Charles Watts

Charles Watts

Born: October 30, 1912
Died: December 13, 1966
in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA

Movies for Charles Watts...

Baby, the Rain Must Fall
Title: Baby, the Rain Must Fall
Character: Mr. Tillman
Released: January 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.
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Apache Rifles
Title: Apache Rifles
Character: Owens
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
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Dead Ringer
Title: Dead Ringer
Character: Apartment Manager
Released: February 19, 1964
Type: Movie
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
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Seven Days in May
Title: Seven Days in May
Character: Stewart Dillard (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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The Wheeler Dealers
Title: The Wheeler Dealers
Character: J. R. Martin
Released: November 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
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Days of Wine and Roses
Title: Days of Wine and Roses
Character: Landry (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: Movie
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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Who's Got the Action?
Title: Who's Got the Action?
Character: Judge Swinely
Released: December 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
Title: Billy Rose's Jumbo
Character: Ellis
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
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Title: Ensign O'Toole
Character: Leslie
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: TV
Ensign O'Toole is a military comedy that aired on NBC from September 23, 1962, to May 5, 1963, with 31-year-old Dean Jones in the title role of a nonchalant United States Navy ensign during the early 1960s. Jones, born in 1931 in Alabama and a Navy veteran of the Korean War, played an officer aboard the fictional U.S. Navy destroyer USS Appleby, which roamed the Pacific Ocean.
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Something Wild
Title: Something Wild
Character: Warren Gates
Released: December 23, 1961
Type: Movie
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
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Lover Come Back
Title: Lover Come Back
Character: Charlie
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
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Summer and Smoke
Title: Summer and Smoke
Character: Dignitary-Bandleader (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1961
Type: Movie
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Ada
Title: Ada
Character: Al Winslow
Released: August 25, 1961
Type: Movie
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Lou Brothers (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Title: Dennis the Menace
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.
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The Big Circus
Title: The Big Circus
Character: Jonathan T. Nelson - Banker
Released: July 5, 1959
Type: Movie
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
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No Name on the Bullet
Title: No Name on the Bullet
Character: Sid
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: C.C. Higgins
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Title: The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Character: Sheriff Oscar Matthison
Released: June 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
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The High Cost of Loving
Title: The High Cost of Loving
Character: Boylin, Executive
Released: May 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
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Raintree County
Title: Raintree County
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
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Don't Go Near the Water
Title: Don't Go Near the Water
Character: Rep. Arthur Smithfield
Released: November 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
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An Affair to Remember
Title: An Affair to Remember
Character: Ned Hathaway
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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Outlaw's Son
Title: Outlaw's Son
Character: Blessingham
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A young boy grows to adulthood believing his father was the man responsible for a murder committed during a bank robbery.
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Title: The Spirit of St. Louis
Character: O.W. Schultz, Salesman Atlas Suspender Co.
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
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The Big Land
Title: The Big Land
Character: Dick McCullough
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
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Giant
Title: Giant
Character: Judge Oliver Whiteside
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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I Died a Thousand Times
Title: I Died a Thousand Times
Character: Crowd Member (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1955
Type: Movie
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
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The View from Pompey's Head
Title: The View from Pompey's Head
Character: Police Desk Sergeant
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mayor Herbert Ayers
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Franklin
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Tall Man Riding
Title: Tall Man Riding
Character: Bartender
Released: June 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
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Ricochet Romance
Title: Ricochet Romance
Character: Mr. Harvey
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the critter into marriage. Veteran comedy director Charles W. Lamont moves the proceedings along with style, never missing an opportunity for a low-comedy slapstick turn. The most surprising aspect of Ricochet Romance is that it is not an entry in Marjorie Main's Ma and Pa Kettle series.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Harrison (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Boy from Oklahoma
Title: The Boy from Oklahoma
Character: Harry
Released: February 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.
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New Faces
Title: New Faces
Character: Mr. Clayborn (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Mr. Wallace
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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The Jazz Singer
Title: The Jazz Singer
Character: Leon Ballinger
Released: February 14, 1953
Type: Movie
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
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Million Dollar Mermaid
Title: Million Dollar Mermaid
Character: Policeman
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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She's Working Her Way Through College
Title: She's Working Her Way Through College
Character: Man Exiting Hotel Elevator
Released: July 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
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The Sniper
Title: The Sniper
Character: Detective
Released: May 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
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Room for One More
Title: Room for One More
Character: Mr. Roberts
Released: January 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: Waco Bartender (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1951
Type: Movie
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
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The Painted Hills
Title: The Painted Hills
Character: Steve (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
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Storm Warning
Title: Storm Warning
Character: Wally (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister (Day).
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Title: The Killer That Stalked New York
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.