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Robert Gist (1917–1998)

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Robert Gist was a tough kid who grew up around the Chicago stockyards during the Depression. Reform school-bound after injuring another boy in a fistfight, Gist instead ended up in Chicago's Hull House, a settlement house where he first became interested in acting. Work in Chicago radio was followed... See full bio »

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Robert Marion Gist
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died:

(age 80) in Magalia, California, USA
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1971 Nichols (TV series)
Gulley
– Where Did Everybody Go? (1971) … Gulley
– Gulley vs. Hansen (1971) … Gulley
 
1965 Vacation Playhouse (TV series)
Ben Moore
– Coogan's Reward (1965) … Ben Moore
 
1962 Jack the Giant Killer
Scottish Captain
 
1958-1962 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV series)
Ben Tyler / Gavin O'Shea / Ike Brennan / …
– Invasion (1962) … Gavin O'Shea
– Fandango (1961) … Sheriff Ernie Backwater
– The Pledge (1960) … Ike Brennan
– Shot by Request (1959) … Matt Baker
– Deliver the Body (1958) … Ben Tyler
 
1959-1962 Rawhide (TV series)
Harleck / Sheriff / Stockton
– The Woman Trap (1962) … Harleck
– Incident on the Road to Yesterday (1960) … Stockton
– Incident of the Power and the Plow (1959) … Sheriff
 
1962 The Detectives (TV series)
Tully
– Point of No Return (1962) … Tully
 
1958-1961 Peter Gunn (TV series)
Cesar Carlyle / Jason Willows / Miles Spence
– Murder on the Line (1961) … Cesar Carlyle
– The Grudge (1960) … Miles Spence
– The Jockey (1958) … Jason Willows
 
1961 The Law and Mr. Jones (TV series)
District Attorney Tom Starkowski
– No Law for Ghosts (1961) … District Attorney Tom Starkowski
 
1961 The Americans (TV series)
Gen. Charles P. Stone
– The Inquisitors (1961) … Gen. Charles P. Stone
 
1961 The Aquanauts (TV series)
Darrell Willoughby
– The Guilty Adventure (1961) … Darrell Willoughby
 
1961 Blueprint for Robbery
Chips McGann
 
1960 Sea Hunt (TV series)
Captain Olsen
– Target (1960) … Captain Olsen
 
1960 Tombstone Territory (TV series)
Lafe Jackson
– Betrayal (1960) … Lafe Jackson
 
1960 Pony Express (TV series)
Slater
– Trial by Fury (1960) … Slater
 
1960 Hotel de Paree (TV series)
Zack
– Sundance and the Good-Luck Coat (1960) … Zack
 
1960 Perry Mason (TV series)
Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
– The Case of the Nimble Nephew (1960) … Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm
 
1960 Hennesey (TV series)
Dr. Owen King
– Calling Dr. King (1960) … Dr. Owen King
– Angel Face (1960) … Dr. Owen King
 
1960 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
Committee Chairman
– The Book of Silence (1960) … Committee Chairman
 
1960 The Untouchables (TV series)
Fred 'Caddy' Croner
– The Unhired Assassin: Part 2 (1960) … Fred 'Caddy' Croner
 
1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
Casey Hydecker
– Set-Up (1960) … Casey Hydecker
 
1960 Death Valley Days (TV series)
Aaron Taggert
– The Strangers (1960) … Aaron Taggert
 
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV series)
Lennie Vale
– Threat of Evil (1960) … Lennie Vale
 
1960 Hawaiian Eye (TV series)
Barney Mitchell
– Hong Kong Passage (1960) … Barney Mitchell
 
1959 Operation Petticoat
Lt. Watson
 
1959 Men Into Space (TV series)
Capt. Dan Freer
– Space Trap (1959) … Capt. Dan Freer
 
1959 Alcoa Theatre (TV series)
Walter Parker
– Day the Devil Hid (1959) … Walter Parker
 
1959 The FBI Story
Medicine Salesman
 
1959 Johnny Ringo (TV series)
Virgil Kincaid
– The Accused (1959) … Virgil Kincaid
 
1959 Lock Up (TV series)
Wayne Powell
– The Harry Connors Story (1959) … Wayne Powell
 
1957-1959 Man Without a Gun (TV series)
Caleb Hull / Foster
– Witness to Terror (1959) … Caleb Hull
– Man Missing (1957) … Foster
 
1959 Al Capone
Dion O'Banion
 
1959 Border Patrol (TV series)
Gates
– Illicit Lottery … Gates
 
1959 Black Saddle (TV series)
Milo Dawes
– Client: Dawes (1959) … Milo Dawes
 
1959 Goodyear Theatre (TV series)
Ben Moore
– Coogan's Reward (1959) … Ben Moore
 
1959 The Grand Jury (TV series)
Ben Cole
– The Guilty Victim … Ben Cole
 
1958 Flight (TV series)
– Crash Investigation
– Outpost in Space
– The Snark
 
1958 Wolf Larsen
Matthews
 
1955-1958 Gunsmoke (TV series)
Cam Speegle / Rabb Briggs / Rourke
– Monopoly (1958) … Cam Speegle
– Wild West (1958) … Rourke
– The Queue (1955) … Rabb Briggs
 
1958 The Naked and the Dead
Red
 
1958 Decision (TV series)
Dawes
– The Virginian (1958) … Dawes
 
1958 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV series)
Joe Quincy
– One Foot in the Grave (1958) … Joe Quincy (as Bob Gist)
 
