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Garry Watson

Garry Watson (1928-     ) At age 11, Garry acted with brothers, Delmar, Harry and Billy in, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) starring James Stewart , and with six Watson family members in Life Begins at Forty (1935) with Will Rogers. He and his brothers Delmar and Billy in also acted in Wild Girl (1932) with Joan Bennett, and with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in the Exile (1947). He sang on his own ABC radio show in the 1950’s and became known as the “singing photographer.” Garry learned photography from his father and brothers during the 1940’s earning his first dollars as the official school photographer during his high school years. His first photographic job came in 1948 as he manned the wire photo machine at ACME News Pictures. One of Garry’s first photo assignments at ACME was to photograph test pilot, Chuck Yeager who had just broken the sound barrier. He moved from ACME to the Los Angeles Daily News until 1954 when he went on to the Los Angeles Times. Garry left newspapers in 1957 to join the 6 Watson Brothers photography studio business through the 1960’s.  He worked as a commercial photographer until 1977 when he joined the Valley News and Green Sheet which later became the Daily News of Los Angeles, until his retirement in 1986. 

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