Harry 'Snub' Pollard
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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Movies (406)
The Parrott Chase
2009 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Classic Comedy Teams
1986 · Self (archive footage)
The Sound of Laughter
1963 · Plumber's Assistant
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Knuckles (uncredited)
Homicidal
1961 · Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
Master of the World
1961 · Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Townsman (uncredited)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961 · Self (archive footage)
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Townsman (uncredited)
Who Was That Lady?
1960 · Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
The Oregon Trail
1959 · Townsman (uncredited)
Teacher's Pet
1958 · Reporter (uncredited)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
1957 · Él mismo (material de archivo)
The Tin Star
1957 · Townsman(uncredited)
Pal Joey
1957 · Waiter (uncredited)
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957 · Comedy Waiter #2
Jeanne Eagels
1957 · Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
The Buster Keaton Story
1957 · Audience Member (uncredited)
Friendly Persuasion
1956 · Carnival Patron (uncredited)
Runaway Daughters
1956 · Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 · Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955 · Waiter (uncredited)
The Country Girl
1954 · Stagehand (uncredited)
The Fast and the Furious
1954 · Park Caretaker
Living It Up
1954 · Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
Conquest of Cochise
1953 · Barfly (uncredited)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953 · Man Pacing in Jail Cell
Julius Caesar
1953 · Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
Limelight
1952 · Street Musician
The Old West
1952 · Townsman (uncredited)
Park Row
1952 · Barfly
Carrie
1952 · Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
Gents in a Jam
1952 · Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
Scaramouche
1952 · Man at Assembly Meeting
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
Boots Malone
1952 · Stablehand (uncredited)
The Barefoot Mailman
1951 · Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
Valley of Fire
1951 · Townsman
Meet Me After the Show
1951 · Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
The Company She Keeps
1951 · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950 · Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950 · Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
The Gunfighter
1950 · Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Stars in My Crown
1950 · Bartender (uncredited)
Riding High
1950 · Spectator (uncredited)
Adam's Rib
1949 · Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Square Dance Jubilee
1949 · Show Spectator
House of Strangers
1949
The Lady Gambles
1949 · Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The Crooked Way
1949
A Woman's Secret
1949 · Stagehand (Uncredited)
Loaded Pistols
1948 · Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
Belle Starr's Daughter
1948 · Party Guest (uncredited)
Unknown Island
1948 · Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
Red River
1948 · Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
Johnny Belinda
1948 · Man on Jury (uncredited)
The Man from Colorado
1948 · Townsman (uncredited)
Back Trail
1948 · Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
The Paradine Case
1947 · Cabby (uncredited)
The Perils of Pauline
1947 · Western Saloon Set Propman
Desperate
1947 · Villager (uncredited)
Cheyenne
1947 · Barfly (uncredited)
Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
Thunder Mountain
1947 · Townsman (uncredited)
Framed
1947 · (uncredited)
Yankee Fakir
1947 · Townsman
Trail Street
1947 · Farmer (uncredited)
Andy Plays Hookey
1946 · Ticket Seller
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
1946 · Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
Society Mugs
1946 · Party Guest (uncredited)
Canyon Passage
1946 · Miner (uncredited)
Monkey Businessmen
1946 · Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
Jungle Terror
1946 · Campbell
Badman's Territory
1946 · Town Barber (uncredited)
Partners in Time
1946 · Townsman (uncredited)
The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · Parade Spectator (uncredited)
Strange Impersonation
1946 · Taxi driver (uncredited)
Road to Utopia
1946 · Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
Booby Dupes
1945 · Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
Kitty
1945 · Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
State Fair
1945 · Hog Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Rockin' in the Rockies
1945 · Drunk (uncredited)
Three Pests in a Mess
1945 · Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
The Conspirators
1944 · Airport Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
1944 · Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · Townsman (uncredited)
The Girl in the Case
1944 · Witness (uncredited)
Defective Detectives
1944 · Janitor
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Main Street Today
1944 · Pop Denton (uncredited)
Lucky Cowboy
1944 · Man Trying to Stop Fight
Charlie's Triple Trouble
1944 · Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
Phony Express
1943 · Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
Ghosts on the Loose
