Harry 'Snub' Pollard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1889
- Died
- January 19, 1962 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
Teaching the Teacher
Movie · as Teacher
The Parrott Chase
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Classic Comedy Teams
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Sound of Laughter
Movie · as Plumber's Assistant
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie · as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Master of the World
Movie · as Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
Pocketful of Miracles
Movie · as Knuckles (uncredited)
One-Eyed Jacks
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Homicidal
Movie · as Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
Who Was That Lady?
Movie · as Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
The Oregon Trail
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Teacher's Pet
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)
The Tin Star
Movie · as Townsman(uncredited)
Jeanne Eagels
Movie · as Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
Man of a Thousand Faces
Movie · as Comedy Waiter #2
Pal Joey
Movie · as Waiter (uncredited)
The Buster Keaton Story
Movie · as Audience Member (uncredited)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
Movie · as Él mismo (material de archivo)
Runaway Daughters
Movie · as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
Friendly Persuasion
Movie · as Carnival Patron (uncredited)
The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie · as Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Pete Kelly's Blues
Movie · as Waiter (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Bar Patron (uncredited) · 1 ep
The Fast and the Furious
Movie · as Park Caretaker
The Country Girl
Movie · as Stagehand (uncredited)
Living It Up
Movie · as Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
Public Defender
TV · 1 ep
Conquest of Cochise
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Movie · as Man Pacing in Jail Cell
Julius Caesar
Movie · as Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
Gents in a Jam
Movie · as Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
The Old West
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Scaramouche
Movie · as Man at Assembly Meeting
Singin' in the Rain
Movie · as Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
Limelight
Movie · as Street Musician
Carrie
Movie · as Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
Park Row
Movie · as Barfly
Boots Malone
Movie · as Stablehand (uncredited)
Valley of Fire
Movie · as Townsman
The Barefoot Mailman
Movie · as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
Meet Me After the Show
Movie · as Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
The Company She Keeps
Movie · as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Racket Squad
TV · 1 ep
Stars in My Crown
Movie · as Bartender (uncredited)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Movie · as Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Walk Softly, Stranger
Movie · as Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
The Gunfighter
Movie · as Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Riding High
Movie · as Spectator (uncredited)
House of Strangers
Movie
The Crooked Way
Movie
The Lady Gambles
Movie · as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Adam's Rib
Movie · as Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Square Dance Jubilee
Movie · as Show Spectator
A Woman's Secret
Movie · as Stagehand (Uncredited)
Belle Starr's Daughter
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
Johnny Belinda
Movie · as Man on Jury (uncredited)
Loaded Pistols
Movie · as Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
Back Trail
Movie · as Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
Unknown Island
Movie · as Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
The Man from Colorado
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Red River
Movie · as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
Framed
Movie · as (uncredited)
Desperate
Movie · as Villager (uncredited)
Miracle on 34th Street
Movie · as Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
The Paradine Case
Movie · as Cabby (uncredited)
The Perils of Pauline
Movie · as Western Saloon Set Propman
Thunder Mountain
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Cheyenne
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)
Yankee Fakir
Movie · as Townsman
Trail Street
Movie · as Farmer (uncredited)
Till the Clouds Roll By
Movie · as Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
Andy Plays Hookey
Movie · as Ticket Seller
Monkey Businessmen
Movie · as Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
Society Mugs
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
Movie · as Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
Partners in Time
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Jungle Terror
Movie · as Campbell
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie · as Parade Spectator (uncredited)
Strange Impersonation
