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