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Pierre Watkin

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American actor (1889-1960)

United StatesActorsLived 1889 to 1960 · aged 70
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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.

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Filmography 40

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington1939 · ★ 7.8
Monsieur Verdoux1947 · ★ 7.7
You Can't Take It with You1938 · ★ 7.5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town1936 · ★ 7.5
Meet John Doe1941 · ★ 7.3
Swing Time1936 · ★ 6.9
The Fountainhead1949 · ★ 6.8
The Pride of the Yankees1942 · ★ 7.4
Stage Door1937 · ★ 7.1
The Bank Dick1940 · ★ 6.5
He Who Gets Slapped1924 · ★ 7.6
Knock on Any Door1949 · ★ 6.2
Marked Woman1937 · ★ 6.6
Shock1946 · ★ 5.9
Flamingo Road1949 · ★ 7.0
I Love You Again1940 · ★ 7.2
History Is Made at Night1937 · ★ 6.6
Dangerous1935 · ★ 6.6
The Mad Miss Manton1938
Creature with the Atom Brain1955
Dakota1945
Road to Singapore1940
The Stranger Wore a Gun1953
Great Guns1941
Superman1948
If You Could Only Cook1935
Knute Rockne All American1940
Here Come the Co-Eds1945
King of the Underworld1939
Du Barry Was a Lady1943
Mr. Moto's Gamble1938
Dead Man's Eyes1944
Marjorie Morningstar1958
Little Giant1946
Mission to Moscow1943
Atom Man vs. Superman1950
Jungle Woman1944
Breakfast for Two1937
The Big Bluff1955
The Story of Seabiscuit1949

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Television 24

Perry Mason1957
Adventures of Superman1952
I Love Lucy1951
Dragnet1951
Four Star Playhouse1952
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
Bat Masterson1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive1958
Highway Patrol1955
The Jack Benny Program1950
December Bride1954
Fury1955
Lux Video Theatre1950
The Count of Monte Cristo1956
Racket Squad1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson1951
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse1958
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon1955
Cavalcade of America1952
City Detective1953
Hopalong Cassidy1952
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour1957
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok1951
Boston Blackie1951

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About this person

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).

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1889 to 1960 · aged 70
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