Bobs Watson

Born

November 16, 1930

Died

June 27, 1999 (68 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

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, 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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6.6

1993

Grand Theft Auto

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Minister

5.3

1977

Mrs. Stone's Thing

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Bartender

2.7

1970

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

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Rod · (1 episode)

5.6

1968

The Mothers-in-Law

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Officer Bailey · (1 episode)

5.8

1967

First to Fight

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Sergeant Maypole

7.9

1967

The F.B.I.

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Walsh · (1 episode)

5.5

1965

Green Acres

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(1 episode)

7.3

1965

Take Her, She's Mine

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Western Union Messenger (uncredited)

5.3

1963

The Fugitive

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7.2

1963

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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7.9

1962

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Calvin · (1 episode)

7.0

1962

The Beverly Hillbillies

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Fred Penrod · (4 episodes)

6.9

1962

The Virginian

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Hotel Clerk · (2 episodes)

6.5

1962

The Virginian

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Matt Lewis · (1 episode)

6.5

1962

The Virginian

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Clerk · (1 episode)

6.5

1962

The Jim Backus Show

The Jim Backus Show

(39 episodes)

0.0

1960

Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys

(1 episode)

6.5

1960

The Twilight Zone

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Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited) · (1 episode)

8.4

1959

The Bold and the Brave

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5.6

1956

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour

(1 episode)

5.4

1955

Hi, Buddy

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Tim Martin

7.0

1943

Hit the Road

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Pesky

0.0

1941

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

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0.0

1941

Men of Boys Town

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6.1

1941

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

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Tommy, the Crippled Child

6.0

1940

Dreaming Out Loud

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5.7

1940

Wyoming

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Jimmy Kincaid

5.9

1940

Blackmail

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Hank Ingram

6.4

1939

On Borrowed Time

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7.5

1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

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Tommy Benson (uncredited)

6.1

1939

Dodge City

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6.9

1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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6.0

1939

Kentucky

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Peter Goodwin - 1861

5.8

1938

Young Dr. Kildare

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Little Boy (uncredited)

6.5

1938

Boys Town

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Pee Wee

6.7

1938

In Old Chicago

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Bob O'Leary (as a boy)

6.5

1938

It Happened in Hollywood

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Boy

6.1

1937

The Great O'Malley

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Boy (uncredited)

6.7

1937

She's Dangerous

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Boy at Airport

5.0

1937

Pay As You Exit

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7.3

1936

Libeled Lady

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Waif (uncredited)

7.3

1936

Show Boat

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6.8

1936

Two-Fisted

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Jimmy's Boxing Partner

7.0

1935

Life Begins at Forty

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Meriwhether Son

0.0

1935

Life Begins

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Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)

6.0

1932