| Birth: | Jul. 1, 1926
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA | | Death: | Oct. 26, 2008
Glendale
Los Angeles County
California, USA | 
Actor, Photographer. He began his acting career at age two and appeared in more than 300 motion pictures during his youth. In the 1937 film "Heidi," he portrayed Peter, Shirley Temple's goat-herding friend and as a son of the governor in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939, staring Jimmy Stewart. His other credits included "The Lone Star" (1930), "Speed in the Gay Nineties" (1932), "In the Dog House" (1934), "The Pinch Singer" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938) and "Among the Living" (1941). After serving in World War II as a cameraman, he was a photographer for the "Los Angeles Mirror". He later left the paper to run Acme News Pictures, joined his brothers' commercial photography enterprise, the Six Watson Brothers Studio in Hollywood and opened his own studio in 1967. His private collection of historical photographs of Los Angeles are now known as 60 years of press credentials for thousands of photographs in the Hollywood archives history. He has won numerous awards, including two Freedom Foundation Awards, several Associated Press Photo Awards and a Life Magazine Award in the 1950s. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Search Amazon for Delmar Watson | | | Burial:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood
Los Angeles County
California, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
Record added: Oct 28, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 30946379 |
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