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Personal Info

Birth date

1917-10-01 (107 Years)

Day of death

1998-05-21

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as

Robert Marion Gist

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.

Filmography

Acting

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)

Directing

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