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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 1, 1917
Died
May 21, 1998
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Robert Marion Gist
Robert Gist
1.4 Popularity
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
Credits
Nichols
as Gulley
1971
5.0
Jack the Giant Killer
as Scottish Captain
1962
6.5
Blueprint for Robbery
as Chips McGann
1961
5.3
The Americans
1961
6.0
Operation Petticoat
as Lieutenant Watson
1959
7.2
The Detectives
1959
6.1
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
Johnny Ringo
as Kincaid
1959
5.7
The FBI Story
as Medicine Salesman
1959
6.0
Men Into Space
1959
7.0
Hennesey
1959
6.0
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Lennie
1959
6.3
Al Capone
as Dion O'Banion
1959
6.6
Black Saddle
as Milo Dawes
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as Sheriff Ed Stockton
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Harleck
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Sheriff
1959
7.2
Wolf Larsen
as Matthews
1958
0.0
Peter Gunn
1958
6.4
The Naked and the Dead
as Red
1958
5.8
Sea Hunt
1958
6.6
The Walter Winchell File
1957
5.0
Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
1957
7.7
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Joe Quincy
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Casey Hydecker
1956
6.0
D-Day the Sixth of June
as Dan Stenick
1956
5.2
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
0.0
Gunsmoke
as Rabb Briggs
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Rourke
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Cam Speegle
1955
6.6
The Band Wagon
as Hal
1953
7.2
General Electric Theater
as Committee Chairman
1953
6.4
Angel Face
as Miller
1953
7.1
One Minute to Zero
as Maj. Carter
1952
5.8
Strangers on a Train
as Det. Leslie Hennessey
1951
7.7
The Jackpot
as Pete Spooner
1950
6.9
I Was a Shoplifter
as Barkie Neff
1950
5.3
A Dangerous Profession
as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
1949
5.6
Scene of the Crime
as P.J. Pontiac
1949
6.0
The Stratton Story
as Earnie
1949
6.6
Jigsaw
as Tommy Quigley
1949
4.8
Studio One
as Coley Davis
1948
5.0
Miracle on 34th Street
as Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
1947
7.4