Pierre Watkin

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Pierre Frank Watkin December 29 1889 February 3 1960 was an American character actor in many films serials and television series from the 1930s through the 1950s especially westerns He is perhaps best remembered for being the father of Eleanor Twitchell the lady who captures Lou Gehrigs heart in Pride of the Yankees 1942 Watkin was born in Sioux City Iowa In the 1920s he had his own theatrical troupe the Pierre Watkin Players In 1927 the group moved its headquarters from Sioux Falls to Lincoln Nebraska Watkin portrayed Perry White in both of the Superman serials of the late 1940s which starred Kirk Alyn as the title character and Noel Neill as Lois Lane Watkin played a few different characters in the television series Adventures of Superman in which John Hamilton played Perry White He was set to reprise his role as the editor of The Daily Planet in a revival of the series in 1959 as Hamilton had died in the interim since the cancellation of the original series However series star George Reeves also died in the summer of 1959 and those plans ended Watkin himself died six months later He also cast in 1955 in the episode Joey and the Gypsies of the NBC childrens western series Fury Watkin guest starred in the CBS western series Brave Eagle He was cast twice each on the ABCWarner Brothers series Cheyenne as Harvey Sinclair in The Law Man and Annie Oakley as the Reverend Mills in the 1956 episode The Reckless Press In 1958 Watkin portrayed Dr Breen of Samaritan Hospital in the episode San Francisco Story of Rex Allens syndicated western series Frontier Doctor During the first season of CBSs Perry Mason from 1957 to 1958 Watkin appeared in three episodes as Judge Keetley He was also cast during the 1950s on The Range Rider Tales of the Texas Rangers in three episodes of the western aviation adventure series Sky King and five times on The Jack Benny Program Watkin played the part of Colonel Duncan in the 1958 episode Decoy of the ABCWarner Brothers western series Colt 45