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

Singin' in the Rain

19528.1

Miracle on 34th Street

19477.4

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

19627.8

Red River

19487.3

The Tin Star

19577.0

One-Eyed Jacks

19616.8

Limelight

19527.9

The Man with the Golden Arm

19557.1

Julius Caesar

19537.1

Inherit the Wind

19607.7

Pocketful of Miracles

19617.3

House of Strangers

19497.0

Friendly Persuasion

19566.6

The Mystery Man

19238.0

Police

19166.3

Scaramouche

19527.0

Adam's Rib

19497.1

The Gunfighter

19507.4

Canyon Passage

19466.7

Till the Clouds Roll By

19465.8

The Paradine Case

19476.3

His Regeneration

19154.4

Here Comes a Sailor

19285.0

The Country Girl

19547.0

Pal Joey

19576.3

Where the Sidewalk Ends

19507.2

Hail the Conquering Hero

19447.1

The Lady Gambles

19496.1

Living It Up

19546.5

Cockeyed Cavaliers

19345.8

Do Me a Favor

19226.0

Get Busy

19247.5

High Rollers

19215.3

Teacher's Pet

19586.8

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary

1916

The Man from Colorado

19486.8

Man of a Thousand Faces

19576.8

Casanova Brown

19446.4

Si, Senor

19199.0

Johnny Belinda

19486.9

Homicidal

19616.4

Ask Father

19196.5

Soft Money

19198.0

Spring Fever

19196.1

Master of the World

19616.0

Society Mugs

19467.0

Swat the Crook

191910.0

Double Trouble

1927

The Buster Keaton Story

19575.2

The Company She Keeps

19516.2

Fire!!

19267.0

Stingaree

19346.1

Badman's Territory

19466.3

Jeanne Eagels

19576.3

The Fast and the Furious

19545.4

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Carrie

19526.4

Where the Buffalo Roam

19385.5

A Woman's Secret

19495.6

Stars in My Crown

19507.0

The Perils of Pauline

19476.7

The Conspirators

19446.3

Strange Impersonation

19466.1

Who Was That Lady?

19606.4

Mesquite Buckaroo

19399.0

Road to Utopia

19466.7

Framed

19476.5

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

Trail Street

19476.5

All Wet

19269.0

The Payoff

19425.9

Cheyenne

19477.0

One Good Turn

19316.9

Luke's Lost Liberty

1917

Ghosts on the Loose

19434.2

State Fair

19456.6

One More River

19345.2

Kicked Out

1918

Edge of Darkness

19436.3

Swing Your Partners

19185.0

Big Game

19219.0

Sold at Auction!

19236.8

365 Days

19228.0

Monkey Businessmen

19466.4

Strictly Modern

192210.0

Loaded Pistols

19486.5

Belle Starr's Daughter

19485.1

The Earl of Chicago

19406.3

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

19536.7

Days of Thrills and Laughter

19616.0

Two Scrambled

1918

Punch the Clock

19226.5

Bowery at Midnight

19425.1

Boot Hill Bandits

19425.8

Luke, the Chauffeur

1916

Stand by for Action

19427.0

Hello Teacher

19189.0

Rush Orders

192110.0

Before Breakfast

1919

Defective Detectives

19449.0

Fifteen Minutes

19216.0

Blue Sunday

19219.0

Captain Kidd's Kids

19196.2

Desperate

19476.5

Vitamin 'U' for Me

1942

The Crooked Way

19496.2

Mr. Celebrity

19417.0

Slippery Slickers

1920

That's Him

19185.0

Fresh Paint

19206.0

Phony Express

19436.0

Call a Taxi!

19205.5

The Parrott Chase

2009

Walk Softly, Stranger

19505.1

Whirl o' the West

19218.0

Drink Hearty

19207.0

Unknown Island

19485.2

Pete Kelly's Blues

19556.2

Valley of Fire

195110.0

Just Neighbors

19196.5

Thunder Mountain

19476.0

Luke's Shattered Sleep

1916

Kitty

19455.7

Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster

1915

Luke's Double

1916

Lonesome Luke, Lawyer

1917

The Purchase Price

19326.5

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

It's a Joy!