Movie · as Taxi driver (uncredited)
Road to Utopia
Movie · as Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
Badman's Territory
Movie · as Town Barber (uncredited)
Canyon Passage
Movie · as Miner (uncredited)
State Fair
Movie · as Hog Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Three Pests in a Mess
Movie · as Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
Rockin' in the Rockies
Movie · as Drunk (uncredited)
Booby Dupes
Movie · as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
Kitty
Movie · as Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
It Happened Tomorrow
Movie
Casanova Brown
Movie · as Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
The Girl in the Case
Movie · as Witness (uncredited)
Defective Detectives
Movie · as Janitor
Main Street Today
Movie · as Pop Denton (uncredited)
Charlie's Triple Trouble
Movie · as Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
Hail the Conquering Hero
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Lucky Cowboy
Movie · as Man Trying to Stop Fight
The Conspirators
Movie · as Airport Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
His Wedding Scare
Movie · as Fireman
Clancy Street Boys
Movie · as Irate Father (uncredited)
Phony Express
Movie · as Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
The Kid Rides Again
Movie · as Saloon Swamper
Ghosts on the Loose
Movie · as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
Edge of Darkness
Movie · as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Kid Dynamite
Movie · as Dance Official
Bowery at Midnight
Movie · as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
Stand by for Action
Movie · as Sailor (uncredited)
Vitamin 'U' for Me
Movie
The Payoff
Movie · as Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
It Happened in Flatbush
Movie · as Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Movie · as Soup Customer (uncredited)
Boot Hill Bandits
Movie · as 2nd Bartender
Foreign Agent
Movie · as Supper Club Patron
Mr. Celebrity
Movie · as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Red Skins and Red Heads
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Movie · as Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Movie · as Saloon Drunk
Confirm or Deny
Movie · as Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
Murder on the Yukon
Movie · as Archie
Sky Bandits
Movie · as Pa, Man in Nightshirt
The Earl of Chicago
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Hollywood Cavalcade
Movie · as Keystone Cop
Rollin' Westward
Movie · as Poker Player
Lure of the Wasteland
Movie · as Cookie
Mesquite Buckaroo
Movie · as Janitor Suds
Song of the Buckaroo
Movie · as 'Perky'
Utah Trail
Movie · as Pee Wee
Rollin' Plains
Movie · as Pee Wee
Where the Buffalo Roam
Movie · as Pee Wee
Frontier Town
Movie · as Peewee
Starlight Over Texas
Movie · as Pee Wee
Arizona Days
Movie · as Cookie
Santa Fe Rides
Movie · as Stubby
Goofs and Saddles
Movie · as Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
Riders of the Rockies
Movie · as Pee Wee McDougal
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Movie · as Pee Wee
Sing Cowboy Sing
Movie · as Prisoner
Hittin' the Trail
Movie · as Bartender
Jungle Menace
Movie · as Campbell
Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies
Movie · as Bartender
Nation Aflame
Movie · as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Movie · as Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
The Crime Patrol
Movie · as Gyp
White Legion
Movie · as Baker
The Black Coin
Movie · as Vic Moran
The Gentleman from Louisiana
Movie · as Hadley
Headin' for the Rio Grande
Movie · as Cookie (Hart hand)
The Drunkard
Movie · as Property Man
Bars of Hate
Movie · as Danny, the Pickpocket
Just My Luck
Movie · as Frank Smith
The Laramie Kid
Movie · as Cinvvict Shorty
The Night Is Young
Movie · as Drummer (uncredited)
Stingaree
Movie · as Victor
The Rawhide Terror
Movie · as Renegade
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Movie · as King's Physician's Aide
One More River
Movie · as George
The Purchase Price
Movie · as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
Movie
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Movie · as Bill Collector (uncredited)
The Road to Singapore
Movie · as Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
One Good Turn
Movie · as A Community Player (uncredited)
Girls Will Be Boys
Movie · as Plumber's assistant
Ex-Flame
Movie · as Boggins
The Big Shot
Movie
Springtime Saps
Movie
Sock and Run
Movie · as Alphonse
Here We Are
Movie
Pipe Down
Movie
Thick and Thin
Movie
Here Comes a Sailor
Movie
No Kidding
Movie
Men About Town
Movie
Once Over
Movie · as Snub Pollard
Double Trouble
Movie
Mitt The Prince
Movie
The Bum's Rush
Movie
All Wet
Movie
The Doughboy
Movie
The Yokel
Movie
Fire!!
Movie · as The Boy
The Big Idea
Movie · as Inventor Ignatius Pollard
Get Busy
Movie · as Shorter pal
Jack Frost
Movie · as Hired Hand
It's a Gift
Movie · as Inventor
The Mystery Man
Movie · as Detective Snub Pollard
Dear Ol' Pal
Movie · as Abner Maize
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
Movie · as Papa
Sold at Auction!
