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- Birth nameDavid Delmar Watson
- Delmar Watson was born on July 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Heidi (1937) and Clipped Wings (1937). He was married to Antoinette. He died on October 26, 2008 in Glendale, California, USA.
- SpouseAntoinette(2002 - October 26, 2008) (his death)
- RelativesCoy Watson(Sibling)
- He and three of his brothers were U.S. Coast Guard cameraman during World War II. The four eventually went on to form a news photography business; that exists to this day as large archive. His grandfather James Watson shot pictures of Buffalo Bill riding up Broadway in 1904. An uncle George Watson was the first full time news photographer hired by the Los Angeles Times in 1917.
- Former child actor turned news photographer.
- He had five brothers and three sisters, most of whom were also in show business. He once said, "The studios all knew we had kids of all sizes; when they wanted a kid, they'd come over and grab one of us. Pretty soon we were all working steady." As a family, their credits added up to more than a thousand films.
- His movie career started six months after he was born.
- He was in more that 75 films by the time he was age 7.
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