Minor Watson
Birthday: 1889-12-22
Place of Birth: Marianna, Arkansas, USA
Biography: Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor. He appeared in 111 movies made between 1913 and 1956. His credits included Boys Town (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Kings Row (1942), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Bewitched (1945), The Virginian (1946), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).
Movies
Yankee Doodle Dandy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. ...
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Woman of the Year
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation...
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Charlie Chan in Paris
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery r...
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Dead End
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin...
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a t...
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Trapeze
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the du...
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Beyond the Forest
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man ...
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Boys Town
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juven...
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The Thin Man Goes Home
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation....
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Courage of Lassie
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopte...
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Trac...
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Guadalcanal Diary
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the prep...
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Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzli...
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Moon Over Miami
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a...
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Western Union
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires ...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
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The Falcon Out West
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learn...
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Cupid and Three
Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to d...
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Love Incognito
Jack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the stree...
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The Big Shot
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth co...
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Maisie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer cl...
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Hidden Gold
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking...
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Dollars-Pounds-Sense
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every gir...
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Kings Row
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin the...
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The Star
Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despi...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his...
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Young People
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un...
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Birth of the Blues
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts ...
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Mister 880
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is als...
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Saratoga Trunk
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces ...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...
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While New York Sleeps
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers)....
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Of Human Hearts
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War...
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Mr. District Attorney
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case....
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Pursuit
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of Cali...
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Mary Jane's Pa
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he ...
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Stablemates
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down...
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Viva Cisco Kid
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father i...
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Boys' Ranch
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublema...
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Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to fin...
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That's My Baby!
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, an...
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Age of Indiscretion
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert...
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Saturday's Heroes
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his sc...
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The Llano Kid
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him ...
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A Southern Yankee
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an ag...
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Face to Face
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by ...
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When's Your Birthday?
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes...
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Love, Honor and Behave
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself...
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Br...
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Fast Company
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller....
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24 Hours
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her love...
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The Flying Irishman
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred ...
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The Woman I Love
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer....
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Happy Land
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli...
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You Came Along
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chapero...
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Bright Victory
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....
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As Young as You Feel
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president ...
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Frisco Lil
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her fat...
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Television Spy
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try ...
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Yanks Ahoy
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub....
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Little Egypt
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn ...
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Mister Dynamite
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino....
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20 Mule Team
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it i...
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Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves t...
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Navy Blue and Gold
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training....
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The Hardys Ride High
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney Geo...
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News Is Made at Night
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co...
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Christmas Holiday
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel....
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Rangers of Fortune
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they ...
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Princess O'Rourke
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....
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Power of the Press
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to ...
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The Parson of Panamint
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old pr...
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Lady Tubbs
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and bar...
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The Ambassador's Daughter
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to h...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in l...
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Babbitt
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing commun...
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Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn D...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. ...
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They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
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The Rawhide Years
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with h...
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Ten Wanted Men
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick C...
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The Longest Night
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner....
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Rose of the Rancho
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and adm...
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The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...
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Touchdown, Army
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters W...
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Annapolis Farewell
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy ...
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To the Shores of Tripoli
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally become...
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The Monster and the Girl
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized c...
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Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...
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Shadows in the Night
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion....
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Crash Dive
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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A Bell for Adano
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha...
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds him...
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Roar of the Crowd
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but...
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Here Come the Waves
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WA...
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Checkers
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's far...
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Boy Friend
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a...
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