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.
1971Nichols (2 Episodes) as Gulley
1962Jack the Giant Killer as Scottish Captain
1961Blueprint for Robbery as Chips McGann
1961The Americans (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Operation Petticoat as Lieutenant Watson
1959The Detectives (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Hawaiian Eye (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Johnny Ringo (1 Episode) as Kincaid
1959The FBI Story as Medicine Salesman
1959Men Into Space (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Hennesey (96 Episodes) as Unknown
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as Lennie
1959Al Capone as Dion O'Banion
1959Black Saddle (1 Episode) as Milo Dawes
1959Rawhide (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Sheriff Ed Stockton, Harleck, Sheriff
1958Wolf Larsen as Matthews
1958Peter Gunn (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1958The Naked and the Dead as Red
1958Sea Hunt (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957The Walter Winchell File (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1957Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1 Episode) as Joe Quincy
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Casey Hydecker
1956D-Day the Sixth of June as Dan Stenick
1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial as Unknown
1955Gunsmoke (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Rabb Briggs, Rourke, Cam Speegle
1953The Band Wagon as Hal
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Committee Chairman
1953Angel Face as Miller
1952One Minute to Zero as Maj. Carter
1951Strangers on a Train as Det. Leslie Hennessey
1950The Jackpot as Pete Spooner
1950I Was a Shoplifter as Barkie Neff
1949A Dangerous Profession as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
1949Scene of the Crime as P.J. Pontiac
1949The Stratton Story as Earnie
1949Jigsaw as Tommy Quigley
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Coley Davis
1947Miracle on 34th Street as Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
1985Hell Town (1 Episode) ... Director
1981Strike Force (1 Episode) ... Director
1968Hawaii Five-O (1 Episode) ... Director
1968The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1 Episode) ... Director
1967The Danny Thomas Hour (2 Episodes) ... Director
1967The High Chaparral (1 Episode) ... Director
1967Dundee and the Culhane (2 Episodes) ... Director
1967N.Y.P.D. (1 Episode) ... Director
1966Mission: Impossible (1 Episode) ... Director
1966Star Trek (1 Episode) ... Director
1966An American Dream ... Director
1965The Trials of O'Brien (1 Episode) ... Director
1965Laredo (1 Episode) ... Director
1965The Long, Hot Summer (2 Episodes) ... Director
1964Reporter (1 Episode) ... Director
1964Slattery's People (5 Episodes) ... Director
196412 O'Clock High (2 Episodes) ... Director
1964Della ... Director
1963The Great Adventure (1 Episode) ... Director
1963The Richard Boone Show (5 Episodes) ... Director
1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) ... Director
1963The Lieutenant (1 Episode) ... Director
1962The Eleventh Hour (3 Episodes) ... Director
1961Dr. Kildare (2 Episodes) ... Director
1961The Dick Powell Show (1 Episode) ... Director
1961Cain's Hundred (2 Episodes) ... Director
1960Route 66 (3 Episodes) ... Director
1959The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) ... Director
1958Naked City (7 Episodes) ... Director
1958Peter Gunn (3 Episodes) ... Director