Wylie Watson Overview:

Character actor, Wylie Watson, was born John Wylie Watson on Feb 6, 1889 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Watson died at the age of 77 on May 3, 1966 in unknown, Australia .

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Small, slightly built, dark-haired, mustachioed Scottish actor who played wily, henpecked or mealy-mouthed little men. A member of a family variety act, he started his career before the turn of the century, as a boy vocalist singing 15 times a day in a waxworks. He is said to have made his film debut in a 1928 Hollywood film while on a trip to America, but became a British film regular after his role as Mr. Memory in Hitchcock's 1935 version of The 39 Steps. Went to Australia in the early 1950s.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Salvation Watkins - Sir Humphrey's Gang: ah you can laugh now but you'll sing a different tune on when you're rosting in the consuming fire that's waiting for all of us... including me.


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In 1948 he received a "Daily Express" film award for his outstanding performance in London Belongs To Me (1948).

Once his voice began to break and still in his teens he began a 10-year tour through Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India with Jack Walker's company known as 'The Seven Butterflies'.

Died at age 77.

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