Robert Gist

Robert Gist

Birthday: 1917-10-01

Deathday: 1998-05-21

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as: Robert Marion Gist

imdb_id: nm0321143

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.

Played in movies:

Strangers on a Train

Score: 7.7

Miracle on 34th Street

Score: 7.4

Operation Petticoat

Score: 7.2

Angel Face

Score: 7.1

The Band Wagon

Score: 7.1

The Jackpot

Score: 6.9

Al Capone

Score: 6.6

The Stratton Story

Score: 6.5

Jack the Giant Killer

Score: 6.4

Scene of the Crime

Score: 6.3

The FBI Story

Score: 6.1

The Naked and the Dead

Score: 5.9

One Minute to Zero

Score: 5.8

A Dangerous Profession

Score: 5.6

D-Day the Sixth of June

Score: 5.4

Blueprint for Robbery

Score: 5.3

I Was a Shoplifter

Score: 5.3

Jigsaw

Score: 4.8

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Score: 0.0

Wolf Larsen

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Men Into Space

Score: 7.0

Sea Hunt

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Peter Gunn

Score: 6.5

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

The Americans

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Hennesey

Score: 6.0

Johnny Ringo

Score: 5.7

The Detectives

Score: 5.6

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Hawaiian Eye

Score: 5.2

Nichols

Score: 5.0

The Walter Winchell File

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

Studio One

Score: 5.0