Education
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.
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.
Brother to Coy Watson, Junior., Harry, Billy, Delmar, Garry, Vivian, Gloria, and Louise, all of whom acted in motion pictures. They were honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce by placing the Watson family star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6674 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. He died of prostate cancer in 1999 at Laguna Beach, California.
Watson was best known for his role as "Pee Wee" in the 1938 film Boys Town with Spencer Tracy.
They became such good friends doing the movie that Watson was reportedly Tracy"s last visitor before his death. In 1939, Watson delivered a fine, tear-jerking performance as Pud, Lionel Barrymore"s grandson, in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, On Borrowed Time.
Watson also had parts in many television shows, 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 Louisiana Cañada, California.
He was a member of the Watson Family, famous in the early days of Hollywood as being a houseful of child actors.