[1] and since the death of Mildred Kornman and Donnie "Beezer" Smith, he is also the last living actor of the silent film era.
[2] When Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, located just 600 feet from the Watson family home, required child actors for films, the father Canadian American J.
The Watson children worked with many big stars in the early Hollywood era, such as James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Fred Astaire, Shirley Temple, Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda.
All six Watson brothers worked as press, newsreel and television photographers during their adult careers.
[4] His son, J.C. (James Caughey) "Coy" Watson Sr. (born Ontario, Canada, April 14, 1890 – May 23, 1968), was a journeyman plasterer, who became a horse breaker for cowboy star Buck Jones and rented mounts to stars Hoot Gibson and Tom Mix, before getting into the special effects department, and became notable for designing The Flying Carpet that Douglas Fairbanks rode in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad,[4] he married Golda Gladdis Wimer (1893–1979) on September 23, 1910.