Movie · as The Auctioneer's Helper
California or Bust
Movie · as The Old Settler
Fully Insured
Movie · as Our Hero
The Green Cat
Movie · as Snub / Big Boss
Join the Circus
Movie
It's a Joy!
Movie · as The Papa
Before the Public
Movie
A Tough Winter
Movie
Newly Rich
Movie · as The Chauffeur
In the Movies
Movie · as Snub - the Scenario Writer
The Stone Age
Movie
Blow 'Em Up
Movie · as The Governor
Full o' Pep
Movie · as Snub
Strictly Modern
Movie · as Chambermaid Man
The Dumb-Bell
Movie · as The New Director
Years to Come
Movie · as The Bridegroom
The Old Sea Dog
Movie · as Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
365 Days
Movie · as The Good Grandson
Pardon Me
Movie
Some Baby
Movie
Punch the Clock
Movie · as Snub
Hale and Hearty
Movie
Hot Off the Press
Movie · as Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
Do Me a Favor
Movie · as A Hobo
Blue Sunday
Movie
The Hustler
Movie · as Snub
His Best Girl
Movie
Whirl o' the West
Movie · as The Tenderfoot
At the Ringside
Movie
What a Whopper!
Movie
Big Game
Movie · as Hunter
Name the Day
Movie
Rush Orders
Movie · as Marquis de Marmalade
Fifteen Minutes
Movie · as The Husband
High Rollers
Movie
On Location
Movie · as The Caretaker of the Estate
Raise the Rent
Movie
Don't Rock the Boat
Movie
Drink Hearty
Movie · as Snub
A London Bobby
Movie
Waltz Me Around
Movie · as Snub
Fresh Paint
Movie · as Bicycle Messenger
Run 'Em Ragged
Movie
Park Your Car
Movie
All Dressed Up
Movie
The Dippy Dentist
Movie · as The Dandy
Money to Burn
Movie
His Royal Slyness
Movie · as Prince of Rochquefort
All Lit Up
Movie · as The Dandy
Any Old Port
Movie
Cash Customers
Movie · as The Chap
Cracked Wedding Bells
Movie
Grab the Ghost
Movie · as Husband
Call a Taxi!
Movie
Live and Learn
Movie
Red Hot Hottentotts
Movie
Why Go Home?
Movie
Getting His Goat
Movie
Slippery Slickers
Movie
Wanted - $5,000
Movie
The Marathon
Movie · as Snub
Count Your Change
Movie · as Billy Bullion
Call for Mr. Caveman
Movie · as Hatchet Face
Chop Suey & Co.
Movie
Young Mr. Jazz
Movie · as Snub
Back to the Woods
Movie · as His Valet
Pay Your Dues
Movie
On the Fire
Movie · as The Assistant Chef
Just Neighbors
Movie · as The Neighbor
Next Aisle Over
Movie · as The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
A Jazzed Honeymoon
Movie
Si, Senor
Movie
Going! Going! Gone!
Movie
Looking for Trouble
Movie · as The Dandy
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Movie · as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
A Sammy in Siberia
Movie · as Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
From Hand to Mouth
Movie · as The Kidnapper
Ask Father
Movie · as The Corn-Fed Secretary
Ring Up the Curtain
Movie · as The Leading Man
Never Touched Me!
Movie · as Jealous Admirer
Captain Kidd's Kids
Movie · as The Valet
Bumping Into Broadway
Movie · as The Musical Comedy's Director
I'm on My Way
Movie · as The Neighbor
The Floor Below
Movie
Spring Fever
Movie · as The Unwelcome Suitor
How Dry I Am
Movie
Be My Wife
Movie
Look Out Below
Movie · as Snub
Just Dropped In
Movie
The Dutiful Dub
Movie
Swat the Crook
Movie
Crack Your Heels
Movie
Heap Big Chief
Movie
Off the Trolley
Movie · as Trolley conductor
Pistols for Breakfast
Movie
At the Old Stage Door
Movie
All at Sea
Movie
The Rajah
Movie
Start Something
Movie
Giving the Bride Away
Movie
Order in the Court
Movie
Tough Luck
Movie
It's a Hard Life
Movie
Love's Young Scream
Movie
Before Breakfast
Movie
Soft Money
Movie
Count the Votes
Movie
He Leads, Others Follow
Movie
His Only Father
Movie
Take a Chance
Movie · as Simplex Joe
Hear 'Em Rave
Movie
Hit Him Again
Movie
Hey There
Movie · as The New Director
Fireman Save My Child
Movie
An Ozark Romance
Movie
Somewhere in Turkey
Movie · as His Assistant
Pipe the Whiskers
Movie
The Non-Stop Kid
Movie · as Snub, the Butler
The City Slicker
Movie · as Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Movie · as Snub
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
Movie
Two Scrambled
Movie
Two-Gun Gussie
Movie · as Snub
Sic 'Em, Towser
Movie
Swing Your Partners
Movie
Why Pick on Me?
