Robert Gist
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1917-10-01
Deathday 1998-05-21 (80 years old)
Place of Birth Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As Robert Marion Gist
Robert Gist
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).[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.
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as Harleck
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as Matthews
as Red
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
as Joe Quincy
as Dan Stenick
as Casey Hydecker
as Rabb Briggs
as Rourke
as Cam Speegle
as Hal
as Miller
as Committee Chairman
as Maj. Carter
as Det. Leslie Hennessey
as Pete Spooner
as Barkie Neff
as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
as P.J. Pontiac
as Earnie
as Tommy Quigley
as Coley Davis
as Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
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