Harry Watson

Harry Watson

Born: August 31, 1921
Died: June 8, 2001
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Harry Watson...

A Hit with a Miss
Title: A Hit with a Miss
Character: Kid in Fight Crowd (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Hopper Boy
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Ben Donaldson (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Sandy - an Urchin
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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A Damsel in Distress
Title: A Damsel in Distress
Character: Albert
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Sam
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Messenger
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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King of Hockey
Title: King of Hockey
Character: Boy Locating Dugan
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Old Hutch
Title: Old Hutch
Character: Freddie Hutchins
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Kid Playing Pinball (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Street Boy
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Meriwhether Son
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
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 from the bank.
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Punch Drunks
Title: Punch Drunks
Character: Kid in Fight Crowd (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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The Barber Shop
Title: The Barber Shop
Character: Ronald O'Hare
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill.
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The Sport Parade
Title: The Sport Parade
Character: Kendricks' Boy (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Star Witness
Title: The Star Witness
Character: Baseball Player (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Cousin Harry Cook
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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Irish Fantasy
Title: Irish Fantasy
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song.
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Bear Knees
Title: Bear Knees
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
This series is fairly close in broad outline to the original idea of Roach's 'Our Gang' with a bunch of kids and their various pets. It includes a Pete the Pup lookalike, battling a bunch of crooks following a robbery who are looking for a hide out, around a rodeo venue.
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Zander the Great
Title: Zander the Great
Character: Good News
Released: May 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.