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.
42 acting credits · 30 directing credits
Acting · 42
Perry Mason
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Rawhide
1959
Matinee Theater
1955
Studio One
1948
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Gunsmoke
1955
Sea Hunt
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
The Detectives
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Black Saddle
1959
Johnny Ringo
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Nichols
1971
Men Into Space
1959
Hennesey
1959
The Americans
1961
The Walter Winchell File
1957
General Electric Theater
1953
Strangers on a Train
1951
Operation Petticoat
1959
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
Al Capone
1959
Angel Face
1953
The Band Wagon
1953
The Naked and the Dead
1958
The FBI Story
1959
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Jigsaw
1949
The Jackpot
1950
Scene of the Crime
1949
The Stratton Story
1949
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
A Dangerous Profession
1949
One Minute to Zero
1952
Blueprint for Robbery
1961
Wolf Larsen
1958
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Love That Brute
1950
Directing · 30
Star Trek
1966
The Fugitive
1963
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Twilight Zone
1959
Dr. Kildare
1961
Naked City
1958
Route 66
1960
The High Chaparral
1967
Peter Gunn
1958
Laredo
1965
12 O'Clock High
1964
Cain's Hundred
1961
The Great Adventure
1963
The Lieutenant
1963
The Dick Powell Show
1961
The Eleventh Hour
1962
N.Y.P.D.
1967
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
Slattery's People
1964
The Trials of O'Brien
1965
The Long, Hot Summer
1965
The Richard Boone Show
1963
Strike Force
1981
Hell Town
1985
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1968
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
Reporter
1964
Della
1964
An American Dream
1966