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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-11-08
Place of birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Cast
Ex-Flame
1930
0.00
Belle Starr's Daughter
1948
4.10
The Fast and the Furious
1954
4.90
State Fair
1945
6.60
Stars in My Crown
1950
6.90
Arizona Days
1937
4.00
Mr. Celebrity
1941
4.00
The Sound of Laughter
1963
2.00
Framed
1947
6.39
His Wedding Scare
1943
0.00
Song of the Buckaroo
1938
0.00
Santa Fe Rides
1937
0.00
Raise the Rent
1920
5.00
Bowery at Midnight
1942
4.97
A Countless Count
1915
0.00
House of Strangers
1949
6.96
Valley of Fire
1951
0.00
Newly Rich
1922
0.00
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
0.00
Blue Sunday
1921
0.00
Jack Frost
1923
0.00
The Hustler
1921
0.00
In the Movies
1922
0.00
The Stone Age
1922
0.00
His Best Girl
1921
0.00
Goofs and Saddles
1937
6.78
Gents in a Jam
1952
6.80
Conquest of Cochise
1953
5.10
The Oregon Trail
1959
5.50
The Old West
1952
5.00
Stand by for Action
1942
6.80
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
7.14
The Drunkard
1935
0.00
Clancy Street Boys
1943
5.80
Thick and Thin
1928
0.00
The Big Shot
1929
5.50
All Wet
1926
0.00
Phony Express
1943
5.40
Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916
0.00
Luke Foils the Villain
1916
0.00
Fresh from the Farm
1915
0.00
It's a Gift
1923
6.00
Riders of the Rockies
1937
3.00
Vitamin 'U' for Me
1942
0.00
Wanted - $5,000
1919
0.00
The Doughboy
1926
5.50
The Yokel
1926
5.00
Double Trouble
1927
0.00
Mitt The Prince
1927
0.00
The Big Idea
1924
0.00
Scaramouche
1952
7.01
The Crime Patrol
1936
5.00
White Legion
1936
4.50
Desperate
1947
6.50
Bars of Hate
1935
5.00
Just My Luck
1935
0.00
The Crooked Way
1949
6.20
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
6.73
The Black Coin
1936
6.00
Drink Hearty
1920
0.00
Who Was That Lady?
1960
6.30
Utah Trail
1938
5.00
Stingaree
1934
5.75
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937
1.00
The Marathon
1919
5.80
Count Your Change
1919
5.00
Take a Chance
1918
6.00
The Rawhide Terror
1934
4.20
The Laramie Kid
1935
5.00
Rollin' Plains
1938
0.00
Call for Mr. Caveman
1919
4.30
Sing Cowboy Sing
1937
3.00
Hear 'Em Rave
1918
4.80
Chop Suey & Co.
1919
4.80
Hittin' the Trail
1937
5.00
Where the Buffalo Roam
1938
5.00
Casanova Brown
1944
6.40
A London Bobby
1920
0.00
Blow 'Em Up
1922
0.00
Full o' Pep
1922
0.00
The Mystery Man
1923
0.00
Strictly Modern
1922
0.00
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
5.70
Singin' in the Rain
1952
8.14
Young Mr. Jazz
1919
5.70
Teacher's Pet
1958
6.80
Waltz Me Around
1920
4.70
The Dumb-Bell
1922
6.00
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
5.00
The Road to Singapore
1931
5.20
Fresh Paint
1920
5.00
Dear Ol' Pal
1923
0.00
Andy Plays Hookey
1946
0.00
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
1923
0.00
Red Skins and Red Heads
1941
0.00
Run 'Em Ragged
1920
5.00
The Night Is Young
1935
5.70
Back to the Woods
1919
4.10
Limelight
1952
7.91
The Purchase Price
1932
6.50
Frontier Town
1938
5.00
Park Your Car
1920
4.00
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
5.30
Monkey Businessmen
1946
6.20
Hit Him Again
1918
0.00
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936
0.00
Springtime Saps
1929
8.00
Luke Does the Midway
1916
0.00
From Laramie to London
1917
0.00
The Flirt
1917
3.88
Hey There
1918
6.75
Pay Your Dues
1919
4.70
On the Fire
1919
5.00
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
0.00
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
0.00
Luke, Patient Provider
1916
0.00
Fireman Save My Child
1918
5.50
Rainbow Island
1917
5.00
An Ozark Romance
1918
0.00
Somewhere in Turkey
1918
6.00
Bashful
1917
6.90
All Dressed Up
1920
0.00
Luke Locates the Loot
1916
0.00
Just Neighbors
1919
6.40
Next Aisle Over
1919
5.40
Whirl o' the West
1921
0.00
Move On
1917
4.70
Birds of a Feather
1917
0.00
The Dippy Dentist
1920
5.20
Luke's Speedy Club Life
1916
0.00
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
5.00
Jungle Menace
1937
5.00
The Non-Stop Kid
1918
5.10
A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919
5.10
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917
5.80
At the Ringside
1921
0.00
Si, Senor
1919
0.00
Going! Going! Gone!
