Robert Gist
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.
Strangers on a Train
(Det. Leslie Hennessey)
Jigsaw
(Tommy Quigley)
Operation Petticoat
(Lieutenant Watson)
The Band Wagon
(Hal)
The Stratton Story
(Earnie)
Scene of the Crime
(P.J. Pontiac)
A Dangerous Profession
(Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney)
I Was a Shoplifter
(Barkie Neff)
Blueprint for Robbery
(Chips McGann)
Wolf Larsen
(Matthews)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Al Capone
(Dion O'Banion)
Miracle on 34th Street
(Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited))
The Naked and the Dead
(Red)
The FBI Story
(Medicine Salesman)
D-Day the Sixth of June
(Dan Stenick)
Jack the Giant Killer
(Scottish Captain)
Angel Face
(Miller)
The Jackpot
(Pete Spooner)
One Minute to Zero
(Maj. Carter)
Gunsmoke
(Rabb Briggs)
Perry Mason
(Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm)
Studio One
(Coley Davis)
Hawaiian Eye
General Electric Theater
(Committee Chairman)
Sea Hunt
Rawhide
(Sheriff Ed Stockton)
Have Gun, Will Travel
Hennesey
Peter Gunn
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
(Joe Quincy)
Men into Space
Matinee Theater
Black Saddle
(Milo Dawes)
The Detectives
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Casey Hydecker)
Johnny Ringo
(Kincaid)
The Walter Winchell File
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
(Lennie)
The Americans
Nichols
(Gulley)
Rawhide
(Harleck)
Gunsmoke
(Rourke)
Gunsmoke
(Cam Speegle)
Rawhide
(Sheriff)
An American Dream
(Director)
Della
(Director)
Star Trek
(Director)
The Dick Powell Show
(Director)
Cain's Hundred
(Director)
The Trials of O'Brien
(Director)
The Twilight Zone
(Director)
Laredo
(Director)
The Eleventh Hour
(Director)
Naked City
(Director)
The Fugitive
(Director)
Peter Gunn
(Director)
The Great Adventure
(Director)
Route 66
(Director)
Mission: Impossible
(Director)
The High Chaparral
(Director)
Slattery's People
(Director)
Hawaii Five-O
(Director)
Strike Force
(Director)
The Long, Hot Summer
(Director)
N.Y.P.D.
(Director)
12 O'Clock High
(Director)
The Danny Thomas Hour
(Director)
The Lieutenant
(Director)
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Director)
Dundee and the Culhane
(Director)
The Richard Boone Show
(Director)
Reporter
(Director)
Dr. Kildare
(Director)
Hell Town
(Director)