Robert Gist
Known for Acting · 42 credits
- Born
- 1917-10-01
- Died
- 1998-05-21
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Marion 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.
Known For
TV Shows (21)
Perry Mason
1957
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Matinee Theater
1955
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Casey Hydecker
Studio One
1948
as Coley Davis
Rawhide
1959
as Sheriff Ed Stockton / Harleck
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Peter Gunn
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
as Rabb Briggs / Rourke / Cam Speegle
Sea Hunt
1958
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Joe Quincy
The Detectives
1959
Black Saddle
1959
as Milo Dawes
Johnny Ringo
1959
as Kincaid
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Lennie
Nichols
1971
as Gulley
Men Into Space
1959
Hennesey
1959
The Walter Winchell File
1957
The Americans
1961
General Electric Theater
1953
as Committee Chairman
Movies (21)
Strangers on a Train
1951
as Det. Leslie Hennessey
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
as Window Dresser (uncredited)
Operation Petticoat
1959
as Lieutenant Watson
Angel Face
1953
as Miller
The Jackpot
1950
as Pete Spooner
Al Capone
1959
as Dion O'Banion
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
as Scottish Captain
The Band Wagon
1953
as Hal
The FBI Story
1959
as Medicine Salesman
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
as Dan Stenick
The Naked and the Dead
1958
as Red
Jigsaw
1949
as Tommy Quigley
One Minute to Zero
1952
as Maj. Carter
A Dangerous Profession
1949
as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
The Stratton Story
1949
as Earnie
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
as Barkie Neff
Scene of the Crime
1949
as P.J. Pontiac
Love That Brute
1950
as Police Officer Wilson
Wolf Larsen
1958
as Matthews
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Blueprint for Robbery
1961
as Chips McGann
About 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).[citatio… With 42 credits spanning from 1947 to 1971, Robert Gist has appeared in 21 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Robert Gist Movies
- Strangers on a Train (1951) — as Det. Leslie Hennessey
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947) — as Window Dresser (uncredited)
- Operation Petticoat (1959) — as Lieutenant Watson
- Angel Face (1953) — as Miller
- The Jackpot (1950) — as Pete Spooner
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