Personal Info
Birth date
1930-11-16 (94 Years)
Day of death
1999-06-27
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as
Robert Ball Watson
The Crybaby of Hollywood
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.
Filmography
The Twilight Zone
8.454
Overview:
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.The Fugitive
7.2
Overview:
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.The Virginian
6.344
Overview:
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.The Beverly Hillbillies
6.883
Overview:
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.The Lucy Show
7
Overview:
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.The F.B.I.
5.391
Overview:
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.Green Acres
7.3
Overview:
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.4
Overview:
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.Life Begins
6
Overview:
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.Life Begins at Forty
NYR
Overview:
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.Pete and Gladys
6.5
Overview:
Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
5.6
Overview:
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.Wyoming
5.9
Overview:
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.Mrs. Stone's Thing
2.7
Overview:
A housewife wonders why her husband spends so much time at parties, then is all "sexed out" for days afterwards. She discovers that he's been going to swingers' orgies, and in an attempt to salvage her marriage, persuades him to take her to them. At first she doesn't care for it, but little by little she begins to get into it.Young Dr. Kildare
6.5
Overview:
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.Dreaming Out Loud
5.7
Overview:
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.The Mothers-in-Law
5.8
Overview:
The Mothers-in-Law is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard as two matriarchs who were friends and next-door neighbors whose children's elopement rendered them in-laws. The show aired on NBC from September 1967 to April 1969. Produced by Desi Arnaz, the series was created by Bob Carroll, Jr., and Madelyn Davis.On Borrowed Time
7.5
Overview:
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.Calling Dr. Kildare
6.1
Overview:
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?In Old Chicago
6.56
Overview:
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.Dr. Kildare's Crisis
6
Overview:
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.Dodge City
6.9
Overview:
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.First to Fight
7.9
Overview:
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
7.904
Overview:
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.Blackmail
6.4
Overview:
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.The Bold and the Brave
5.6
Overview:
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.It Happened in Hollywood
6.1
Overview:
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.The Great O'Malley
6.7
Overview:
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
6
Overview:
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.Acting
1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives as Judge Ezra Frank
1977Grand Theft Auto as Minister
1970Mrs. Stone's Thing as Bartender
1968Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1 Episode) as Rod
1967The Mothers-in-Law (1 Episode) as Officer Bailey
1967First to Fight as Sergeant Maypole
1965The F.B.I. (1 Episode) as Walsh
1965Green Acres (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Take Her, She's Mine as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) as Milt Plummer
1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Clerk in Newspaper Department
1962The Lucy Show (1 Episode) as Calvin
1962The Beverly Hillbillies (4 Episodes) as Fred Penrod
1962The Virginian (2, 1, 1 Episode) as Hotel Clerk, Matt Lewis, Clerk
1960The Jim Backus Show (39 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Pete and Gladys (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited)
1956The Bold and the Brave as Bob
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
1943Hi, Buddy as Tim Martin
1941Hit the Road as Pesky
1941Scattergood Pulls the Strings as Jimmy Jordan
1941Men of Boys Town as Pee Wee
1940Dr. Kildare's Crisis as Tommy, the Crippled Child
1940Dreaming Out Loud as Jimmy
1940Wyoming as Jimmy Kincaid
1939Blackmail as Hank Ingram
1939On Borrowed Time as Pud Northrup
1939Calling Dr. Kildare as Tommy Benson (uncredited)
1939Dodge City as Harry Cole
1939The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as George Sanders
1938Kentucky as Peter Goodwin - 1861
1938Young Dr. Kildare as Little Boy (uncredited)
1938Boys Town as Pee Wee
1938Go Chase Yourself as Junior (uncredited)
1938In Old Chicago as Bob O'Leary (as a boy)
1937It Happened in Hollywood as Boy
1937The Great O'Malley as Boy (uncredited)
1937She's Dangerous as Boy at Airport
1936Pay As You Exit as Audience
1936Libeled Lady as Waif (uncredited)
1936Show Boat as Unknown
1935Two-Fisted as Jimmy's Boxing Partner
1935Life Begins at Forty as Meriwhether Son
1932Life Begins as Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)