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Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Actor
Born November 8, 1889Died January 19, 1962 (72 years)
Snub Pollard (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.
Born Harold Fraser, in Melbourne, Australia on 9 November 1889, he began performing with Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company at a young age. Like many of the actors in the popular juvenile company, he adopted Pollard as his stage name. The company ran several highly successful professional children's troupes that traveled Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
In 1908, Harry Pollard joined the company tour to North America. After the completion of the tour, he returned to the US. By 1915 he was regularly appearing in uncredited roles in movies, for example Charles Epting notes that Pollard can clearly be seen in Chaplin's 1915 short By the Sea. In later years, Pollard claimed Hal Roach had discovered him while he was performing on stage in Los Angeles.
Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels. The long-faced Pollard sported a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down; this became his trademark. Lloyd's producer, Hal Roach, gave Pollard his own starring series of one- and two-reel shorts. The most famous is 1923's It's a Gift, in which he plays an inventor of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, including a car that runs by magnet power.
In early 1923, shortly after his second marriage, Pollard returned with his wife Elizabeth to see his relations in Australia. His visit attracted considerable attention, and he appeared again in several theatres to speak about the motion picture business. On his return to the US, he left Roach and joined the low-budget Weiss Brothers studio in 1926. There he co-starred with Marvin Loback as a poor man's version of Laurel and Hardy, copying that team's plots and gags.
In later years, Pollard claimed the Great Depression wiped out his investments, and he had been unable to "adjust to the talkies." However, in the 1930s, he played small parts in talking comedies, and was featured as comic relief in "B" westerns. Pollard's silent-comedy credentials guaranteed him work in slapstick revivals. He appeared with other film veterans in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). He also appeared regularly as a supporting player in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies of the mid-1940s.
Forsaking his familiar mustache in his later years, he landed much steadier work in films as a mostly uncredited bit player. He played incidental roles in scores of Hollywood features and shorts, almost always as a mousy, nondescript fellow, usually with no dialogue.
Snub Pollard died of cancer on 19 January 1962, aged 72, after nearly 50 years in the movie business. His interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
For his contributions to motion pictures, Pollard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard.
Born Harold Fraser, in Melbourne, Australia on 9 November 1889, he began performing with Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company at a young age. Like many of the actors in the popular juvenile company, he adopted Pollard as his stage name. The company ran several highly successful professional children's troupes that traveled Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
In 1908, Harry Pollard joined the company tour to North America. After the completion of the tour, he returned to the US. By 1915 he was regularly appearing in uncredited roles in movies, for example Charles Epting notes that Pollard can clearly be seen in Chaplin's 1915 short By the Sea. In later years, Pollard claimed Hal Roach had discovered him while he was performing on stage in Los Angeles.
Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels. The long-faced Pollard sported a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down; this became his trademark. Lloyd's producer, Hal Roach, gave Pollard his own starring series of one- and two-reel shorts. The most famous is 1923's It's a Gift, in which he plays an inventor of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, including a car that runs by magnet power.
In early 1923, shortly after his second marriage, Pollard returned with his wife Elizabeth to see his relations in Australia. His visit attracted considerable attention, and he appeared again in several theatres to speak about the motion picture business. On his return to the US, he left Roach and joined the low-budget Weiss Brothers studio in 1926. There he co-starred with Marvin Loback as a poor man's version of Laurel and Hardy, copying that team's plots and gags.
In later years, Pollard claimed the Great Depression wiped out his investments, and he had been unable to "adjust to the talkies." However, in the 1930s, he played small parts in talking comedies, and was featured as comic relief in "B" westerns. Pollard's silent-comedy credentials guaranteed him work in slapstick revivals. He appeared with other film veterans in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). He also appeared regularly as a supporting player in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies of the mid-1940s.
Forsaking his familiar mustache in his later years, he landed much steadier work in films as a mostly uncredited bit player. He played incidental roles in scores of Hollywood features and shorts, almost always as a mousy, nondescript fellow, usually with no dialogue.