19237.0

Hear 'Em Rave

19184.8

Bees in His Bonnet

1918

The Dutiful Dub

19198.0

The Rawhide Terror

19344.9

Jungle Menace

19377.0

Pay Your Dues

19195.5

Luke's Fatal Flivver

1916

It Happened in Flatbush

19425.4

Back Trail

19488.0

The Old Sea Dog

1922

The Road to Singapore

19315.6

Here Come the Girls

19182.0

Rollin' Westward

19395.8

Luke, the Gladiator

1916

The Oregon Trail

19595.7

Lonesome Luke, Circus King

1916

Conquest of Cochise

19535.3

A Foozle at the Tee Party

1915

The Yokel

19267.5

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

Rollin' Plains

19389.0

Sock and Run

1929

Before the Public

19237.5

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

19326.1

Gents in a Jam

19526.8

She Loves Me Not

1918

Move On

19174.7

Ring Up the Curtain

19195.8

Charlie's Triple Trouble

1944

The Old West

19527.0

Count the Votes

19198.0

Lonesome Luke's Wild Women

1917

Bumping Into Broadway

19196.9

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

19426.3

In the Movies

192210.0

Bughouse Bellhops

1915

Join the Circus

19237.0

Main Street Today

19446.3

We Never Sleep

1917

Luke's Movie Muddle

19164.9

The Hoodlum Saint

19465.5

Courtship of Miles Sandwich

19237.0

Luke, the Candy Cut-Up

1916

Luke's Washful Waiting

1916

Bride and Gloom

1918

The Sound of Laughter

19635.0

Bars of Hate

19357.0

His Only Father

19197.0

Sic 'Em, Towser

1918

Going! Going! Gone!

19195.5

Classic Comedy Teams

19867.0

Luke's Newsie Knockout

1916

Luke Rides Roughshod

1916

Lonesome Luke, Plumber

1917

Birds of a Feather

1917

Giving Them Fits

1915

Luke and the Mermaids

1916

Luke's Preparedness Preparations

1916

Yankee Fakir

19476.0

The Doughboy

19267.3

Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

19174.6

The Night Is Young

19356.0

I'm on My Way

19196.3

Clubs Are Trump

19175.2

A Jazzed Honeymoon

19196.1

White Legion

19366.3

Never Touched Me!

19195.6

Great While It Lasted

1915

Waltz Me Around

19206.0

The Midnight Patrol

193210.0

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Just Dropped In

19199.0

Live and Learn

192010.0

Sally Scrags, Housemaid

19139.0

Cracked Wedding Bells

19207.0

Newly Rich

1922

Red Hot Hottentotts

19207.0

Hey There

19186.7

Park Row

19526.7

Meet Me After the Show

19515.4

The Gentleman from Louisiana

19368.0

Square Dance Jubilee

19495.0

Pistols for Breakfast

19199.0

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

19415.5

Look Out Below

19195.7

Them Was the Happy Days!

1916

Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916

Confirm or Deny

19414.8

Three Pests in a Mess

19456.4

The Crime Patrol

19367.0

Off the Trolley

19196.0

Don't Rock the Boat

19209.0

Luke Laughs Last

1916

Santa Fe Rides

19379.0

Goofs and Saddles

19377.1

Young Mr. Jazz

19195.9

Call for Mr. Caveman

19195.0

Ragtime Snap Shots

1915

On the Fire

19196.0

Headin' for the Rio Grande

19368.0

From Hand to Mouth

19196.5

A Countless Count

19159.0

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

1917

The Big Shot

19295.5

Hale and Hearty

192210.0

Arizona Days

19375.0

Park Your Car

19204.0

A Sammy in Siberia

19195.7

Luke Does the Midway

1916

Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire

1917

Two-Gun Gussie

19185.3

Luke and the Rural Roughnecks

1916

On the Jump

1918

The Barefoot Mailman

19516.5

Over the Fence

19175.9

Peculiar Patients' Pranks

1915

Love's Young Scream

191910.0

Nothing But Trouble

1918

His Wedding Scare

19438.0

Full o' Pep

19229.0

Starlight Over Texas

19387.0

Luke Pipes the Pippins

1916

The Drunkard

19357.0

Blow 'Em Up

19229.0

Rockin' in the Rockies

19455.8

Kid Dynamite

19437.0

Jack Frost

192310.0

It's a Gift

19236.5

The Laramie Kid

19356.0

Back to the Woods

19194.1

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany

19182.0

Crack Your Heels

19199.0

At the Ringside

19219.0

All Aboard

19174.9

Fully Insured

19236.5

Grab the Ghost

19208.0

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

19365.2

Luke Joins the Navy

19165.0

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

The Green Cat

19236.0

Jungle Terror

19467.0

Stop! Luke! Listen!

