Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 01, 1917
Died
May 21, 1998
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
71 titles
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
Filmography
Hell Town
Director
Strike Force
Director
Nichols
Gulley
Hawaii Five-O
Director
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Director
The Danny Thomas Hour
Director
The High Chaparral
Director
Dundee and the Culhane
Director
N.Y.P.D.
Director
Mission: Impossible
Director
Star Trek
Director
An American Dream
Director
The Trials of O'Brien
Director
Laredo
Director
The Long, Hot Summer
Director
Reporter
Director
Slattery's People
Director
12 O'Clock High
Director
Della
Director
The Great Adventure
Director
The Richard Boone Show
Director
The Fugitive
Director
The Lieutenant
Director
The Eleventh Hour
Director
Jack the Giant Killer
Scottish Captain
Dr. Kildare
Director
The Dick Powell Show
Director
Cain's Hundred
Director
Blueprint for Robbery
Chips McGann
The Americans
Route 66
Director
Operation Petticoat
Lieutenant Watson
The Detectives
Hawaiian Eye
The Twilight Zone
Director
Johnny Ringo
Kincaid
The FBI Story
Medicine Salesman
Men Into Space
Hennesey
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Lennie
Al Capone
Dion O'Banion
Black Saddle
Milo Dawes
Rawhide
Sheriff Ed Stockton
Wolf Larsen
Matthews
Naked City
Director
Peter Gunn
The Naked and the Dead
Red
Sea Hunt
The Walter Winchell File
Perry Mason
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm