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Bobby Watson
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Actor Born: 1888 in Springfield, IL Death: May 22, 1965 in Hollywood, CA Biography:Not to be confused with lachrymose child actor "Bobs Watson" (1931-1999), "Robert "Bobby" Watson" was a musical comedy actor who came to films in 1925. At the advent of talkies, the short, ebullient Watson played a few leads in such musicals as "Syncopation" (1929), then spent the 1930s essaying bit roles as glib reporters and fey "pansy" types. For a while, he emulated Broadway star "Bobby Clark", adopting horn-rimmed glasses, a wide-brimmed hat, and a perpetual air of bug-eyed lechery. Watson found his true niche in the 1940s, when his startling resemblance to Adolf Hitler assured him plenty of screen work. He alternately portrayed Der Führer as a raving madman in such serious films as "The Hitler Gang" (1942) and as a slapsticky buffoon in such comedies as The Devil With Hitler (1942) and "That Nazty Nuisance" (1943). Legend has it that he faced so much hostility on the set while made up as Hitler... Full Biography
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