Robert Gist
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 1, 1917
- Died
- May 21, 1998 (aged 80)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Credits
- 42
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
Strangers on a Train
1951Movie
Leslie Hennessey
Miracle on 34th Street
1947Movie
Window Dresser (uncredited)
Operation Petticoat
1959Movie
Lieutenant Watson
The Band Wagon
1953Movie
Hal
Angel Face
1953Movie
Miller
Perry Mason
1957TV
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Filmography
Nichols
1971TV
Gulley
Jack the Giant Killer
1962Movie
Scottish Captain
Blueprint for Robbery
1961Movie
Chips McGann
The Americans
1961TV
Operation Petticoat
1959Movie
Lieutenant Watson
The Detectives
1959TV
Hawaiian Eye
1959TV
Johnny Ringo
1959TV
Kincaid
The FBI Story
1959Movie
Medicine Salesman
Men Into Space
1959TV
Hennesey
1959TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959TV
Lennie
Al Capone
1959Movie
Dion O'Banion
Black Saddle
1959TV
Milo Dawes
Rawhide
1959TV
Sheriff Ed Stockton, Harleck, Sheriff
Wolf Larsen
1958Movie
Matthews
Peter Gunn
1958TV
The Naked and the Dead
1958Movie
Red
Sea Hunt
1958TV
The Walter Winchell File
1957TV
Perry Mason
1957TV
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957TV
Joe Quincy
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Casey Hydecker
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956Movie
Dan Stenick
Matinee Theater
1955TV
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955Movie
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Rabb Briggs, Rourke, Cam Speegle
The Band Wagon
1953Movie
Hal
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Committee Chairman
Angel Face
1953Movie
Miller
One Minute to Zero
1952Movie
Maj. Carter
Strangers on a Train
1951Movie
Leslie Hennessey
The Jackpot
1950Movie
Pete Spooner
Love That Brute
1950Movie
Police Officer Wilson
I Was a Shoplifter
1950Movie
Barkie Neff
A Dangerous Profession
1949Movie
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
Scene of the Crime
1949Movie
P.J. Pontiac
The Stratton Story
1949Movie
Earnie
Jigsaw
1949Movie
Tommy Quigley
Studio One
1948TV
Coley Davis
Miracle on 34th Street
1947Movie
Window Dresser (uncredited)