Bobs Watson
Acting
Born 1930-11-16
Died 1999-06-27
Los Angeles, California, USA
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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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Filmography
Acting
40 credits
The Fugitive
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
The Lucy Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The F.B.I.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
The Mothers-in-Law
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Libeled Lady
Dodge City
In Old Chicago
Boys Town
Take Her, She's Mine
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Great O'Malley
Grand Theft Auto
Men of Boys Town
Hi, Buddy
On Borrowed Time
First to Fight
Blackmail
Calling Dr. Kildare
Life Begins at Forty
It Happened in Hollywood
Life Begins
Wyoming
Go Chase Yourself
Kentucky
She's Dangerous
Pay As You Exit
Two-Fisted
Hit the Road
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
The Bold and the Brave
Young Dr. Kildare
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Dreaming Out Loud
Mrs. Stone's Thing
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