Robert Gist

Acting Oct 1, 1917 May 21, 1998 (aged 81) Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

46 Acting Credits

30 Crew Credits

Robert Gist

Acting

Strangers on a Train

Miracle on 34th Street

Operation Petticoat

The Band Wagon

Angel Face

Perry Mason

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

Al Capone

Jack the Giant Killer

Rawhide

Rawhide

Rawhide

The FBI Story

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Stratton Story

The Naked and the Dead

D-Day the Sixth of June

Peter Gunn

Jigsaw

Scene of the Crime

The Jackpot

One Minute to Zero

Crew

Star Trek

The Twilight Zone

Mission: Impossible

Hawaii Five-O

The Fugitive

The High Chaparral

Peter Gunn

12 O'Clock High

Route 66

Dr. Kildare

Laredo

Naked City