Snub Pollard died of cancer on 19 January 1962, aged 72, after nearly 50 years in the movie business. His interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
For his contributions to motion pictures, Pollard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard.
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Filmography
| 1986 | Laurel & Hardy (TV Series) · as Community Player (1986) |
| 1967 | The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy · as Cast |
| 1966 | Chaplin's Art of Comedy · as Cast |
| 1963 | 30 Years of Fun · as Cast |
| 1962 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Twist Around the Clock · as Twist Dancer In Alpine Peaks |
| 1961 | The Outsider · as Courtroom Spectator |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles · as Knuckles (uncredited) |
| 1961 | The Errand Boy · as 'snub' |
| 1961 | Homicidal · as Eddie, Bellhop (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Master of the World · as Man At Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited) |
| 1961 | One-Eyed Jacks · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Pepe · as Sands Patron |
| 1960 | The Facts of Life · as Caddy |
| 1960 | Klondike (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1960 | Outlaws (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Elevator Operator |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Waiter |
| 1960 | Studs Lonigan · as Vendor |
| 1960 | Inherit the Wind · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Who Was That Lady? · as Tattoo Artist (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Twelve Hours to Kill · as News Vendor At Train Depot |
| 1960 | When Comedy Was King · as Edited From 'it's A Gift' |
| 1960 | Heller in Pink Tights · as Cheyenne Audience Member |
| 1959 | The Gene Krupa Story · as Minor Role |
| 1959 | Hotel de Paree (TV Series) · as Hotel Guest |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Barfly |
| 1959 | Riverboat (TV Series) · as Apple Vendor |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Johnny Staccato (TV Series) · as Congregation Member |
| 1959 | The Oregon Trail · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Good Day for a Hanging · as Piano Player |
| 1959 | The Lawless Years (TV Series) · as Milkman |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Willie Marsden |
| 1959 | Black Saddle (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1958 | The Perfect Furlough · as Hotel House Detective |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Boarding House Guest |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Stagehand |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson (TV Series) · as Audience Member |
| 1958 | The Rifleman (TV Series) · as Gambler |
| 1958 | Bronco (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1958 | Once Upon a Horse... · as Railroad Station Agent |
| 1958 | Rock-a-Bye Baby · as Bit Role |
| 1958 | Teacher's Pet · as Reporter (uncredited) |
| 1958 | The True Story of Lynn Stuart · as Old Duncan - Gas Station Janitor |
| 1958 | I Married a Woman · as Elevator Operator |
| 1958 | In the Money · as Scotland Yard Valet |
| 1957 | Pal Joey · as Waiter (uncredited) |
| 1957 | Man of a Thousand Faces · as Comedy Waiter #2 |
| 1957 | The Tin Star · as Townsman(uncredited) |
| 1957 | Domino Kid · as Barfly |
| 1957 | The Californians (TV Series) · as Derelict |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Courtroom Spectator |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1957 | Jeanne Eagels · as Quartermaster Bates In 'rain' (uncredited) |
| 1957 | Beau James · as Theatre Man |
| 1957 | Monkey on My Back · as Hospital Patient |
| 1957 | The Buster Keaton Story · as Audience Member |
| 1956 | Friendly Persuasion · as Carnival Patron (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Runaway Daughters · as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk At Dance Club |
| 1956 | The Gale Storm Show (TV Series) · as Stagehand |
| 1956 | The First Traveling Saleslady · as Courtroom Spectator |
| 1956 | Come Next Spring · as Party Guest |
| 1955 | The Man with the Golden Arm · as Street Vagrant (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) · as Special Effects Man |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Bar Patron (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (TV Series) · as Cafe Patron |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Bartender |
