Harry 'Snub' Pollard

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
November 8, 1889

Place of Birth:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Harry 'Snub' Pollard

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.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
1963 The Sound of Laughter Plumber's Assistant
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1961 Days of Thrills and Laughter Self (archive footage)
1961 Master of the World Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
1961 Pocketful of Miracles Knuckles (uncredited)
1961 One-Eyed Jacks Townsman (uncredited)
1961 Homicidal Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
1960 Who Was That Lady? Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1960 Inherit the Wind Townsman (uncredited)
1959 The Oregon Trail Townsman (uncredited)
1958 Teacher's Pet Reporter (uncredited)
1957 The Tin Star Townsman(uncredited)
1957 Jeanne Eagels Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
1957 Man of a Thousand Faces Comedy Waiter #2
1957 Pal Joey Waiter (uncredited)
1957 The Buster Keaton Story Audience Member (uncredited)
1956 Runaway Daughters Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
1956 Friendly Persuasion Carnival Patron (uncredited)
1955 The Man with the Golden Arm Street Vagrant (uncredited)
1955 Pete Kelly's Blues Waiter (uncredited)
1954 The Fast and the Furious Park Caretaker
1953 Conquest of Cochise Barfly (uncredited)
1953 Hannah Lee: An American Primitive Man Pacing in Jail Cell
1952 Gents in a Jam Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
1952 The Old West Townsman (uncredited)
1952 Scaramouche Man at Assembly Meeting
1952 Singin' in the Rain Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
1952 Limelight Street Musician
1952 Carrie Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
1952 Park Row Barfly
1951 Valley of Fire Townsman
1951 The Barefoot Mailman Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
1951 Meet Me After the Show Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
1950 Stars in My Crown Bartender (uncredited)
1950 Where the Sidewalk Ends Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
1950 Walk Softly, Stranger Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
1950 The Gunfighter Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
1949 House of Strangers
1949 The Crooked Way
1949 The Lady Gambles Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1949 Adam's Rib Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
1949 Square Dance Jubilee Show Spectator
1949 A Woman's Secret Stagehand (Uncredited)
1948 Belle Starr's Daughter Party Guest (uncredited)
1948 Johnny Belinda Man on Jury (uncredited)
1948 Loaded Pistols Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
1948 Back Trail Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
1948 Unknown Island Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
1948 The Man from Colorado Townsman (uncredited)
1948 Red River Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
1947 Framed (uncredited)
1947 Desperate Villager (uncredited)
1947 Miracle on 34th Street Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
1947 The Paradine Case Cabby (uncredited)
1947 The Perils of Pauline Western Saloon Set Propman
1947 Thunder Mountain Townsman (uncredited)
1947 Cheyenne Barfly (uncredited)
1947 Yankee Fakir Townsman
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
1946 Andy Plays Hookey Ticket Seller
1946 Monkey Businessmen Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
1946 Society Mugs Party Guest (uncredited)
1946 Sister Kenny Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
1946 Partners in Time Townsman (uncredited)
1946 Jungle Terror Campbell
1946 The Hoodlum Saint Parade Spectator (uncredited)
1946 Strange Impersonation Taxi driver (uncredited)
1946 Road to Utopia Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
1946 Badman's Territory Town Barber (uncredited)
1946 Canyon Passage Miner (uncredited)
1945 State Fair Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1945 Three Pests in a Mess Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
1945 Rockin' in the Rockies Drunk (uncredited)
1945 Booby Dupes Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
1945 Kitty Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
1944 It Happened Tomorrow
1944 Casanova Brown Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
1944 The Girl in the Case Witness (uncredited)
1944 Defective Detectives Janitor
1944 Main Street Today Pop Denton (uncredited)
1944 Charlie's Triple Trouble Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
1944 Hail the Conquering Hero Townsman (uncredited)
1943 His Wedding Scare Fireman
1943 Clancy Street Boys Irate Father (uncredited)
1943 Phony Express Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
1943 The Kid Rides Again Saloon Swamper
1943 Ghosts on the Loose Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
1943 Edge of Darkness Townsman in Church (uncredited)
1943 Kid Dynamite Dance Official
1942 Bowery at Midnight Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
1942 Stand by for Action Sailor (uncredited)
1942 Vitamin 'U' for Me
1942 The Payoff Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942 It Happened in Flatbush Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge Soup Customer (uncredited)
1942 Boot Hill Bandits 2nd Bartender
1942 Foreign Agent Supper Club Patron
1941 Mr. Celebrity Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1941 Red Skins and Red Heads Party Guest (uncredited)
