Muse Watson

Muse Watson
Born	July 20, 1948 (1948-07-20) (age 63) Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Website
musewatson.com

Muse Watson (born July 20, 1948) is an American stage and screen actor.^[1][2] He most recently appeared (2006–2011) as the recurring character Mike Franks in the television drama NCIS.

Biography

Watson was born on July 20, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana Tech on a music stipend for two years before transferring to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where he performed for the first time on stage as Petruchio in a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. During and after his years at Berea, he worked in outdoor dramas, dinner theaters, and small repertory groups.

His theater credits include acting as Hamlet in Hamlet, Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Pale in Burn This, and Cervantes in Man of La Mancha. He also directed a production of Ain't Misbehavin'.

In 1989, with a new commitment to film, Watson began pursuing feature film roles. By 2005, he had appeared in 43 feature films such as Sommersby, Something to Talk About, Assassins, Dead Birds, Rosewood, I Know What You Did Last Summer, From Dusk Till Dawn 2, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Songcatcher. As of 2005, seven of the films he has appeared in, combined, have grossed over $850 million.

His television credits include eight made-for-television movies including Blind Vengeance and Justice in a Small Town; and the television series, American Gothic, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Matlock, The Lazarus Man, JAG, Walker, Texas Ranger, Criminal Minds, and Prison Break. Recently he has appeared on episodes of Ghost Whisperer ("Delia's First Ghost", April 2007) and CSI ("Who and What", November 2007). Watson also guest starred in an episode of The Mentalist ("Carnelian, Inc.", March 2009), and in the Castle episode "Punked" (October 2010). From 2006 to 2011, he appeared as a recurring cast member on NCIS as Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs's mentor and former superior Mike Franks.

Watson also gave a performance with Jennifer Love Hewitt as a special guest on Saturday Night Live (1998), parodying his role in I Know What You Did Last Summer. He also joined the production company Shorris Film with Christopher Showerman and Clint Morris — their first film is the western Between the Sand and the Sky. Watson is now filming A Christmas Snow, in which he plays a character named Sam.

References

1. ^ "Muse Watson - About this Person". New York Times. 2010. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/221146/Muse-Watson. 
2. ^ "Raymond Cruz and Muse Watson in From Dusk Till Dawn II". New York Times. May 6, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/05/06/arts/06moraCA02ready.html. 

External links

• Official website
• Muse Watson at the Internet Movie Database
• Muse Watson at AllRovi

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Name	Watson, Muse
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Short description	American actor
Date of birth	July 20, 1948
Place of birth	Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.
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