1957 The Walter Winchell File (TV series)
Lawton
– The Boy from Mason City (1957) … Lawton
 
1957 Matinee Theatre (TV series)
– The Last Stop (1957)
 
1957 The Phil Silvers Show (TV series)
Red Thompson
– The Big Man Hunt (1957) … Red Thompson (as Bob Gist)
 
1957 Studio One in Hollywood (TV series)
Coley Davis
– Dead of Noon (1957) … Coley Davis
 
1956 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
Rev. Wilkerson
– Remembrance Day (1956) … Rev. Wilkerson
 
1956 D-Day the Sixth of June
Dan Stenick
 
1956 Big Town (TV series)
– Country Editor (1956)
 
1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
Lt. Thomas Keefer
– The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1955) … Lt. Thomas Keefer
 
1953 The Band Wagon
Hal
 
1952 Angel Face
Miller
 
1952 One Minute to Zero
Maj. Carter
 
1951 Strangers on a Train
Det. Leslie Hennessey
 
1950 The Jackpot
Pete Spooner
 
1950 Love That Brute
Rookie Police Officer Wilson (uncredited)
 
1950 I Was a Shoplifter
Barkie Neff
 
1950 Wabash Avenue
Sailor (uncredited)
 
1949 A Dangerous Profession
Roy Collins, aka Max Gibney
 
1949 Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Musician (uncredited)
 
1949 Scene of the Crime
P.J. Pontiac
 
1949 The Stratton Story
Earnie
 
1949 Jigsaw
Tommy Quigley
 
1947 Miracle on 34th Street
Department Store Window Dresser (uncredited)
 
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1982 Strike Force (TV series)
– Humiliation (1982)
 
1970 The Virginian (TV series)
– Nightmare (1970)
 
1969 It Takes a Thief (TV series)
– The Scorpio Drop (1969)
 
1969 Hawaii Five-O (TV series)
– The Singapore File (1969)
 
1968-1969 The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TV series)
– All Whirlpools Lead to Atlantis (1969)
– The Eye of Doorgah (1968)
 
1969 Mission: Impossible (TV series)
– The System (1969)
 
1968 The High Chaparral (TV series)
– The Hair Hunter (1968)
 
1967-1968 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV series)
– The Last Hunters (1968)
– Fame Is a Four-Letter Word (1967)
 
1967 N.Y.P.D. (TV series)
– The Bombers (1967)
 
1967 Dundee and the Culhane (TV series)
 
1967 Laredo (TV series)
– Like One of the Family (1967)
 
1967 Star Trek (TV series)
– The Galileo Seven (1967)
 
1966 An American Dream
 
1966 The Fugitive (TV series)
– The White Knight (1966)
 
1965 12 O'Clock High (TV series)
– Storm at Twilight (1965)
– I Am the Enemy (1965)
 
1965 The Trials of O'Brien (TV series)
– How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? (1965)
– Never Bet on Anything That Talks (1965)
 
1965 The Long, Hot Summer (TV series)
– The Twisted Image: Part 1 (1965)
– A Time for Living (1965)
 
1964-1965 Slattery's People (TV series)
– Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow? (1965)
– Question: Is Democracy Too Expensive This Year? (1965)
– Question: Remember the Dark Sins of Youth? (1964)
 
1964 The Reporter (TV series)
– Vote for Murder (1964)
 
1963-1964 The Richard Boone Show (TV series)
– Run, Pony, Run (1964)
– Where's the Million Dollars? (1963)
– Which Are the Nuts? Which Are the Bolts? (1963)
– Wall to Wall War (1963)
– All the Comforts of Home (1963)
 
1964 Della
 
1963 The Wall to Wall War (TV movie)
 
1963 The Lieutenant (TV series)
– Cool of the Evening (1963)
 
1963 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
– What's God to Julius (1963)
– A Hand Held Out in Darkness (1963)
– A Trip to Niagara (1963)
 
1963 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV series)
– The Last of the Big Spenders (1963)
 
1963 The Doctors and the Nurses (TV series)
– Party Girl (1963)
 
1963 Twilight Zone (TV series)
– I Dream of Genie (1963)
 
1962-1963 The Untouchables (TV series)
– An Eye for an Eye (1963)
– Come and Kill Me (1962)
 
1962 Empire (TV series)
– When the Gods Laugh (1962)
 
1962 Naked City (TV series)
– The Virtues of Madame Douvay (1962)
– Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long (1962)
– Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud (1962)
– ..And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them!.. (1962)
– Lament for a Dead Indian (1962)
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1962 Route 66 (TV series)
– Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962)
– Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma? (1962)
– Even Stones Have Eyes (1962)
 
1962 Frontier Circus (TV series)
– The Daring Durandos (1962)
– Quick Shuffle (1962)
 
1962 Cain's Hundred (TV series)
– Blues for a Junkman: Arthur Troy (1962)
 
1960-1961 Peter Gunn (TV series)
– Murder on the Line (1961)
– Down the Drain (1961)
– Deadly Intrusion (1961)
– A Matter of Policy (1961)
– Till Death Do Us Part (1961)
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Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2012 The Pickle (short) (in memory of)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #2.100 (1970) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
1960 The Gun of Zangara (TV movie)
Fred 'Caddy' Kroner (uncredited)
 

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(1964) Stage: Directed "Conversation at Midnight" on Broadway (final Broadway credit). Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Scenic Design by Charles T. Morrison. Lighting Design by Barry Garlinger. Billy Rose Theatre: 12 Nov 1964-14 Nov 1964 (4 performances + 8 previews that began on 5 Nov 1964)... See more »

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Met actress Agnes Moorehead during the filming of The Stratton Story in 1949. By June of 1949, Agnes separated from Jack G. Lee and, by January of 1951, newspapers began to list Gist as Agnes' steady companion. They were married on February 14th of 1953 in Yuma, Arizona. They were separated in July of 1954 and divorced in March of 1958. Gist was 17 years her junior. See more »

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