---
name: "Bobs Watson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bobs-watson"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 November 1930"
died: "27 June 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:46:31.680501+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bobs Watson

Actor. Born 16 November 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 27 June 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 November 1930, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 27 June 1999
- **Also known as:** Robert Ball Watson, The Crybaby of Hollywood
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobs_Watson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888891, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914519/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/199468

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *Boys Town* (1938), Fi1m 65, as Pee Wee — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *In Old Chicago* (1938), Fi1m 64, as Bob O'Leary (as a boy) — [page](https://film.one/film/in-old-chicago.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Libeled Lady* (1936), Fi1m 77, as Waif (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/libeled-lady.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives* (1993), as Judge Ezra Frank
- *Grand Theft Auto* (1977), as Minister
- *Mrs. Stone's Thing* (1970), as Bartender
- *Skippy the Bush Kangaroo* (1968), series, as Rod
- *The Mothers-in-Law* (1967), series, as Officer Bailey
- *First to Fight* (1967), as Sergeant Maypole
- *The F.B.I.* (1965), series, as Walsh
- *Green Acres* (1965), series, Actor
- *Take Her, She's Mine* (1963), as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
- *The Fugitive* (1963), series, as Milt Plummer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fugitive-1963.md)
- *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* (1962), as Clerk in Newspaper Department
- *The Lucy Show* (1962), series, as Calvin
- *The Beverly Hillbillies* (1962), series, as Fred Penrod
- *The Virginian* (1962), series, as Hotel Clerk, Matt Lewis, Clerk
- *The Jim Backus Show* (1960), series, Actor
- *Pete and Gladys* (1960), series, Actor
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *The Bold and the Brave* (1956), as Bob
- *The 20th Century Fox Hour* (1955), series, Actor
- *Hi, Buddy* (1943), as Tim Martin
- *Hit the Road* (1941), as Pesky
- *Scattergood Pulls the Strings* (1941), as Jimmy Jordan
- *Men of Boys Town* (1941), as Pee Wee
- *Dr. Kildare's Crisis* (1940), as Tommy, the Crippled Child
- *Dreaming Out Loud* (1940), as Jimmy
- *Wyoming* (1940), as Jimmy Kincaid
- *Blackmail* (1939), as Hank Ingram
- *On Borrowed Time* (1939), as Pud Northrup
- *Calling Dr. Kildare* (1939), as Tommy Benson (uncredited)
- *Dodge City* (1939), as Harry Cole
- *The Story of Alexander Graham Bell* (1939), as George Sanders
- *Kentucky* (1938), as Peter Goodwin - 1861
- *Young Dr. Kildare* (1938), as Little Boy (uncredited)
- *Boys Town* (1938), as Pee Wee — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *Go Chase Yourself* (1938), as Junior (uncredited)
- *In Old Chicago* (1938), as Bob O'Leary (as a boy) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/in-old-chicago.md)
- *It Happened in Hollywood* (1937), as Boy
- *The Great O'Malley* (1937), as Boy (uncredited)
- *She's Dangerous* (1937), as Boy at Airport
- *Pay As You Exit* (1936), as Audience
- *Libeled Lady* (1936), as Waif (uncredited) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/libeled-lady.md)
- *Show Boat* (1936), Actor
- *Two-Fisted* (1935), as Jimmy's Boxing Partner
- *Life Begins at Forty* (1935), as Meriwhether Son
- *Life Begins* (1932), as Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Bobs Watson](https://film.one/media/person/1229261/gallery-ed88107ab525.jpg) Bobs Watson — Image via TMDB
- ![Bobs Watson](https://film.one/media/person/1229261/gallery-7fdd4e041b86.jpg) Bobs Watson — Image via TMDB

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