Movie
That's Him
Movie
On the Jump
Movie · as Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
A Gasoline Wedding
Movie · as Snub
The Tip
Movie
She Loves Me Not
Movie
Beat It
Movie
Here Come the Girls
Movie
It's a Wild Life
Movie · as Snub
Kicked Out
Movie
Nothing But Trouble
Movie
Let's Go
Movie · as Man on beach
Look Pleasant, Please
Movie · as Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
Follow the Crowd
Movie
Bride and Gloom
Movie
Bees in His Bonnet
Movie
The Lamb
Movie
Hello Teacher
Movie
From Laramie to London
Movie
The Flirt
Movie · as Restaurant owner
Love, Laughs and Lather
Movie
Rainbow Island
Movie · as Snub
Bashful
Movie · as Snub the Butler
Move On
Movie
Birds of a Feather
Movie
By the Sad Sea Waves
Movie · as Spectator at Beach
All Aboard
Movie · as Passenger with trunk
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
Movie
We Never Sleep
Movie
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Movie · as Cafe Waiter
Over the Fence
Movie · as Snitch, Another
Luke's Trolley Troubles
Movie
Bliss
Movie · as Snub
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
Movie
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Movie · as Snub
Clubs Are Trump
Movie · as Snub
The Big Idea
Movie · as Snub
Step Lively
Movie
Pinched
Movie
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
Movie
Luke's Busy Day
Movie
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle
Movie
Luke's Lost Liberty
Movie
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
Movie
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
Movie
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
Movie
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Movie
Stop! Luke! Listen!
Movie
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
Movie
Luke and the Bomb Throwers
Movie
Luke Foils the Villain
Movie
Luke Does the Midway
Movie
Luke's Lost Lamb
Movie
Luke, Patient Provider
Movie
Luke Locates the Loot
Movie
Luke's Speedy Club Life
Movie · as Bellhop
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
Movie
Luke, Crystal Gazer
Movie
Luke and the Mermaids
Movie
Luke Joins the Navy
Movie
Luke and the Bang-Tails
Movie
Police
Movie · as First Flophouse Customer
Luke Rides Roughshod
Movie
Luke, Rank Impersonator
Movie
Luke's Shattered Sleep
Movie
Luke's Movie Muddle
Movie · as Projectionist
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
Movie
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
Movie
Luke's Society Mixup
Movie
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
Movie
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
Movie
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
Movie
Luke Pipes the Pippins
Movie
Luke's Late Lunchers
Movie
Luke Lugs Luggage
Movie
Luke's Double
Movie
Them Was the Happy Days!
Movie · as Snub
Luke's Fatal Flivver
Movie
Luke Laughs Last
Movie
Luke's Washful Waiting
Movie
Luke, the Chauffeur
Movie
Luke's Preparedness Preparations
Movie
Luke, the Gladiator
Movie
Luke's Newsie Knockout
Movie
A Countless Count
Movie · as Count
Fresh from the Farm
Movie
Giving Them Fits
Movie · as Luke's Co-Worker
Peculiar Patients' Pranks
Movie
His Regeneration
Movie · as Extra
Bughouse Bellhops
Movie · as Moke Morpheus
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
Movie · as Tin-Horn Tommy
Tinkering with Trouble
Movie · as Sourball Joe
A Foozle at the Tee Party
Movie
Great While It Lasted
Movie · as Hugo Snubb
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
Movie
Ragtime Snap Shots
Movie · as Snub Larkin
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
Movie · as Butler