Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

136

Movies

403

Born: November 8, 1889 – January 19, 1962
From: 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.

Works

403 films

Miracle on 34th Street

19477.4

Singin' in the Rain

19528.1

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

19627.8

Red River

19487.3

Julius Caesar

19537.1

Inherit the Wind

19607.7

The Tin Star

19577.0

One-Eyed Jacks

19616.8

House of Strangers

19497.0

Limelight

19527.9

Scaramouche

19527.0

The Gunfighter

19507.4

The Mystery Man

19238.0

Adam's Rib

19497.1

The Man with the Golden Arm

19557.1

Friendly Persuasion

19566.6

Pocketful of Miracles

19617.3

Police

19166.3

The Country Girl

19547.0

Here Comes a Sailor

19285.0

The Paradine Case

19476.3

Canyon Passage

19466.7

The Lady Gambles

19496.1

Pal Joey

19576.3

His Regeneration

19154.4

Do Me a Favor

19226.0

Man of a Thousand Faces

19576.8

Till the Clouds Roll By

19465.8

Hail the Conquering Hero

19447.1

Homicidal

19616.4

The Man from Colorado

19486.8

Living It Up

19546.5

Teacher's Pet

19586.8

Get Busy

19247.5

High Rollers

19215.3

Johnny Belinda

19486.9

Where the Sidewalk Ends

19507.2

Cockeyed Cavaliers

19345.8

Si, Senor

19199.0

Carrie

19526.4

Double Trouble

1927

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary

1916

Stingaree

19346.1

All Wet

19269.0

A Woman's Secret

19495.6

The Fast and the Furious

19545.4

Edge of Darkness

19436.3

The Company She Keeps

19516.2

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Fire!!

19267.0

Ask Father

19196.5

Who Was That Lady?

19606.4

Casanova Brown

19446.4

Jeanne Eagels

19576.3

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

Mesquite Buckaroo

19399.0

Where the Buffalo Roam

19385.5

Strange Impersonation

19466.1

Stars in My Crown

19507.0

Strictly Modern

192210.0

Swing Your Partners

19185.0

Swat the Crook

191910.0

Pay Your Dues

19195.5

The Perils of Pauline

19476.7

Road to Utopia

19466.7

Society Mugs

19467.0

One Good Turn

19316.9

Spring Fever

19196.1

Soft Money

19198.0

Cheyenne

19477.0

Sold at Auction!

19236.8

State Fair

19456.6

Monkey Businessmen

19466.4

Fifteen Minutes

19216.0

The Buster Keaton Story

19575.2

Unknown Island

19485.2

Framed

19476.5

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

19326.1

Mr. Celebrity

19417.0

Bowery at Midnight

19425.1

Badman's Territory

19466.3

Belle Starr's Daughter

19485.1

The Conspirators

19446.3

The Crooked Way

19496.2

Master of the World

19616.0

Big Game

19219.0

Bughouse Bellhops

1915

Trail Street

19476.5

Two Scrambled

1918

The Payoff

19425.9

Vitamin 'U' for Me

1942

Kicked Out

1918

The Hoodlum Saint

19465.5

Blue Sunday

19219.0

Luke and the Mermaids

1916

Slippery Slickers

1920

Fresh Paint

19206.0

Luke, the Gladiator

1916

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

Call a Taxi!

19205.5

Park Row

19526.7

Ghosts on the Loose

19434.2

The Rawhide Terror

19344.9

I'm on My Way

19196.3

The Oregon Trail

19595.7

Main Street Today

19446.3

One More River

19345.2

The Yokel

19267.5

The Earl of Chicago

19406.3

Stand by for Action

19427.0

Giving Them Fits

1915

The Purchase Price

19326.5

Before Breakfast

1919

Luke, the Chauffeur

1916

Captain Kidd's Kids

19196.2

Punch the Clock

19226.5

Kitty

19455.7

Whirl o' the West

19218.0

Conquest of Cochise

19535.3

Phony Express

19436.0

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

Loaded Pistols

19486.5

Here Come the Girls

19182.0

Days of Thrills and Laughter

19616.0

Desperate

19476.5

Rush Orders

192110.0

365 Days

19228.0

She Loves Me Not

1918

Hello Teacher

19189.0

Walk Softly, Stranger

19505.1

Defective Detectives

19449.0

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

19536.7

Boot Hill Bandits

19425.8

The Parrott Chase

2009

Waltz Me Around

19206.0

Luke's Shattered Sleep

1916

Rollin' Plains

19389.0

Bride and Gloom

1918

His Only Father

19197.0

Ring Up the Curtain

19195.8

Luke's Lost Liberty

1917

Pipe Down

1929

Drink Hearty

19207.0

The Night Is Young

19356.0

Luke's Double

1916

Just Neighbors

19196.5

Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster

1915

Partners in Time

19467.0

Lonesome Luke, Circus King

1916

Pete Kelly's Blues

19556.2

Gents in a Jam

19526.8

Never Touched Me!

