Robert Gist
Acting
Born 1917-10-01
Died 1998-05-21
Chicago, Illinois, USA
71 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
22 credits
Perry Mason
Rawhide
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Studio One
Gunsmoke
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Miracle on 34th Street
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Black Saddle
Johnny Ringo
Nichols
Strangers on a Train
Operation Petticoat
The Band Wagon
Angel Face
Jack the Giant Killer
General Electric Theater
Al Capone
A Dangerous Profession
The FBI Story
The Naked and the Dead
D-Day the Sixth of June
Directing
29 credits
Star Trek
The Fugitive
Mission: Impossible
Hawaii Five-O
The Twilight Zone
Dr. Kildare
Peter Gunn
Naked City
Route 66
The High Chaparral
12 O'Clock High
Laredo
Cain's Hundred
The Dick Powell Show
The Lieutenant
The Great Adventure
The Eleventh Hour
The Danny Thomas Hour
The Trials of O'Brien
N.Y.P.D.
The Long, Hot Summer
Hell Town
The Richard Boone Show
Slattery's People
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dundee and the Culhane
Strike Force
Reporter
An American Dream
Other credits
9 credits
Matinee Theater
Have Gun, Will Travel
Hawaiian Eye
Sea Hunt
The Detectives
Hennesey
Men Into Space
The Americans
The Walter Winchell File
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