When
Mack Sennett's
Keystone Studios, located just 600 feet from the Watson family home, required child actors for films, the father
Canadian American J. C "Coy" Watson Sr. provided his children for casting. The Watson children worked with many big stars in the early Hollywood era, such as
James Stewart,
Lionel Barrymore,
Fred Astaire,
Shirley Temple,
Katharine Hepburn and
Henry Fonda. All six Watson brothers worked as press, newsreel and television photographers during their adult careers. One of the siblings, Delmar Watson, stated in the
Los Angeles Times in 1968, "The studio knew we had kids of all sizes, so when they needed a kid for one of their pictures, they grabbed one of us, and soon we were all working steadily". ==Legacy==