# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-watkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:54:56.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-watkin"
name: "Pierre Watkin"
slug: "pierre-watkin"
description: "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)."
tagline: "American actor (1889–1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_Watkin_in_Meet_John_Doe_(1941).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1889-12-29"
deathDate: "1960-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.18
  momentum:             0.6631989596879064
  historical:           10.96285333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914246/"
    handle:    "nm0914246"
sources:
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    title: "پیئر واٹکن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Watkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيير واتكن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيير واتكن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پیر واتکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Watkin"
    title: "Pierre Watkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Watkin"
    title: "Pierre Watkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پیر واتکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Watkin"
    title: "Pierre Watkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%88%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ピエール・ワトキン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%BC%EC%97%90%EB%A5%B4_%EC%99%93%ED%82%A8"
    title: "피에르 왓킨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Watkin"
    title: "Pierre Watkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3387342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30216"
    title: "Pierre Watkin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump