
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.
Acting (33 movies)

Boys Town
1938

Take Her, She's Mine
1963

Dodge City
1939

Show Boat
1936

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939

In Old Chicago
1938

Mrs. Stone's Thing
1970

Men of Boys Town
1941

Blackmail
1939

The Bold and the Brave
1956

Two-Fisted
1935

She's Dangerous
1937

Grand Theft Auto
1977

On Borrowed Time
1939

Kentucky
1938

Wyoming
1940

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962

It Happened in Hollywood
1937

Young Dr. Kildare
1938

First to Fight
1967

Calling Dr. Kildare
1939

The Great O'Malley
1937

Libeled Lady
1936

Dreaming Out Loud
1940

Hit the Road
1941

Hi, Buddy
1943

Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940

Life Begins at Forty
1935

Life Begins
1932

Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941

Pay As You Exit
1936

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993

Go Chase Yourself
1938
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