Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-11-08
Day of Death
1962-01-19 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
Acting
Teaching the Teacher
as Teacher
(1986)
Classic Comedy Teams
as Self (archive footage)
(1963)
The Sound of Laughter
as Plumber's Assistant
(1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
(1961)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)
(1961)
Pocketful of Miracles
as Knuckles (uncredited)
(1961)
Master of the World
as Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
(1961)
One-Eyed Jacks
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1961)
Homicidal
as Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
(1960)
Inherit the Wind
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1960)
Who Was That Lady?
as Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
(1959)
The Oregon Trail
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1958)
Teacher's Pet
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1957)
The Buster Keaton Story
as Audience Member (uncredited)
(1957)
The Tin Star
as Townsman(uncredited)
(1957)
Pal Joey
as Waiter (uncredited)
(1957)
Jeanne Eagels
as Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
(1957)
Man of a Thousand Faces
as Comedy Waiter #2
(1956)
Friendly Persuasion
as Carnival Patron (uncredited)
(1956)
Runaway Daughters
as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
(1955)
The Man with the Golden Arm
as Street Vagrant (uncredited)
(1955)
Pete Kelly's Blues
as Waiter (uncredited)
(1954)
The Country Girl
as Stagehand (uncredited)
(1954)
The Fast and the Furious
as Park Caretaker
(1954)
Living It Up
as Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
(1953)
Conquest of Cochise
as Barfly (uncredited)
(1953)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
as Man Pacing in Jail Cell
(1952)
Singin' in the Rain
as Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
(1952)
Scaramouche
as Man at Assembly Meeting
(1952)
Limelight
as Street Musician
(1952)
Carrie
as Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
(1952)
The Old West
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1952)
Park Row
as Barfly
(1952)
Gents in a Jam
as Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
(1951)
Valley of Fire
as Townsman
(1951)
The Company She Keeps
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
(1951)
The Barefoot Mailman
as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
(1951)
Meet Me After the Show
as Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
(1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
as Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
(1950)
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
(1950)
The Gunfighter
as Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
(1950)
Stars in My Crown
as Bartender (uncredited)
(1949)
(1949)
Adam's Rib
as Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
(1949)
Square Dance Jubilee
as Show Spectator
(1949)
A Woman's Secret
as Stagehand (Uncredited)
(1949)
The Lady Gambles
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
(1949)
(1948)
Red River
as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
(1948)
Back Trail
as Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
(1948)
Johnny Belinda
as Man on Jury (uncredited)
(1948)
The Man from Colorado
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1948)
Loaded Pistols
as Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
(1948)
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1948)
Unknown Island
as Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
(1947)
The Perils of Pauline
as Western Saloon Set Propman
(1947)
Thunder Mountain
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1947)
Framed
as (uncredited)
(1947)
Trail Street
as Farmer (uncredited)
(1947)
The Paradine Case
as Cabby (uncredited)
(1947)
Miracle on 34th Street
as Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
(1947)
Desperate
as Villager (uncredited)
(1947)
Yankee Fakir
as Townsman
(1947)
Cheyenne
as Barfly (uncredited)
(1946)
Partners in Time
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1946)
The Hoodlum Saint
as Parade Spectator (uncredited)
(1946)
Canyon Passage
as Miner (uncredited)
(1946)
Road to Utopia
as Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
(1946)
Badman's Territory
as Town Barber (uncredited)
(1946)
Andy Plays Hookey
as Ticket Seller
(1946)
Sister Kenny
as Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
(1946)
Jungle Terror
as Campbell
(1946)
Till the Clouds Roll By
as Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
(1946)
Strange Impersonation
as Taxi driver (uncredited)
(1946)
Monkey Businessmen
as Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
(1946)
Society Mugs
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1945)
Three Pests in a Mess
as Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
(1945)
State Fair
as Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
(1945)
Kitty
as Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
(1945)
Booby Dupes
as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
(1945)
Rockin' in the Rockies
as Drunk (uncredited)
(1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1944)
(1944)
Main Street Today
as Pop Denton (uncredited)
(1944)
Lucky Cowboy
as Man Trying to Stop Fight
(1944)
The Girl in the Case
as Witness (uncredited)
(1944)
Casanova Brown
as Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
(1944)
Defective Detectives
as Janitor
(1944)
Charlie's Triple Trouble
as Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
(1943)
Edge of Darkness
as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
(1943)
His Wedding Scare
as Fireman
(1943)
Kid Dynamite
as Dance Official
(1943)
The Kid Rides Again
as Saloon Swamper
(1943)
Ghosts on the Loose
as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
(1943)
Clancy Street Boys
as Irate Father (uncredited)
(1943)
Phony Express
as Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
(1942)
It Happened in Flatbush
as Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
(1942)
Bowery at Midnight
as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
(1942)
Foreign Agent
as Supper Club Patron
(1942)
Boot Hill Bandits
as 2nd Bartender
(1942)
The Payoff
as Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
(1942)
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as Soup Customer (uncredited)
(1942)
Stand by for Action
as Sailor (uncredited)
(1942)
(1941)
Red Skins and Red Heads
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1941)
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
as Saloon Drunk
(1941)
Confirm or Deny
as Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
(1941)
Mr. Celebrity
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
(1941)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
(1940)
The Earl of Chicago
as Townsman (uncredited)
(1940)
Murder on the Yukon
as Archie
(1940)
Sky Bandits
as Pa, Man in Nightshirt
(1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade
as Keystone Cop
(1939)
Mesquite Buckaroo
as Janitor Suds
(1939)
Rollin' Westward
as Poker Player
(1939)
Lure of the Wasteland
as Cookie
(1938)
Starlight Over Texas
as Pee Wee
(1938)
Song of the Buckaroo
as 'Perky'
(1938)
Frontier Town
as Peewee
(1938)
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Pee Wee
(1938)
Utah Trail
as Pee Wee
(1938)
Rollin' Plains
as Pee Wee
(1937)
Santa Fe Rides
as Stubby
(1937)
Sing Cowboy Sing
as Prisoner
(1937)
Riders of the Rockies
as Pee Wee McDougal
(1937)
Nation Aflame
as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
(1937)
Jungle Menace
as Campbell
(1937)
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
as Pee Wee
(1937)
Hittin' the Trail
as Bartender
(1937)
Goofs and Saddles
as Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
(1937)
Arizona Days
as Cookie
(1937)
Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies
as Bartender
(1936)
White Legion
as Baker
(1936)
The Gentleman from Louisiana
as Hadley
(1936)
The Crime Patrol
as Gyp
(1936)
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
(1936)
Headin' for the Rio Grande
as Cookie (Hart hand)
(1936)
The Black Coin
as Vic Moran
(1935)
The Laramie Kid
as Cinvvict Shorty
(1935)
Bars of Hate
as Danny, the Pickpocket
(1935)
The Drunkard
as Property Man
(1935)
Just My Luck
as Frank Smith
(1935)
The Night Is Young
as Drummer (uncredited)
(1934)
One More River
as George
(1934)
Stingaree
as Victor
(1934)
The Rawhide Terror
as Renegade
(1934)
Cockeyed Cavaliers
as King's Physician's Aide
(1932)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
as Bill Collector (uncredited)
(1932)
(1932)
The Purchase Price
as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
(1931)
Girls Will Be Boys
as Plumber's assistant
(1931)
The Road to Singapore
as Photographer at Birthday Party
(1931)
One Good Turn
as A Community Player (uncredited)
(1930)
Ex-Flame
as Boggins
(1929)
(1929)
Sock and Run
as Alphonse
(1929)
(1928)
Once Over
as Snub Pollard
(1928)
(1928)
(1928)
(1928)
(1927)
(1927)
(1927)
(1926)
Fire!!
as The Boy
(1926)
(1926)
(1926)
(1924)
The Big Idea
as Inventor Ignatius Pollard
(1924)
Get Busy
as Shorter pal
(1923)
Sold at Auction
as The Auctioneer's Helper
(1923)
It's a Joy!