| 1955 | Tales of the Texas Rangers (TV Series) · as Carnival Patron |
| 1955 | Pete Kelly's Blues · as Waiter (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Damon Runyon Theater (TV Series) · as Stage Doorman |
| 1954 | The Country Girl · as Stagehand |
| 1954 | Three Hours to Kill · as Townsman |
| 1954 | The Fast and the Furious · as Park Caretaker |
| 1954 | It's a Great Life (TV Series) · as Customer |
| 1954 | Living It Up · as Vagrant In Park |
| 1954 | The Lone Wolf (TV Series) · as Diner Patron |
| 1954 | Public Defender (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Annie Oakley (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1953 | The Robe · as Citizen |
| 1953 | Conquest of Cochise · as Barfly (uncredited) |
| 1953 | The Stranger Wore a Gun · as Barfly |
| 1953 | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive · as Man Pacing In Jail Cell |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar · as Citizen Of Rome |
| 1953 | The Glass Wall · as Man In Alley With Tall Showgirl |
| 1953 | Tonight We Sing · as Concert-Goer |
| 1952 | The Raiders · as Juror |
| 1952 | Limelight · as Street Musician |
| 1952 | Hopalong Cassidy (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1952 | Park Row · as Barfly |
| 1952 | The Kid from Broken Gun · as Courtroom Spectator |
| 1952 | Carrie · as Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Gents in a Jam · as Telegram Deliverer (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Boots Malone · as Stablehand |
| 1952 | Scaramouche · as Man At Assembly Meeting |
| 1952 | Singin' in the Rain · as Old Man Getting Umbrella In "singin' In The Rain" Number (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1952 | The Old West · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth · as Spectator |
| 1951 | The Barefoot Mailman · as Townsman At Dance (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Valley of Fire · as Townsman |
| 1951 | Meet Me After the Show · as Stage Door Johnnie In Opening Number (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Cook At Diner |
| 1951 | The Day the Earth Stood Still · as Cab Driver |
| 1951 | The Company She Keeps · as Restaurant Patron |
| 1951 | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (TV Series) · as Gives Jingles His Gun |
| 1951 | Royal Wedding · as Onlooker On Street |
| 1951 | Belle Le Grand · as Investor |
| 1950 | Racket Squad (TV Series) |
| 1950 | Walk Softly, Stranger · as Custodian On Stairway (uncredited) |
| 1950 | The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) · as (dancer In French Restaurant) |
| 1950 | Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance (TV Series) · as Townsman |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Stage Hand |
| 1950 | Stars in My Crown · as Bartender (uncredited) |
| 1950 | The Gunfighter · as Townsman At Funeral (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Where the Sidewalk Ends · as Pool Hall Patron (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Riding High · as Spectator |
| 1949 | Adam's Rib · as Man In Courtroom (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Square Dance Jubilee · as Show Spectator |
| 1949 | The Lady Gambles · as Elevator Operator (uncredited) |
| 1949 | |
| 1949 | Chicken Every Sunday · as Barker |
| 1949 | The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend · as Faulty Shooter |
| 1949 | |
| 1949 | Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Man In Crowd |
| 1949 | Ma and Pa Kettle · as Townsman |
| 1949 | South of St. Louis · as Trooper |
| 1949 | I Shot Jesse James · as Townsman |
| 1949 | A Woman's Secret · as Stagehand (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Loaded Pistols · as Second Small Man At Dance (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Family Honeymoon · as Passenger |
| 1948 | Belle Starr's Daughter · as Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Unknown Island · as Extra In Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski |
| 1948 | Isn't It Romantic · as Band Member |
| 1948 | Red River · as Wagon Train Member |
| 1948 | The Luck of the Irish · as Wedding Reception Guest |
