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Billy Watson is a Actor and Executive Producer born on 25 december 1923
Billy Watson (born December 25, 1923) is a retired American actor. He is the son of James Caughey Watson and Golda Watson. His mother washed and ironed actors' costumes for additional income. The Watson Family was called "First Family of Hollywood". The nine children of James Caughey Watson and Golda Watson played in over 1000 films. After their childhood in show business, some of the members of the family became photographers and the family became "First Family of News Photography" in Los Angeles. On 22. April 1999 the family received a star on "Hollywood Walk of Fame"
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Birth 25 december 1923
Death 17 february 2022 (at 98 years)
Death 17 february 2022 (at 98 years)
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, 1h31Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram, Lynne Carver, Minor Watson
Roles Eliot (uncredited)
Rating67%
Au milieu du XIX siècle, au bord du Mississippi, le jeune Huckleberry Finn vit chez la veuve Douglas et sa sœur, Miss Watson. Il a du mal à se tenir comme un gentleman, préférant l'école buissonnière et marcher pieds nus. Une nuit, Pap Finn, le père de Huck, se rend chez M Douglas et lui demande 800 dollars pour qu'elle puisse garder son fils. Entendant cela, Huck décide de partir pour qu'elle n'ait pas à payer, mais il est rattrapé par son père qui l'enferme dans une cabane. Le garçon réussit à s'enfuir, et laisse des indices suggérant qu'il aurait été tué et jeté dans le fleuve. Il remonte le fleuve et, quelque temps après, rencontre son ami Jim, un esclave de M Douglas qui s'est enfui car elle avait prévu de le vendre pour avoir assez d'argent pour garder Huck. À leur insu, les indices laissés par Huck et la disparition de Jim font croire aux autorités que c'est Jim le coupable du meurtre. Jim essaye de gagner un État non esclavagiste et de rejoindre sa femme, et Huck décide de l'aider. Plus en amont ils rencontrent le "King" et le "Duke", qui ont été débarqués d'un bateau pour avoir escroqués des passagers.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
, 2h9Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Peter Hopper
Rating80%
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
, 1h41Directed by Otto Brower, Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Cedric Hardwicke, Nancy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Richard Greene, Charles Coburn
Roles Billy Watson
Rating69%
Henry Stanley is a fearless newspaper reporter ready to do whatever it takes to get a story, regardless of any danger to his life. Colonel Grimes tells two peace commissioners sent from Washington DC that he cannot permit them to try to contact the Indians of the Wyoming Territory of 1870, as it would be suicidal, only to have Stanley emerge from the wilderness, escorted by a band of the natives and his guide, Jeff Slocum (Walter Brennan).
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
, 1h40Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek
Roles Boy on Right of Bean Shooter (uncredited)
Rating74%
A family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in their wagon need groceries from Lincoln's store and the only thing of value they have is a barrel of old books including a law book, Blackstone's Commentaries. After thoroughly reading the book, Abe opts for the law after receiving encouragement from his early, ill-fated love, Ann Rutledge (Pauline Moore). Too poor to own even a horse, he arrives in Springfield on a mule and soon establishes a law practice with friend John Stuart (Edwin Maxwell). At a July 4 celebration, a man is murdered in a brawl – the accused are two brothers. Lincoln prevents the lynching of the accused at the jail by telling the angry mob he really needs these clients for his first real case. Admiring his courage, Mary Todd (Marjorie Weaver) – later to be his wife – invites Lincoln to her sister's soiree and expresses an intense interest in his future.
Kidnapped (1938)
, 1h30Directed by Otto Preminger, Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Nigel Bruce, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen
Roles Bobby MacDonald
Rating65%
In the late eighteenth century David Balfour's evil uncle arranges for him to be kidnapped and sent to sea where he meets exiled Alan Breck. The two make their way back to Scotland and justice.
Hot Water (1937)
, 55minutesDirected by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason, June Carlson, Florence Roberts
Roles Droopy (uncredited)
Rating53%
Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Rating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
In Old Chicago (1936)
, 1h35Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Action, Historical
Themes Films about families, La fin du monde, Films about the labor movement, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Phyllis Brooks
Roles Jack O'Leary (as a boy)
Rating66%
The O'Leary family are travelling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O'Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon. He is killed when his horses bolt. His wife Molly and their three boys are left to survive on their own. In town she agrees to prove her skills as a laundress when a woman's dress is accidentally spattered with mud. She quickly proves herself and builds up a laundry business in an area known as "the Patch". Her sons are educated. One, Jack, becomes a reforming lawyer, but another, Dion, is involved in gambling. While washing a sheet, Mrs O'Leary discovers a drawing, apparently created by Gil Warren, a devious local businessman. Her sons realise that it reveals that he has a plan to run a tramline along a street that he and his cronies intend to buy up cheaply.
Life Begins at Forty (1935)
, 1h25Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier, Jane Darwell, Rochelle Hudson, Slim Summerville
Roles Meriwhether Son
Rating67%
The Winning Ticket (1935)
, 1h10Directed by Charles Reisner, Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, Ted Healy, Irene Hervey, James Ellison, Luis Alberni
Roles Joey Tomasello Jr.
Rating53%
The Little Minister (1934)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Andy Clyde
Roles Micah
Rating61%
Set in rural 1840s Scotland, the plot focuses on labor and class issues while telling the story of Gavin Dishart, a staid cleric newly assigned to Thrums' Auld Licht church, and Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself as a gypsy girl in order to interact freely with the local villagers and protect them from her guardian, Lord Rintoul, who wants to keep them under his control. Initially the conservative Dishart is appalled by the feisty girl, but he soon comes to appreciate her inner goodness. Their romantic liaison scandalizes the townspeople, and the minister's position is jeopardized until Babbie's true identity is revealed.
Doctor Bull (1933)
, 1h17Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Berton Churchill, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine, Rochelle Hudson
Roles School Boy
Rating63%
Dans une petite ville de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, le docteur George Bull se démène auprès des habitants, mais devient vite une source de commérages. On lui reproche notamment sa présence régulière dans la maison d'une jeune veuve, Mrs Cardmaker, à la tête de la ferme qui approvisionne le village, mais aussi ses façons débonnaires. Médecin de l'ancienne école, il prescrit plus qu'à son tour de l'huile de ricin pour les petits maux dont il ne se soucie guère mais passe chaque jour de longs instants au chevet d'un homme paralysé des jambes qu'il tente de faire remarcher…
Bad Girl (1931)
, 1h30Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, Frank Austin, Irving Bacon, Paul Fix
Roles Floyd
Rating63%
Dot (Haley), une jeune fille sollicitée par la gente masculine qui "ne pense qu'à ça" fait le pari, alors qu'elle se promène avec sa meilleure amie Edna (Gombell) à Coney Island, qu'un certain jeune homme qui ne semble pas s’intéresser aux femmes lui adressera la parole. Eddie, le jeune homme en question qui dit d'abord s'appeler Joe (Dunn) est sérieux, bourru, et économise sou par sou pour ouvrir sa propre entreprise. Dot et Eddie tombent amoureux et Eddie finit par proposer le mariage à Dot, un peu pour lui éviter d'affronter son frère lorsqu'il la raccompagne à quatre heures du matin. Très vite le jeune couple doit faire face à son passé : Dot a perdu sa maman à sa naissance et Eddie vient d'une famille très pauvre. Lorsque Dot se rend compte qu'elle est enceinte elle n'ose le dire à Eddie persuadée qu'il ne désire pas d'enfant car il soutient que les parents sont fous de mettre des enfants au monde.
Too Many Cooks (1931)
, 1h17Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates, Robert McWade, Sharon Lynn, Florence Roberts
Roles Cousin Jimmy Cook
Rating55%
Engaged couple Albert Bennett (Bert Wheeler) and Alice Cook (Dorothy Lee) plan on leaving the city they live in order to build their dream house in the country. They visit the site of their future home while it is only the foundation.
Taxi 13 (1928)
, 1h4Directed by Marshall Neilan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Chester Conklin, Ethel Wales, Martha Sleeper, Lee Moran, Hugh Trevor, Louise Fazenda
Roles Mactavish Child