Harry Watson

Acting

Harry Watson

Born 1876-06-12 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Acting credits

Coming Down poster
NR

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.

Coming Down

1916

No artwork available
NR

Series 2, episode 8 of 'The Mishaps of Musty Suffer' series of one-reel comedies, where Harry Watson gets a make-over.

Active Service

1916

Local Showers poster
5.0

Musty Suffer visits a "painless dentist"

Local Showers

1916

No artwork available
NR

Musty gets a job in a grocery store. Through a series of very bad encounters with various customers it becomes clear he is ill-suited to the job and ultimately he goes his own way.

Keep Moving

1915

Hold Fast! poster
5.0

Musty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.

Hold Fast!

1916

No artwork available
NR

Detective Ruby Swift is on the trail of crooked politicos McQuire and Olson and traces them to the small hamlet Hicktown. Once there she finds that they are attempting to steal the election of the mayor in order to “trim” the town. Ruby, as secretary to the politicians, causes both to fall in love with her, hoping their rivalry will part them and reveal the hidden ballot boxes. Jealous over Ruby, the politicians quarrel, and not even the suffragette Chief of Police can reconcile them. How Ruby takes advantage of the quarrel and brings them to justice is the climax of this five-reel comedy.

The Politicians

1915

Going Up poster
NR

Musty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.

Going Up

1916

Strictly Private poster
5.0

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.

Strictly Private

1916

Out Of Order poster
5.0

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.

Out Of Order

1916

No artwork available
NR

Musty suffers from sleeplessness and consults a quack doctor, who administers "Starlight Sleep."

Starlight Sleep

1917

The Fixer poster
4.0

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.

The Fixer

1915

No artwork available
9.0

It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.

Actors' Fund Field Day

1910

Capturing Chicago poster
NR

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.

Capturing Chicago

1916

Outs and Ins poster
5.0

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.

Outs and Ins

1916

No artwork available
NR

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.

Partly Cloudy

1916

Bells and Belles poster
NR

Musty Suffer as a bell-boy.

Bells and Belles

1916

Little Old New York poster
6.5

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

Little Old New York

1923

Cruel and Unusual poster
NR

Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.

Cruel and Unusual

1916

Look Out Below poster
NR

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.

Look Out Below

1916

Musty's Vacation poster
5.5

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.

Musty's Vacation

1917

While You Wait poster
NR

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.

While You Wait

1916

Zander the Great poster
6.2

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.

Zander the Great

1925

Spliced and Iced poster
NR

Musty Suffer gets married.

Spliced and Iced

1917

Blow Your Horn poster
NR

Musty Suffer finds a bicycle and gets a job as a messenger; hilarity ensues, of course.

Blow Your Horn

1916