From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movie | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Statehood Audience Member (uncredited) | 1962-04-13 |
Movie | Days of Thrills and Laughter | 1961-03-21 | |
Movie | One-Eyed Jacks | Townsman (uncredited) | 1961-03-30 |
Movie | Master of the World | Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited) | 1961-05-01 |
Movie | Pocketful of Miracles | Knuckles (uncredited) | 1961-12-18 |
Movie | Inherit the Wind | Townsman (uncredited) | 1960-07-07 |
Movie | Jeanne Eagels | Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited) | 1957-08-02 |
Movie | Man of a Thousand Faces | Comedy Waiter #2 | 1957-08-15 |
Movie | Runaway Daughters | Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club | 1956-01-20 |
Movie | Friendly Persuasion | Carnival Patron (uncredited) | 1956-11-25 |
Series | Public Defender | Unknown | 1954-03-11 |
Movie | The Fast and the Furious | Park Caretaker | 1954-11-01 |
Movie | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Man Pacing in Jail Cell | 1953-07-13 |
Movie | Julius Caesar | Citizen of Rome | 1953-06-04 |
Movie | Singin' in the Rain | Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited) | 1952-04-09 |
Movie | Park Row | Barfly | 1952-09-01 |
Movie | Limelight | Street Musician | 1952-10-23 |
Movie | Meet Me After the Show | Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited) | 1951-08-15 |
Series | Racket Squad | Unknown | 1951-06-07 |
Movie | The Barefoot Mailman | Townsman at Dance (uncredited) | 1951-12-03 |
Movie | The Gunfighter | Townsman at Funeral (uncredited) | 1950-06-23 |
Movie | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Pool Hall Patron (uncredited) | 1950-07-07 |
Movie | Walk Softly, Stranger | Custodian on Stairway (uncredited) | 1950-10-14 |
Movie | A Woman's Secret | Stagehand (Uncredited) | 1949-01-13 |
Movie | Adam's Rib | Man in Courtroom (uncredited) | 1949-11-18 |
Movie | Square Dance Jubilee | Show Spectator | 1949-11-11 |
Movie | Back Trail | Goofy (as Snub Pollard) | 1948-07-18 |
Movie | Johnny Belinda | Man on Jury (uncredited) | 1948-09-14 |
Movie | Unknown Island | Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski | 1948-10-15 |
Movie | Loaded Pistols | Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited) | 1948-12-15 |
Movie | Miracle on 34th Street | Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited) | 1947-06-04 |
Movie | The Paradine Case | Cabby (uncredited) | 1947-12-31 |
Movie | The Perils of Pauline | Western Saloon Set Propman (as Snub Pollard) | 1947-07-04 |
Movie | The Hoodlum Saint | Parade Spectator (uncredited) | 1946-04-04 |
Movie | Road to Utopia | Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited) | 1946-02-27 |
Movie | Badman's Territory | Town Barber (uncredited) | 1946-05-04 |
Movie | Strange Impersonation | Taxi driver (uncredited) | 1946-03-16 |
Movie | Till the Clouds Roll By | Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited) | 1946-12-05 |
Movie | Monkey Businessmen | Mr. Grimble | 1946-06-20 |
Movie | Andy Plays Hookey | Ticket Seller | 1946-12-19 |
Movie | Society Mugs | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1946-09-19 |
Movie | Rockin' in the Rockies | Drunk (uncredited) | 1945-04-17 |
Movie | Kitty | Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited) | 1945-10-16 |
Movie | Booby Dupes | Ice Cream Vendor | 1945-10-18 |
Movie | Main Street Today | Pop Denton (uncredited) | 1944-03-25 |
Movie | Casanova Brown | Father at Baby Window (uncredited) | 1944-08-23 |
Movie | The Kid Rides Again | Saloon Swamper | 1943-01-27 |
Movie | Kid Dynamite | Dance Official | 1943-02-05 |
Movie | Ghosts on the Loose | Flower Delivery Man | 1943-07-30 |
Movie | Edge of Darkness | Townsman in Church | 1943-04-09 |
Movie | Boot Hill Bandits | 2nd Bartender | 1942-04-24 |
Movie | It Happened in Flatbush | Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited) | 1942-05-28 |
Movie | Foreign Agent | Supper Club Patron | 1942-10-09 |
Movie | 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge | Soup Customer (uncredited) | 1942-11-20 |
Movie | Bowery at Midnight | Motorist | 1942-10-30 |
Movie | Ridin' the Cherokee Trail | Saloon Drunk | 1941-02-25 |
Movie | Confirm or Deny | Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd | 1941-12-12 |
Movie | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited) | 1941-03-14 |
Movie | The Earl of Chicago | Townsman (uncredited) | 1940-01-05 |
Movie | Murder on the Yukon | Archie | 1940-02-25 |
Movie | Sky Bandits | Pa, Man in Nightshirt | 1940-07-06 |
Movie | Rollin' Westward | Poker Player | 1939-03-01 |
Movie | Lure of the Wasteland | Cookie | 1939-03-18 |
Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Keystone Cop | 1939-10-13 |
Movie | Mesquite Buckaroo | Janitor Suds | 1939-04-30 |
Movie | Frontier Town | Peewee | 1938-03-04 |
Movie | Rollin' Plains | Pee Wee | 1938-07-08 |
Movie | Utah Trail | Pee Wee | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | Starlight Over Texas | Pee Wee | 1938-09-06 |
Movie | Where the Buffalo Roam | Pee Wee | 1938-10-12 |
Movie | Hittin' the Trail | Bartender | 1937-04-03 |
Movie | Arizona Days | Cookie | 1937-01-30 |
Movie | Sing Cowboy Sing | Prisoner | 1937-05-22 |
Movie | Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts | Pee Wee | 1937-11-26 |
Movie | Riders of the Rockies | Pee Wee McDougal | 1937-07-02 |
Movie | Nation Aflame | Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard) | 1937-10-15 |
Movie | Jungle Menace | Campbell | 1937-09-01 |
Movie | Headin' for the Rio Grande | Cookie (Hart hand) | 1936-01-01 |
Movie | The Crime Patrol | Gyp | 1936-05-12 |
Movie | The Black Coin | Vic Moran | 1936-09-01 |
Movie | The Gentleman from Louisiana | Hadley | 1936-08-14 |
Movie | White Legion | Baker | 1936-10-24 |
Movie | The Night Is Young | Drummer (uncredited) | 1935-01-11 |
Movie | The Laramie Kid | Cinvvict Shorty | 1935-06-01 |
Movie | Bars of Hate | Danny, the Pickpocket | 1935-11-01 |
Movie | Just My Luck | Frank Smith | 1935-12-30 |
Movie | The Rawhide Terror | Renegade | 1934-03-19 |
Movie | Stingaree | Victor | 1934-05-24 |
Movie | Cockeyed Cavaliers | King's Physician's Aide | 1934-06-29 |
Movie | One More River | George | 1934-08-06 |
Movie | The Purchase Price | Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited) | 1932-07-23 |
Movie | Girls Will Be Boys | Plumber's assistant | 1931-01-21 |
Movie | One Good Turn | A Community Player (uncredited) | 1931-10-31 |
Movie | The Road to Singapore | Photographer at Birthday Party | 1931-09-02 |
Movie | Springtime Saps | 1929-01-01 | |
Movie | The Big Shot | Unknown | 1929-04-30 |
Movie | Sock and Run | Alphonse | 1929-12-20 |
Movie | Once Over | Snub Pollard | 1928-05-20 |
Movie | Thick and Thin | Unknown | 1928-04-29 |
Movie | Here Comes a Sailor | 1928-05-22 | |
Movie | Double Trouble | 1927-04-28 | |
Movie | Mitt The Prince | 1927-04-28 | |
Movie | The Doughboy | Unknown | 1926-09-21 |
Movie | The Yokel | 1926-10-21 | |
Movie | All Wet | 1926-12-21 | |
Movie | Get Busy | Shorter pal | 1924-04-27 |
Movie | The Big Idea | Inventor Ignatius Pollard | 1924-01-12 |
Movie | Sold at Auction | The Auctioneer's Helper | 1923-05-26 |
Movie | California or Bust | The Old Settler | 1923-04-28 |
Movie | Courtship of Miles Sandwich | Papa | 1923-06-24 |
Movie | Before the Public | 1923-03-04 | |
Movie | It's a Gift | Inventor | 1923-10-13 |
Movie | It's a Joy! | The Papa | 1923-12-30 |
Movie | Join the Circus | 1923-12-02 | |
Movie | Fully Insured | Our Hero | 1923-12-16 |
Movie | Dear Ol' Pal | Abner Maize | 1923-11-11 |
Movie | Do Me a Favor | A Hobo | 1922-05-21 |
Movie | Hot Off the Press | Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor | 1922-03-26 |
Movie | Years to Come | The Bridegroom | 1922-01-28 |
Movie | Punch the Clock | Snub | 1922-06-04 |
Movie | Hale and Hearty | 1922-06-18 | |
Movie | The Old Sea Dog | Snub the Ferryboat Pilot | 1922-10-14 |
Movie | 365 Days | The Good Grandson | 1922-09-16 |
Movie | The Dumb-Bell | The New Director | 1922-07-16 |
Movie | Big Game | Hunter | 1921-05-22 |
Movie | Whirl o' the West | The Tenderfoot | 1921-01-23 |
Movie | At the Ringside | 1921-07-16 | |
Movie | Rush Orders | Marquis de Marmalade | 1921-04-07 |
Movie | High Rollers | 1921-06-26 | |
Movie | On Location | The Caretaker of the Estate | 1921-11-06 |
Movie | Fifteen Minutes | The Husband | 1921-10-29 |
Movie | What a Whopper! | 1921-07-30 | |
Movie | Name the Day | 1921-08-20 | |
Movie | Fresh Paint | Bicycle Messenger | 1920-03-07 |
Movie | Cracked Wedding Bells | 1920-04-04 | |
Movie | His Royal Slyness | Prince of Rochquefort | 1920-02-08 |
Movie | All Lit Up | The Dandy | 1920-02-01 |
Movie | The Dippy Dentist | The Dandy | 1920-01-25 |
Movie | All Dressed Up | Unknown | 1920-05-22 |
Movie | Waltz Me Around | 1920-02-22 | |
Movie | Cash Customers | The Chap | 1920-12-06 |
Movie | Grab the Ghost | Husband | 1920-05-30 |
Movie | Park Your Car | 1920-12-19 | |
Movie | Run 'Em Ragged | 1920-08-01 | |
Movie | Money to Burn | 1920-08-28 | |
Movie | Any Old Port | 1920-06-27 | |
Movie | Call a Taxi | 1920-07-25 | |
Movie | Si, Senor | 1919-05-11 | |
Movie | Ring Up the Curtain | The Leading Man | 1919-04-27 |
Movie | Young Mr. Jazz | Snub | 1919-04-20 |
Movie | The Marathon | Snub | 1919-05-25 |
Movie | Off the Trolley | 1919-06-22 | |
Movie | Crack Your Heels | 1919-04-20 | |
Movie | Swat the Crook | 1919-06-15 | |
Movie | Pistols for Breakfast | 1919-06-08 | |
Movie | Back to the Woods | His Valet | 1919-05-31 |
Movie | Going! Going! Gone! | 1919-01-25 | |
Movie | On the Fire | 1919-02-22 | |
Movie | Ask Father | The Corn-Fed Secretary | 1919-02-09 |
Movie | Spring Fever | Unknown | 1919-06-29 |
Movie | I'm on My Way | 1919-03-08 | |
Movie | Look Out Below | Snub | 1919-03-16 |
Movie | A Sammy in Siberia | Count Pop-up-skyvitch | 1919-04-06 |
Movie | Next Aisle Over | The Henpecked Husband | 1919-03-30 |
Movie | The Dutiful Dub | 1919-03-23 | |
Movie | Just Dropped In | 1919-04-13 | |
Movie | At the Old Stage Door | 1919-07-20 | |
Movie | Call for Mr. Caveman | Hatchet Face | 1919-11-19 |
Movie | Bumping Into Broadway | The Musical Comedy's Director | 1919-11-02 |
Movie | All at Sea | 1919-11-02 | |
Movie | His Only Father | 1919-10-19 | |
Movie | Captain Kidd's Kids | The Valet | 1919-11-30 |
Movie | Billy Blazes, Esq. | Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher | 1919-07-06 |
Movie | From Hand to Mouth | The Kidnapper | 1919-12-28 |
Movie | The Floor Below | 1919-12-27 | |
Movie | Looking for Trouble | The Dandy | 1919-12-14 |
Movie | Pay Your Dues | 1919-10-12 | |
Movie | How Dry I Am | 1919-12-07 | |
Movie | A Jazzed Honeymoon | 1919-08-02 | |
Movie | Never Touched Me | 1919-07-26 | |
Movie | Just Neighbors | The Neighbor | 1919-07-13 |
Movie | The Rajah | 1919-09-14 | |
Movie | Count Your Change | Billy Bullion | 1919-08-10 |
Movie | Chop Suey & Co. | 1919-08-17 | |
Movie | Be My Wife | 1919-09-07 | |
Movie | Heap Big Chief | 1919-08-24 | |
Movie | Pipe the Whiskers | 1918-04-14 | |
Movie | Follow the Crowd | Unknown | 1918-04-07 |
Movie | The Non-Stop Kid | Snub, the Butler | 1918-05-12 |
Movie | On the Jump | Snoopy Sam - The House Detective | 1918-03-31 |
Movie | Kicked Out | 1918-05-05 | |
Movie | Hey There | The New Director | 1918-04-28 |
Movie | It's a Wild Life | Unknown | 1918-04-21 |
Movie | A Gasoline Wedding | Snub | 1918-03-03 |
Movie | The Tip | 1918-01-06 | |
Movie | Two-Gun Gussie | Snub | 1918-05-19 |
Movie | Hit Him Again | 1918-02-17 | |
Movie | Beat It | Unknown | 1918-02-24 |
Movie | Here Come the Girls | 1918-03-17 | |
Movie | Look Pleasant, Please | Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard) | 1918-03-10 |
Movie | Let's Go | 1918-03-24 | |
Movie | That's Him | 1918-08-04 | |
Movie | Why Pick on Me? | Unknown | 1918-10-12 |
Movie | Swing Your Partners | 1918-09-29 | |
Movie | Nothing But Trouble | 1918-10-26 | |
Movie | Take a Chance | Simplex Joe | 1918-12-15 |
Movie | Fireman Save My Child | 1918-05-25 | |
Movie | She Loves Me Not | 1918-12-29 | |
Movie | Two Scrambled | 1918-09-01 | |
Movie | Hear 'Em Rave | 1918-12-01 | |
Movie | The City Slicker | Snub | 1918-06-02 |
Movie | Bride and Gloom | 1918-08-18 | |
Movie | Sic 'Em, Towser | 1918-06-09 | |
Movie | Somewhere in Turkey | His Assistant | 1918-06-16 |
Movie | Kicking the Germ Out of Germany | 1918-07-21 | |
Movie | Are Crooks Dishonest? | Snub | 1918-06-23 |
Movie | An Ozark Romance | 1918-07-06 | |
Movie | Lonesome Luke Loses Patients | 1917-09-16 | |
Movie | Pinched | 1917-09-23 | |
Movie | Over the Fence | Snitch, another | 1917-09-09 |
Movie | Birds of a Feather | 1917-10-07 | |
Movie | Lonesome Luke's Lively Life | 1917-03-18 | |
Movie | Bliss | Snub | 1917-10-14 |
Movie | Luke's Trolley Troubles | 1917-02-04 | |
Movie | Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley | Cafe Waiter | 1917-04-15 |
Movie | Lonesome Luke, Messenger | 1917-08-05 | |
Movie | Lonesome Luke's Wild Women | 1917-09-02 | |
Movie | By the Sad Sea Waves | Spectator at Beach | 1917-09-30 |
Movie | Move On | 1917-12-09 | |
Movie | Bashful | 1917-12-23 | |
Movie | Step Lively | 1917-12-30 | |
Movie | From Laramie to London | 1917-10-21 | |
Movie | We Never Sleep | 1917-12-02 | |
Movie | The Big Idea | Snub | 1917-12-30 |
Movie | Love, Laughs and Lather | 1917-11-04 | |
Movie | Rainbow Island | 1917-10-28 | |
Movie | The Flirt | 1917-11-11 | |
Movie | All Aboard | Passenger with trunk | 1917-11-25 |
Movie | Clubs Are Trump | 1917-11-18 | |
Movie | Luke, Crystal Gazer | 1916-07-24 | |
Movie | Luke Does the Midway | 1916-08-21 | |
Movie | Luke's Lost Lamb | 1916-08-07 | |
Movie | Luke and the Rural Roughnecks | 1916-03-01 | |
Movie | Luke Joins the Navy | 1916-09-04 | |
Movie | Luke, the Candy Cut-Up | 1916-01-31 | |
Movie | Police | First Flophouse Customer | 1916-05-27 |
Movie | Luke Rides Roughshod | 1916-07-10 | |
Movie | Luke's Movie Muddle | Projectionist | 1916-12-03 |
Movie | Luke and the Mermaids | 1916-09-18 | |
Movie | Luke Locates the Loot | 1916-12-24 | |
Movie | Luke's Shattered Sleep | 1916-12-31 | |
Movie | Luke, Rank Impersonator | 1916-12-10 | |
Movie | Luke's Fireworks Fizzle | 1916-12-17 | |
Movie | Luke, Patient Provider | 1916-11-19 | |
Movie | Luke's Speedy Club Life | Bellhop | 1916-10-01 |
Movie | Luke and the Bang-Tails | 1916-10-15 | |
Movie | His Regeneration | Extra | 1915-05-07 |
Movie | Peculiar Patients' Pranks | 1915-12-22 | |
Movie | Giving Them Fits | Luke's Co-Worker | 1915-11-01 |
Movie | Sally Scrags, Housemaid | Butler | 1913-08-13 |