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.
Peran Terkenal
Tentang
Stage Name: Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Peran: Acting
Reputasi: 0.4624
Jenis Kelamin: Laki-laki
Tanggal Lahir: 1889-11-08
Lokasi Lahir: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Riwayat Perfilman
1954
Public Defender
1951
Racket Squad
1949
House of Strangers
1949
The Crooked Way
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
1942
Vitamin 'U' for Me
1932
The Midnight Patrol
1929
The Big Shot
1929
Springtime Saps
1928
No Kidding
1928
Men About Town
1928
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
Thick and Thin
1927
Double Trouble
1927
Mitt The Prince
1926
All Wet
1926
The Yokel
1926
The Doughboy
1923
Join the Circus
1923
Before the Public
1923
A Tough Winter
1922
The Stone Age
1922
Some Baby
1922
Hale and Hearty
1922
Pardon Me
1921
Name the Day
1921
What a Whopper!
1921
At the Ringside
1921
High Rollers
1921
Blue Sunday
1921
His Best Girl
1920
Park Your Car
1920
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
All Dressed Up
1920
Raise the Rent
1920
Waltz Me Around
1920
Getting His Goat
1920
Slippery Slickers
1920
Why Go Home?
1920
Red Hot Hottentotts
1919
The Floor Below
1919
Tough Luck
1919
How Dry I Am
1919
It's a Hard Life
1919
Order in the Court
1919
All at Sea
1919
His Only Father
1919
Pay Your Dues
1919
Start Something
1919
Count the Votes
1919
Soft Money
1919
The Rajah
1919
Be My Wife
1919
Heap Big Chief
1919
Chop Suey & Co.
1919
A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919
Swat the Crook
1919
Before Breakfast
1919
Si, Senor
1919
Crack Your Heels
1919
Just Dropped In
1919
The Dutiful Dub
1919
Going! Going! Gone!
1919
Love's Young Scream
1919
Wanted - $5,000
1918
She Loves Me Not
1918
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
An Ozark Romance
1918
Sic 'Em, Towser
1918
Kicked Out
1918
It's a Wild Life
1918
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
Follow the Crowd
1918
Let's Go
1918
Here Come the Girls
1918
Beat It
1918
Hit Him Again
1918
Hello Teacher
1918
The Lamb
1918
The Tip
1917
Step Lively
1917
Move On
1917
We Never Sleep
1917
Clubs Are Trump
1917
The Flirt
1917
Rainbow Island
1917
Birds of a Feather
1917
Pinched
1917
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
Luke's Busy Day
1917
Luke's Lost Liberty
1916
Luke, the Gladiator
1916
Luke, the Chauffeur
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 Society Mixup
1916
Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916
Luke Laughs Last
1916
Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
Luke's Double
1916
Luke Lugs Luggage
1915