Robert Gist
Birthday
1917/10/01
Day of death
1998/05/21 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Robert Marion 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 th...Read more
Acting
(1951) Strangers on a Train
as Det. Leslie Hennessey
(1949) Jigsaw
as Tommy Quigley
(1959) Operation Petticoat
as Lieutenant Watson
(1953) The Band Wagon
as Hal
(1949) The Stratton Story
as Earnie
(1949) Scene of the Crime
as P.J. Pontiac
(1949) A Dangerous Profession
as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
(1950) I Was a Shoplifter
as Barkie Neff
(1961) Blueprint for Robbery
as Chips McGann
(1958) Wolf Larsen
as Matthews
(1955) The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
as ---
(1959) Al Capone
as Dion O'Banion
(1947) Miracle on 34th Street
as Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
(1958) The Naked and the Dead
as Red
(1956) D-Day the Sixth of June
as Dan Stenick
(1959) The FBI Story
as Medicine Salesman
(1962) Jack the Giant Killer
as Scottish Captain
(1953) Angel Face
as Miller
(1950) The Jackpot
as Pete Spooner
(1952) One Minute to Zero
as Maj. Carter
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Rabb Briggs
(1957) Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
(1948) Studio One
as Coley Davis
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Committee Chairman
(1958) Sea Hunt
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Sheriff Ed Stockton
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1959) Hennesey
as ---
(1958) Peter Gunn
as ---
(1957) Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Joe Quincy
(1959) Men Into Space
as ---
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1959) Black Saddle
as Milo Dawes
(1959) The Detectives
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Casey Hydecker
(1959) Johnny Ringo
as Kincaid
(1957) The Walter Winchell File
as ---
(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Lennie
(1961) The Americans
as ---
(1971) Nichols
as Gulley
(1959) Rawhide
as Harleck
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Rourke
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Cam Speegle
(1959) Rawhide
as Sheriff