Robert 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

Perry Mason

Have Gun, Will Travel

Matinee Theater

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Rawhide

Rawhide

Rawhide

Peter Gunn

All Movies (21)

• Jack the Giant Killer1962 · as Scottish Captain
• Blueprint for Robbery1961 · as Chips McGann
• Operation Petticoat1959 · as Lieutenant Watson
• The FBI Story1959 · as Medicine Salesman
• Al Capone1959 · as Dion O'Banion
• Wolf Larsen1958 · as Matthews
• The Naked and the Dead1958 · as Red
• D-Day the Sixth of June1956 · as Dan Stenick
• The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial1955
• The Band Wagon1953 · as Hal
• Angel Face1953 · as Miller
• One Minute to Zero1952 · as Maj. Carter
• Strangers on a Train1951 · as Det. Leslie Hennessey
• The Jackpot1950 · as Pete Spooner
• Love That Brute1950 · as Police Officer Wilson
• I Was a Shoplifter1950 · as Barkie Neff
• A Dangerous Profession1949 · as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
• Scene of the Crime1949 · as P.J. Pontiac
• The Stratton Story1949 · as Earnie
• Jigsaw1949 · as Tommy Quigley
• Miracle on 34th Street1947 · as Window Dresser (uncredited)

All TV Shows (25)

• Nichols1971 · as Gulley
• The Americans1961
• The Detectives1959
• Hawaiian Eye1959
• Johnny Ringo1959 · as Kincaid
• Men Into Space1959
• Hennesey1959
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson1959 · as Lennie
• Black Saddle1959 · as Milo Dawes
• Rawhide1959 · as Sheriff Ed Stockton
• Rawhide1959 · as Harleck
• Rawhide1959 · as Sheriff
• Peter Gunn1958
• Sea Hunt1958
• The Walter Winchell File1957
• Perry Mason1957 · as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective1957 · as Joe Quincy
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Casey Hydecker
• Matinee Theater1955
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Rabb Briggs
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Rourke
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Cam Speegle
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Committee Chairman
• Studio One1948 · as Coley Davis