1917

Raise the Rent

19206.0

Next Aisle Over

19196.1

Mitt The Prince

1927

Bashful

19177.1

The Stone Age

19229.0

No Kidding

1928

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle

1917

Hot Off the Press

19229.0

The Kid Rides Again

19436.2

He Leads, Others Follow

19198.0

Clancy Street Boys

19436.6

Runaway Daughters

19564.3

Sing Cowboy Sing

19374.4

It's a Wild Life

19185.0

From Laramie to London

1917

Somewhere in Turkey

19186.0

Luke Foils the Villain

1916

Luke Lugs Luggage

1916

Luke, Patient Provider

1916

Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon

1917

Pinched

19175.0

Luke and the Bomb Throwers

1916

The Lamb

1918

Pipe Down

1929

Foreign Agent

19427.0

Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks

1915

The Big Idea

19175.8

Follow the Crowd

19185.5

An Ozark Romance

1918

The Tip

1918

His Royal Slyness

19206.0

California or Bust

19238.0

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

19417.0

Fresh from the Farm

1915

Billy Blazes, Esq.

19195.9

Tinkering with Trouble

1915

Start Something

19197.0

Luke's Speedy Club Life

1916

Lure of the Wasteland

19397.0

All Lit Up

19207.5

Take a Chance

19186.1

Song of the Buckaroo

193810.0

The Hustler

19218.0

Why Go Home?

19209.0

The Bum's Rush

19275.0

The Dumb-Bell

19226.3

Pipe the Whiskers

19185.0

Thick and Thin

1928

Frontier Town

19386.3

Look Pleasant, Please

19185.8

Count Your Change

19196.7

Getting His Goat

192010.0

Pardon Me

19227.0

By the Sad Sea Waves

19175.8

Giving the Bride Away

19199.0

Andy Plays Hookey

194610.0

Looking for Trouble

19196.2

Luke and the Bang-Tails

1916

Booby Dupes

19455.7

Are Crooks Dishonest?

19185.6

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

19375.5

Love, Laughs and Lather

1917

Teaching the Teacher

20267.0

The Big Idea

19248.0

Partners in Time

19467.0

Bliss

19174.3

Run 'Em Ragged

19207.5

The City Slicker

19185.2

Luke's Busy Day

1917

Just My Luck

19359.0

The Floor Below

19195.7

Red Skins and Red Heads

19417.0

Dear Ol' Pal

192310.0

Cash Customers

192010.0

The Non-Stop Kid

19185.1

The Marathon

19195.7

A Tough Winter

19239.0

Nation Aflame

19375.3

The Girl in the Case

19446.6

Fireman Save My Child

19185.5

All Dressed Up

19208.0

What a Whopper!

19216.3

Beat It

1918

Men About Town

19287.0

The Black Coin

19366.5

Sky Bandits

19405.7

On Location

1921

Rainbow Island

19175.0

Tough Luck

19199.0

Lonesome Luke, Mechanic

1917

Luke, Crystal Gazer

1916

Some Baby

1922

Why Pick on Me?

19185.0

The Flirt

19173.9

Be My Wife

1919

Heap Big Chief

19196.5

A Gasoline Wedding

19185.8

Springtime Saps

19298.0

Hittin' the Trail

19376.0

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury

1916

Wanted - $5,000

19197.0

Utah Trail

19387.0

His Best Girl

19218.0

Murder on the Yukon

19405.7

Name the Day

192110.0

Ex-Flame

19309.0

Lucky Cowboy

19448.0

Chop Suey & Co.

19195.6

Luke's Trolley Troubles

1917

It's a Hard Life

19197.0

Step Lively

19174.6

The Dippy Dentist

19206.4

Years to Come

19225.3

Girls Will Be Boys

19317.0

Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies

1937

Luke's Society Mixup

1916

Riders of the Rockies

19374.3

Hit Him Again

1918

All at Sea

19198.0

How Dry I Am

19199.0

Order in the Court

191910.0

Let's Go

1918

Money to Burn

1920

At the Old Stage Door

1919

Once Over

19284.5

Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley

1917

Luke's Late Lunchers

1916

The Rajah

19195.5

Any Old Port

192010.0

Here We Are

1929

A London Bobby

19207.0