1917-10-01 ( 107 years old ) in 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 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.
Movies
Jack the Giant Killer
1962-05-18
Blueprint for Robbery
1961-02-01
Operation Petticoat
1959-12-05
The FBI Story
1959-10-01
Al Capone
1959-03-25
Wolf Larsen
1958-10-26
The Naked and the Dead
1958-08-06
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956-05-29
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955-10-01
The Band Wagon
1953-08-07
Angel Face
1953-01-02
One Minute to Zero
1952-09-19
Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
The Jackpot
1950-11-01
I Was a Shoplifter
1950-05-13
A Dangerous Profession
1949-12-10
Scene of the Crime
1949-07-28
The Stratton Story
1949-05-12
Jigsaw
1949-03-11
Miracle on 34th Street
1947-06-04
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