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