Cast
Pierre Watkin
Acting
Cast
Pierre Watkin
Known for
Acting
Born
1889-12-27
Died
1960-02-03
Also known as Pierre Frank Watkin, Pierre F. Watkin, Pierre Watkins
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pierre Frank Watkin (December 29, 1889 – February 3, 1960) was an American character actor in many films, serials, and television series from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially westerns. He is perhaps best remembered for being the father of Eleanor Twitchell, the lady who captures Lou Gehrig's heart in Pride of the Yankees (1942) Watkin was born in Sioux City, Iowa. In the 1920s, he had his own theatrical troupe, the Pierre Watkin Players. In 1927, the group moved its headquarters from Sioux Falls to Lincoln, Nebraska. Watkin portrayed Perry White in both of the Superman serials of the late 1940s, which starred Kirk Alyn as the title character and Noel Neill as Lois Lane. Watkin played a few different characters in the television series Adventures of Superman, in which John Hamilton played Perry White. He was set to reprise his role as the editor of The Daily Planet in a revival of the series in 1959, as Hamilton had died in the interim since the cancellation of the original series. However, series star George Reeves also died in the summer of 1959, and those plans ended. Watkin himself died six months later. He also cast in 1955 in the episode "Joey and the Gypsies" of the NBC children's western series Fury. Watkin guest starred in the CBS western series Brave Eagle. He was cast twice each on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Cheyenne (as Harvey Sinclair in "The Law Man") and Annie Oakley (as the Reverend Mills in the 1956 episode "The Reckless Press"). In 1958, Watkin portrayed Dr. Breen of Samaritan Hospital in the episode "San Francisco Story" of Rex Allen's syndicated western series, Frontier Doctor. During the first season of CBS's Perry Mason from 1957 to 1958, Watkin appeared in three episodes as Judge Keetley. He was also cast during the 1950s on The Range Rider, Tales of the Texas Rangers, in three episodes of the western aviation adventure series Sky King, and five times on The Jack Benny Program. Watkin played the part of Colonel Duncan in the 1958 episode "Decoy" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Colt .45.
★7.8
MOVIE1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator Barnes
★7.5
MOVIE1938
You Can't Take It with You
as Kirby's Attorney (uncredited)
★7.7
MOVIE1947
Monsieur Verdoux
as Prison Official (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1941
Petticoat Politics
as Alfred Wilcox
★7.5
MOVIE1935
If You Could Only Cook
as Mr. Balderson (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Arthur Cedar (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1938
Girls' School
as Mr. Alfred Simpson
★7.4
MOVIE1942
The Pride of the Yankees
as Mr. Twitchell
★6.8
MOVIE1940
A Volta do Besouro Verde
as Boss Crogan
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Ambrose (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1949
The Story of Seabiscuit
as Charles S. Howard
★6.8
MOVIE1949
The Fountainhead
as Cortlandt Official (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Fighting Back
as Colonel
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Father Is A Prince
as Mr. Lee
★5.8
MOVIE1956
The Maverick Queen
as McMillan
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Wall Street Cowboy
as Roger Hammond
MOVIE1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Bermuda Mystery
as Herbert Bond
★7.1
MOVIE1937
Stage Door
as Carmichael
★5.5
MOVIE1949
Siren of Atlantis
as Colonel
★5.5
MOVIE1950
Atom Man vs. Superman
as Perry White
★6.2
MOVIE1949
Knock on Any Door
as Purcell - Lawyer (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1941
Meet John Doe
as Hammett
★7.5
MOVIE1946
Claudia and David
as Hartley Naughton
★5.2
MOVIE1945
Dakota
as Wexton Geary
★5.5
MOVIE1953
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jason Conroy
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Three's a Crowd
as Marcus Pett
★4.8
MOVIE1948
An Innocent Affair
as T.D. Hendricks
★6.8
MOVIE1936
Swing Time
as (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Teddy the Rough Rider
as Sen. Platt
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Superman
as Perry White
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Captain Tugboat Annie
as Dr. Turner
★5.2
MOVIE1942
Stand By All Networks
as Grant Neeley
