Robert Gist

About

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...

Known for

Perry MasonSeries • 1957Star TrekSeries • 1966Hawaii Five-OSeries • 1969The FugitiveSeries • 1963Mission: ImpossibleSeries • 1966Matinee TheaterSeries • 1955The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1959Have Gun, Will TravelSeries • 1957Dr. KildareSeries • 1961Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries • 1956Studio OneSeries • 1948Naked CitySeries • 1958RawhideSeries • 1959Route 66Series • 1960The High ChaparralSeries • 1967Peter GunnSeries • 1958GunsmokeSeries • 1955Hawaiian EyeSeries • 1959Sea HuntSeries • 1958The DetectivesSeries • 195912 O'Clock HighSeries • 1964Richard Diamond, Private DetectiveSeries • 1957LaredoSeries • 1965Black SaddleSeries • 1959