Bobs Watson

Bobs Watson

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.

  • Title: Bobs Watson
  • Popularity: 2.877
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-11-16
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Robert Ball Watson, The Crybaby of Hollywood
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Bobs Watson Movies

  • 1938
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    Boys Town

    Boys Town

    6.727 1938 HD

    Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

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  • 1963
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    Take Her, She's Mine

    Take Her, She's Mine

    5 1963 HD

    After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the...

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  • 1939
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    Dodge City

    Dodge City

    6.9 1939 HD

    In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

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  • 1936
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    Show Boat

    Show Boat

    6.756 1936 HD

    Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

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  • 1939
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    The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

    The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

    5.9 1939 HD

    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....

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  • 1938
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    In Old Chicago

    In Old Chicago

    6.4 1938 HD

    The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

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  • 1970
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    Mrs. Stone's Thing

    Mrs. Stone's Thing

    3.5 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Men of Boys Town

    Men of Boys Town

    6.1 1941 HD

    Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

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  • 1939
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    6.4 1939 HD

    A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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  • 1956
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    The Bold and the Brave

    The Bold and the Brave

    5.6 1956 HD

    An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.

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  • 1935
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    Two-Fisted

    Two-Fisted

    7 1935 HD

    A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but...

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  • 1937
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    She's Dangerous

    She's Dangerous

    5 1937 HD

    A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

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  • 1977
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    Grand Theft Auto

    Grand Theft Auto

    5.3 1977 HD

    A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of...

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  • 1939
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    On Borrowed Time

    On Borrowed Time

    7.5 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    Kentucky

    Kentucky

    5.7 1938 HD

    Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

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  • 1940
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    Wyoming

    Wyoming

    5.9 1940 HD

    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.

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  • 1962
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    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    7.9 1962 HD

    A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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  • 1937
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    It Happened in Hollywood

    It Happened in Hollywood

    6.2 1937 HD

    A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

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  • 1938
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    Young Dr. Kildare

    Young Dr. Kildare

    6.5 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    First to Fight

    First to Fight

    7.8 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Calling Dr. Kildare

    Calling Dr. Kildare

    6.1 1939 HD

    Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. ...

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  • 1937
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    The Great O'Malley

    The Great O'Malley

    6.7 1937 HD

    His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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  • 1936
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    Libeled Lady

    Libeled Lady

    7.3 1936 HD

    When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

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  • 1940
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    Dreaming Out Loud

    Dreaming Out Loud

    5.7 1940 HD

    Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

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  • 1941
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    Hit the Road

    Hit the Road

    1 1941 HD

    Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.

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  • 1943
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    Hi, Buddy

    Hi, Buddy

    7 1943 HD

    Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes...

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  • 1940
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    Dr. Kildare's Crisis

    Dr. Kildare's Crisis

    6 1940 HD

    Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

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  • 1935
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    Life Begins at Forty

    Life Begins at Forty

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    Life Begins

    Life Begins

    6 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Scattergood Pulls the Strings

    Scattergood Pulls the Strings

    1 1941 HD

    Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist...

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  • 1936
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    Pay As You Exit

    Pay As You Exit

    7.3 1936 HD

    The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.

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  • 1993
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

    Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

    6.8 1993 HD

    Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's married to famed photographer David Morrison, who...

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Lucy Show

    The Lucy Show

    7.107 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Beverly Hillbillies

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    6.9 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.4 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    Pete and Gladys

    Pete and Gladys

    6.5 1960 HD

    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....

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  • 1955
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    5.167 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    7.2 1963 HD

    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,...

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  • 1960
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    The Jim Backus Show

    The Jim Backus Show

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    The Mothers-in-Law

    The Mothers-in-Law

    6 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    5.5 1968 HD

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various...

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