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Robert Gist
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 Depressi…
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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. 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.
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1985
Hell Town
TV show Director
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1981
Strike Force
TV show Director
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1971
Nichols
TV show Gulley
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1969
Hawaii Five-O
TV show Director
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1968
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
TV show Director
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1967
The Danny Thomas Hour
TV show Director
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1967
The High Chaparral
TV show Director
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1967
Dundee and the Culhane
TV show Director
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1967
N.Y.P.D.
TV show Director
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1966
Mission: Impossible
TV show Director
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1966
Star Trek
TV show Director
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1966
An American Dream
Movie Director
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1965
The Trials of O'Brien
TV show Director
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1965
Laredo
TV show Director
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1965
The Long, Hot Summer
TV show Director
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1964
Reporter
TV show Director
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1964
Slattery's People
TV show Director
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1964
12 O'Clock High
TV show Director
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1964
Della
Movie Director
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1963
The Great Adventure
TV show Director
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1963
The Richard Boone Show
TV show Director
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Director
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1963
The Lieutenant
TV show Director
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1962
The Eleventh Hour
TV show Director
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1962
Jack the Giant Killer
Movie Scottish Captain
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Director
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1961
The Dick Powell Show
TV show Director
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1961
Cain's Hundred
TV show Director
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1961
Blueprint for Robbery
Movie Chips McGann
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1961
The Americans
TV show
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1960
Route 66
TV show Director
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1959
Operation Petticoat
Movie Lieutenant Watson
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1959
The Detectives
TV show
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1959
Hawaiian Eye
TV show
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1959
The Twilight Zone
TV show Director
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1959
Johnny Ringo
TV show Kincaid
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1959
The FBI Story
Movie Medicine Salesman
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1959
Men Into Space
TV show
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1959
Hennesey
TV show
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1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV show Lennie
