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Robert Gist
Actor, Director
Died May 21, 1998 (73 years)
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
| 1971 | Nichols (TV Series) · as Gulley |
| 1962 | Jack the Giant Killer · as Scottish Captain |
| 1961 | Blueprint for Robbery · as Chips McGann |
| 1959 | Operation Petticoat · as Lieutenant Watson |
| 1959 | Al Capone · as Dion O'Banion |
| 1959 | The FBI Story · as Medicine Salesman |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Sheriff |
| 1959 | Men into Space (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Detectives (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Lock-Up (TV Series) · as Wayne Powell |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Fred 'Caddy' Croner |
| 1958 | The Naked and the Dead · as Red |
| 1958 | Peter Gunn (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) · as Lafe Jackson |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Stanley |
| 1956 | D-Day the Sixth of June · as Dan Stenick |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Casey Hydecker |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Cam Speegle |
| 1955 | The Phil Silvers Show (TV Series) · as Red Thompson |
| 1953 | The Band Wagon · as Hal |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Committee Chairman |
| 1952 | Angel Face · as Miller |
| 1952 | One Minute to Zero · as Maj. Carter |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Aaron Taggert |
| 1951 | Strangers on a Train · as Det. Leslie Hennessey |
| 1949 | |
| 1949 | Scene of the Crime · as P.J. Pontiac |
| 1949 | The Stratton Story · as Earnie |
| 1949 | A Dangerous Profession · as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney |
| 1949 | Oh, You Beautiful Doll · as Musician |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Coley Davis |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street · as Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited) |