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Bobs Watson
Los Angeles, California, USA
Watson was a member of the Watson Family, famous in the early days of Hollywood as being a houseful of child actors. He was brother to Coy Watson Jr., Harry, Billy, Delmar, Garry,…
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Watson was a member of the Watson Family, famous in the early days of Hollywood as being a houseful of child actors. He was brother to Coy Watson Jr., Harry, Billy, Delmar, Garry, Vivian, Gloria, and Louise, all of whom acted in motion pictures. The family, known as "the first family of Hollywood", lived by the Echo Park area of Los Angeles and Bobs attended nearby Belmont High School. They were honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce by placing the Watson family star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6674 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California. Watson was best known for his role as "Pee Wee" in the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Boys Town and its sequel Men of Boys Town (1941), both starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. Tracy and Watson became good friends during the making of the first film, and Watson was reportedly Tracy's last visitor before his death in 1967. In 1939, Watson delivered a fine, tear-jerking performance as Pud, Lionel Barrymore's grandson, in the MGM film, On Borrowed Time. Watson later made guest appearances in many television programs, including The Twilight Zone, Lou Grant, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and The Fugitive. In addition to working in the motion pictures business, Watson went to Claremont School of Theology to become a Methodist minister, inspired from the movie Boys Town. He retired after 30 years of serving in Burbank and La Cañada, California. He died of prostate cancer in 1999 at Laguna Beach, California.
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1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Movie Judge Ezra Frank
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1977
Grand Theft Auto
Movie Minister
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1970
Mrs. Stone's Thing
Movie Bartender
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1968
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
TV show Rod
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1967
The Mothers-in-Law
TV show Officer Bailey
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1967
First to Fight
Movie Sergeant Maypole
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Walsh
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1965
Green Acres
TV show
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1963
Take Her, She's Mine
Movie Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Milt Plummer
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1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie Clerk in Newspaper Department
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1962
The Lucy Show
TV show Calvin
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show Fred Penrod
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Hotel Clerk
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1960
The Jim Backus Show
TV show
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1960
Pete and Gladys
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1959
The Twilight Zone
TV show Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited)
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1956
The Bold and the Brave
Movie Bob
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1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV show
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1943
Hi, Buddy
Movie Tim Martin
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1941
Hit the Road
Movie Pesky
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1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Movie Jimmy Jordan
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1941
Men of Boys Town
Movie Pee Wee
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1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Movie Tommy, the Crippled Child
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1940
Dreaming Out Loud
Movie Jimmy
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1940
Wyoming
Movie Jimmy Kincaid
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1939
Blackmail
Movie Hank Ingram
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1939
On Borrowed Time
Movie Pud Northrup
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1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
Movie Tommy Benson (uncredited)
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1939
Dodge City
Movie Harry Cole
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1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Movie George Sanders
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1938
Kentucky
Movie Peter Goodwin - 1861
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1938
Young Dr. Kildare
Movie Little Boy (uncredited)
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1938
Boys Town
Movie Pee Wee
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1938
Go Chase Yourself
Movie Junior (uncredited)
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1938
In Old Chicago
Movie Bob O'Leary (as a boy)
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1937
It Happened in Hollywood
Movie Boy
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1937
The Great O'Malley
Movie Boy (uncredited)
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1937
She's Dangerous
Movie Boy at Airport
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1936
Pay As You Exit
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