
Pierre Watkin
- Recitazione
- 27 dicembre 1889
- 3 febbraio 1960
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pierre Frank Watkin (December 29, 1889 – February 3, 1960) was an American character actor in many films, serials, and television series from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially westerns. He is perhaps best remembered for being the father of Eleanor Twitchell, the lady who captures Lou Gehrig's heart in Pride of the Yankees (1942) Watkin was born in Sioux City, Iowa. In the 1920s, he had his own theatrical troupe, the Pierre Watkin Players. In 1927, the group moved its headquarters from Sioux Falls to Lincoln, Nebraska. Watkin portrayed Perry White in both of the Superman serials of the late 1940s, which starred Kirk Alyn as the title character and Noel Neill as Lois Lane. Watkin played a few different characters in the television series Adventures of Superman, in which John Hamilton played Perry White. He was set to reprise his role as the editor of The Daily Planet in a revival of the series in 1959, as Hamilton had died in the interim since the cancellation of the original series. However, series star George Reeves also died in the summer of 1959, and those plans ended. Watkin himself died six months later. He also cast in 1955 in the episode "Joey and the Gypsies" of the NBC children's western series Fury. Watkin guest starred in the CBS western series Brave Eagle. He was cast twice each on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Cheyenne (as Harvey Sinclair in "The Law Man") and Annie Oakley (as the Reverend Mills in the 1956 episode "The Reckless Press"). In 1958, Watkin portrayed Dr. Breen of Samaritan Hospital in the episode "San Francisco Story" of Rex Allen's syndicated western series, Frontier Doctor. During the first season of CBS's Perry Mason from 1957 to 1958, Watkin appeared in three episodes as Judge Keetley. He was also cast during the 1950s on The Range Rider, Tales of the Texas Rangers, in three episodes of the western aviation adventure series Sky King, and five times on The Jack Benny Program. Watkin played the part of Colonel Duncan in the 1958 episode "Decoy" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Colt .45.
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Filmografia
- Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West · Doc Hyer
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy · (archive footage)
- Bat Masterson · Judge Smith
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Ricercato vivo o morto · Dr. Bowers
- The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
- Vertigine · Civil Official (uncredited)
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour · Mr. Robinson (uncredited)
- Perry Mason · Judge Keetley, Judge
- Spook Chasers · Dr. Moss
- I frenetici · Mayor George Bagley
- Shake, Rattle and Rock! · Armtrong
- Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! · Investor
- Duello al Passo Indio · Dr. Peterson
- Il mio amante è un bandito · McMillan
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Sudden Danger · George Caldwell
- Furia · Ellis
- La pattuglia della strada
- Alfred Hitchcock presenta · Porter
- Il sergente Preston
- Jungle Jim
- Lay That Rifle Down · Mr. Coswell
- Banditi atomici · Mayor Bremer
- The Big Bluff · Mr. Winthrop
- December Bride
- Addio signora Leslie · Lewis
- The Whistler
- Bolide rosso · Ed J. Winston
- The Flaming Urge · Albert Cruickshank
- City Detective
- Lo straniero ha sempre una pistola · Jason Conroy
- Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders · Commissioner Morrison
- The Lost Planet · Ned Hilton
- Cavalcade of America · Allan Pinkerton
- Four Star Playhouse · Mr. Morgan
- Adventures of Superman · Sir Lancelot
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Thundering Caravans · Head Marshal
- Hold That Line · Morgan T. Stanhope
- Dragnet
- Lucy ed io · Mr. Dorrance
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars · J. Harrison Hardesty
- Mysterious Island · Confederate Officer
- Le inchieste di Boston Blackie
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Racket Squad
- In Old Amarillo · George B. Hills
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Two Lost Worlds · Magistrate Jeffries
- The Second Face · Mr. Hamilton
- The Jack Benny Program · Mr. Lewis
- Last of the Buccaneers · Gov. Claiborne
- Lux Video Theatre · Sleamish, Hinchecliffe
- Sunset in the West · Gordon MacKnight
- Redwood Forest Trail · Arthur Cameron
- Atom Man vs. Superman · Perry White
- La sbornia di David · Samuel C. Long
- Frecce avvelenate · Major
- Over the Border · Rand Malloy
- Radar Secret Service · Mr. Hamilton
- Blue Grass of Kentucky · Head Steward
- The Story of Seabiscuit · Charles S. Howard
- Zamba · Benton
- La fonte meravigliosa · Cortlandt Official (uncredited)
- Hold That Baby! · John Winston
- Viale Flamingo
- El Paso
- Alaska Patrol · Mr. Sigmund
- I bassifondi di San Francisco · Purcell - Lawyer (uncredited)
- Miss Mink of 1949 · Cranston
- Amanti crudeli · Publicity Man (uncredited)
- Atlantide · Colonel
- Incident · C. W. Sloan
- Non fidarti di tuo marito · T.D. Hendricks
- La favorita del maresciallo · Governor
- The Strange Mrs. Crane · Clinton Crane
- The Gentleman from Nowhere · Hoffman
- Fighting Back · Colonel
- The Arkansas Swing · Horse Vet











