Born in Los Angeles almost a year after the start of Great Depression.
Bob (whose nickname 'Bobs' was given to him by his father, and for legal and professional reasons he adopted professionally) is from a family of 9 siblings; 6 boys and 3 girls.
He made his first on-screen appearance as a (literal) babe in arms in Life Begins (1932). Watson received the sobriquet 'cry-baby' for his ability to cry on-cue.
Watson is best known as "Pee Wee" from Boys Town (1938). Later in the mid-late 60's Watson left the film industry entirely and entered the Claremont School of Theology.
Later he became a Methodist minister in Burbank and La Canada.
Watson retired in 1997 and passed away in 1999, succumbing to prostate cancer
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