Doc Watson

About Doc Watson

Actor/artist "Doc" Joe Watson, best-known for his role in Forbidden Cuba and for playing the dad in "First Moon Party", was born in Auburndale, Florida on December 11, 1969, to Betty Watson, Realtor and David Watson, Broker/developer. He has a twin sister and two younger sisters, Julie, Rebecca, and Melinda, and has English, as well as some, Irish, American Indian, Russian Jewish and Scottish, ancestry.His career began when he traveled to Miami at the age of 16. To do an episode of Miami Vice. It was a featured part. He was to sit on a Limo at as Sonny Crocket (Don Johnson went passed and then to give Apolonia's character a dozen roses just before she was fatally wounded by a shooter in the crowd. Soon after Joe returned to Miami again to be featured in a film called "Let it Ride" starring Richard Dreyfus. On the set he had several conversations with Dreyfus who encouraged the young upstart to follow his dream to Hollywood, CA. Joe's next step was to join a college accredited acting school. He auditioned for a representative in Tampa Florida and then decided to visit it's New York campus. While walking into the School in NYC, Joe bumped into an actor he had met in a play he did when he was twelve. The older actor delighted by the coincidence took the time to show Joe the campus and to tout the advantages of the New York campus. At the time the primary focus was Theater and Richard Dreyfus had planted a seed. Joe chose to pack his car and drive to Los Angeles at 17 years old to begin his career as an actor. Joining the alumni of AADA in Pasadena, CA.Bending the rules Joe decided it was time he make some moves and in the local trade paper for actors, he found his first audition. It read, The Evil, casting the part of Billy. Vegetarian Productions and send submissions to...address. Joe couldn't be bothered with submissions. So he drove to the address in. Hollywood, saw the name on the mail box was in fact Sagittarius Productions and knocked on the obvious residential door. There he met a confused Royce Mathew Writer/Director/ Producer/ linear editor of the completely shot and now strewn about the apartment cutting room floor, movie, "Dream a little Evil." Mathew's to his credit gave Joe a first hand look at the process and read him for the role regardless of the fact that the film was in the can. He then offered to meet with Joe weekly to teach him how to effectively cold read. Later they would team up to develop scripts. One of those scripts has become a controversial mega franchise for Walt Disney Pictures grossing over 3 billion world wide.Joe began booking parts immediately. He was first featured in a Golden Harvest Production where he acted and received stunt pay in LONG XING TIAN XIA. There he met Director John Trujillo. Joe also played An age range character in the award winning music video, Sawyer Browns, "The Walk" he was age from teens to early forties by the make-up artists from the hit movie "The Lost Boys". Joe spied a casting notice for an open call looking for actors to play James Dean. Having learned makeup at the academy, he decided he would give it a shot. Three days before the audition in anticipation Joe decided to put on the Character and walk around the studio lot where the audition/call would be held. The lot was nearly vacant and he strolled the streets trying to imagine the events actual location. He was interrupted by a man in an old fashioned car and an interesting hat. The man asked if everything was good. Joe s...

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