Pierre Watkin
Pierre Watkin was an actor, born 1889, died 1960.
Pierre Frank Watkin was an American character actor best known for playing distinguished authority figures throughout the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is best remembered for his roles of Mr. Skinner the bank president in The Bank Dick (1940); Lou Gehrig's father-in-law Mr. Twitchell in Pride of the Yankees (1942); and the first actor to portray Perry White in the Superman serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).
Movies (17)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Swing Time (1936)
- Rock Island Trail (1950)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
- Money Madness (1948)
- Jungle Woman (1944)
- Dakota (1945)
- The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
- I Love You Again (1940)
- Shock (1946)
- Superman (1948)
- Flamingo Road (1949)
- Dangerous (1935)
- Little Giant (1946)
- Knock on Any Door (1949)
TV (13)
- Highway Patrol (1955)
- Adventures of Superman (1952)
- December Bride (1954)
- Fury (1955)
- Cavalcade of America (1952)
- Racket Squad (1951)
- The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)
- Hopalong Cassidy (1952)
- Boston Blackie (1951)
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955)
- City Detective (1953)
- The Whistler (1954)