Personal Info
Robert Marion Gist
Robert Gist
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Jack the Giant Killer
as Scottish Captain
Blueprint for Robbery
as Chips McGann
Operation Petticoat
as Lieutenant Watson
Al Capone
as Dion O'Banion
The FBI Story
as Medicine Salesman
The Naked and the Dead
as Red
Wolf Larsen
as Matthews
D-Day the Sixth of June
as Dan Stenick
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The Band Wagon
as Hal
TV Shows
Nichols
as Gulley · 2 ep.
The Americans
1 ep.
Rawhide
as Sheriff · 1 ep.
Hawaiian Eye
1 ep.
The Detectives
1 ep.
Black Saddle
as Milo Dawes · 1 ep.
Johnny Ringo
as Kincaid · 1 ep.
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Lennie · 1 ep.
Men Into Space
1 ep.
Hennesey
96 ep.