Robert Gist
American actor and director whose career spanned Chicago radio, Broadway, Hollywood films, and landmark television series of the 1950s and 1960s.
Robert Gist - Personal Information
- Name: Robert Gist
- Date of Birth: October 1, 1917
- Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Date of Death: May 21, 1998
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Director
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). 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.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Robert Gist's notable screen appearances across film and television.
- Nichols (TV - 1971) as Gulley
- Jack the Giant Killer (1962) as Scottish Captain
- Blueprint for Robbery (1961) as Chips McGann
- The Americans (TV - 1961)
- Operation Petticoat (1959) as Lieutenant Watson
- The Detectives (TV - 1959)
- Hawaiian Eye (TV - 1959)
- Johnny Ringo (TV - 1959) as Kincaid
- The FBI Story (1959) as Medicine Salesman
- Men Into Space (TV - 1959)
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