
Birthday
1930/11/16
Day of death
1999/06/27 (68 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also know as
Robert Ball Watson, The Crybaby of Hollywood
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 Wal...Read more

(1938) Boys Town
as Pee Wee

(1963) Take Her, She's Mine
as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)

(1939) Dodge City
as Harry Cole

(1936) Show Boat
as ---

(1939) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as George Sanders

(1938) In Old Chicago
as Bob O'Leary (as a boy)

(1970) Mrs. Stone's Thing
as Bartender

(1941) Men of Boys Town
as Pee Wee

(1939) Blackmail
as Hank Ingram

(1956) The Bold and the Brave
as Bob

(1935) Two-Fisted
as Jimmy's Boxing Partner

(1937) She's Dangerous
as Boy at Airport

(1977) Grand Theft Auto
as Minister

(1939) On Borrowed Time
as Pud Northrup

(1938) Kentucky
as Peter Goodwin - 1861

(1940) Wyoming
as Jimmy Kincaid

(1962) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Clerk in Newspaper Department

(1937) It Happened in Hollywood
as Boy

(1938) Young Dr. Kildare
as Little Boy (uncredited)

(1967) First to Fight
as Sergeant Maypole

(1939) Calling Dr. Kildare
as Tommy Benson (uncredited)

(1937) The Great O'Malley
as Boy (uncredited)

(1936) Libeled Lady
as Waif (uncredited)

(1940) Dreaming Out Loud
as Jimmy

(1941) Hit the Road
as Pesky

(1943) Hi, Buddy
as Tim Martin

(1940) Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Tommy, the Crippled Child

(1935) Life Begins at Forty
as Meriwhether Son

(1932) Life Begins
as Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)

(1941) Scattergood Pulls the Strings
as Jimmy Jordan

(1936) Pay As You Exit
as Audience

(1993) Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as Judge Ezra Frank

(1938) Go Chase Yourself
as Junior (uncredited)

(1965) Green Acres
as ---

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Walsh

(1962) The Lucy Show
as Calvin

(1962) The Beverly Hillbillies
as Fred Penrod

(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited)

(1962) The Virginian
as Hotel Clerk

(1960) Pete and Gladys
as ---

(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as ---

(1963) The Fugitive
as Milt Plummer

(1960) The Jim Backus Show
as ---

(1962) The Virginian
as Clerk

(1962) The Virginian
as Matt Lewis

(1967) The Mothers-in-Law
as Officer Bailey

(1968) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
as Rod