| 1948 | Johnny Belinda · as Man On Jury (uncredited) |
| 1948 | The Man from Colorado · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Return of the Bad Men · as Guthrie Bartender |
| 1948 | Sinister Journey · as Train Engineer |
| 1948 | Best Man Wins · as Dog Handler |
| 1948 | The Miracle of the Bells · as Worshipper |
| 1947 | The Paradine Case · as Cabby (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Bowery Buckaroos · as Barfly |
| 1947 | King of the Bandits · as Saloon Waiter |
| 1947 | Magic Town · as Townsman |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street · as Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Perils of Pauline · as Western Saloon Set Propman |
| 1947 | Hollywood Barn Dance · as Audience Spectator |
| 1947 | Desperate · as Villager (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Cheyenne · as Barfly (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Thunder Mountain · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Yankee Fakir · as Townsman |
| 1947 | Framed · as (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Trail Street · as Farmer |
| 1947 | Calendar Girl · as Masher |
| 1946 | Till the Clouds Roll By · as Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Plainsman and the Lady · as Barfly |
| 1946 | Sister Kenny · as Man At Barn Dance (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Two Guys from Milwaukee · as Man In Movie Theatre |
| 1946 | Canyon Passage · as Miner (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Badman's Territory · as Town Barber (uncredited) |
| 1946 | A Stolen Life · as Townsman At Barn Dance |
| 1946 | The Hoodlum Saint · as Parade Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Kid from Brooklyn · as Man Reacting To Lion |
| 1946 | Strange Impersonation · as Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| 1945 | San Antonio · as Party Guest |
| 1945 | Road to Utopia · as Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Love Letters · as Trial Spectator |
| 1945 | Kitty · as Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited) |
| 1945 | State Fair · as Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Rockin' in the Rockies · as Drunk (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Show Business · as Audience Member |
| 1944 | Alaska · as Miner |
| 1944 | Bowery to Broadway · as Lamb's Club Diner |
| 1944 | The Conspirators · as Airport Baggage Clerk |
| 1944 | Mrs. Parkington · as Ball Waiter |
| 1944 | The Master Race · as Townsman |
| 1944 | Casanova Brown · as Father At Baby Window (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Hail the Conquering Hero · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Trocadero · as Cab Driver In Opening Sequence. |
| 1944 | Girl in the Case · as Witness (uncredited) |
| 1944 | An American Romance · as Bearded Messenger |
| 1944 | |
| 1944 | The Falcon Out West · as Cowpoke At Train Station |
| 1944 | Lucky Cowboy · as Man Trying To Stop Fight |
| 1944 | Texas Masquerade · as Saloon Waiter |
| 1943 | The Woman of the Town · as Townsman |
| 1943 | Riding High · as Waiter |
| 1943 | Spotlight Scandals · as Man With Balloons |
| 1943 | Ghosts on the Loose · as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Sarong Girl · as Bookie |
| 1943 | I Escaped from the Gestapo · as Thief On Train |
| 1943 | Edge of Darkness · as Townsman In Church (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Clancy Street Boys · as Irate Father (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Kid Dynamite · as Dance Official |
| 1943 | The Kid Rides Again · as Saloon Swamper |
| 1942 | Stand by for Action · as Sailor (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Pay Off · as Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited) |
| 1942 | 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge · as Soup Customer (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Yanks Are Coming · as Canteen Soldier |
| 1942 | Bowery at Midnight · as Knocked-Out Motorist (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Foreign Agent · as Supper Club Patron |
| 1942 | Fingers at the Window · as Minor Role |
| 1942 | Baby Face Morgan · as News Vendor |
| 1942 | They Raid by Night · as Bertie - Messenger |
