Harry Watson Jr.


Harry B. Watson Jr. was an American actor and comedian. Before his Vaudeville and Broadway stage career and making his films, he was a clown for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Among his Broadway shows
were the musical Tip-Toes and five editions of the Ziegfeld Follies.
The most high profile of his few feature films was Zander the Great - one of his three Hearst Cosmopolitan Productions -
but he is perhaps best recalled today as the star of a series of bizarre silent comedy shorts, The Mishaps of Musty Suffer. Two volumes of surviving Musty Suffer titles - many featuring Watson’s comedy partner, George Bickel - were restored by the American Library of Congress and released with music by Ben Model on DVD by Undercrank Productions in 2014 and 2015.

Filmography