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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Movies (9)
An American Dream
Director (Directing)
1966
Della
Director (Directing)
1964
Jack the Giant Killer
as Scottish Captain
1962
Blueprint for Robbery
as Chips McGann
1961
Operation Petticoat
as Lieutenant Watson
1959
The FBI Story
as Medicine Salesman
1959
Al Capone
as Dion O'Banion
1959
Wolf Larsen
as Matthews
1958
The Naked and the Dead
as Red
1958
TV Shows (41)
Hell Town
Director (Directing)
1985
Strike Force
Director (Directing)
1981
Nichols
as Gulley
1971
Hawaii Five-O
Director (Directing)
1968
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Director (Directing)
1968
The Danny Thomas Hour
Director (Directing)
1967
The High Chaparral
Director (Directing)
1967
Dundee and the Culhane
Director (Directing)
1967
N.Y.P.D.
Director (Directing)
1967
Mission: Impossible
Director (Directing)
1966
Star Trek
Director (Directing)
1966
The Trials of O'Brien
Director (Directing)
1965
Laredo
Director (Directing)
1965
The Long, Hot Summer
Director (Directing)
1965
Reporter
Director (Directing)
1964
Slattery's People
Director (Directing)
1964
12 O'Clock High
Director (Directing)
1964
The Great Adventure
Director (Directing)
1963
The Richard Boone Show
Director (Directing)
1963
The Fugitive
Director (Directing)
1963
The Lieutenant
Director (Directing)
1963
The Eleventh Hour
Director (Directing)
1962
Dr. Kildare
Director (Directing)
1961
The Dick Powell Show
Director (Directing)
1961
Cain's Hundred
Director (Directing)
1961
The Americans
1961
Route 66
Director (Directing)
1960
The Detectives
1959
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Johnny Ringo
as Kincaid
1959
The Twilight Zone
Director (Directing)
1959
Men Into Space
1959
Hennesey
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Lennie
1959
Black Saddle
as Milo Dawes
1959
Rawhide
as Sheriff Ed Stockton
1959
Naked City
Director (Directing)
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
Sea Hunt
1958
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
1957