Harry 'Snub' Pollard
- Recitazione
- 8 novembre 1889 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 19 gennaio 1962
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- The Parrott Chase · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Classic Comedy Teams · In persona
- The Sound of Laughter · Plumber's Assistant
- L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance · Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
- Angeli con la pistola · Knuckles (uncredited)
- Homicidal · Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
- Il padrone del mondo · Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
- I due volti della vendetta · Townsman (uncredited)
- Emozioni e risate · In persona
- ...e l'uomo creò Satana · Townsman (uncredited)
- Chi era quella signora? · Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
- I conquistatori dell'Oregon · Townsman (uncredited)
- 10 in amore · Reporter (uncredited)
- Il segno della legge · Townsman(uncredited)
- Pal Joey · Waiter (uncredited)
- L'uomo dai mille volti · Comedy Waiter #2
- Un solo grande amore · Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
- La storia di Buster Keaton · Audience Member (uncredited)
- La legge del Signore · Carnival Patron (uncredited)
- Runaway Daughters · Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
- L'uomo dal braccio d'oro · Street Vagrant (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock presenta · Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Tempo di furore · Waiter (uncredited)
- La ragazza di campagna · Stagehand (uncredited)
- The Fast and the Furious · Park Caretaker
- Più vivo che morto · Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
- Public Defender
- La vendetta di Kociss · Barfly (uncredited)
- Hannah Lee: An American Primitive · Man Pacing in Jail Cell
- Giulio Cesare · Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
- Luci della ribalta · Street Musician
- The Old West · Townsman (uncredited)
- Park Row · Barfly
- Gli occhi che non sorrisero · Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
- Gents in a Jam · Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
- Scaramouche · Man at Assembly Meeting
- Cantando sotto la pioggia · 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
- N.N. vigilata speciale · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Ormai ti amo · Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
- Sui marciapiedi · Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
- Romantico avventuriero · Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
- Corona di stelle · Bartender (uncredited)
- La costola di Adamo · Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Square Dance Jubilee · Show Spectator
- Amaro destino
- La roulette · Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Incrocio pericoloso
- Hai sempre mentito · Stagehand (Uncredited)
- Loaded Pistols · Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
- Belle Starr's Daughter · Party Guest (uncredited)
- L'isola sconosciuta · Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
- Il fiume rosso · Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
- Johnny Belinda · Man on Jury (uncredited)
- L'uomo del Colorado (Non si può continuare ad uccidere) · Townsman (uncredited)
- Back Trail · Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
- Il caso Paradine · Cabby (uncredited)
- La storia di Pearl White · Western Saloon Set Propman
- Morirai a mezzanotte · Villager (uncredited)
- Notte di bivacco · Barfly (uncredited)
- Il miracolo della 34ª strada · Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
- Thunder Mountain · Townsman (uncredited)
- Il cerchio si chiude · (uncredited)
- Yankee Fakir · Townsman
- Frontiere selvagge · Farmer (uncredited)
- Andy Plays Hookey · Ticket Seller
- Nuvole passeggere · Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
- L'angelo del dolore · Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
- Society Mugs · Party Guest (uncredited)
- I conquistatori · Miner (uncredited)
- Monkey Businessmen · Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
- Jungle Terror · Campbell
- La terra dei senza legge · Town Barber (uncredited)
- Partners in Time · Townsman (uncredited)
- The Hoodlum Saint · Parade Spectator (uncredited)
- Strana personificazione · Taxi driver (uncredited)
- I cercatori d'oro · Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)