Harry Watson
Also Known As: Harry Watson Jr., Harry B. Watson
Biography: Harry Watson Jr. aka Harry B. Watson was an American actor and comedian. Before his Vaudeville, Broadway and film careers, he was a clown for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 12, 1876
Age: 148 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 23, 1930
Popularity:
Known For:
The Great White Way
Overview: Ambitious press agent Jack Murray introduces two of his clients, Follies dancer Mabel Vandegrift and prize fighter Joe Cain, to each other and they fall in love. After Brock Morton, the owner of the show, says that he will bring down the curtain on the show in the middle of opening night unless Mabel renounces Joe, the latter goes on the stage and announces that, in spite of his prior refusal, that he will fight the English boxing champion. With the money he gets from boxing promoter Tex Rickard, he buys out Morton and the show goes on. Prior to the fight, Morton dopes Joe, but he is brought around so that he is able to fight and eventually wins the match. Joe's father comes east and then brings Joe and Mabel back west with him. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-03
Popularity:
Fifty Miles from Broadway
Overview: A vaudeville style comedy/musical short about a couple that gets engaged and their fighting families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-05
Popularity:
Little Old New York
Overview: An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
Popularity:
Zander the Great
Overview: Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-01
Popularity:
Coming Down
Overview: Musty holds down a job as general factotum at the Busy Bee Amusement Arcade, one of his chief duties being that of taking tickets at the entrance to the moving stairway which leads to the cinema theater on the second floor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-03
Popularity:
A Pirate Bold
Overview: Musty goes for a day's fishing, but bites are scarce and he whiles away the time reading an exciting story entitled "The Bold, Bad Pirate." He goes to sleep sitting on the edge of a bridge and dreams of hidden treasure and dark deeds on the Spanish Main.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-19
Popularity:
Look Out Below
Overview: Musty and his friend, Willie Work, after a comfortable night's rest in a convenient henhouse, set out in search of adventure. They select a mansion with the intention of burglary, but are frightened away by a militant sawbuck. They are summoned by Mme. Cayenne, a jealously guarded wife, who promises them a fine lunch if they will mail a letter to her lover. They agree and the lunch is served. Just as they begin to eat, Senor Cayenne returns. Musty dives out of the second-floor window and hangs from the sill. Willie, who fails to escape, is introduced to Senor as Madame's brother from Kokomo, and royally entertained.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-29
Popularity:
The Fried Egg Hero
Overview: Musty Suffer has a job as a waiter, though he lacks considerable in efficiency. Finding that he gets into trouble with every order he serves, he joins the entertainers and sings a solo. This serves to empty the place as he hoped and gives his a rest. However, another patron comes in and Musty serves him. The customer is irritated with his order and calls for the manager. Musty goes to the kitchen, changes his make-up and poses as the official.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
Popularity:
Partly Cloudy
Overview: Musty holds down a job in Mole and Kittleton's dime museum. Musty seems to be the sole employee about the place, and whatever is called for by any of the patrons, he has to supply it. He is placed in charge of the cane rack, and of course, cheats so that the customers get no canes. One irascible old fellow complains to the manager, who upbraids Musty for his dishonesty. As soon as the customer leaves the manager congratulates himself on having so business-like an employee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-16
Popularity:
Wet and Dry
Overview: Wet and Dry is a silent film comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-15
Popularity:
Pure and Simple
Overview: Musty becomes a carpenter's assistant. He decides that a twin brother would be a great help to him in his work, so he makes one out of wood. Thrown out of the shop, Musty and the dummy break into a girls' tea party with startling results. Of course, in the end, our hero gets very much the worst of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-06
Popularity:
The Soda Jerker
Overview: The Soda Jerker is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-08
Popularity:
Truly Rural
Overview: Truly Rural is a silent 1917 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-22
Popularity:
The Ladder of Fame
Overview: The Ladder of Fame is a 1917 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-29
Popularity:
Starlight Sleep
Overview: Musty suffers from sleeplessness and consults a quack doctor, who administers "Starlight Sleep."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-20
Popularity:
Musty B. Young
Overview: Musty applies for a job as office boy, but is turned down because he is too old. He visits a doctor to get some elixir of youth, but drinks too much and is reduced to a sprightly two-year-old.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-27
Popularity:
The Comet
Overview: An Edison film created for a stage show, showcasing impressive special effects!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-01
Popularity:
Just Imagination
Overview: Musty Suffer dreams of being subjected to psychological experiments by unethical doctors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-18
Popularity:
The Lightning Bell-Hop
Overview: Musty Suffer gets a job as a bell hop at a cheap little hotel, the Outside Inn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-04
Popularity:
Blow Your Horn
Overview: Musty Suffer finds a bicycle and gets a job as a messenger; hilarity ensues, of course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-20
Popularity:
Going Up
Overview: Musty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-22
Popularity:
Local Showers
Overview: Musty Suffer visits a "painless dentist"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-11
Popularity:
Spliced and Iced
Overview: Musty Suffer gets married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-12
Popularity:
While You Wait
Overview: Musty Suffer gets a job as a maid. Then he gets a job as a butler, in the same household. Then he gets a job as a gardener. This becomes complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-04
Popularity:
Outs and Ins
Overview: Musty Suffer gets a job as a chef and waiter at an automat restaurant. Various customers attempt to filch food or money from the coin slots, and Musty deals with the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-01
Popularity:
Musty's Vacation
Overview: Musty Suffer, finding a meal ticket, resolves to take a vacation while eating is free. The café owner, however, discovers Musty’s face does not compare with the photograph on the ticket. Musty goes out to have it altered, thinking less of the face than he does of the meal ticket. He is completely recast in a steel foundry and returns to enjoy the free meals only to find that the restaurant has closed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-03
Popularity:
Showing Some Speed
Overview: Musty, messenger boy, is assigned to deliver a cook stove to a certain address. In spite of the fact that there is no one home and the house locked up, Musty takes the stove in through the window.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-28
Popularity:
Out Of Order
Overview: Musty is standing around in a state of confusion, so his fairy godfather appears to find him a job as a general factotum at an amusement gallery. Musty serves as a bootblack, a ticket-taker, a target at the shooting gallery and a rope to block off a non-working escalator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-20
Popularity:
Strictly Private
Overview: Musty Suffer hunts wild horses in the bad lands of New Jersey. He captures a fine specimen and sells it, but it breaks away to join the fascinating Musty. The fairy tramp grants Musty's wish for a suit and cab, and goes into business.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-25
Popularity:
Bells and Belles
Overview: Musty Suffer as a bell-boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-12
Popularity:
Cruel and Unusual
Overview: Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-01
Popularity:
Active Service
Overview: Series 2, episode 8 of 'The Mishaps of Musty Suffer' series of one-reel comedies, where Harry Watson gets a make-over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-09
Popularity:
Hold Fast!
Overview: Musty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-15
Popularity:
Fore and Aft
Overview: Musty Suffer at sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-23
Popularity:
Capturing Chicago
Overview: Shot during the motion picture exposition in Chicago in July 1916, this short shows off Musty Suffer as he is given the key to the city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-01
Popularity:
The Fixer
Overview: When Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor dinner. And the dinner degenerated into a quiet game with sugar for dice until constable Zack arrived with sleuths galore and landed them everyone safe and sound in the local calaboose. This was an early five-reeler that featured the famous George Bickel and Harry Watson duo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-15
Popularity:
Actors' Fund Field Day
Overview: It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-11
Popularity:
The Politicians
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-17
Popularity:
Keep Moving
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
Popularity: