Robert Gist
Actor
Born October 1, 1917 in Chicago, 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.
Filmography
Hell Town
Strike Force
Nichols
Gulley
Hawaii Five-O
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Danny Thomas Hour
The High Chaparral
Dundee and the Culhane
N.Y.P.D.
Mission: Impossible
Star Trek
An American Dream
The Trials of O'Brien
Laredo
Slattery's People
12 O'Clock High
Della
The Great Adventure
The Richard Boone Show
The Fugitive
The Lieutenant
The Eleventh Hour
Jack the Giant Killer
Scottish Captain
Dr. Kildare
The Dick Powell Show
Cain's Hundred
Blueprint for Robbery
Chips McGann
The Americans
Route 66
Operation Petticoat
Lieutenant Watson
The Detectives
Hawaiian Eye
Johnny Ringo
Kincaid
The Twilight Zone
The FBI Story
Medicine Salesman
Men Into Space
Hennesey
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Lennie
Al Capone
Dion O'Banion
Black Saddle
Milo Dawes
Rawhide
Sheriff Ed Stockton
Wolf Larsen
Matthews
Naked City
Peter Gunn
The Naked and the Dead
Red
Sea Hunt
The Walter Winchell File
Perry Mason
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Have Gun, Will Travel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Joe Quincy
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Casey Hydecker
D-Day the Sixth of June
Dan Stenick
Matinee Theater
Gunsmoke
Rabb Briggs
The Band Wagon
Hal
General Electric Theater
Committee Chairman
Angel Face
Miller
One Minute to Zero
Maj. Carter
Strangers on a Train
Det. Leslie Hennessey
The Jackpot
Pete Spooner
Love That Brute
Police Officer Wilson
I Was a Shoplifter
Barkie Neff
A Dangerous Profession
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
Scene of the Crime
P.J. Pontiac
The Stratton Story
Earnie
Jigsaw
Tommy Quigley
Studio One
Coley Davis
Miracle on 34th Street
Window Dresser (uncredited)