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.

Filmografi

Strangers on a Train1951 · Leslie HennesseyMiracle on 34th Street1947 · Window Dresser (uncredited)The Band Wagon1953 · HalOperation Petticoat1959 · Lieutenant WatsonJack the Giant Killer1962 · Scottish CaptainAl Capone1959 · Dion O'BanionA Dangerous Profession1949 · Roy Collins, aka Max GibneyD-Day the Sixth of June1956 · Dan StenickAngel Face1953 · MillerI Was a Shoplifter1950 · Barkie NeffThe Naked and the Dead1958 · RedOne Minute to Zero1952 · Maj. CarterThe Stratton Story1949 · EarnieScene of the Crime1949 · P.J. PontiacThe FBI Story1959 · Medicine SalesmanThe Jackpot1950 · Pete SpoonerJigsaw1949 · Tommy QuigleyLove That Brute1950 · Police Officer WilsonBlueprint for Robbery1961 · Chips McGannThe Caine Mutiny Court-Martial1955 · Wolf Larsen1958 · Matthews