| 1942 | It Happened in Flatbush · as Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Men of San Quentin · as Convict |
| 1942 | Boot Hill Bandits · as 2nd Bartender |
| 1942 | Too Many Women · as Waiter |
| 1941 | Confirm or Deny · as Air Raid Refugee In Basement Crowd |
| 1941 | Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona · as Townsman |
| 1941 | Federal Fugitives · as Waiter |
| 1941 | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob · as Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Ridin' the Cherokee Trail · as Saloon Drunk |
| 1940 | Drafted in the Depot · as Frightened Man |
| 1940 | Sky Bandits · as Pa, Man In Nightshirt |
| 1940 | Shooting High · as Townsman |
| 1940 | Murder on the Yukon · as Archie |
| 1940 | The Earl of Chicago · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade · as Keystone Cop |
| 1938 | Where the Buffalo Roam · as Pee Wee |
| 1938 | Starlight Over Texas · as Pee Wee |
| 1938 | Utah Trail · as Pee Wee |
| 1938 | Rollin' Plains · as Pee Wee |
| 1938 | Frontier Town · as Peewee |
| 1937 | Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts · as Pee Wee |
| 1937 | Nation Aflame · as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard) |
| 1937 | Goofs and Saddles · as Bad Guy Caught By Sash Window In Shed (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Riders of the Rockies · as Pee Wee Mcdougal |
| 1937 | Sing, Cowboy, Sing · as Prisoner |
| 1937 | Hittin' the Trail · as Bartender |
| 1937 | The Silver Trail · as Cafe Counter Man |
| 1937 | Arizona Days · as Cookie |
| 1936 | Headin' for the Rio Grande · as Cookie (hart Hand) |
| 1936 | Vengeance of Rannah · as Townsman |
| 1936 | The Black Coin · as Vic Moran |
| 1936 | The Gentleman from Louisiana · as Hadley |
| 1936 | The Crime Patrol · as Gyp |
| 1936 | Special Agent K-7 · as Waiter At Geller's Club |
| 1936 | The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand · as Snub - Waiter (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Captain January · as Sailor |
| 1936 | Anything Goes · as Sound Truck Driver |
| 1935 | Bars of Hate · as Danny, The Pickpocket |
| 1935 | The Laramie Kid · as Cinvvict Shorty |
| 1935 | The Night Is Young · as Drummer (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Rawhide Terror · as Renegade |
| 1934 | One More River · as George |
| 1934 | Cockeyed Cavaliers · as King's Physician's Aide |
| 1934 | Stingaree · as Victor |
| 1932 | The Purchase Price · as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Make Me a Star · as Actor In 'wide Open Spaces' |
| 1932 | Week-End Marriage · as Theatre Patron Taking Two Single Seats |
| 1932 | The Strange Love of Molly Louvain · as B.j. Pratt |
| 1932 | |
| 1931 | One Good Turn · as A Community Player (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Road to Singapore · as Photographer At Birthday Party |
| 1930 | Don't Leave Home · as The Plumber |
| 1926 | |
| 1922 | In the Movies · as Snub - The Scenario Writer |
| 1920 | His Royal Slyness · as Prince Of Rochquefort |
| 1919 | From Hand to Mouth · as The Kidnapper |
| 1919 | Captain Kidd's Kids · as The Valet |
| 1919 | Bumping Into Broadway · as The Musical Comedy's Director |
| 1919 | Just Neighbors · as The Neighbor |
| 1919 | Billy Blazes, Esq. · as Sheriff 'gun Shy' Gallagher |
| 1919 | Spring Fever · as The Unwelcome Suitor |
| 1919 | The Marathon · as Snub |
| 1919 | Young Mr. Jazz · as Snub |
| 1919 | A Sammy in Siberia · as Count Pop-Up-Skyvitch - The Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard) |
| 1919 | Next Aisle Over · as The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard) |
| 1919 | Ask Father · as The Corn-Fed Secretary |
| 1918 | Take a Chance · as Simplex Joe |
| 1918 | Triple Trouble · as Flop House Tramp |
| 1918 | |
| 1918 | Are Crooks Dishonest? · as Snub |
| 1918 | Look Pleasant, Please · as Snub - The Janitor (as Harry Pollard) |
| 1918 | A Gasoline Wedding · as Snub |
| 1917 | The Big Idea · as Snub |
| 1917 | Bashful · as Snub The Butler |
| 1917 | Bliss · as Snub |
| 1917 | By the Sad Sea Waves · as Spectator At Beach |
| 1917 | Over the Fence · as Snitch, Another |
| 1917 | Lonesome Luke, Messenger · as Snub |
| 1916 | Police · as First Flophouse Customer |
| 1915 | His Regeneration · as Extra |
| 1915 | By the Sea · as Ice Cream Clerk |