1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
1941 Ridin' the Cherokee Trail Saloon Drunk
1941 Confirm or Deny Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
1940 Murder on the Yukon Archie
1940 Sky Bandits Pa, Man in Nightshirt
1940 The Earl of Chicago Townsman (uncredited)
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade Keystone Cop
1939 Rollin' Westward Poker Player
1939 Lure of the Wasteland Cookie
1939 Mesquite Buckaroo Janitor Suds
1938 Song of the Buckaroo 'Perky'
1938 Utah Trail Pee Wee
1938 Rollin' Plains Pee Wee
1938 Where the Buffalo Roam Pee Wee
1938 Frontier Town Peewee
1938 Starlight Over Texas Pee Wee
1937 Arizona Days Cookie
1937 Santa Fe Rides Stubby
1937 Goofs and Saddles Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
1937 Riders of the Rockies Pee Wee McDougal
1937 Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts Pee Wee
1937 Sing Cowboy Sing Prisoner
1937 Hittin' the Trail Bartender
1937 Jungle Menace Campbell
1937 Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies Bartender
1937 Nation Aflame Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
1936 The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
1936 The Crime Patrol Gyp
1936 White Legion Baker
1936 The Black Coin Vic Moran
1936 The Gentleman from Louisiana Hadley
1936 Headin' for the Rio Grande Cookie (Hart hand)
1935 The Drunkard Property Man
1935 Bars of Hate Danny, the Pickpocket
1935 Just My Luck Frank Smith
1935 The Laramie Kid Cinvvict Shorty
1935 The Night Is Young Drummer (uncredited)
1934 Stingaree Victor
1934 The Rawhide Terror Renegade
1934 Cockeyed Cavaliers King's Physician's Aide
1934 One More River George
1932 The Purchase Price Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
1932 The Midnight Patrol
1932 The Strange Love of Molly Louvain Bill Collector (uncredited)
1931 The Road to Singapore Photographer at Birthday Party
1931 One Good Turn A Community Player (uncredited)
1931 Girls Will Be Boys Plumber's assistant
1930 Ex-Flame Boggins
1929 The Big Shot
1929 Springtime Saps
1929 Sock and Run Alphonse
1928 Thick and Thin
1928 Here Comes a Sailor
1928 No Kidding
1928 Men About Town
1928 Once Over Snub Pollard
1927 Double Trouble
1927 Mitt The Prince
1926 All Wet
1926 The Doughboy
1926 The Yokel
1926 Fire!! The Boy
1924 The Big Idea Inventor Ignatius Pollard
1924 Get Busy Shorter pal
1923 Jack Frost Hired Hand
1923 It's a Gift Inventor
1923 The Mystery Man Detective Snub Pollard
1923 Dear Ol' Pal Abner Maize
1923 Courtship of Miles Sandwich Papa
1923 Sold at Auction The Auctioneer's Helper
1923 California or Bust The Old Settler
1923 Fully Insured Our Hero
1923 The Green Cat Snub
1923 Join the Circus
1923 It's a Joy! The Papa
1923 Before the Public
1923 A Tough Winter
1922 Newly Rich The Chauffeur
1922 In the Movies Snub - the Scenario Writer
1922 The Stone Age
1922 Blow 'Em Up The Governor
1922 Full o' Pep Snub
1922 Strictly Modern Chambermaid Man
1922 The Dumb-Bell The New Director
1922 Years to Come The Bridegroom
1922 The Old Sea Dog Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
1922 365 Days The Good Grandson
1922 Pardon Me
1922 Some Baby
1922 Punch the Clock Snub
1922 Hale and Hearty
1922 Hot Off the Press Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
1922 Do Me a Favor A Hobo
1921 Blue Sunday
1921 The Hustler Snub
1921 His Best Girl
1921 Whirl o' the West The Tenderfoot
1921 At the Ringside
1921 What a Whopper!
1921 Big Game Hunter
1921 Name the Day
1921 Rush Orders Marquis de Marmalade
1921 Fifteen Minutes The Husband
1921 High Rollers
1921 On Location The Caretaker of the Estate
1920 Raise the Rent
1920 Don't Rock the Boat
1920 Drink Hearty Snub
1920 A London Bobby
1920 Waltz Me Around
1920 Fresh Paint Bicycle Messenger
1920 Run 'Em Ragged
1920 Park Your Car
1920 All Dressed Up
1920 The Dippy Dentist The Dandy
1920 Money to Burn
1920 His Royal Slyness Prince of Rochquefort
1920 All Lit Up The Dandy
1920 Any Old Port
1920 Cash Customers The Chap
1920 Cracked Wedding Bells
1920 Grab the Ghost Husband
1920 Call a Taxi
1920 Live and Learn
1920 Red Hot Hottentotts
1920 Why Go Home?
1920 Getting His Goat
1920 Slippery Slickers
1919 Wanted - $5,000
1919 The Marathon Snub
1919 Count Your Change Billy Bullion
1919 Call for Mr. Caveman Hatchet Face
1919 Chop Suey & Co.
1919 Young Mr. Jazz Snub
1919 Back to the Woods His Valet
1919 Pay Your Dues
1919 On the Fire The Assistant Chef
1919 Just Neighbors The Neighbor
1919 Next Aisle Over The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
1919 A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919 Si, Senor
1919 Going! Going! Gone!
1919 Looking for Trouble The Dandy
1919 Billy Blazes, Esq. Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
1919 A Sammy in Siberia Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
1919 From Hand to Mouth The Kidnapper
1919 Ask Father The Corn-Fed Secretary
1919 Ring Up the Curtain The Leading Man
1919 Never Touched Me Jelous Admirer
