Robert Gist
Acting
Born: 1917-10-01 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1998-05-21
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 th
🎬 Movies (23)
An American Dream
1966
Director
Della
1964
Director
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
Scottish Captain
Blueprint for Robbery
1961
Chips McGann
Operation Petticoat
1959
Lieutenant Watson
Al Capone
1959
Dion O'Banion
The FBI Story
1959
Medicine Salesman
Wolf Larsen
1958
Matthews
The Naked and the Dead
1958
Red
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Dan Stenick
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
The Band Wagon
1953
Hal
Angel Face
1953
Miller
One Minute to Zero
1952
Maj. Carter
Strangers on a Train
1951
Det. Leslie Hennessey
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
Barkie Neff
The Jackpot
1950
Pete Spooner
Love That Brute
1950
Police Officer Wilson
Jigsaw
1949
Tommy Quigley
The Stratton Story
1949
Earnie
Scene of the Crime
1949
P.J. Pontiac
A Dangerous Profession
1949
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
Window Dresser (uncredited)
📺 TV Shows (30)
Hell Town
1985
Director
Strike Force
1981
Director
Nichols
1971
Gulley
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Director
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1968
Director
The High Chaparral
1967
Director
N.Y.P.D.
1967
Director
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
Director
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
Director
Star Trek
1966
Director
Mission: Impossible
1966
Director
The Trials of O'Brien
1965
Director
Laredo
1965
Director
The Long, Hot Summer
1965
Director
Slattery's People
1964
Director
12 O'Clock High
1964
Director
Reporter
1964
Director
The Fugitive
1963
Director
The Great Adventure
1963
Director
The Lieutenant
1963
Director
The Richard Boone Show
1963
Director
The Eleventh Hour
1962
Director
The Americans
1961
The Dick Powell Show
1961
Director
Cain's Hundred
1961
Director
Dr. Kildare
1961
Director
Route 66
1960
Director
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Rawhide
1959
Sheriff
Hennesey
1959