Robert Gist
Acting
46
Acting Credits
30
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
Nichols
1971
as Gulley
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
as Scottish Captain
Blueprint for Robbery
1961
as Chips McGann
The Americans
1961
Operation Petticoat
1959
as Lieutenant Watson
Al Capone
1959
as Dion O'Banion
The FBI Story
1959
as Medicine Salesman
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Rawhide
1959
as Sheriff Ed Stockton
Hennesey
1959
Men Into Space
1959
Black Saddle
1959
as Milo Dawes
The Detectives
1959
Johnny Ringo
1959
as Kincaid
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Lennie
Rawhide
1959
as Harleck
Rawhide
1959
as Sheriff
Wolf Larsen
1958
as Matthews
The Naked and the Dead
1958
as Red
Sea Hunt
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
Perry Mason
1957
as Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Joe Quincy
The Walter Winchell File
1957
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
as Dan Stenick
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Casey Hydecker
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
as Rabb Briggs
Matinee Theater
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
as Rourke
Gunsmoke
1955
as Cam Speegle
The Band Wagon
1953
as Hal
Angel Face
1953
as Miller
General Electric Theater
1953
as Committee Chairman
One Minute to Zero
1952
as Maj. Carter
Strangers on a Train
1951
as Leslie Hennessey
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
as Barkie Neff
The Jackpot
1950
as Pete Spooner
Love That Brute
1950
as Police Officer Wilson
Jigsaw
1949
as Tommy Quigley
The Stratton Story
1949
as Earnie
Scene of the Crime
1949
as P.J. Pontiac
A Dangerous Profession
1949
as Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
Studio One
1948
as Coley Davis
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
as Window Dresser (uncredited)