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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.
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23 September 1944
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co.
11 February 1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
23 January 1948
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm.
13 April 1945
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
22 January 1937
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry.
27 September 1945
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
01 July 1955
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them.
08 August 1938
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office.
26 April 1937
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status.
02 February 1949
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
06 February 1938
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
21 July 1937
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
04 December 1936
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
16 January 1948
A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.
08 November 1936
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride.
02 August 1940
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
04 January 1949
Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis.
18 August 1945
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
01 April 1945
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
26 June 1936
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
01 June 1944
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr.
23 March 1952
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys.
26 October 1943
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
02 June 1939
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
07 April 1948
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
08 November 1936
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible.
01 March 1942
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil.
15 May 1951
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap.
30 September 1938
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.
07 April 1938
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
01 October 1943
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin.
04 June 1953
Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth.
29 August 1937
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
07 June 1940
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.
23 January 1941
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
26 November 1939
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
29 October 1942
An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
01 September 1940
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
08 July 1953
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.
01 April 1942
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
18 December 1947
Brick Bradford, soldier-of-fortune and time-machine traveler, is hired to protect the Interceptor Ray, an anti-guided missile weapon.
10 November 1939
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
01 April 1945
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
10 January 1939
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
01 May 1944
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
05 January 1951
Shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted island inhabited by prehistoric beasts.
11 March 1938
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand.
20 June 1952
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws.
12 August 1946
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.
13 September 1951
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War.
08 October 1943
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel.
19 August 1943
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage.
07 March 1941
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter.
06 September 1946
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) who's nursed him back to health after a serious accident.
25 October 1950
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
18 July 1937
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families.
06 August 1939
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast.
