Robert Gist
Known for: Acting
Born: October 1, 1917
Died: May 21, 1998
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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Filmography
23 movies · 48 TV shows, newest first
6.0
Hell Town
1985
7.5
Strike Force
1981
6.3
Nichols
1971
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968
5.7
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1968
6.7
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
6.8
The High Chaparral
1967
5.3
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
6.6
N.Y.P.D.
1967
7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
8.0
Star Trek
1966
5.0
An American Dream
1966
7.0
The Trials of O'Brien
1965
6.4
Laredo
19656.0
The Long, Hot Summer
19656.0
Reporter
1964
7.0
Slattery's People
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
1964
7.2
Della
1964
10.0
The Great Adventure
1963
7.5
The Richard Boone Show
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
7.0
The Lieutenant
1963
6.7
The Eleventh Hour
1962
6.6
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
5.7
The Dick Powell Show
1961
5.2
Cain's Hundred
1961
5.6
Blueprint for Robbery
1961
6.5
The Americans
1961
6.7
Route 66
1960
7.2
Operation Petticoat
1959
6.7
The Detectives
1959
5.6
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.9
Johnny Ringo
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
6.2
The FBI Story
1959
7.4
Men Into Space
1959
7.7
Hennesey
1959
6.8
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
6.6
Al Capone
1959
6.2
Black Saddle
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
7.0
Wolf Larsen
1958
5.7
Naked City
1958
6.6
Peter Gunn
1958
5.7
The Naked and the Dead
1958
6.7
Sea Hunt
1958
7.5
The Walter Winchell File
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
6.8
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
5.3
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
5.3
Matinee Theater
1955NR
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
7.2
The Band Wagon
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
7.1
Angel Face
1953
5.8
One Minute to Zero
1952
7.7
Strangers on a Train
1951
7.0
The Jackpot
1950
6.8
Love That Brute
1950
5.8
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
5.7
A Dangerous Profession
1949
6.1
Scene of the Crime
1949
6.7
The Stratton Story
1949
5.0
Jigsaw
1949
5.4
Studio One
1948
7.4
Miracle on 34th Street
1947