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Flamingo Road
★7.6
MOVIE1924
He Who Gets Slapped
as Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1947
Her Husband's Affairs
as Vice President Beitler
★6.2
MOVIE1937
The Go-Getter
as Browne
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Thundering Caravans
as Head Marshal
★7.0
MOVIE1937
She's Dangerous
as H.J. Conrad
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Ice Capades Revue
as Wiley Stone
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Tip-Off Girls
as George Murkil
★7.2
MOVIE1940
I Love You Again
as Mr. W.H. Sims
★6.2
MOVIE1940
Knute Rockne All American
as Commissioner at Hearing (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
as District Attorney (as Pierre Watkins)
★6.4
MOVIE1938
The Mad Miss Manton
as Mr. Fenton (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1939
They Made Her a Spy
as Colonel Wilson
★6.8
MOVIE1943
Destroyer
as Admiral
★4.8
MOVIE1946
The Missing Lady
as Police Commissioner Weston
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Obliging Young Lady
as John Markham
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Wings of the Navy
as Capt. March
★5.9
MOVIE1936
China Clipper
as Secretary of State (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1958
Marjorie Morningstar
as Civil Official (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1937
History Is Made at Night
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Lydia
as Speaker
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Blue Grass of Kentucky
as Head Steward
★6.5
MOVIE1940
The Bank Dick
as Mr. Skinner
★5.6
MOVIE1956
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Armtrong
★6.6
MOVIE1937
Marked Woman
as Judge #2 (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Michael O'Halloran
as Mark Grave
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Shock
as Blake (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1937
Green Light
as Dr. Booth
★6.4
MOVIE1939
King of the Underworld
as District Attorney
★6.6
MOVIE1945
Thrill of a Romance
as Tycoon (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1947
The Red Stallion
as Richard Moresby
★5.1
MOVIE1955
Creature with the Atom Brain
as Mayor Bremer
★7.4
MOVIE1954
About Mrs. Leslie
as Lewis
★5.3
MOVIE1940
No Time for Comedy
as First-Nighter (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1935
Dangerous
as George Sheffield
★6.8
MOVIE1947
Song of Love
as Duke of X (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1951
Mysterious Island
as Confederate Officer
★5.3
MOVIE1937
The Singing Marine
as General
★6.7
MOVIE1943
The Chance of a Lifetime
as State Governor Rutledge (Uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1948
The Shanghai Chest
as Judge Wesley Armstrong
★5.2
MOVIE1944
Jungle Woman
as Dr. Meredith
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Mission to Moscow
as Naval Attache (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Mr. Carter (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1941
A Man Betrayed
as Governor
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Hired Wife
as Charlie - Phyllis's Escort
★5.8
MOVIE1954
Johnny Dark
as Ed J. Winston
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Mr. Robert Chandler
★6.5
MOVIE1948
Daredevils of the Clouds
as Douglas Harrison
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Risky Business
as Abernathy
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Dead Man's Eyes
as Hayden's Lawyer
★10.0
MOVIE1944
South of Dixie
as Dean Williamson
★6.0
MOVIE1949
El Paso
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Police Chief (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Redwood Forest Trail
as Arthur Cameron
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Nazi Agent
as Grover Blaine McHenry
★6.9
MOVIE1938
Boy Meets Girl
as B.K. Whitacre
★7.5
MOVIE1949
Slightly French
as Publicity Man (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1946
Little Giant
as P.S. Van Loon
★6.8
MOVIE1943
Swing Shift Maisie
as Judge
★6.7
MOVIE1938
Smashing the Rackets
as John Nelson Davis
★5.4
MOVIE1937
Daughter of Shanghai
as L.T. Yorkland
★5.4
MOVIE1937
Daughter of Shanghai
as Mr. Yorkland (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1936
Two in the Dark
as City Editor (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Mountain Justice
as Governor
★7.0
MOVIE1945
I'll Tell the World
as Dr. Mullins
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Oh, What a Night!
