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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.
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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.
1957
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 that he was interested in directing. Edwards later hired Gist to helm episodes of the TV series Peter Gunn. Gist also directed episodes of TV shows Naked City, The Twilight Zone, Route 66 and many others.
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 1, 1917
Died
May 21, 1998
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
The Naked and the Dead
1958
The Band Wagon
1953
Al Capone
1959
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
Jigsaw
1949
Operation Petticoat
1959
Scene of the Crime
1949
Strangers on a Train
1951
A Dangerous Profession
1949
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
The Jackpot
1950
Angel Face
1953
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
The FBI Story
1959
Wolf Larsen
1958
The Stratton Story
1949
One Minute to Zero
1952
Blueprint for Robbery
1961
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Perry Mason
1957
Matinee Theater
1955
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Studio One
1948
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Rawhide
1959
Rawhide
1959
Rawhide
1959
Peter Gunn
1958
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Sea Hunt
1958
The Detectives
1959
Johnny Ringo
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Black Saddle
1959
The Walter Winchell File
1957
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