Robert Gist
Acting
1917-10-01 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
Hell Town
1985 · Series
Strike Force
1981 · Series
Nichols
1971 · Series
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · Series
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1968 · Series
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967 · Series
The High Chaparral
1967 · Series
Dundee and the Culhane
1967 · Series
N.Y.P.D.
1967 · Series
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Series
Star Trek
1966 · Series
An American Dream
1966 · Movie
The Trials of O'Brien
1965 · Series
Laredo
1965 · Series
The Long, Hot Summer
1965 · Series
Reporter
1964 · Series
Slattery's People
1964 · Series
12 O'Clock High
1964 · Series
Della
1964 · Movie
The Great Adventure
1963 · Series
The Richard Boone Show
1963 · Series
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
The Lieutenant
1963 · Series
The Eleventh Hour
1962 · Series
Jack the Giant Killer
1962 · Movie
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Series
The Dick Powell Show
1961 · Series
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Series
Blueprint for Robbery
1961 · Movie
The Americans
1961 · Series
Route 66
1960 · Series
Operation Petticoat
1959 · Movie
The Detectives
1959 · Series
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Series
The FBI Story
1959 · Movie
Men Into Space
1959 · Series
Hennesey
1959 · Series
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Series
Al Capone
1959 · Movie
Black Saddle
1959 · Series
Rawhide
1959 · Series
Wolf Larsen
1958 · Movie
Naked City
1958 · Series
Peter Gunn
1958 · Series
The Naked and the Dead
1958 · Movie
Sea Hunt
1958 · Series
The Walter Winchell File
1957 · Series
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · Series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956 · Movie
Matinee Theater
1955 · Series
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955 · Movie
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
The Band Wagon
1953 · Movie
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
Angel Face
1953 · Movie
One Minute to Zero
1952 · Movie
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Movie
The Jackpot
1950 · Movie
Love That Brute
1950 · Movie
I Was a Shoplifter
1950 · Movie
A Dangerous Profession
1949 · Movie
Scene of the Crime
1949 · Movie
The Stratton Story
1949 · Movie
Jigsaw
1949 · Movie
Studio One
1948 · Series
Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · Movie