Biography
Bobs Watson, also credited as Robert Ball Watson, was an American actor and Methodist minister. Born in Los Angeles, he began his career as a child actor in the 1930s and was known for his ability to cry on cue. He appeared in films including Libeled Lady (1936), Boys Town (1938) as Pee Wee, On Borrowed Time (1939) as Pud, Dodge City (1939) and Men of Boys Town (1941).
Watson later took guest roles in television series such as The Twilight Zone, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and The Fugitive. In the mid-1960s he attended Claremont School of Theology and became a Methodist minister, serving for around thirty years in Burbank and La Cañada, California, before retiring in the late 1990s.
He was a member of the Watson family of child actors and the family received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Watson died in Laguna Beach, California, in 1999.
