Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA · Born October 1, 1917
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.
TVNichols
1971
as Gulley
MovieJack the Giant Killer
1962
as Scottish Captain
MovieBlueprint for Robbery
1961
as Chips McGann
TVThe Americans
1961
MovieOperation Petticoat
1959
as Lieutenant Watson
TVThe Detectives
1959
TVHawaiian Eye
1959
TVJohnny Ringo
1959
as Kincaid
MovieThe FBI Story
1959
as Medicine Salesman
TVMen Into Space
1959
TVHennesey
1959
TVThe DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Lennie
MovieAl Capone
1959
as Dion O'Banion
TVBlack Saddle
1959
as Milo Dawes
TVRawhide
1959
as Sheriff Ed Stockton
MovieWolf Larsen
1958
as Matthews
TVPeter Gunn
1958
MovieThe Naked and the Dead
1958
as Red
TVSea Hunt
1958
TVThe Walter Winchell File
1957
TVPerry Mason
1957
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
TVRichard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Joe Quincy
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Casey Hydecker
MovieD-Day the Sixth of June
1956
as Dan Stenick
TVMatinee Theater
1955
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Rabb Briggs
MovieThe Band Wagon
1953
as Hal
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Committee Chairman
MovieAngel Face
1953
as Miller
MovieOne Minute to Zero
1952
as Maj. Carter
MovieStrangers on a Train
1951
as Leslie Hennessey
MovieThe Jackpot
1950
as Pete Spooner
MovieLove That Brute
1950
as Police Officer Wilson
MovieI Was a Shoplifter
1950
as Barkie Neff
MovieA Dangerous Profession
1949
as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
MovieScene of the Crime
1949
as P.J. Pontiac
MovieThe Stratton Story
1949
as Earnie
MovieJigsaw
1949
as Tommy Quigley
TVStudio One
1948
as Coley Davis
MovieMiracle on 34th Street
1947
as Window Dresser (uncredited)