19195.6

Newly Rich

1922

The Road to Singapore

19315.6

Join the Circus

19237.0

Jungle Terror

19467.0

Hear 'Em Rave

19184.8

Bumping Into Broadway

19196.9

Bees in His Bonnet

1918

That's Him

19185.0

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

19426.3

Thunder Mountain

19476.0

Lonesome Luke, Lawyer

1917

Red Hot Hottentotts

19207.0

Going! Going! Gone!

19195.5

Charlie's Triple Trouble

1944

The Sound of Laughter

19635.0

Jungle Menace

19377.0

Pistols for Breakfast

19199.0

Ragtime Snap Shots

1915

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle

1917

The Doughboy

19267.3

A Foozle at the Tee Party

1915

Sock and Run

1929

It's a Joy!

19237.0

Just Dropped In

19199.0

Bars of Hate

19357.0

Birds of a Feather

1917

Call for Mr. Caveman

19195.0

Classic Comedy Teams

19867.0

Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Square Dance Jubilee

19495.0

Luke's Fatal Flivver

1916

The Gentleman from Louisiana

19368.0

Clubs Are Trump

19175.2

Move On

19174.7

Back Trail

19488.0

On the Fire

19196.0

White Legion

19366.3

The Big Shot

19295.5

Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916

Sic 'Em, Towser

1918

Courtship of Miles Sandwich

19237.0

The Old Sea Dog

1922

Booby Dupes

19455.7

The Crime Patrol

19367.0

Valley of Fire

195110.0

Runaway Daughters

19564.3

Luke Lugs Luggage

1916

Count the Votes

19198.0

Yankee Fakir

19476.0

Sally Scrags, Housemaid

19139.0

A Sammy in Siberia

19195.7

Full o' Pep

19229.0

Lonesome Luke's Wild Women

1917

Luke Rides Roughshod

1916

Luke's Newsie Knockout

1916

All Aboard

19174.9

Before the Public

19237.5

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

19174.6

No Kidding

1928

In the Movies

192210.0

Luke's Preparedness Preparations

1916

Live and Learn

192010.0

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

19365.2

Look Out Below

19195.7

Lonesome Luke, Plumber

1917

The Dutiful Dub

19198.0

Beat It

1918

A Jazzed Honeymoon

19196.1

We Never Sleep

1917

The Green Cat

19236.0

Hot Off the Press

19229.0

Young Mr. Jazz

19195.9

Don't Rock the Boat

19209.0

Rockin' in the Rockies

19455.8

The Barefoot Mailman

19516.5

Dear Ol' Pal

192310.0

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Kid Dynamite

19437.0

Them Was the Happy Days!

1916

Luke, the Candy Cut-Up

1916

Great While It Lasted

1915

Park Your Car

19204.0

Two-Gun Gussie

19185.3

Luke Laughs Last

1916

Hale and Hearty

192210.0

On the Jump

1918

Luke's Movie Muddle

19164.9

Rollin' Westward

19395.8

Luke Foils the Villain

1916

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

19415.5

The Kid Rides Again

19436.2

Luke's Washful Waiting

1916

Luke, Crystal Gazer

1916

Crack Your Heels

19199.0

Cracked Wedding Bells

19207.0

Nation Aflame

19375.3

Bashful

19177.1

Andy Plays Hookey

194610.0

It's a Wild Life

19185.0

It Happened in Flatbush

19425.4

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

1917

Sky Bandits

19405.7

It's a Gift

19236.5

An Ozark Romance

1918

At the Ringside

19219.0

Love's Young Scream

191910.0

The Laramie Kid

19356.0

Nothing But Trouble

1918

Off the Trolley

19196.0

Peculiar Patients' Pranks

1915

Name the Day

192110.0

Luke Pipes the Pippins

1916

Start Something

19197.0

The Stone Age

19229.0

Goofs and Saddles

19377.1

Follow the Crowd

19185.5

The Old West

19527.0

Jack Frost

192310.0

What a Whopper!

