Robert Gist
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
Perry Mason
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Casey Hydecker
Studio One
Coley Davis
Matinee Theater
Hawaiian Eye
Rawhide
Sheriff Ed Stockton
Rawhide
Harleck
Rawhide
Sheriff
Gunsmoke
Rabb Briggs
Gunsmoke
Rourke
Gunsmoke
Cam Speegle
Sea Hunt
Peter Gunn
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Lennie
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Joe Quincy
The Detectives
Black Saddle
Milo Dawes
Johnny Ringo
Kincaid
Men Into Space
The Walter Winchell File
Hennesey
Nichols
Gulley
The Americans
General Electric Theater
Committee Chairman
Strangers on a Train
Det. Leslie Hennessey
Miracle on 34th Street
Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
Operation Petticoat
Lieutenant Watson
Jack the Giant Killer
Scottish Captain
Jigsaw
Tommy Quigley
The FBI Story
Medicine Salesman
The Band Wagon
Hal
Al Capone
Dion O'Banion
Angel Face
Miller
The Jackpot
Pete Spooner
The Stratton Story
Earnie
D-Day the Sixth of June
Dan Stenick
A Dangerous Profession
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
The Naked and the Dead
Red
One Minute to Zero
Maj. Carter
Scene of the Crime
P.J. Pontiac
I Was a Shoplifter
Barkie Neff
Wolf Larsen
Matthews
Blueprint for Robbery
Chips McGann