Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Born
November 8, 1889
Died
January 19, 1962 (72 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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.
Known For
The Sound of Laughter
Plumber's Assistant
1963
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1962
Master of the World
Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
1961
Inherit the Wind
Townsman (uncredited)
1960
The Tin Star
Townsman(uncredited)
1957
The Barefoot Mailman
Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
1951
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
1950
Miracle on 34th Street
Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
1947
Sister Kenny
Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
1946
Jungle Terror
Campbell
1946
Partners in Time
Townsman (uncredited)
1946
Rockin' in the Rockies
Drunk (uncredited)
1945
The Girl in the Case
Witness (uncredited)
1944
Defective Detectives
Janitor
1944
The Payoff
Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Soup Customer (uncredited)
1942
It Happened in Flatbush
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
1942
Sky Bandits
Pa, Man in Nightshirt
1940
Murder on the Yukon
Archie
1940
The Earl of Chicago
Townsman (uncredited)
1940
Mesquite Buckaroo
Janitor Suds
1939
Lure of the Wasteland
Cookie
1939
Rollin' Westward
Poker Player
1939
Nation Aflame
Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
1937
Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies
Bartender
1937
Be My Wife
1919
The Bum's Rush
Pocketful of Miracles
Knuckles (uncredited)
1961
Jeanne Eagels
Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
1957
Friendly Persuasion
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
1956
Meet Me After the Show
Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
1951
Walk Softly, Stranger
Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
1950
Adam's Rib
Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
1949
Square Dance Jubilee
Show Spectator
1949
Loaded Pistols
Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
1948
Back Trail
Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
1948
The Paradine Case
Cabby (uncredited)
1947
The Perils of Pauline
Western Saloon Set Propman
1947
The Hoodlum Saint
Parade Spectator (uncredited)
1946
Booby Dupes
Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
1945
The Kid Rides Again
Saloon Swamper
1943
Foreign Agent
Supper Club Patron
1942
Boot Hill Bandits
2nd Bartender
1942
Confirm or Deny
Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
1941
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Saloon Drunk
1941
Starlight Over Texas
Pee Wee
1938
Cockeyed Cavaliers
King's Physician's Aide
1934
Girls Will Be Boys
Plumber's assistant
1931
Men About Town
1928
Fully Insured
Our Hero
1923
The Green Cat
Snub
1923
365 Days
The Good Grandson
1922
Some Baby
1922
Punch the Clock
Snub
1922
Pardon Me
1922
On Location
The Caretaker of the Estate
1921
Fifteen Minutes
The Husband
1921
High Rollers
1921
Rush Orders
Marquis de Marmalade
1921
Cash Customers
The Chap
1920
Call a Taxi
1920
Any Old Port
1920
Grab the Ghost
Husband
1920
Cracked Wedding Bells
1920
All Lit Up
The Dandy
1920
All at Sea
1919
The Rajah
1919
Heap Big Chief
1919
At the Old Stage Door
1919
Off the Trolley
Trolley conductor
1919
Swat the Crook
1919
Pistols for Breakfast
1919
Crack Your Heels
1919
Just Dropped In
1919
The Dutiful Dub
1919
Look Out Below
Snub
1919
She Loves Me Not
1918
Nothing But Trouble
1918
Bride and Gloom
1918
Kicked Out
1918
It's a Wild Life
1918
Follow the Crowd
1918
Let's Go
Man on beach
1918
Here Come the Girls
1918
Look Pleasant, Please
Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
1918
A Gasoline Wedding
Snub
1918
Beat It
1918
The Tip
1918
The Big Idea
Snub
1917
Step Lively
1917
Pinched
1917
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917
Luke's Movie Muddle
Projectionist
1916
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916
Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915
Teaching the Teacher
Teacher
Homicidal
Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
1961
One-Eyed Jacks
Townsman (uncredited)
1961
Who Was That Lady?
Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1960
The Oregon Trail
Townsman (uncredited)
1959
Teacher's Pet
Reporter (uncredited)
1958
Pal Joey
Waiter (uncredited)
1957
Man of a Thousand Faces
Comedy Waiter #2
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
Audience Member (uncredited)
1957
Runaway Daughters
Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
1956
The Man with the Golden Arm
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bar Patron (uncredited) · (1 episode)
1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
Waiter (uncredited)
1955
The Country Girl
Stagehand (uncredited)
1954
The Fast and the Furious
Park Caretaker
1954
Public Defender
(1 episode)
1954
Conquest of Cochise
Barfly (uncredited)
1953
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Man Pacing in Jail Cell
1953
Limelight
Street Musician
1952
The Old West
Townsman (uncredited)
1952
Park Row
Barfly
1952
Carrie
Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
1952
Gents in a Jam
Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
1952
Scaramouche
Man at Assembly Meeting
1952
Singin' in the Rain
Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
1952
Valley of Fire
Townsman
1951
Racket Squad
(1 episode)
1951
The Gunfighter
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
1950
Stars in My Crown
Bartender (uncredited)
1950
House of Strangers
1949
The Lady Gambles
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1949
The Crooked Way
1949
A Woman's Secret
Stagehand (Uncredited)
1949
Belle Starr's Daughter
Party Guest (uncredited)
1948
Unknown Island
Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
1948
Red River
Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
1948
Johnny Belinda
Man on Jury (uncredited)
1948
The Man from Colorado
Townsman (uncredited)
1948
Desperate
Villager (uncredited)
1947
Cheyenne
Barfly (uncredited)
1947
Thunder Mountain
Townsman (uncredited)
1947
Framed
(uncredited)
1947
Yankee Fakir
Townsman
1947
Andy Plays Hookey
Ticket Seller
1946
Till the Clouds Roll By
Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
1946
Society Mugs
Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
Canyon Passage
Miner (uncredited)
1946
Monkey Businessmen
Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
1946
Badman's Territory
Town Barber (uncredited)
1946
Strange Impersonation
Taxi driver (uncredited)
1946
Road to Utopia
Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
1946
Kitty
Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
1945
State Fair
Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1945
Three Pests in a Mess
Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
1945
Casanova Brown
Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
Townsman (uncredited)
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Main Street Today
Pop Denton (uncredited)
1944
Charlie's Triple Trouble
Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
1944
Phony Express
Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
1943
Ghosts on the Loose
Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
1943
Clancy Street Boys
Irate Father (uncredited)
1943
Edge of Darkness
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
1943
Kid Dynamite
Dance Official
1943
His Wedding Scare
Fireman
1943
Stand by for Action
Sailor (uncredited)
1942
Bowery at Midnight
Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
1942
Vitamin 'U' for Me
1942
Mr. Celebrity
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1941
Red Skins and Red Heads
Party Guest (uncredited)
1941
Hollywood Cavalcade
Keystone Cop
1939
Song of the Buckaroo
'Perky'
1938
Where the Buffalo Roam
Pee Wee
1938
Utah Trail
Pee Wee
1938
Rollin' Plains
Pee Wee
1938
Frontier Town
Peewee
1938
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Pee Wee
1937
Jungle Menace
Campbell
1937
Goofs and Saddles
Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
1937
Riders of the Rockies
Pee Wee McDougal
1937
Sing Cowboy Sing
Prisoner
1937
Hittin' the Trail
Bartender
1937
Santa Fe Rides
Stubby
1937
Arizona Days
Cookie
1937
White Legion
Baker
1936
The Black Coin
Vic Moran
1936
The Gentleman from Louisiana
Hadley
1936
The Crime Patrol
Gyp
1936
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
1936
Headin' for the Rio Grande
Cookie (Hart hand)
1936
Just My Luck
Frank Smith
1935
Bars of Hate
Danny, the Pickpocket
1935
The Laramie Kid
Cinvvict Shorty
1935
The Drunkard
Property Man
1935
The Night Is Young
Drummer (uncredited)
1935
One More River
George
1934
Stingaree
Victor
1934
The Rawhide Terror
Renegade
1934
The Purchase Price
Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
1932
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Bill Collector (uncredited)
1932
The Midnight Patrol
1932
One Good Turn
A Community Player (uncredited)
1931
The Road to Singapore
Photographer at Birthday Party
1931
Ex-Flame
Boggins
1930
Sock and Run
Alphonse
1929
The Big Shot
1929
Springtime Saps
1929
No Kidding
1928
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
Once Over
Snub Pollard
1928
Thick and Thin
1928
Double Trouble
1927
Mitt The Prince
1927
All Wet
1926
Fire!!
The Boy
1926
The Yokel
1926
The Doughboy
1926
Get Busy
Shorter pal
1924
The Big Idea
Inventor Ignatius Pollard
1924
It's a Joy!
The Papa
1923
Join the Circus
1923
Dear Ol' Pal
Abner Maize
1923
It's a Gift
Inventor
1923
The Mystery Man
Detective Snub Pollard
1923
Jack Frost
Hired Hand
1923
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
Papa
1923
Sold at Auction
The Auctioneer's Helper
1923
California or Bust
The Old Settler
1923
Before the Public
1923
A Tough Winter
1923
Newly Rich
The Chauffeur
1922
The Old Sea Dog
Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
1922
The Stone Age
1922
The Dumb-Bell
The New Director
1922
Hale and Hearty
1922
Strictly Modern
Chambermaid Man
1922
In the Movies
Snub - the Scenario Writer
1922
Do Me a Favor
A Hobo
1922
Full o' Pep
Snub
1922
Hot Off the Press
Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
1922
Blow 'Em Up
The Governor
1922
Years to Come
The Bridegroom
1922
The Hustler
Snub
1921
Name the Day
1921
What a Whopper!
1921
At the Ringside
1921
Blue Sunday
1921
Big Game
Hunter
1921
His Best Girl
1921
Whirl o' the West
The Tenderfoot
1921
Park Your Car
1920
Money to Burn
1920
A London Bobby
1920
Run 'Em Ragged
1920
Live and Learn
1920
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
All Dressed Up
1920
Drink Hearty
Snub
1920
Fresh Paint
Bicycle Messenger
1920
Raise the Rent
1920
Waltz Me Around
1920
His Royal Slyness
Prince of Rochquefort
1920
Getting His Goat
1920
The Dippy Dentist
The Dandy
1920
Slippery Slickers
1920
Why Go Home?
1920
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
From Hand to Mouth
The Kidnapper
1919
The Floor Below
1919
Tough Luck
1919
Looking for Trouble
The Dandy
1919
How Dry I Am
1919
Captain Kidd's Kids
The Valet
1919
It's a Hard Life
1919
Order in the Court
1919
Call for Mr. Caveman
Hatchet Face
1919
Giving the Bride Away
1919
Bumping Into Broadway
The Musical Comedy's Director
1919
His Only Father
1919
Pay Your Dues
1919
Start Something
1919
Count the Votes
1919
Soft Money
1919
He Leads, Others Follow
1919
Chop Suey & Co.
1919
Count Your Change
Billy Bullion
1919
A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919
Never Touched Me
Jelous Admirer
1919
Just Neighbors
The Neighbor
1919
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
1919
Spring Fever
The Unwelcome Suitor
1919
Back to the Woods
His Valet
1919
The Marathon
Snub
1919
Before Breakfast
1919
Si, Senor
1919
Ring Up the Curtain
The Leading Man
1919
Young Mr. Jazz
Snub
1919
A Sammy in Siberia
Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
1919
Next Aisle Over
The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
1919
I'm on My Way
The Neighbor
1919
On the Fire
The Assistant Chef
1919
Ask Father
The Corn-Fed Secretary
1919
Going! Going! Gone!
1919
Love's Young Scream
1919
Wanted - $5,000
1919
Take a Chance
Simplex Joe
1918
Hear 'Em Rave
1918
Why Pick on Me?
1918
Swing Your Partners
1918
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
Two Scrambled
1918
That's Him
1918
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918
An Ozark Romance
1918
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Snub
1918
Somewhere in Turkey
His Assistant
1918
Sic 'Em, Towser
1918
The City Slicker
Snub
1918
Fireman Save My Child
1918
Two-Gun Gussie
Snub
1918
The Non-Stop Kid
Snub, the Butler
1918
Hey There
The New Director
1918
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
On the Jump
Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
1918
Hit Him Again
1918
Hello Teacher
1918
The Lamb
1918
Bashful
Snub the Butler
1917
Move On
1917
We Never Sleep
1917
All Aboard
Passenger with trunk
1917
Clubs Are Trump
1917
The Flirt
1917
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
Rainbow Island
1917
From Laramie to London
1917
Bliss
Snub
1917
Birds of a Feather
1917
By the Sad Sea Waves
Spectator at Beach
1917
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
Over the Fence
Snitch, Another
1917
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1917
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Snub
1917
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Cafe Waiter
1917
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 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
Bellhop
1916
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
First Flophouse Customer
1916
Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916
Them Was the Happy Days!
Snub
1916
Luke's Double
1916
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916
Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916
Luke Foils the Villain
1916
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916
Luke Lugs Luggage
1916
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
Tin-Horn Tommy
1915
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915
A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915
Ragtime Snap Shots
Snub Larkin
1915
Great While It Lasted
Hugo Snubb
1915
Tinkering with Trouble
Sourball Joe
1915
Bughouse Bellhops
Moke Morpheus
1915
Giving Them Fits
Luke's Co-Worker
1915
Fresh from the Farm
1915
A Countless Count
Count
1915
His Regeneration
Extra
1915
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
Butler
1913