1943 · Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
Clancy Street Boys
1943 · Irate Father (uncredited)
Edge of Darkness
1943 · Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Kid Dynamite
1943 · Dance Official
The Kid Rides Again
1943 · Saloon Swamper
His Wedding Scare
1943 · Fireman
Stand by for Action
1942 · Sailor (uncredited)
The Payoff
1942 · Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942 · Soup Customer (uncredited)
Bowery at Midnight
1942 · Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
Foreign Agent
1942 · Supper Club Patron
It Happened in Flatbush
1942 · Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Boot Hill Bandits
1942 · 2nd Bartender
Vitamin 'U' for Me
1942
Confirm or Deny
1941 · Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
Mr. Celebrity
1941 · Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Red Skins and Red Heads
1941 · Party Guest (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941 · Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
1941 · Saloon Drunk
Sky Bandits
1940 · Pa, Man in Nightshirt
Murder on the Yukon
1940 · Archie
The Earl of Chicago
1940 · Townsman (uncredited)
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · Keystone Cop
Mesquite Buckaroo
1939 · Janitor Suds
Lure of the Wasteland
1939 · Cookie
Rollin' Westward
1939 · Poker Player
Song of the Buckaroo
1938 · 'Perky'
Where the Buffalo Roam
1938 · Pee Wee
Starlight Over Texas
1938 · Pee Wee
Utah Trail
1938 · Pee Wee
Rollin' Plains
1938 · Pee Wee
Frontier Town
1938 · Peewee
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937 · Pee Wee
Nation Aflame
1937 · Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
Jungle Menace
1937 · Campbell
Goofs and Saddles
1937 · Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
Riders of the Rockies
1937 · Pee Wee McDougal
Sing Cowboy Sing
1937 · Prisoner
Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies
1937 · Bartender
Hittin' the Trail
1937 · Bartender
Santa Fe Rides
1937 · Stubby
Arizona Days
1937 · Cookie
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936 · Cookie (Hart hand)
White Legion
1936 · Baker
The Black Coin
1936 · Vic Moran
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936 · Hadley
The Crime Patrol
1936 · Gyp
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936 · Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
Just My Luck
1935 · Frank Smith
Bars of Hate
1935 · Danny, the Pickpocket
The Laramie Kid
1935 · Cinvvict Shorty
The Drunkard
1935 · Property Man
The Night Is Young
1935 · Drummer (uncredited)
One More River
1934 · George
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934 · King's Physician's Aide
Stingaree
1934 · Victor
The Rawhide Terror
1934 · Renegade
The Purchase Price
1932 · Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932 · Bill Collector (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
1932
One Good Turn
1931 · A Community Player (uncredited)
The Road to Singapore
1931 · Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Girls Will Be Boys
1931 · Plumber's assistant
Ex-Flame
1930 · Boggins
Sock and Run
1929 · Alphonse
Here We Are
1929
Pipe Down
1929
The Big Shot
1929
Springtime Saps
1929
No Kidding
1928
Men About Town
1928
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
Once Over
1928 · Snub Pollard
Thick and Thin
1928
Double Trouble
1927
Mitt The Prince
1927
The Bum's Rush
1927
All Wet
1926
Fire!!
1926 · The Boy
The Yokel
1926
The Doughboy
1926
Get Busy
1924 · Shorter pal
The Big Idea
1924 · Inventor Ignatius Pollard
It's a Joy!
1923 · The Papa
Fully Insured
1923 · Our Hero
Join the Circus
1923
Dear Ol' Pal
1923 · Abner Maize
It's a Gift
1923 · Inventor
The Mystery Man
1923 · Detective Snub Pollard
The Green Cat
1923 · Snub / Big Boss, Writer
Jack Frost
1923 · Hired Hand
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
1923 · Papa
Sold at Auction!
1923 · The Auctioneer's Helper
California or Bust
1923 · The Old Settler
Before the Public
1923
A Tough Winter
1923
Newly Rich
1922 · The Chauffeur
The Old Sea Dog
1922 · Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
365 Days
1922 · The Good Grandson
The Stone Age
1922
The Dumb-Bell
1922 · The New Director
Some Baby
1922
Hale and Hearty
1922
Strictly Modern
1922 · Chambermaid Man
Punch the Clock
1922 · Snub
In the Movies
1922 · Snub - the Scenario Writer
Do Me a Favor
1922 · A Hobo
Full o' Pep
1922 · Snub
Hot Off the Press
1922 · Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
Pardon Me
1922
Blow 'Em Up
1922 · The Governor
Years to Come
1922 · The Bridegroom
The Hustler
1921 · Snub
On Location
1921 · The Caretaker of the Estate
Fifteen Minutes
1921 · The Husband
Name the Day
1921
What a Whopper!
1921
At the Ringside
1921
High Rollers
1921
Blue Sunday
1921
Big Game
1921 · Hunter
Rush Orders
1921 · Marquis de Marmalade
His Best Girl
1921
Whirl o' the West
1921 · The Tenderfoot
Park Your Car
1920
Cash Customers
1920 · The Chap
Money to Burn
1920
A London Bobby
1920
Run 'Em Ragged
1920
Live and Learn
1920
Call a Taxi!
1920
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
Any Old Port
1920
Grab the Ghost
1920 · Husband
All Dressed Up
1920
Drink Hearty
1920 · Snub
Cracked Wedding Bells
1920
Fresh Paint
1920 · Bicycle Messenger
Raise the Rent
1920
Waltz Me Around
1920 · Snub
His Royal Slyness
1920 · Prince of Rochquefort
Getting His Goat
1920
All Lit Up
1920 · The Dandy
The Dippy Dentist
1920 · The Dandy
Slippery Slickers
1920
Why Go Home?
