- Son of British Music Hall comic Nosmo King who took his stage name from a pair of swing doors that had "No Smoking" written across them.
- His father's real name was Vernon Watson and his mother, Barbara Hughes, was a Gaiety Girl.
- He appeared in two different adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel "Kidnapped": Kidnapped (1971) and Kidnapped (1978).
- When the Second World War broke out, his physical fitness led Watson to become a PT instructor with the Royal Navy. His variety experience, coupled with a talent for various regional accents, led to regular appearances on the Navy's radio variety show and, after the war, on BBC Radio comedy and children's drama programmes.
- When he was 16, he appeared in a double act on the variety stage with his father. He played a precocious teenager named 'Hubert Hubert', which can be said to be his first film role, since the act was captured in several Pathé Pictorial shorts.
- Father of two daughters and a son: Penelope, Fiona and Alastair.
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