Robert Gist
Born: 1917-10-01 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1998-05-21
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1985
- Hell Town ... (Director)
1981
- Strike Force ... (Director)
1971
- Nichols as Gulley
1968
- Hawaii Five-O ... (Director)
- The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
1967
- The High Chaparral ... (Director)
- N.Y.P.D. ... (Director)
- The Danny Thomas Hour ... (Director)
- Dundee and the Culhane ... (Director)
1966
- Star Trek ... (Director)
- Mission: Impossible ... (Director)
- An American Dream ... (Director)
1965
- Laredo ... (Director)
- The Trials of O'Brien ... (Director)
- The Long, Hot Summer ... (Director)
1964
- 12 O'Clock High ... (Director)
- Slattery's People ... (Director)
- Reporter ... (Director)
- Della ... (Director)
1963
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
- The Great Adventure ... (Director)
- The Lieutenant ... (Director)
- The Richard Boone Show ... (Director)
1962
- The Eleventh Hour ... (Director)
- Jack the Giant Killer as Scottish Captain
1961
- Dr. Kildare ... (Director)
- Cain's Hundred ... (Director)
- The Dick Powell Show ... (Director)
- The Americans
- Blueprint for Robbery as Chips McGann
1960
- Route 66 ... (Director)
1959
- The Twilight Zone ... (Director)
- Rawhide as Sheriff Ed Stockton
- Hawaiian Eye
- The Detectives
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Lennie
- Black Saddle as Milo Dawes
- Johnny Ringo as Kincaid
- Men Into Space
- Operation Petticoat as Lieutenant Watson
- Hennesey
- Al Capone as Dion O'Banion
- The FBI Story as Medicine Salesman
1958
- Naked City ... (Director)
- Peter Gunn
- Sea Hunt
- The Naked and the Dead as Red
- Wolf Larsen as Matthews
1957
- Perry Mason as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Joe Quincy
- The Walter Winchell File
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Casey Hydecker
- D-Day the Sixth of June as Dan Stenick
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Gunsmoke as Rabb Briggs
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1953
- General Electric Theater as Committee Chairman
- Angel Face as Miller
- The Band Wagon as Hal
1952
- One Minute to Zero as Maj. Carter
1951
- Strangers on a Train as Det. Leslie Hennessey
1950
- I Was a Shoplifter as Barkie Neff
- The Jackpot as Pete Spooner
- Love That Brute as Police Officer Wilson
1949
- The Stratton Story as Earnie
- Jigsaw as Tommy Quigley
- Scene of the Crime as P.J. Pontiac
- A Dangerous Profession as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
1948
- Studio One as Coley Davis
1947
- Miracle on 34th Street as Window Dresser (uncredited)