Biography
Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor. He appeared in 111 movies made between 1913 and 1956. His credits included Boys Town (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Kings Row (1942), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Bewitched (1945), The Virginian (1946), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hollywood Classic Special
2010
Compilation hodgepodge.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

The Ambassador's Daughter
1956
as Gen. Andrew Harvey
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.

The Rawhide Years
1956
as Matt Comfort
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galen...

Trapeze
1956
as John Ringling North
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1955
as Judge Thatcher
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brother...

Ten Wanted Men
1955
as Jason Carr
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power ...

Roar of the Crowd
1953
as Cyrus Mackey
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give...

The Star
1952
as Joe Morrison
Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen, an...

Face to Face
1952
as Scratchy Wilson
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a...

Untamed Frontier
1952
as Matt Denbow
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love...

My Son John
1952
as Dr. Carver
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

Little Egypt
1951
as Cyrus Graydon
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.

Bright Victory
1951
as Mr. Paterson
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

As Young as You Feel
1951
as Harold P. Cleveland
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant...

Mister 880
1950
as Judge O'Neil
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has ama...

The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
as Branch Rickey
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major l...

The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
as Judge Calvin H. Blackwell
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her...

Beyond the Forest
1949
as Moose
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. S...

A Southern Yankee
1948
as Gen. Watkins
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civi...

Courage of Lassie
1946
as Sheriff Ed Grayson
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from ...

Boys' Ranch
1946
as Mr. Harper
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

Saratoga Trunk
1945
as J.P. Reynolds (uncredited)
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostra...

Bewitched
1945
as Governor
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

You Came Along
1945
as Uncle Jack
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with ...

A Bell for Adano
1945
as Maj. Gen. McKay (uncredited)
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without int...

God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
as Col. Caleb V. Haynes
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into Ch...

The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Sam Ronson
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Here Come the Waves
1944
as Superior Officer (uncredited)
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabo...

That's My Baby!
1944
as R. P. (Phineas) Moody
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton P...

Christmas Holiday
1944
as Townsend
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin ma...

Shadows in the Night
1944
as Frederick Gordon
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

The Falcon Out West
1944
as Dave Colby
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, t...

Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
1944
as Ramsey Kent
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.

Happy Land
1943
as Judge Colvin
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he h...

Guadalcanal Diary
1943
as Col Wallace E. Grayson
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalca...

Princess O'Rourke
1943
as Mr. Washburn
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Yanks Ahoy
1943
as Capt. Scott
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

Action in the North Atlantic
1943
as Rear Adm. Williams (uncredited)
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...

Mission to Moscow
1943
as Loy Henderson
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.

Crash Dive
1943
as Adm. Bob Stewart
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...

Power of the Press
1943
as John Cleveland Carter (uncredited)
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war e...

Gentleman Jim
1942
as Buck Ware
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...

To the Shores of Tripoli
1942
as Christopher Winters
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

The Big Shot
1942
as Warden George Booth
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunt...

Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
as Albee
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Frisco Lil
1942
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love wit...

The Remarkable Andrew
1942
as District Attorney Orville Beamish
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...

Woman of the Year
1942
as William J. Harding
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...

Kings Row
1942
as Sam Winters
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Senator Smith
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th...

Birth of the Blues
1941
as Henri Lambert
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which...

Kiss the Boys Goodbye
1941
as Uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her ro...

The Parson of Panamint
1941
as Sheriff Nickerson
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the tow...

Moon Over Miami
1941
as Mr. Jim Reynolds
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich...

Mr. District Attorney
1941
as Arthur Barret
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

The Monster and the Girl
1941
as Judge Pulver
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape ...

Western Union
1941
as Pat Grogan
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern...

Gallant Sons
1940
as Barton Newbold
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

Rangers of Fortune
1940
as Clem Bowdry
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...

Young People
1940
as Dakin
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the f...

Hidden Gold
1940
as Ed Colby
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may ...

20 Mule Team
1940
as Marshal
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will s...

Viva Cisco Kid
1940
as Jesse Allen
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to ...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
as Joshua Speed
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...

The Llano Kid
1939
as Sheriff Robert McLane
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. T...

Television Spy
1939
as Burton Lawson
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

Here I Am a Stranger
1939
as Evans
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
as Maloney
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit...

News Is Made at Night
1939
as Charles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o...

Maisie
1939
as Prosecuting Attorney
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman...

Boy Friend
1939
as Capt. Duffy
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing ther...

The Hardys Ride High
1939
as Terry Archer
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million...

The Flying Irishman
1939
as Airport Personnel Manager
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
as Capt. Brandy
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

Stand Up and Fight
1939
as U.S. Marshal Cole
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

While New York Sleeps
1938
as Charles MacFarland
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

Stablemates
1938
as Barney Donovan
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Boys Town
1938
as Bishop
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being tre...
Touchdown, Army
1938
as Col. Denby
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

Fast Company
1938
as Steve Langner
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Love, Honor and Behave
1938
as Dr. MacConaghey
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

Of Human Hearts
1938
as Captain Griggs
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who minis...

Checkers
1937
as Dr. Smith
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Navy Blue and Gold
1937
as Lt. Milburn
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

Saturday's Heroes
1937
as Doc Thomas
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

That Certain Woman
1937
as Clark Tilden
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

Dead End
1937
as Mr. Griswald
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...

The Woman I Love
1937
as Deschamps
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.

When's Your Birthday?
1937
as Regan
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

The Longest Night
1936
as Hardy
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

Rose of the Rancho
1936
as Jonathan Hill
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of C...

Annapolis Farewell
1935
as Cmmdre. Briggs
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his da...

Pursuit
1935
as Hale
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Ru...

Lady Tubbs
1935
as Fishbaker
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

Age of Indiscretion
1935
as Mr. Adams
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with t...

Mary Jane's Pa
1935
as Kenneth Marvin
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and ...

Mister Dynamite
1935
as Clark Lewis
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

Charlie Chan in Paris
1935
as Insp. Renard
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is kille...

Babbitt
1934
as Paul 'Paulivus' F. Reisling
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George ...

The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
as Colonel Sherwood
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local milit...

24 Hours
1931
as David Melbourn
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

Dollars-Pounds-Sense
1913
as Charles Watson
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him unle...

Cupid and Three
1913
as Ben
Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to discourage Arthur. Arthur is a little bit peeved wh...

Day by Day
1913
as Frank
Day by Day film
Love Incognito
1913
as Jack Fuller
Jack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the street, he is overjoyed to find his friend is acquainte...