Bobs Watson
- Schauspiel
- 16. November 1930 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- 27. Juni 1999
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives · Judge Ezra Frank
- Gib Gas... und laßt euch nicht erwischen · Minister
- Heiße Fingerspiele · Bartender
- Skippy, das Buschkänguruh · Rod
- The Mothers-in-Law · Officer Bailey
- Shanghai Jack · Sergeant Maypole
- F.B.I. · Walsh
- Green Acres
- In Liebe eine 1 · Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
- Auf der Flucht · Milt Plummer
- Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane? · Clerk in Newspaper Department
- Hoppla Lucy · Calvin
- The Beverly Hillbillies · Fred Penrod
- Die Leute von der Shiloh-Ranch · Hotel Clerk, Matt Lewis
- The Jim Backus Show
- Pete and Gladys
- Twilight Zone - Unwahrscheinliche Geschichten · Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited)
- Bonanza · Junior
- Ein Fetzen Leben · Bob
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Hi, Buddy · Tim Martin
- Hit the Road · Pesky
- Scattergood Pulls the Strings · Jimmy Jordan
- Das sind Kerle · Pee Wee
- Dr. Kildare – Verhängnisvolle Diagnose · Tommy, the Crippled Child
- Dreaming Out Loud · Jimmy
- Wyoming · Jimmy Kincaid
- In den Klauen des Erpressers · Hank Ingram
- On Borrowed Time · Pud Northrup
- Dr. Kildare – Unter Verdacht · Tommy Benson (uncredited)
- Herr des wilden Westens · Harry Cole
- Liebe und Leben des Telefonbauers A. Bell · George Sanders
- Die goldene Peitsche · Peter Goodwin - 1861
- Dr. Kildare – Sein erster Fall · Little Boy (uncredited)
- Teufelskerle · Pee Wee
- Go Chase Yourself · Junior (uncredited)
- Chicago · Bob O'Leary (as a boy)
- It Happened in Hollywood · Boy
- Ordnung ist das halbe Leben · Boy (uncredited)
- She's Dangerous · Boy at Airport
- Romeo und Julia mal anders · Audience
- Lustige Sünder · Waif (uncredited)
- Show Boat
- Two-Fisted · Jimmy's Boxing Partner
- Life Begins at Forty · Meriwhether Son
- Life Begins · Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)