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

Strangers on a Train

Operation Petticoat

The Band Wagon

Miracle on 34th Street

Angel Face

Acting

1951

Strangers on a Train

as

Det. Leslie Hennessey

1949

Jigsaw

as

Tommy Quigley

1959

Operation Petticoat

as

Lieutenant Watson

1953

The Band Wagon

as

Hal

1949

The Stratton Story

as

Earnie

1949

Scene of the Crime

as

P.J. Pontiac

1949

A Dangerous Profession

as

Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney

1950

I Was a Shoplifter

as

Barkie Neff

1961

Blueprint for Robbery

as

Chips McGann

1958

Wolf Larsen

as

Matthews

1955

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

as

1959

Al Capone

as

Dion O'Banion

1947

Miracle on 34th Street

as

Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)

1958

The Naked and the Dead

as

Red

1956

D-Day the Sixth of June

as

Dan Stenick

1959

The FBI Story

as

Medicine Salesman

1962

Jack the Giant Killer

as

Scottish Captain

1953

Angel Face

as

Miller

1950

The Jackpot

as

Pete Spooner

1952

One Minute to Zero

as

Maj. Carter

Gunsmoke

as

Rabb Briggs

Perry Mason

as

Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm

Studio One

as

Coley Davis

Hawaiian Eye

as

General Electric Theater

as

Committee Chairman

Sea Hunt

as

Rawhide

as

Sheriff Ed Stockton

Have Gun, Will Travel

as

Hennesey

as

Peter Gunn

as

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

as

Joe Quincy

Men Into Space

as

Matinee Theater

as

Black Saddle

as

Milo Dawes

The Detectives

as

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as

Casey Hydecker

Johnny Ringo

as

Kincaid

The Walter Winchell File

as

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as

Lennie

The Americans

as

Nichols

as

Gulley

Rawhide

as

Harleck

Gunsmoke

as

Rourke

Gunsmoke

as

Cam Speegle

Rawhide

as

Sheriff

Production

Crew

Directing

1966

An American Dream

as

1964

Della

as

The Dick Powell Show

as

Star Trek

as

Cain's Hundred

as

The Trials of O'Brien

as

The Twilight Zone

as

Laredo

as

The Eleventh Hour

as

Naked City

as

The Fugitive

as

Peter Gunn

as

The Great Adventure

as

Route 66

as

Mission: Impossible

as

The High Chaparral

as

Hawaii Five-O

as

Slattery's People

as

Strike Force

as

The Long, Hot Summer

as

N.Y.P.D.

as

12 O'Clock High

as

The Danny Thomas Hour

as

The Lieutenant

as

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

as

Dundee and the Culhane

as

The Richard Boone Show

as

Reporter

as

Dr. Kildare

as

Hell Town

as