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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Strangers on a Train (1951) — Leslie Hennessey
2. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) — Window Dresser (uncredited)
3. Operation Petticoat (1959) — Lieutenant Watson
4. The Band Wagon (1953) — Hal
5. Angel Face (1953) — Miller
6. Perry Mason (1957) — Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
7. Gunsmoke (1955) — Rabb Briggs
8. Al Capone (1959) — Dion O'Banion
9. Jack the Giant Killer (1962) — Scottish Captain
10. Rawhide (1959) — Sheriff Ed Stockton
11. The FBI Story (1959) — Medicine Salesman
12. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
13. The Naked and the Dead (1958) — Red
14. The Stratton Story (1949) — Earnie
15. D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) — Dan Stenick
16. Peter Gunn (1958)
17. Jigsaw (1949) — Tommy Quigley
18. Scene of the Crime (1949) — P.J. Pontiac
19. The Jackpot (1950) — Pete Spooner
20. One Minute to Zero (1952) — Maj. Carter
21. Sea Hunt (1958)
22. A Dangerous Profession (1949) — Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
23. Studio One (1948) — Coley Davis
24. I Was a Shoplifter (1950) — Barkie Neff
25. Hawaiian Eye (1959)
26. The Detectives (1959)
27. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956) — Casey Hydecker
28. Blueprint for Robbery (1961) — Chips McGann
29. Johnny Ringo (1959) — Kincaid
30. Matinee Theater (1955)
31. Love That Brute (1950) — Police Officer Wilson
32. General Electric Theater (1953) — Committee Chairman
33. Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957) — Joe Quincy
34. Men Into Space (1959)
35. Black Saddle (1959) — Milo Dawes
36. The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959) — Lennie
37. Hennesey (1959)
38. Nichols (1971) — Gulley
39. Wolf Larsen (1958) — Matthews
40. The Walter Winchell File (1957)

Directed

1. Star Trek (1966) — Director
2. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Director
3. Mission: Impossible (1966) — Director
4. Hawaii Five-O (1968) — Director
5. The Fugitive (1963) — Director
6. The High Chaparral (1967) — Director
7. Peter Gunn (1958) — Director
8. 12 O'Clock High (1964) — Director
9. Route 66 (1960) — Director
10. Dr. Kildare (1961) — Director
11. Laredo (1965) — Director
12. Naked City (1958) — Director
13. An American Dream (1966) — Director
14. The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968) — Director
15. The Dick Powell Show (1961) — Director
16. Della (1964) — Director
17. The Trials of O'Brien (1965) — Director
18. N.Y.P.D. (1967) — Director
19. Cain's Hundred (1961) — Director
20. Strike Force (1981) — Director
21. The Lieutenant (1963) — Director
22. The Eleventh Hour (1962) — Director
23. Dundee and the Culhane (1967) — Director
24. Slattery's People (1964) — Director
25. The Long, Hot Summer (1965) — Director
26. The Danny Thomas Hour (1967) — Director
27. The Richard Boone Show (1963) — Director
28. Reporter (1964) — Director
29. Hell Town (1985) — Director
30. The Great Adventure (1963) — Director