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Robert Gist
Actor

Robert Gist

1 Oct 1917Born
21 May 1998Died
80Age at death
70Credits

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).

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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

Filmography

  1. 1985Hell TownSeries: Director (1 episode)
  2. 1981Strike ForceSeries: Director (1 episode)
  3. 1971NicholsSeries: Gulley (2 episodes)
  4. 1969Hawaii Five-OSeries: Director (1 episode)
  5. 1968The New Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSeries: Director (1 episode)
  6. 1967The Danny Thomas HourSeries: Director (2 episodes)
  7. 1967The High ChaparralSeries: Director (1 episode)
  8. 1967Dundee and the CulhaneSeries: Director (2 episodes)
  9. 1967N.Y.P.D.Series: Director (1 episode)
  10. 1966Mission: ImpossibleSeries: Director (1 episode)
  11. 1966Star TrekSeries: Director (1 episode)
  12. 1966An American DreamFilm: Director
  13. 1965The Trials of O'BrienSeries: Director (1 episode)
  14. 1965LaredoSeries: Director (1 episode)
  15. 1965The Long, Hot SummerSeries: Director (2 episodes)
  16. 1964ReporterSeries: Director (1 episode)
  17. 1964Slattery's PeopleSeries: Director (5 episodes)
  18. 196412 O'Clock HighSeries: Director (2 episodes)
  19. 1964DellaFilm: Director
  20. 1963The Great AdventureSeries: Director (1 episode)
  21. 1963The Richard Boone ShowSeries: Director (5 episodes)
  22. 1963The FugitiveSeries: Director (1 episode)
  23. 1963The LieutenantSeries: Director (1 episode)
  24. 1962The Eleventh HourSeries: Director (3 episodes)
  25. 1962Jack the Giant KillerFilm: Scottish Captain
  26. 1961Dr. KildareSeries: Director (2 episodes)
  27. 1961Cain's HundredSeries: Director (2 episodes)
  28. 1961Blueprint for RobberyFilm: Chips McGann
  29. 1961The AmericansSeries (1 episode)
  30. 1960Route 66Series: Director (3 episodes)
  31. 1959Operation PetticoatFilm: Lieutenant Watson
  32. 1959The DetectivesSeries (1 episode)
  33. 1959Hawaiian EyeSeries (1 episode)
  34. 1959Johnny RingoSeries: Kincaid (1 episode)
  35. 1959The Twilight ZoneSeries: Director (1 episode)
  36. 1959The FBI StoryFilm: Medicine Salesman
  37. 1959Men Into SpaceSeries (1 episode)
  38. 1959HenneseySeries (96 episodes)
  39. 1959The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries: Lennie (1 episode)
  40. 1959Al CaponeFilm: Dion O'Banion
  41. 1959Black SaddleSeries: Milo Dawes (1 episode)
  42. 1959RawhideSeries: Sheriff Ed Stockton, Harleck (1 episode)
  43. 1958Wolf LarsenFilm: Matthews
  44. 1958Naked CitySeries: Director (7 episodes)
  45. 1958Peter GunnSeries: Director (3 episodes)
  46. 1958The Naked and the DeadFilm: Red
  47. 1958Sea HuntSeries (1 episode)
  48. 1957The Walter Winchell FileSeries (1 episode)
  49. 1957Perry MasonSeries: Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm (1 episode)
  50. 1957Have Gun, Will TravelSeries (5 episodes)
  51. 1957Richard Diamond, Private DetectiveSeries: Joe Quincy (1 episode)
  52. 1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries: Casey Hydecker (1 episode)
  53. 1956D-Day the Sixth of JuneFilm: Dan Stenick
  54. 1955Matinee TheaterSeries (1 episode)
  55. 1955The Caine Mutiny Court-MartialFilm
  56. 1955GunsmokeSeries: Rabb Briggs, Rourke, Cam Speegle (1 episode)
  57. 1953The Band WagonFilm: Hal
  58. 1953General Electric TheaterSeries: Committee Chairman (1 episode)
  59. 1953Angel FaceFilm: Miller
  60. 1952One Minute to ZeroFilm: Maj. Carter
  61. 1951Strangers on a TrainFilm: Leslie Hennessey
  62. 1950The JackpotFilm: Pete Spooner
  63. 1950Love That BruteFilm: Police Officer Wilson
  64. 1950I Was a ShoplifterFilm: Barkie Neff
  65. 1949A Dangerous ProfessionFilm: Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
  66. 1949Scene of the CrimeFilm: P.J. Pontiac
  67. 1949The Stratton StoryFilm: Earnie
  68. 1949JigsawFilm: Tommy Quigley
  69. 1948Studio OneSeries: Coley Davis (1 episode)
  70. 1947Miracle on 34th StreetFilm: Window Dresser (uncredited)

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