Harry 'Snub' Pollard
- Interpretación
- 8 de noviembre de 1889 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 19 de enero de 1962
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
- The Parrott Chase · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Classic Comedy Teams · En persona
- The Sound of Laughter · Plumber's Assistant
- El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance · Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
- Un gángster para un milagro · Knuckles (uncredited)
- Homicidio · Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
- El amo del mundo · Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
- El rostro impenetrable · Townsman (uncredited)
- Days of Thrills and Laughter · En persona
- La herencia del viento · Townsman (uncredited)
- ¿Quién era esa chica? · Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
- El camino de Oregón · Townsman (uncredited)
- Enséñame a querer · Reporter (uncredited)
- Cazador de forajidos · Townsman(uncredited)
- Pal Joey · Waiter (uncredited)
- El hombre de las mil caras · Comedy Waiter #2
- Jeanne Eagels · Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
- The Buster Keaton Story · Audience Member (uncredited)
- La gran prueba · Carnival Patron (uncredited)
- Runaway Daughters · Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
- El hombre del brazo de oro · Street Vagrant (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock presenta · Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Los blues de Pete Kelly · Waiter (uncredited)
- La angustia de vivir · Stagehand (uncredited)
- The Fast and the Furious · Park Caretaker
- Viviendo su vida · Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
- Public Defender
- La conquista de Cochise · Barfly (uncredited)
- Hannah Lee: An American Primitive · Man Pacing in Jail Cell
- Julio César · Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
- Candilejas · Street Musician
- The Old West · Townsman (uncredited)
- La voz de la primera plana · Barfly
- Carrie · Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
- Gents in a Jam · Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
- Scaramouche · Man at Assembly Meeting
- Cantando bajo la lluvia · Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
- The Barefoot Mailman · Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
- Valley of Fire · Townsman
- Meet Me After the Show · Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
- Racket Squad
- Prisionera de su pasado · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Despacio, forastero · Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
- Al borde del peligro · Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
- El pistolero · Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
- Estrellas en mi corona · Bartender (uncredited)
- La costilla de Adán · Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Square Dance Jubilee · Show Spectator
- Odio entre hermanos
- Dirección prohibida · Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Arrostrando la muerte
- Un secreto de mujer · Stagehand (Uncredited)
- Loaded Pistols · Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
- La hija de Belle Starr · Party Guest (uncredited)
- Unknown Island · Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
- Río Rojo · Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
- Belinda · Man on Jury (uncredited)
- El hombre de Colorado · Townsman (uncredited)
- Back Trail · Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
- El proceso Paradine · Cabby (uncredited)
- Los peligros de Paulina · Western Saloon Set Propman
- Desesperado · Villager (uncredited)
- Cheyenne · Barfly (uncredited)
- De ilusión también se vive · Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
- Thunder Mountain · Townsman (uncredited)
- Paula · (uncredited)
- Yankee Fakir · Townsman
- Sin dios ni ley · Farmer (uncredited)
- Andy Plays Hookey · Ticket Seller
- Hasta que las nubes pasen · Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
- Amor sublime · Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
- Society Mugs · Party Guest (uncredited)
- Tierra generosa · Miner (uncredited)
- Monkey Businessmen · Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
- Jungle Terror · Campbell
- Territorio de forajidos · Town Barber (uncredited)
- Partners in Time · Townsman (uncredited)
- El canalla redimido · Parade Spectator (uncredited)
- Extraña interpretación · Taxi driver (uncredited)
- Ruta a Utopia · Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)