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Pierre Watkin

Pierre Watkin

Birthday: 1889-12-29 | Place of Birth: Sioux City, Iowa, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1956
Thunder Over Arizona

as    Dr. Peterson

1955
Sudden Danger

as    George Caldwell

1955
Creature with the Atom Brain

as    Mayor Bremer

1955
The Big Bluff

as    Mr. Winthrop

1953
The Stranger Wore a Gun

as    Jason Conroy

1951
In Old Amarillo

as    George B. Hills

1951
Two Lost Worlds

as    Magistrate Jeffries

1950
Redwood Forest Trail

as    Arthur Cameron

1950
Sunset in the West

as    Gordon MacKnight

1950
Last of the Buccaneers

as    Gov. Claiborne

1950
Radar Secret Service

as    Mr. Hamilton

1950
Atom Man vs. Superman

as    Perry White

1949
The Story of Seabiscuit

as    Charles S. Howard

1949
Siren of Atlantis

as    Colonel

1948
Incident

as    C. W. Sloan

1948
The Counterfeiters

as    Carter

1948
Fighting Back

as    Colonel

1948
Superman

as    Perry White

1948
The Hunted

as    Simon Rand, Attorney

1947
The Wild Frontier

as    Frank Lane

1947
Brick Bradford

as    Professor Salisbury

1947
The Red Stallion

as    Richard Moresby

1946
Murder Is My Business

as    Arnold Ramsey

1946
The Madonna's Secret

as    District Attorney

1946
Swamp Fire

as    P.T. Hilton

1946
The Shadow Returns

as    Police Commissioner J.R. Weston

1946
Behind the Mask

as    Police Commissioner Weston

1945
Strange Illusion

as    District Attorney Wallace Armstrong