
Robert Gist
Known for ActingBorn 1917-10-01Died 1998-05-21Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.Read more
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The Great Adventure
1963 · Series
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The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
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Star Trek
1966 · Series
★ 7.5Find where to watch →
Strike Force
1981 · Series
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Perry Mason
1957 · Series
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Hennesey
1959 · Series
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Mission: Impossible
1966 · Series
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Strangers on a Train
1951 · Movie
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The Richard Boone Show
1963 · Series
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The Walter Winchell File
1957 · Series
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Men Into Space
1959 · Series
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The Fugitive
1963 · Series
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Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
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12 O'Clock High
1964 · Series
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Hawaii Five-O
1968 · Series
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Operation Petticoat
1959 · Movie
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Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · Movie
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Rawhide
1959 · Series
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Della
1964 · Movie
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The Band Wagon
1953 · Movie
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The Trials of O'Brien
1965 · Series
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Slattery's People
1964 · Series
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Angel Face
1953 · Movie
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The Lieutenant
1963 · Series
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Wolf Larsen
1958 · Movie
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The Jackpot
1950 · Movie
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The High Chaparral
1967 · Series
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · Series
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General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
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The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Series
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Love That Brute
1950 · Movie
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Route 66
1960 · Series
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The Detectives
1959 · Series
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The Eleventh Hour
1962 · Series
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N.Y.P.D.
1967 · Series
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Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
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Sea Hunt
1958 · Series
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The Stratton Story
1949 · Movie
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Al Capone
1959 · Movie
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The Danny Thomas Hour
1967 · Series
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Peter Gunn
1958 · Series
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Jack the Giant Killer
1962 · Movie
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The Americans
1961 · Series
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Laredo
1965 · Series
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Nichols
1971 · Series
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Hell Town
1985 · Series
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Black Saddle
1959 · Series
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series