as The Papa
(1923)
Fully Insured
as Our Hero
(1923)
California or Bust
as The Old Settler
(1923)
It's a Gift
as Inventor
(1923)
The Green Cat
as Snub
(1923)
(1923)
Dear Ol' Pal
as Abner Maize
(1923)
Jack Frost
as Hired Hand
(1923)
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
as Papa
(1923)
(1923)
The Mystery Man
as Detective Snub Pollard
(1923)
(1922)
Hot Off the Press
as Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
(1922)
(1922)
(1922)
Do Me a Favor
as A Hobo
(1922)
Punch the Clock
as Snub
(1922)
The Dumb-Bell
as The New Director
(1922)
(1922)
The Old Sea Dog
as Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
(1922)
Years to Come
as The Bridegroom
(1922)
Strictly Modern
as Chambermaid Man
(1922)
Blow 'Em Up
as The Governor
(1922)
In the Movies
as Snub - the Scenario Writer
(1922)
Newly Rich
as The Chauffeur
(1922)
365 Days
as The Good Grandson
(1922)
Full o' Pep
as Snub
(1922)
(1921)
On Location
as The Caretaker of the Estate
(1921)
Fifteen Minutes
as The Husband
(1921)
Whirl o' the West
as The Tenderfoot
(1921)
Rush Orders
as Marquis de Marmalade
(1921)
(1921)
Big Game
as Hunter
(1921)
(1921)
(1921)
(1921)
(1921)
The Hustler
as Snub
(1921)
(1920)
Cash Customers
as The Chap
(1920)
(1920)
His Royal Slyness
as Prince of Rochquefort
(1920)
(1920)
The Dippy Dentist
as The Dandy
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
Drink Hearty
as Snub
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
Fresh Paint
as Bicycle Messenger
(1920)
(1920)
All Lit Up
as The Dandy
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
Grab the Ghost
as Husband
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
(1919)
Billy Blazes, Esq.
as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Looking for Trouble
as The Dandy
(1919)
Count Your Change
as Billy Bullion
(1919)
(1919)
The Marathon
as Snub
(1919)
A Sammy in Siberia
as Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
(1919)
From Hand to Mouth
as The Kidnapper
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Next Aisle Over
as The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
(1919)
(1919)
Bumping Into Broadway
as The Musical Comedy's Director
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Ring Up the Curtain
as The Leading Man
(1919)
Young Mr. Jazz
as Snub
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Captain Kidd's Kids
as The Valet
(1919)
Ask Father
as The Corn-Fed Secretary
(1919)
(1919)
Spring Fever
as The Unwelcome Suitor
(1919)
Look Out Below
as Snub
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Off the Trolley
as Trolley conductor
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Just Neighbors
as The Neighbor
(1919)
(1919)
I'm on My Way
as The Neighbor
(1919)
(1919)
On the Fire
as The Assistant Chef
(1919)
Back to the Woods
as His Valet
(1919)
Never Touched Me!
as Jealous Admirer
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
Call for Mr. Caveman
as Hatchet Face
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1918)
Look Pleasant, Please
as Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
(1918)
(1918)
It's a Wild Life
as Snub
(1918)
Two-Gun Gussie
as Snub
(1918)
A Gasoline Wedding
as Snub
(1918)
(1918)
The Non-Stop Kid
as Snub, the Butler
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
Take a Chance
as Simplex Joe
(1918)
Somewhere in Turkey
as His Assistant
(1918)
Hey There
as The New Director
(1918)
The City Slicker
as Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook
(1918)
Let's Go
as Man on beach
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
Are Crooks Dishonest?
as Snub
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
On the Jump
as Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
By the Sad Sea Waves
as Spectator at Beach
(1917)
The Big Idea
as Snub
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
Over the Fence
as Snitch, Another
(1917)
Bliss
as Snub
(1917)
Bashful
as Snub the Butler
(1917)
Rainbow Island
as Snub
(1917)
All Aboard
as Passenger with trunk
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
Clubs Are Trump
as Snub
(1917)
(1917)
The Flirt
as Restaurant owner
(1917)
(1917)
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
as Cafe Waiter
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
as Snub
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1916)
Police
as First Flophouse Customer
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
Luke's Movie Muddle
as Projectionist
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
Luke's Speedy Club Life
as Bellhop
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
Them Was the Happy Days!
as Snub
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1916)
(1915)
His Regeneration
as Extra
(1915)
(1915)
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
as Tin-Horn Tommy
(1915)
Giving Them Fits
as Luke's Co-Worker
(1915)
(1915)
Bughouse Bellhops
as Moke Morpheus
(1915)
Great While It Lasted
as Hugo Snubb
(1915)
(1915)
Ragtime Snap Shots
as Snub Larkin
(1915)
(1915)
Tinkering with Trouble
as Sourball Joe
(1915)
A Countless Count
as Count
(1913)
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
as Butler