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