Robert Gist
- Acting
- October 1, 1917 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- May 21, 1998
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Hell Town · Director
- Strike Force · Director
- Nichols · Gulley
- Hawaii Five-O · Director
- The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Director
- The Danny Thomas Hour · Director
- The High Chaparral · Director
- Dundee and the Culhane · Director
- N.Y.P.D. · Director
- Mission: Impossible · Director
- Star Trek · Director
- An American Dream · Director
- The Trials of O'Brien · Director
- Laredo · Director
- The Long, Hot Summer · Director
- Reporter · Director
- Slattery's People · Director
- 12 O'Clock High · Director
- Della · Director
- The Great Adventure · Director
- The Richard Boone Show · Director
- The Fugitive · Director
- The Lieutenant · Director
- The Eleventh Hour · Director
- Jack the Giant Killer · Scottish Captain
- Dr. Kildare · Director
- The Dick Powell Show · Director
- Cain's Hundred · Director
- Blueprint for Robbery · Chips McGann
- The Americans
- Route 66 · Director
- Operation Petticoat · Lieutenant Watson
- The Detectives
- Hawaiian Eye
- Johnny Ringo · Kincaid
- The Twilight Zone · Director
- The FBI Story · Medicine Salesman
- Men Into Space
- Hennesey
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson · Lennie
- Al Capone · Dion O'Banion
- Black Saddle · Milo Dawes
- Rawhide · Sheriff Ed Stockton, Harleck
- Wolf Larsen · Matthews
- Naked City · Director
- Peter Gunn · Director
- The Naked and the Dead · Red
- Sea Hunt
- The Walter Winchell File
- Perry Mason · Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective · Joe Quincy
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre · Casey Hydecker
- D-Day the Sixth of June · Dan Stenick
- Matinee Theater
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
- Gunsmoke · Rabb Briggs, Rourke
- The Band Wagon · Hal
- General Electric Theater · Committee Chairman
- Angel Face · Miller
- One Minute to Zero · Maj. Carter
- Strangers on a Train · Leslie Hennessey
- The Jackpot · Pete Spooner
- Love That Brute · Police Officer Wilson
- I Was a Shoplifter · Barkie Neff
- A Dangerous Profession · Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
- Scene of the Crime · P.J. Pontiac
- The Stratton Story · Earnie
- Jigsaw · Tommy Quigley
- Studio One · Coley Davis
- Miracle on 34th Street · Window Dresser (uncredited)