Minor S. Watson — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Minor S. Watson [Minor Watson] is the new and good-looking juvenile lead in eastern Essanay pictures.

He got his experience touring the country with such companies as those of Blanche Bates, Chauncey Olcott and Douglas Fairbanks [Douglas Fairbanks Sr.], and had the knack of fitting into whatever role was presented him.

He also entered that invaluable school which typifies hard work and an unlimited experience — Stock. This was in Morristown, N. J., with the Palace Theater Stock company, and his accomplishing this venture held Mr. Watson here for a whole season.

Then “bigger time” again claimed him and he resumed former acquaintanceships along Broadway and played in several of New York’s New Theater productions.

When the Essanay Film Company decided to recruit its growing forces, it sent to New York to do so and among the number of able artists chosen was the versatile Watson. This was his first film experience.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1913