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