1919
4.70
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916
0.00
Looking for Trouble
1919
5.20
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919
5.90
All Aboard
1917
4.90
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917
0.00
Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916
0.00
Luke and the Mermaids
1916
0.00
We Never Sleep
1917
0.00
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
1917
0.00
Over the Fence
1917
5.70
A Sammy in Siberia
1919
5.20
Sold at Auction!
1923
5.80
From Hand to Mouth
1919
6.59
Luke Joins the Navy
1916
5.00
The City Slicker
1918
5.20
Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918
5.60
Money to Burn
1920
0.00
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918
0.00
What a Whopper!
1921
4.50
Ask Father
1919
6.52
Two Scrambled
1918
0.00
Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917
0.00
Two-Gun Gussie
1918
5.30
Sic 'Em, Towser
1918
0.00
Bliss
1917
4.30
Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916
0.00
California or Bust
1923
0.00
Ring Up the Curtain
1919
5.20
Swing Your Partners
1918
5.00
Why Pick on Me?
1918
5.00
Police
1916
6.30
Luke Rides Roughshod
1916
0.00
Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916
0.00
Never Touched Me!
1919
5.20
Captain Kidd's Kids
1919
6.05
Bumping Into Broadway
1919
6.91
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
0.00
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917
4.30
That's Him
1918
5.00
Years to Come
1922
3.50
I'm on My Way
1919
5.80
His Royal Slyness
1920
5.80
The Floor Below
1919
5.00
Clubs Are Trump
1917
5.20
Spring Fever
1919
5.50
Big Game
1921
0.00
Three Pests in a Mess
1945
6.30
The Lady Gambles
1949
6.00
Carrie
1952
6.40
One Good Turn
1931
6.96
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936
0.00
No Kidding
1928
0.00
Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916
0.00
How Dry I Am
1919
0.00
Name the Day
1921
0.00
Runaway Daughters
1956
3.30
The Old Sea Dog
1922
0.00
Johnny Belinda
1948
6.77
Society Mugs
1946
5.00
On the Jump
1918
0.00
Giving Them Fits
1915
0.00
Be My Wife
1919
0.00
Murder on the Yukon
1940
3.50
The Bum's Rush
1927
5.00
Sky Bandits
1940
5.00
Rollin' Westward
1939
5.00
Luke's Movie Muddle
1916
4.90
Lure of the Wasteland
1939
0.00
Sister Kenny
1946
6.75
The Payoff
1942
5.80
Inherit the Wind
1960
7.67
The Girl in the Case
1944
6.00
Partners in Time
1946
6.00
Jungle Terror
1946
0.00
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
5.50
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
7.37
Defective Detectives
1944
0.00
A Gasoline Wedding
1918
5.30
The Big Idea
1917
5.00
Step Lively
1917
4.60
Pinched
1917
5.00
Look Out Below
1919
5.40
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
4.80
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916
0.00
Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915
0.00
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916
0.00
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917
0.00
The Earl of Chicago
1940
5.60
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
4.00
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942
6.14
The Tin Star
1957
7.00
Nation Aflame
1937
4.00
Mesquite Buckaroo
1939
0.00
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
7.82
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
7.15
Fully Insured
1923
5.00
Rockin' in the Rockies
1945
5.60
The Green Cat
1923
0.00
Master of the World
1961
5.88
The Tip
1918
0.00
She Loves Me Not
1918
0.00
Beat It
1918
0.00
Here Come the Girls
1918
2.00
Just Dropped In
1919
0.00
The Dutiful Dub
1919
0.00
Swat the Crook
1919
0.00
It's a Wild Life
1918
5.00
Crack Your Heels
1919
0.00
Heap Big Chief
1919
5.00
Kicked Out
1918
0.00
Nothing But Trouble
1918
0.00
Let's Go
1918
0.00
Off the Trolley
1919
5.80
Pistols for Breakfast
1919
8.00
At the Old Stage Door
1919
0.00
Men About Town
1928
0.00
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
5.25
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
5.20
Look Pleasant, Please
1918
5.00
The Paradine Case
1947
6.20
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
4.70
Adam's Rib
1949
7.10
Booby Dupes
1945
4.80
Jeanne Eagels
1957
5.96
Friendly Persuasion
1956
6.68
Rush Orders
1921
0.00
Fifteen Minutes
1921
5.00
365 Days
1922
0.00
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
7.27
The Perils of Pauline
1947
6.20
Pardon Me
1922
0.00
Some Baby
1922
0.00
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
1941
6.00
Loaded Pistols
1948
5.70
Follow the Crowd
1918
5.50
Back Trail
1948
0.00
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
1913
0.00
Starlight Over Texas
1938
0.00
Boot Hill Bandits
1942
5.60
Square Dance Jubilee
1949
4.00
The Kid Rides Again
1943
5.50
Confirm or Deny
1941
3.80
Meet Me After the Show
1951
4.70
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
5.00
His Regeneration
1915
4.20
Girls Will Be Boys
1931
0.00
Foreign Agent
1942
4.00
Bride and Gloom
1918
0.00
All at Sea
1919
0.00
The Rajah
1919
5.00
All Lit Up
1920
5.00
Any Old Port
1920
0.00
Cash Customers
1920
0.00
Cracked Wedding Bells
1920
0.00
Grab the Ghost
1920
0.00
Call a Taxi
1920
0.00
High Rollers
1921
3.50
On Location
1921
0.00
Punch the Clock
1922
5.00
Hale and Hearty
1922
0.00
Hot Off the Press
1922
0.00
Join the Circus
1923
0.00
It's a Joy!
1923
0.00
Get Busy
1924
5.00
Before the Public
1923
5.00
Once Over
1928
1.00
Sock and Run
1929
0.00
A Woman's Secret
1949
5.60
Main Street Today
1944
6.20
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
4.21
Edge of Darkness
1943
6.19
Kid Dynamite
1943
6.33
Strange Impersonation
1946
6.00
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957
6.61
Road to Utopia
1946
6.70
Badman's Territory
1946
5.70
The Gunfighter
1950
7.32
One More River
1934
4.71
Do Me a Favor
1922
5.00
One-Eyed Jacks
1961
6.74
Live and Learn
1920
0.00
Kitty
1945
5.50
Start Something
1919
0.00
Luke's Society Mixup
1916
0.00
Giving the Bride Away
1919
0.00
Order in the Court
1919
0.00
Tough Luck
1919
0.00
It's a Hard Life
1919
0.00
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
0.00
Why Go Home?
1920
0.00
Getting His Goat
1920
0.00
Park Row
1952
6.50
Bughouse Bellhops
1915
0.00
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
0.00
The Lamb
1918
0.00
Hello Teacher
1918
0.00
Love's Young Scream
1919
0.00
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
1915
0.00
Tinkering with Trouble
1915
0.00
A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915
0.00
Great While It Lasted
1915
0.00
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915
0.00
Ragtime Snap Shots
1915
0.00
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916
0.00
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916
0.00
Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916
0.00
Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
0.00
Luke Lugs Luggage
1916
0.00
Luke's Double
1916
0.00
Them Was the Happy Days!
1916
0.00
Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916
0.00
Luke Laughs Last
1916
0.00
Luke's Washful Waiting
1916
0.00
Luke, the Chauffeur
1916
0.00
Luke's Preparedness Preparations
1916
0.00
Luke's Busy Day
1917
0.00
Luke, the Gladiator
1916
0.00
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle
1917
0.00
Luke's Lost Liberty
1917
0.00
Luke's Newsie Knockout
1916
0.00
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
1917
0.00
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917
0.00
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917
0.00
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
1917
0.00
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
0.00
Before Breakfast
1919
0.00
Soft Money
1919
0.00
Count the Votes
1919
0.00
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1917
0.00
He Leads, Others Follow
1919
0.00
His Only Father
1919
0.00
Fire!!
1926
0.00
Unknown Island
1948
5.00
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955
6.10
Slippery Slickers
1920
0.00
Charlie's Triple Trouble
1944
0.00
A Tough Winter
1923
0.00
Pal Joey
1957
6.21
Homicidal
1961
6.43
The Midnight Patrol
1932
0.00
The Man from Colorado
1948
6.70
Thunder Mountain
1947
5.00
Cheyenne
1947
6.80
Canyon Passage
1946
6.59
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
7.02
Yankee Fakir
1947
5.00
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
4.90
Red River
1948
7.33
The Country Girl
1954
6.90
Living It Up
1954
6.40
The Company She Keeps
1951
5.90
Trail Street
1947
6.40
Lucky Cowboy
1944
0.00
Classic Comedy Teams
1986
0.00