19216.3

Billy Blazes, Esq.

19195.9

Meet Me After the Show

19515.4

Raise the Rent

19206.0

Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks

1915

Why Go Home?

19209.0

Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon

1917

Starlight Over Texas

19387.0

Ex-Flame

19309.0

Luke Joins the Navy

19165.0

The Midnight Patrol

193210.0

Clancy Street Boys

19436.6

Blow 'Em Up

19229.0

Bliss

19174.3

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

Luke Does the Midway

1916

Murder on the Yukon

19405.7

Foreign Agent

19427.0

Tinkering with Trouble

1915

Arizona Days

19375.0

Hittin' the Trail

19376.0

Mitt The Prince

1927

Song of the Buckaroo

193810.0

Step Lively

19174.6

The Drunkard

19357.0

Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire

1917

Confirm or Deny

19414.8

Santa Fe Rides

19379.0

The Tip

1918

Looking for Trouble

19196.2

Over the Fence

19175.9

Girls Will Be Boys

19317.0

The Bum's Rush

19275.0

The Flirt

19173.9

Pardon Me

19227.0

Back to the Woods

19194.1

Pipe the Whiskers

19185.0

Giving the Bride Away

19199.0

His Wedding Scare

19438.0

Hit Him Again

1918

From Hand to Mouth

19196.5

A Countless Count

19159.0

The City Slicker

19185.2

Luke and the Rural Roughnecks

1916

From Laramie to London

1917

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

19417.0

Frontier Town

19386.3

His Royal Slyness

19206.0

Grab the Ghost

19208.0

The Hustler

19218.0

Luke's Busy Day

1917

Somewhere in Turkey

19186.0

The Dippy Dentist

19206.4

Three Pests in a Mess

19456.4

At the Old Stage Door

1919

Pinched

19175.0

The Girl in the Case

19446.6

The Marathon

19195.7

The Lamb

1918

Headin' for the Rio Grande

19368.0

Hey There

19186.7

Look Pleasant, Please

19185.8

Fully Insured

19236.5

Luke, Patient Provider

1916

Tough Luck

19199.0

Luke's Speedy Club Life

1916

Why Pick on Me?

19185.0

Sing Cowboy Sing

19374.4

The Floor Below

19195.7

A Gasoline Wedding

19185.8

The Non-Stop Kid

19185.1

The Big Idea

19175.8

Just My Luck

19359.0

He Leads, Others Follow

19198.0

Thick and Thin

1928

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany

19182.0

Fresh from the Farm

1915

Stop! Luke! Listen!

1917

All Dressed Up

19208.0

Rainbow Island

19175.0

Luke and the Bomb Throwers

1916

On Location

1921

A Tough Winter

19239.0

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

19375.5

Are Crooks Dishonest?

19185.6

Luke and the Bang-Tails

1916

Lure of the Wasteland

19397.0

By the Sad Sea Waves

19175.8

Red Skins and Red Heads

19417.0

Count Your Change

19196.7

Next Aisle Over

19196.1

Utah Trail

19387.0

Some Baby

1922

Any Old Port

192010.0

Getting His Goat

192010.0

California or Bust

19238.0

Wanted - $5,000

19197.0

Lucky Cowboy

19448.0

The Black Coin

19366.5

Riders of the Rockies

19374.3

The Dumb-Bell

19226.3

The Big Idea

19248.0

Chop Suey & Co.

19195.6

Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies

1937

Take a Chance

19186.1

All Lit Up

19207.5

The Rajah

19195.5

Fireman Save My Child

19185.5

Love, Laughs and Lather

1917

It's a Hard Life

19197.0

Springtime Saps

19298.0

Be My Wife

1919

Men About Town

19287.0

His Best Girl

19218.0

Cash Customers

192010.0

Heap Big Chief

19196.5

Run 'Em Ragged

19207.5

Here We Are

1929

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury

1916

Teaching the Teacher

20267.0

Luke's Society Mixup

1916

Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley

1917

Lonesome Luke, Mechanic

1917

Luke's Trolley Troubles

1917

Years to Come

19225.3

How Dry I Am

19199.0

Let's Go

1918

Order in the Court

191910.0

All at Sea

19198.0

Luke's Late Lunchers

1916

Once Over

19284.5

Money to Burn

1920

A London Bobby

19207.0