1919 Captain Kidd's Kids The Valet
1919 Bumping Into Broadway The Musical Comedy's Director
1919 I'm on My Way The Neighbor
1919 The Floor Below
1919 Spring Fever The Unwelcome Suitor
1919 How Dry I Am
1919 Be My Wife
1919 Look Out Below Snub
1919 Just Dropped In
1919 The Dutiful Dub
1919 Swat the Crook
1919 Crack Your Heels
1919 Heap Big Chief
1919 Off the Trolley Trolley conductor
1919 Pistols for Breakfast
1919 At the Old Stage Door
1919 All at Sea
1919 The Rajah
1919 Start Something
1919 Giving the Bride Away
1919 Order in the Court
1919 Tough Luck
1919 It's a Hard Life
1919 Love's Young Scream
1919 Before Breakfast
1919 Soft Money
1919 Count the Votes
1919 He Leads, Others Follow
1919 His Only Father
1918 Take a Chance Simplex Joe
1918 Hear 'Em Rave
1918 Hit Him Again
1918 Hey There The New Director
1918 Fireman Save My Child
1918 An Ozark Romance
1918 Somewhere in Turkey His Assistant
1918 Pipe the Whiskers
1918 The Non-Stop Kid Snub, the Butler
1918 The City Slicker Snub
1918 Are Crooks Dishonest? Snub
1918 Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918 Two Scrambled
1918 Two-Gun Gussie Snub
1918 Sic 'Em, Towser
1918 Swing Your Partners
1918 Why Pick on Me?
1918 That's Him
1918 On the Jump Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
1918 A Gasoline Wedding Snub
1918 The Tip
1918 She Loves Me Not
1918 Beat It
1918 Here Come the Girls
1918 It's a Wild Life
1918 Kicked Out
1918 Nothing But Trouble
1918 Let's Go
1918 Look Pleasant, Please Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
1918 Follow the Crowd
1918 Bride and Gloom
1918 Bees in His Bonnet
1918 The Lamb
1918 Hello Teacher
1917 From Laramie to London
1917 The Flirt
1917 Love, Laughs and Lather
1917 Rainbow Island
1917 Bashful Snub the Butler
1917 Move On
1917 Birds of a Feather
1917 By the Sad Sea Waves Spectator at Beach
1917 All Aboard Passenger with trunk
1917 Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917 We Never Sleep
1917 Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley Cafe Waiter
1917 Over the Fence Snitch, Another
1917 Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917 Bliss Snub
1917 Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917 Lonesome Luke, Messenger Snub
1917 Clubs Are Trump
1917 The Big Idea Snub
1917 Step Lively
1917 Pinched
1917 Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917 Luke's Busy Day
1917 Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle
1917 Luke's Lost Liberty
1917 Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
1917 Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917 Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917 Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
1917 Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917 Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1916 Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916 Luke Foils the Villain
1916 Luke Does the Midway
1916 Luke's Lost Lamb
1916 Luke, Patient Provider
1916 Luke Locates the Loot
1916 Luke's Speedy Club Life Bellhop
1916 Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916 Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916 Luke and the Mermaids
1916 Luke Joins the Navy
1916 Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916 Police First Flophouse Customer
1916 Luke Rides Roughshod
1916 Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916 Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916 Luke's Movie Muddle Projectionist
1916 Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916 Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916 Luke's Society Mixup
1916 Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916 Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916 Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916 Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916 Luke's Late Lunchers
1916 Luke Lugs Luggage
1916 Luke's Double
1916 Them Was the Happy Days! Snub
1916 Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916 Luke Laughs Last
1916 Luke's Washful Waiting
1916 Luke, the Chauffeur
1916 Luke's Preparedness Preparations
1916 Luke, the Gladiator
1916 Luke's Newsie Knockout
1915 A Countless Count Count
1915 Fresh from the Farm
1915 Giving Them Fits Luke's Co-Worker
1915 Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915 His Regeneration Extra
1915 Bughouse Bellhops Moke Morpheus
1915 Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster Tin-Horn Tommy
1915 Tinkering with Trouble Sourball Joe
1915 A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915 Great While It Lasted Hugo Snubb
1915 Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915 Ragtime Snap Shots Snub Larkin
1913 Sally Scrags, Housemaid Butler
The Bum's Rush
Teaching the Teacher Teacher
Year TV Show Role
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Bar Patron (uncredited)
1954 Public Defender
1951 Racket Squad
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