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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Nichols
Character: Gulley
TV • 1971
Jack the Giant Killer
Character: Scottish Captain
MOVIE • 1962
Blueprint for Robbery
Character: Chips McGann
MOVIE • 1961
The Americans
Character:
TV • 1961
Operation Petticoat
Character: Lieutenant Watson
MOVIE • 1959
The Detectives
Character:
TV • 1959
Hawaiian Eye
Character:
TV • 1959
Johnny Ringo
Character: Kincaid
TV • 1959
The FBI Story
Character: Medicine Salesman
MOVIE • 1959
Men Into Space
Character:
TV • 1959
Hennesey
Character:
TV • 1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character: Lennie
TV • 1959
Al Capone
Character: Dion O'Banion
MOVIE • 1959
Black Saddle
Character: Milo Dawes
TV • 1959
Rawhide
Character: Sheriff Ed Stockton
TV • 1959
Rawhide
Character: Harleck
TV • 1959
Rawhide
Character: Sheriff
TV • 1959
Wolf Larsen
Character: Matthews
MOVIE • 1958
Peter Gunn
Character:
TV • 1958
The Naked and the Dead
Character: Red
MOVIE • 1958
Crew
Crew Credits
Hell Town
Role: Director
TV • 1985
Strike Force
Role: Director
TV • 1981
Hawaii Five-O
Role: Director
TV • 1968
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Role: Director
TV • 1968
The Danny Thomas Hour
Role: Director
TV • 1967
The High Chaparral
Role: Director
TV • 1967
Dundee and the Culhane
Role: Director
TV • 1967
N.Y.P.D.
Role: Director
TV • 1967
Mission: Impossible
Role: Director
TV • 1966
Star Trek
Role: Director
TV • 1966
An American Dream
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1966
The Trials of O'Brien
Role: Director
TV • 1965
Laredo
Role: Director
TV • 1965
The Long, Hot Summer
Role: Director
TV • 1965
Reporter
Role: Director
TV • 1964
Slattery's People
Role: Director
TV • 1964
12 O'Clock High
Role: Director
TV • 1964
Della
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1964
The Great Adventure
Role: Director
TV • 1963
The Richard Boone Show
Role: Director
TV • 1963