Robert Gist
Acting
Born October 1, 1917 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 mot…
Known For · 40 titles
Perry Mason
Peter Gunn
Matinee Theater
Rawhide
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Studio One
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Gunsmoke
Hawaiian Eye
The Detectives
Sea Hunt
Miracle on 34th Street
Nichols
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Black Saddle
Johnny Ringo
Men Into Space
The Walter Winchell File
Hennesey
The Americans
Strangers on a Train
General Electric Theater
Operation Petticoat
The Band Wagon
Al Capone
The Naked and the Dead
Jack the Giant Killer
D-Day the Sixth of June
A Dangerous Profession
The FBI Story
The Stratton Story
Angel Face
One Minute to Zero
Scene of the Crime
I Was a Shoplifter
The Jackpot
Jigsaw
Blueprint for Robbery
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial