Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Acting
Biography
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: November 8, 1889
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Plumber's Assistant
as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
as Knuckles (uncredited)
as Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
as Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Townsman(uncredited)
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Comedy Waiter #2
as Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
as Audience Member (uncredited)
as Carnival Patron (uncredited)
as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
as Street Vagrant (uncredited)
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Stagehand (uncredited)
as Park Caretaker
as Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
as Barfly (uncredited)
as Man Pacing in Jail Cell
as Street Musician
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Barfly
as Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
as Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
as Man at Assembly Meeting
as Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
as Townsman
as Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
as Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
as Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
as Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
as Bartender (uncredited)
as Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
as Show Spectator
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
as Stagehand (Uncredited)
as Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
as Man on Jury (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
as Cabby (uncredited)
as Western Saloon Set Propman
as Villager (uncredited)
as Barfly (uncredited)
as Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Townsman
as Farmer (uncredited)
as Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
as Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Miner (uncredited)
as Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
as Campbell
as Town Barber (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Parade Spectator (uncredited)
as Taxi driver (uncredited)
as Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
as Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
as Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
as Drunk (uncredited)
as Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
as Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Witness (uncredited)
as Janitor
as Pop Denton (uncredited)
as Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
as Irate Father (uncredited)
as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
as Dance Official
as Saloon Swamper
as Fireman
as Sailor (uncredited)
as Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
as Soup Customer (uncredited)
as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
as Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
as 2nd Bartender
as Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
as Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
as Saloon Drunk
as Pa, Man in Nightshirt
as Archie
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Keystone Cop
as Janitor Suds
as Cookie
as Poker Player
as 'Perky'
as Pee Wee
as Pee Wee
as Pee Wee
as Pee Wee
as Peewee
as Pee Wee
as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
as Campbell
as Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
as Pee Wee McDougal
as Prisoner
as Bartender
as Stubby
as Cookie
as Cookie (Hart hand)
as Vic Moran
as Hadley
as Gyp
as Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
as Frank Smith
as Danny, the Pickpocket
as Cinvvict Shorty
as Property Man
as Drummer (uncredited)
as George
as King's Physician's Aide
as Victor
as Renegade
as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
as Bill Collector (uncredited)
as A Community Player (uncredited)
as Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
as Plumber's assistant
as Boggins
as The Boy
as Inventor Ignatius Pollard
as Inventor
as Hired Hand
as Papa
as The Auctioneer's Helper
as The Old Settler
as The Chauffeur
as Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
as The Good Grandson
as A Hobo
as Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
as The Husband
as The Tenderfoot
as Husband
as Bicycle Messenger
as Snub
as Prince of Rochquefort
as The Dandy
as The Dandy
as The Kidnapper
as The Valet
as Hatchet Face
as The Musical Comedy's Director
as Billy Bullion
as Jealous Admirer
as The Neighbor
as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
as The Unwelcome Suitor
as Trolley conductor
as His Valet
as Snub
as The Leading Man
as Snub
as Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
as The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
as Snub
as The Neighbor
as The Assistant Chef
as The Corn-Fed Secretary
as Simplex Joe
as Snub
as His Assistant
as Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook
as Snub
as Snub, the Butler
as The New Director
as Snub
as Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
as Snub
as Snub
as Snub the Butler
as Passenger with trunk
as Snub
as Restaurant owner
as Snub
as Snub
as Spectator at Beach
as Snitch, Another
as Snub
as Cafe Waiter
as Projectionist
as Bellhop
as First Flophouse Customer
as Snub
as Tin-Horn Tommy
as Snub Larkin
as Hugo Snubb
as Sourball Joe
as Moke Morpheus
as Luke's Co-Worker
as Extra