixth of June as Dan Stenick
- 1959 The FBI Story as Medicine Salesman
- 1962 Jack the Giant Killer as Scottish Captain
- 1953 Angel Face as Miller
- 1950 The Jackpot as Pete Spooner
- 1952 One Minute to Zero as Maj. Carter
- 1950 Love That Brute as Police Officer Wilson
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Rabb Briggs
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Coley Davis
- 1959 Hawaiian Eye ( 1 episode )
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Committee Chairman
- 1958 Sea Hunt ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Ed Stockton
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 5 episodes )
- 1959 Hennesey ( 96 episodes )
- 1958 Peter Gunn ( 3 episodes )
- 1957 Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1 episode ) as Joe Quincy
- 1959 Men Into Space ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Milo Dawes
- 1959 The Detectives ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Casey Hydecker
- 1959 Johnny Ringo ( 1 episode ) as Kincaid
- 1957 The Walter Winchell File ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The DuPont Show with June Allyson ( 1 episode ) as Lennie
- 1961 The Americans ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Nichols ( 2 episodes ) as Gulley
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Harleck
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Rourke
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Cam Speegle
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff
