As per our current Database, Wylie Watson has been died on 3 May, 1966 at Australia.
When Wylie Watson die, Wylie Watson was 77 years old.
| Popular As | Wylie Watson |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 77 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | February 6, 1889 (Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK) |
| Birthday | February 6 |
| Town/City | Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| Nationality | UK |
Wylie Watson’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Wylie Watson was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Diminutive Scottish character player with trademark neatly-trimmed moustache, upturned at the ends, who began as a juvenile soprano vocalist in the late 1890's with a family variety act. At one time he performed 15 times daily at a waxworks ! Watson didn't start in films until 1929, when 'discovered' in Hollywood while on an American vacation.
His stay in the U.S. was cut short, however, and after one small film role he returned to England to become one of the 'versatiles', adept at playing an assortment of archetypal Britishers, often shifty or cunning, sometimes officious, weak or hen-pecked.
Without doubt, one of his best roles was that of 'Mr.Memory' in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), who claimed that he stored fifty new facts in his brain every day. Though a small part, it was acted with pathos and integral to the unfolding of the plot.
Watson also gave good value for money as a small-time crook, one of Richard Attenborough's nasty little razor gang, in Brighton Rock (1948); and as the devious, ever manipulative storekeeper, Joseph Macroon, in Ealing's Whisky Galore! (1949).
An adroitness at comedy Watson had already shown way back in the wartime educational short (warning against the dangers of ignoring blackout ordinances), Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941), where his billiard-playing antics are rudely - and to comic effect - interrupted by a German bomb.
Wylie Watson retired from acting in 1952 (except for a small part in Fred Zinnemann's The Sundowners (1960)) and emigrated to Australia, where he died in May 1966.