1920
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
From Hand to Mouth
1919 · The Kidnapper
The Floor Below
1919
Tough Luck
1919
Looking for Trouble
1919 · The Dandy
How Dry I Am
1919
Captain Kidd's Kids
1919 · The Valet
It's a Hard Life
1919
Order in the Court
1919
Call for Mr. Caveman
1919 · Hatchet Face
Giving the Bride Away
1919
Bumping Into Broadway
1919 · The Musical Comedy's Director
All at Sea
1919
His Only Father
1919
Pay Your Dues
1919
Start Something
1919
Count the Votes
1919
Soft Money
1919
He Leads, Others Follow
1919
The Rajah
1919
Be My Wife
1919
Heap Big Chief
1919
Chop Suey & Co.
1919
Count Your Change
1919 · Billy Bullion
A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919
Never Touched Me!
1919 · Jealous Admirer
At the Old Stage Door
1919
Just Neighbors
1919 · The Neighbor
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919 · Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
Spring Fever
1919 · The Unwelcome Suitor
Off the Trolley
1919 · Trolley conductor
Swat the Crook
1919
Pistols for Breakfast
1919
Back to the Woods
1919 · His Valet
The Marathon
1919 · Snub
Before Breakfast
1919
Si, Senor
1919
Ring Up the Curtain
1919 · The Leading Man
Young Mr. Jazz
1919 · Snub
Crack Your Heels
1919
Just Dropped In
1919
A Sammy in Siberia
1919 · Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
Next Aisle Over
1919 · The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
The Dutiful Dub
1919
Look Out Below
1919 · Snub
I'm on My Way
1919 · The Neighbor
On the Fire
1919 · The Assistant Chef
Ask Father
1919 · The Corn-Fed Secretary
Going! Going! Gone!
1919
Love's Young Scream
1919
Wanted - $5,000
1919
She Loves Me Not
1918
Take a Chance
1918 · Simplex Joe
Hear 'Em Rave
1918
Nothing But Trouble
1918
Why Pick on Me?
1918
Swing Your Partners
1918
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
Two Scrambled
1918
Bride and Gloom
1918
That's Him
1918
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918
An Ozark Romance
1918
Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918 · Snub
Somewhere in Turkey
1918 · His Assistant
Sic 'Em, Towser
1918
The City Slicker
1918 · Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook
Fireman Save My Child
1918
Two-Gun Gussie
1918 · Snub
The Non-Stop Kid
1918 · Snub, the Butler
Kicked Out
1918
Hey There
1918 · The New Director
It's a Wild Life
1918 · Snub
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
Follow the Crowd
1918
On the Jump
1918 · Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
Let's Go
1918 · Man on beach
Here Come the Girls
1918
Look Pleasant, Please
1918 · Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
A Gasoline Wedding
1918 · Snub
Beat It
1918
Hit Him Again
1918
Hello Teacher
1918
The Lamb
1918
The Tip
1918
The Big Idea
1917 · Snub
Step Lively
1917
Bashful
1917 · Snub the Butler
Move On
1917
We Never Sleep
1917
All Aboard
1917 · Passenger with trunk
Clubs Are Trump
1917 · Snub
The Flirt
1917 · Restaurant owner
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
Rainbow Island
1917 · Snub
From Laramie to London
1917
Bliss
1917 · Snub
Birds of a Feather
1917
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917 · Spectator at Beach
Pinched
1917
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
Over the Fence
1917 · Snitch, Another
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1917
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917 · Snub
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
1917 · Cafe Waiter
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
1917
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
1917
Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917
Luke's Busy Day
1917
Luke's Lost Liberty
1917
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle
1917
Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916
Luke Locates the Loot
1916
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916
Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916
Luke's Movie Muddle
1916 · Projectionist
Luke's Newsie Knockout
1916
Luke, Patient Provider
1916
Luke, the Gladiator
1916
Luke's Preparedness Preparations
1916
Luke, the Chauffeur
1916
Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916
Luke's Speedy Club Life
1916 · Bellhop
Luke and the Mermaids
1916
Luke Joins the Navy
1916
Luke Does the Midway
1916
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916
Luke Rides Roughshod
1916
Luke's Washful Waiting
1916
Luke's Society Mixup
1916
Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916
Luke Laughs Last
1916
Police
1916 · First Flophouse Customer
Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916
Them Was the Happy Days!
1916 · Snub
Luke's Double
1916
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916
Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916
Luke Foils the Villain
1916
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916
Luke Lugs Luggage
1916
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
1915 · Tin-Horn Tommy
Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915
A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915
Ragtime Snap Shots
1915 · Snub Larkin
Great While It Lasted
1915 · Hugo Snubb
Tinkering with Trouble
1915 · Sourball Joe
Bughouse Bellhops
1915 · Moke Morpheus
Giving Them Fits
1915 · Luke's Co-Worker
Fresh from the Farm
1915
A Countless Count
1915 · Count
His Regeneration
1915 · Extra
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
1913 · Butler
Teaching the Teacher
· Teacher
