Robert Gist actor
- All known tv series 25
- Total known movies 20
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 Chicagos 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-Foxs Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Gist was also seen on Broadway in director Charles Laughtons 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.
Det. Leslie Hennessey
Movie 1951
Tommy Quigley
Movie 1949
Lieutenant Watson
Movie 1959
Hal
Movie 1953
P.J. Pontiac
Movie 1949
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
Movie 1949
Barkie Neff
Movie 1950
Chips McGann
Movie 1961
Movie 1955
Dion O'Banion
Movie 1959
Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
Movie 1947
Red
Movie 1958
Medicine Salesman
Movie 1959
Scottish Captain
Movie 1962
Miller
Movie 1953
Pete Spooner
Movie 1950
Maj. Carter
Movie 1952
Rabb Briggs
Tv 1955
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Tv 1957
Coley Davis
Tv 1948
Tv 1959
Committee Chairman
Tv 1953
Tv 1958
Sheriff Ed Stockton
Tv 1959
Tv 1957
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Joe Quincy
Tv 1957
Tv 1959
Tv 1955
Milo Dawes
Tv 1959
Tv 1959
Casey Hydecker
Tv 1956
Kincaid
Tv 1959
Tv 1957
Lennie
Tv 1959
Tv 1961
Gulley
Tv 1971
Harleck
Tv 1959
Rourke
Tv 1955
Cam Speegle
Tv 1955
Sheriff
Tv 1959
