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Not to be confused with Englishman Charlie Watts (the drummer from the rock band the Rolling Stones), Charles Watts was an American actor. Working only in the '50s and '60s, Watts never gained enough steam or recognition to land any major roles, though he did appear in a handful of high-profile titles in both television and films. Watts's professional relationship with acting began at Ch...

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You Never Can Tell (1920)

Assistant Director

Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

Apache Rifles (1964)

Dead Ringer (1964)

Apartment manager

The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

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Don't Go Near The Water (1957) -- (Movie Clip) They're Completely Unpredictable

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You're Gonna Meet Some Folks

Biography

Not to be confused with Englishman Charlie Watts (the drummer from the rock band the Rolling Stones), Charles Watts was an American actor. Working only in the '50s and '60s, Watts never gained enough steam or recognition to land any major roles, though he did appear in a handful of high-profile titles in both television and films. Watts's professional relationship with acting began at Chattanooga High School in his home state of Tennessee, where he taught drama from 1937 to 1938. It wasn't until the early 1950s that he began putting his knowledge into practice, though many of his early roles were so minor that they went uncredited. By the mid '50s he started getting screen time and credits in major motion pictures like the epic Western romance "Giant," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. Watts appeared in five different installments of the renowned television anthology series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," playing a different character each time.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

You Never Can Tell (1920)

Assistant Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

Apache Rifles (1964)

Dead Ringer (1964)

Apartment manager

The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Something Wild (1961)

Summer and Smoke (1961)

Cimarron (1960)

No Name on the Bullet (1959)

The Big Circus (1959)

Jonathan Nelson

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)

Oscar Matthison

The High Cost of Loving (1958)

Raintree County (1957)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

The Big Land (1957)

Outlaw's Son (1957)

Marshal Electrician Blessingham

Don't Go Near the Water (1957)

Rep. Arthur Smithfield

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Canyon River (1956)

The Scarlet Coat (1955)

The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

Police sergeant

Tall Man Riding (1955)

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

She Couldn't Say No (1954)

Ricochet Romance (1954)

The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)

Harry the bartender

A Star Is Born (1954)

New Faces (1954)

Scandal at Scourie (1953)

The System (1953)

The Jazz Singer (1953)

The Silver Whip (1953)

Trouble Along the Way (1953)

She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)

The Sniper (1952)

Something for the Birds (1952)

Room for One More (1952)

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

Just This Once (1952)

The Texas Rangers (1951)

The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Man at Flaherty's

Storm Warning (1951)

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)

The Painted Hills (1951)

I Was a Shoplifter (1950)

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

Cast (Special)

A Raisin in the Sun (1989)

Life Events

Videos

Don't Go Near The Water (1957) -- (Movie Clip) They're Completely Unpredictable Jaded Lt. Siegel (Glenn Ford) with swabbie yeoman Garrett (Earl Holliman) stuck with showing goofball congressmen (Jansen and Smithfield, Jack Albertson and Charles Watts) around their rear-sector Pacific island base, meets (23 year-old Sicilian-Irish) Gia Scala as native schoolteacher Melora (Alba), Chuck Walters directing for MGM, in Don’t Go Near The Water, 1957, from the novel by Life magazine editor William Brinkley.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You're Gonna Meet Some Folks Newlywed Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) on her first morning at Reata, with rugged sister-in-law Luz (Mercedes McCambridge) whom she’s just met, who sets up a social gauntlet, with husband Bick (Rock Hudson), featuring Monte Hale, Charles Watts and especially Jane Withers as Vashti, Jett (James Dean) brooding, in George Stevens’ Giant, 1956.

Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Looks Like A Rough Day Director Delbert Mann's opening, introducing Doris Day, and later her aide Ann B. Davis, and rival Madison Avenue ad man Jerry (Rock Hudson), with an uncredited companion, then assistant Karen Norris, and a new contract up for grabs, in Lover Come Back, 1961.

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