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Acting
November 8, 1889
January 19, 1962
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.

Self (archive footage)
1986

Plumber's Assistant
1963

Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1962

Knuckles (uncredited)
1961

Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
1961

Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
1961

Townsman (uncredited)
1961

Self (archive footage)
1961

Townsman (uncredited)
1960

Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1960

as Self (archive footage)

as Plumber's Assistant

as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)

as Knuckles (uncredited)

as Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)

as Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Self (archive footage)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Tattoo Artist (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Reporter (uncredited)

as Townsman(uncredited)

as Waiter (uncredited)

as Comedy Waiter #2

as Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)

as Audience Member (uncredited)

as Carnival Patron (uncredited)

as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club

as Street Vagrant (uncredited)

as Bar Patron (uncredited)

as Waiter (uncredited)

as Stagehand (uncredited)

as Park Caretaker

as Vagrant in Park (uncredited)


as Barfly (uncredited)

as Man Pacing in Jail Cell

as Street Musician

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Barfly

as Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)

as Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)

as Man at Assembly Meeting

as Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)

as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)

as Townsman

as Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)


as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

as Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)

as Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)

as Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)

as Bartender (uncredited)

as Man in Courtroom (uncredited)

as Show Spectator


as Elevator Operator (uncredited)


as Stagehand (Uncredited)

as Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)

as Party Guest (uncredited)

as Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski

as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)

as Man on Jury (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Goofy (as Snub Pollard)

as Cabby (uncredited)

as Western Saloon Set Propman

as Villager (uncredited)

as Barfly (uncredited)

as Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

as Townsman

as Farmer (uncredited)
as Ticket Seller

as Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)

as Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)

as Party Guest (uncredited)

as Miner (uncredited)

as Mr. Grimble (uncredited)

as Campbell

as Town Barber (uncredited)

as Parade Spectator (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Taxi driver (uncredited)

as Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)

as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)

as Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)

as Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)

as Drunk (uncredited)

as Cemetery Guard (uncredited)

as Father at Baby Window (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Witness (uncredited)

as Janitor


as Pop Denton (uncredited)
as Man Trying to Stop Fight
as Flop House Tramp (archive footage)

as Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)

as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)

as Irate Father (uncredited)

as Townsman in Church (uncredited)

as Dance Official

as Saloon Swamper

as Fireman

as Sailor (uncredited)

as Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)

as Soup Customer (uncredited)

as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
as Supper Club Patron

as Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)

as 2nd Bartender


as Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd

as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)

as Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)

as Saloon Drunk

as Pa, Man in Nightshirt

as Archie

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Keystone Cop

as Janitor Suds

as Cookie

as Poker Player

as 'Perky'

as Pee Wee

as Pee Wee

as Pee Wee

as Pee Wee

as Peewee

as Pee Wee

as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)

as Campbell

as Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)

as Pee Wee McDougal

as Prisoner
as Bartender

as Bartender

as Stubby

as Cookie

as Cookie (Hart hand)
as Baker

as Vic Moran

as Hadley

as Gyp

as Snub - Waiter (uncredited)

as Frank Smith

as Danny, the Pickpocket

as Cinvvict Shorty

as Property Man

as Drummer (uncredited)

as George

as King's Physician's Aide

as Victor

as Renegade

as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)

as Bill Collector (uncredited)


as A Community Player (uncredited)

as Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)

as Plumber's assistant

as Boggins
as Alphonse

as Snub Pollard


as The Boy

as Shorter pal

as Inventor Ignatius Pollard
as The Papa
as Our Hero


as Abner Maize

as Inventor
as Detective Snub Pollard

as Snub / Big Boss

as Hired Hand

as Papa

as The Auctioneer's Helper

as The Old Settler


as The Chauffeur

as Snub the Ferryboat Pilot

as The Good Grandson


as The New Director
as Chambermaid Man
as Snub
as Snub - the Scenario Writer

as A Hobo
as Snub

as Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
as The Governor
as The Bridegroom
as Snub
as The Caretaker of the Estate

as The Husband
as Hunter
as Marquis de Marmalade

as The Tenderfoot

as The Chap


as Husband
as Snub

as Bicycle Messenger

as Snub

as Prince of Rochquefort

as The Dandy

as The Dandy

as The Kidnapper
as The Dandy

as The Valet

as Hatchet Face

as The Musical Comedy's Director








as Billy Bullion


as Jealous Admirer


as The Neighbor

as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher

as The Unwelcome Suitor

as Trolley conductor



as His Valet

as Snub



as The Leading Man

as Snub



as Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)

as The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)


as Snub

as The Neighbor

as The Assistant Chef

as The Corn-Fed Secretary




as Simplex Joe










as Snub

as His Assistant


as Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook


as Snub

as Snub, the Butler

as The New Director

as Snub


as Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
as Man on beach


as Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)

as Snub





as Snub

as Snub the Butler



as Passenger with trunk

as Snub

as Restaurant owner


as Snub


as Snub


as Spectator at Beach



as Snitch, Another



as Snub




as Cafe Waiter












as Projectionist







as Bellhop











as First Flophouse Customer



as Snub










as Tin-Horn Tommy




as Snub Larkin

as Hugo Snubb

as Sourball Joe

as Moke Morpheus

as Luke's Co-Worker
as Count

as Extra
as Butler
as Teacher