as Tom Gordon
★6.7
MOVIE1940
The Saint Takes Over
as Ben Egan
★6.1
MOVIE1945
Keep Your Powder Dry
as Mr. Lorrison
★7.0
MOVIE1953
The Flaming Urge
as Albert Cruickshank
★4.2
MOVIE1951
Two Lost Worlds
as Magistrate Jeffries
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Over 21
as Joel I. Nixon (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1943
It Ain't Hay
as Maj. Harper (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1943
Crazy House
as Prosecutor
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Rhythm on the River
as Uncle John
★5.5
MOVIE1942
Meet the Stewarts
as Club Guest (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1956
Thunder Over Arizona
as Dr. Peterson
★5.6
MOVIE1939
King of Chinatown
as Dist. Atty. Philips (uncredited)
★8.8
MOVIE1939
Outside These Walls
as Hewitt Bronson
★6.0
MOVIE1945
Divorce
as John Carter
★5.5
MOVIE1947
Violence
as Ralph Borden
★8.0
MOVIE1938
The Chaser
as Mr. Beaumont
★5.9
MOVIE1938
Midnight Intruder
as Attorney Peter Winslow
★6.1
MOVIE1946
Magnificent Doll
as Harper (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1939
Secret Service of the Air
as Chief of the Secret Service
★7.3
MOVIE1942
The Magnificent Dope
as Carson
★5.9
MOVIE1937
Breakfast for Two
as Gordon Faraday
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Buy Me That Town
as Carlton Williams
★5.4
MOVIE1948
Incident
as C. W. Sloan
★6.7
MOVIE1950
Last of the Buccaneers
as Gov. Claiborne
★6.2
MOVIE1938
Girls on Probation
as Mr. Storm
★5.8
MOVIE1937
Ever Since Eve
as Barton
★5.1
MOVIE1955
The Big Bluff
as Mr. Winthrop
★6.3
MOVIE1939
The Adventures of Jane Arden
as Albert Thayer
★5.9
MOVIE1937
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
as Judge Dobson - Racing Steward (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Whistling in Dixie
as Doctor
★5.8
MOVIE1956
Don't Knock The Rock
as Mayor George Bagley
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Sailor's Lady
as Captain
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Golden Gloves
as A.P. Barton - Editor (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1955
Lay That Rifle Down
as Mr. Coswell
★5.8
MOVIE1944
End of the Road
as District Attorney
★6.4
MOVIE1950
The Big Hangover
as Samuel C. Long
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Second Face
as Mr. Hamilton
★10.0
MOVIE1939
The Spirit of Culver
as Capt. Wharton
★6.4
MOVIE1940
Road to Singapore
as Morgan Wycott (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1937
Confession
as Lawyer Stagoff (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1939
Off the Record
as Barton
★5.6
MOVIE1943
Fired Wife
as Doctor
★5.5
MOVIE1955
Sudden Danger
as George Caldwell
★6.5
MOVIE1953
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
as Commissioner Morrison
★4.7
MOVIE1948
Money Madness
as Judge (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1940
Gangs of Chicago
★5.6
MOVIE1941
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
as Crothers
★6.7
MOVIE1938
Young Dr. Kildare
as Mr. Robert Chanler
★6.6
MOVIE1941
She Knew All the Answers
as George Wharton
★4.5
MOVIE1945
I'll Remember April
as Dr. Armitage
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Society Lawyer
as Henry V. Adams
★6.6
MOVIE1938
Illegal Traffic
as Jigger
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Nevada City
as Amos Norton
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Alaska Patrol
as Mr. Sigmund
★6.0
MOVIE1938
There's Always a Woman
as Mr. Ketterling
★8.0
MOVIE1942
The Adventures of Martin Eden
as Amos Morley
★8.5
MOVIE1946
Miss Susie Slagle's
as Superintendent (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1937
Devil's Playground
as Submarine Commander
★6.2
MOVIE1938
There's That Woman Again
as Mr. Nacelle
★7.3
MOVIE1936
Under Your Spell
as Allen's Lawyer (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1940
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
as J.H. King
★6.3
MOVIE1948
The Strange Mrs. Crane
as Clinton Crane
★5.9
MOVIE1939
Fast and Loose
as Victor Stockton (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1950
Rock Island Trail
as Major
★3.4
MOVIE1950
Radar Secret Service
as Mr. Hamilton
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Everything's on Ice
as Hotel Manager
★8.0
MOVIE1938
State Police
as Col. C.B. Clarke
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Governor
★9.0
MOVIE1941
Naval Academy
as Capt. Davis
★6.6
MOVIE1938
Dangerous to Know
as Senator Carson
★7.4
MOVIE1950
Sunset in the West
as Gordon MacKnight
★6.3
MOVIE1948
The Counterfeiters
as Carter
★8.0
MOVIE1945
I Love a Bandleader
as Dr. Gardiner
★10.0
MOVIE1940
Yesterday's Heroes
as Harvey Mason
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Rulers of the Sea
as Mr. Caldwell (Uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1940
Captain Caution
as American Consul
★5.6
MOVIE1948
The Hunted
as Simon Rand, Attorney
★6.5
MOVIE1937
Internes Can't Take Money
as Dr. Fearson
★6.7
MOVIE1944
Ladies of Washington
