Robert Gist

Known for ActingBorn 1917-10-01Died 1998-05-21Chicago, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Great Adventure

The Twilight Zone

Star Trek

Strike Force

Perry Mason

Hennesey

Mission: Impossible

Strangers on a Train

The Richard Boone Show

The Walter Winchell File

Men Into Space

The Fugitive

Have Gun, Will Travel

12 O'Clock High

Miracle on 34th Street

Hawaii Five-O

Operation Petticoat

Rawhide

Della

The Band Wagon

The Trials of O'Brien

Slattery's People

The Lieutenant

Angel Face

Wolf Larsen

The Jackpot

The High Chaparral

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

General Electric Theater

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Love That Brute

Route 66

The Detectives

The Eleventh Hour

N.Y.P.D.

Gunsmoke

Peter Gunn

Sea Hunt

Al Capone

The Danny Thomas Hour

The Stratton Story

Jack the Giant Killer

The Americans

Nichols

Laredo

Hell Town

Black Saddle

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre