Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 16, 1930
Died
Jun 27, 1999
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
45 titles
Bobs Watson
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Judge Ezra Frank
Grand Theft Auto
Minister
Mrs. Stone's Thing
Bartender
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Rod
The Mothers-in-Law
Officer Bailey
First to Fight
Sergeant Maypole
The F.B.I.
Walsh
Green Acres
Take Her, She's Mine
Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
The Fugitive
Milt Plummer
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Clerk in Newspaper Department
The Lucy Show
Calvin
The Beverly Hillbillies
Fred Penrod
The Virginian
Hotel Clerk
The Jim Backus Show
Pete and Gladys
The Twilight Zone
Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited)
The Bold and the Brave
Bob
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Hi, Buddy
Tim Martin
Hit the Road
Pesky
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Jimmy Jordan
Men of Boys Town
Pee Wee
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Tommy, the Crippled Child
Dreaming Out Loud
Jimmy
Wyoming
Jimmy Kincaid
Blackmail
Hank Ingram
On Borrowed Time
Pud Northrup
Calling Dr. Kildare
Tommy Benson (uncredited)
Dodge City
Harry Cole
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
George Sanders
Kentucky
Peter Goodwin - 1861
Young Dr. Kildare
Little Boy (uncredited)
Boys Town
Pee Wee
Go Chase Yourself
Junior (uncredited)
In Old Chicago
Bob O'Leary (as a boy)
It Happened in Hollywood
Boy
The Great O'Malley
Boy (uncredited)
She's Dangerous
Boy at Airport
Pay As You Exit
Audience
Libeled Lady
Waif (uncredited)
Show Boat
Two-Fisted
Jimmy's Boxing Partner
Life Begins at Forty
Meriwhether Son
Life Begins
Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)