as Dr. John Crane (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1936
The Big Game
as The College Chancellor
★5.4
MOVIE1939
The Mysterious Miss X
as Winslow
★4.7
MOVIE1953
The Lost Planet
as Ned Hilton
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Wanted: Jane Turner
as Andrew Norris (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1941
Great Guns
as Col. Wayburn
★6.3
MOVIE1937
The Hit Parade
as J. B. Hawley
★5.5
MOVIE1946
Behind the Mask
as Police Commissioner Weston
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
as Mr. Wondel
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Hold That Line
as Morgan T. Stanhope
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Paradise Isle
as Dr. Steinmeyer
★10.0
MOVIE1939
The Jones Family in Hollywood
as Movie Studio Producer (uncredited)
★4.9
MOVIE1937
Dangerous Number
as Mr. Stark - the Bridegroom
★6.4
MOVIE1946
The Madonna's Secret
as District Attorney
★6.0
MOVIE1943
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
as British Agent Z
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Murder Is My Business
as Arnold Ramsey
★5.4
MOVIE1939
The Great Victor Herbert
as Albert Martin
★5.4
MOVIE1936
King of Hockey
as Thomas A. White
★8.0
MOVIE1951
In Old Amarillo
as George B. Hills
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Life with Henry
as Mr. Joseph Anderson
★6.8
MOVIE1947
Hard Boiled Mahoney
as Dr. Rolfe Carter
★4.9
MOVIE1945
Apology for Murder
as Craig Jordan
★10.0
MOVIE1941
For Beauty's Sake
as Middlesex
★4.8
MOVIE1941
Jesse James at Bay
as Phineas Krager - Land Dealer
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Larceny on the Air
as Kennedy
★9.0
MOVIE1947
Beyond Our Own
as Dr. Blake
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Docks of New York
as Captain Jacobs
★7.5
MOVIE1948
The Gentleman from Nowhere
as Hoffman
★6.8
MOVIE1948
The Gallant Blade
as Governor
★9.0
MOVIE1946
G.I. War Brides
as Editor
★6.4
MOVIE1945
Adventure
as Mr. Buckley
★5.6
MOVIE1946
Swamp Fire
as P.T. Hilton
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Heart of the Rio Grande
as Randolph Lane
★8.0
MOVIE1936
The Gentleman from Louisiana
as Roger Leland
★5.8
MOVIE1946
The Shadow Returns
as Police Commissioner J.R. Weston
★10.0
MOVIE1946
Sioux City Sue
as G.W. Rhodes
★7.3
MOVIE1991
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
as Doc Hyer
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Out West with the Peppers
as J.H. King
★5.7
MOVIE1938
The Lady Objects
as Mr. Harper
★5.7
MOVIE1945
The Phantom Speaks
as Charlie Davis
★6.3
MOVIE1944
Atlantic City
as Sen. Hodges
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Cracked Nuts
as Mr. Benson
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Sea Devils
as USS Taroe Commander
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Under Southern Stars
as Robert E. Lee
★6.3
MOVIE1936
Counterfeit
as Matt McDonald
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Bunker Bean
as Mr. Barnes (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1944
Shadow of Suspicion
as Frank Randall
★4.9
MOVIE1940
Earthbound
as President of the Court
★9.5
MOVIE1958
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
★9.0
MOVIE1947
Jack Armstrong
as Uncle Jim Fairfield
★8.0
MOVIE1950
Over the Border
as Rand Malloy
MOVIE1948
Mary Lou
as Airline President
★5.6
MOVIE1945
Strange Illusion
as Armstrong
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Mystery Sea Raider
as Straker
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Follow That Woman
as J.B. Henderson
★4.9
MOVIE1957
Spook Chasers
as Dr. Moss
★9.0
MOVIE1944
The Great Mike
as Colonel Whitley
★5.8
MOVIE1949
Hold That Baby!
as John Winston
★5.7
MOVIE1949
Miss Mink of 1949
as Cranston
★4.8
MOVIE1936
You May Be Next!
as Bernard Pine (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1936
Country Gentlemen
as Mr. Grayson
★9.0
MOVIE1943
Cinderella Swings It
as Brock Harris
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Californian
as Miller
★7.0
MOVIE1946
I Ring Doorbells
as G.B. Barton
★10.0
MOVIE1948
Glamour Girl
as T.J. Hopkins
★5.7
MOVIE1937
Bill Cracks Down
as William 'Bill' Reardon Sr.
★7.0
MOVIE1945
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
as Dr. Fletcher
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Love Letters of a Star
as Hobbs
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Geronimo
as Col. White
★9.0
MOVIE1945
Secrets of a Sorority Girl
as Dr. Harlan Johnson
★9.0
MOVIE1947
The Wild Frontier
as Frank Lane
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Adventure in Washington
as Frank Conroy
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Brick Bradford
as Professor Salisbury
★6.3
MOVIE1936
It Had to Happen
as District Attorney
★6.5
MOVIE1946
High School Hero
as Governor Huffington
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Covered Trailer
as Horace Cartwright
★5.0
MOVIE1949
Zamba
as Benton
★9.5
MOVIE1956
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
as Investor