Robert Gist

Acting · Directing

Born October 1, 1917, 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.

Filmography

• Hell Town — Director
• Strike Force — Director
• Nichols — Gulley
• Hawaii Five-O — Director
• The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Director
• Dundee and the Culhane — Director
• N.Y.P.D. — Director
• The Danny Thomas Hour — Director
• The High Chaparral — Director
• 1966An American Dream — Director
• Mission: Impossible — Director
• Star Trek — Director
• Laredo — Director
• The Long, Hot Summer — Director
• The Trials of O'Brien — Director
• 12 O'Clock High — Director
• 1964Della — Director
• Reporter — Director
• Slattery's People — Director
• The Fugitive — Director
• The Great Adventure — Director
• The Lieutenant — Director
• The Richard Boone Show — Director
• 1962Jack the Giant Killer — Scottish Captain
• The Eleventh Hour — Director
• 1961Blueprint for Robbery — Chips McGann
• Cain's Hundred — Director
• Dr. Kildare — Director
• The Americans
• The Dick Powell Show — Director
• Route 66 — Director
• 1959Al Capone — Dion O'Banion
• Black Saddle — Milo Dawes
• Hawaiian Eye
• Hennesey
• Johnny Ringo — Kincaid
• Men Into Space
• 1959Operation Petticoat — Lieutenant Watson
• Rawhide — Sheriff Ed Stockton, Harleck
• The Detectives
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — Lennie
• 1959The FBI Story — Medicine Salesman
• The Twilight Zone — Director
• Naked City — Director
• Peter Gunn — Director
• Sea Hunt
• 1958The Naked and the Dead — Red
• 1958Wolf Larsen — Matthews
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• Perry Mason — Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective — Joe Quincy
• The Walter Winchell File
• 1956D-Day the Sixth of June — Dan Stenick
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Casey Hydecker
• Gunsmoke — Rabb Briggs, Rourke, Cam Speegle
• Matinee Theater
• 1955The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
• 1953Angel Face — Miller
• General Electric Theater — Committee Chairman
• 1953The Band Wagon — Hal
• 1952One Minute to Zero — Maj. Carter
• 1951Strangers on a Train — Leslie Hennessey
• 1950I Was a Shoplifter — Barkie Neff
• 1950Love That Brute — Police Officer Wilson
• 1950The Jackpot — Pete Spooner
• 1949A Dangerous Profession — Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
• 1949Jigsaw — Tommy Quigley
• 1949Scene of the Crime — P.J. Pontiac
• 1949The Stratton Story — Earnie
• Studio One — Coley Davis
• 1947Miracle on 34th Street — Window Dresser (uncredited)