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Aliases: Harry 'Snub' Pollard , Harry Pollard , Snub Pollard , Harold Hopetown Fraser , Harold Fraser , Harry Fraser , Peewee Pollard , The Keystone Kops

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Movie Involvements: 99

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1955) Bar Patron (uncredited)
The Gunfighter
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7

The Gunfighter

(1950) Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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8

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

(1962) Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Homicidal
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7

Homicidal

(1961) Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
Scaramouche
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7

Scaramouche

(1952) Man at Assembly Meeting
One-Eyed Jacks
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7

One-Eyed Jacks

(1961) Townsman (uncredited)
Carrie
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7

Carrie

(1952) Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
Friendly Persuasion
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7

Friendly Persuasion

(1956) Carnival Patron (uncredited)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1963 Plumber's Assistant
1962 Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1961 Knuckles (uncredited)
Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
Townsman (uncredited)
Self (archive footage)
1960 Townsman (uncredited)
Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1959 Townsman (uncredited)
1958 Reporter (uncredited)
1957 Waiter (uncredited)
Townsman(uncredited)
Comedy Waiter #2
Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
1956 Carnival Patron (uncredited)
Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
1955 Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Waiter
1954 Park Caretaker
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1953 Barfly (uncredited)
Man Pacing in Jail Cell
1952 Street Musician
Townsman (uncredited)
Barfly
Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
Man at Assembly Meeting
Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
1951 Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
Townsman
Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
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1950 Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Bartender (uncredited)
1949 Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Show Spectator
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Elevator Operator (uncredited)
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Stagehand (Uncredited)
1948 Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
Man on Jury (uncredited)
Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
1947 Cabby (uncredited)
Western Saloon Set Propman
Villager (uncredited)
Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
(uncredited)
1946 Ticket Seller
Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
Campbell
Town Barber (uncredited)
Parade Spectator (uncredited)
Townsman (uncredited)
Taxi driver (uncredited)
Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
1945 Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Drunk (uncredited)
Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
1944 Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
Witness (uncredited)
Janitor
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Pop Denton (uncredited)
Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
1943 Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
Irate Father (uncredited)
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Dance Official
Saloon Swamper
Fireman
1942 Sailor (uncredited)
Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
Soup Customer (uncredited)
Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
Supper Club Patron
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
2nd Bartender
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1941 Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
Saloon Drunk
1940 Pa, Man in Nightshirt
Archie
Townsman (uncredited)
1939 Keystone Cop
Janitor Suds
Cookie
Poker Player
1938 'Perky'
Pee Wee
Pee Wee
Pee Wee
Pee Wee
Peewee
1937 Pee Wee
Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
Campbell
Pee Wee McDougal
Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
Prisoner
Bartender
Bartender
Stubby
Cookie
1936 Baker
Vic Moran
Hadley
Gyp
Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
Cookie (Hart hand)
1935 Frank Smith
Danny, the Pickpocket
Cinvvict Shorty
Property Man
Drummer (uncredited)
1934 George
King's Physician's Aide
Victor
Renegade
1932 Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
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1931 A Community Player (uncredited)
Photographer at Birthday Party
Plumber's assistant
1930 Boggins
1929 Alphonse
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1928 N/A
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Snub Pollard
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1927 N/A
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1926 N/A
The Boy
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1924 Shorter pal
Inventor Ignatius Pollard
1923 The Papa
Our Hero
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Abner Maize
Inventor
Detective Snub Pollard
Snub
Hired Hand
Papa
The Auctioneer's Helper
The Old Settler
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1922 The Chauffeur
Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
The Good Grandson
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The New Director
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Chambermaid Man
Snub
Snub - the Scenario Writer
A Hobo
Snub
Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
The Governor
The Bridegroom
1921 Snub
The Caretaker of the Estate
The Husband
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Hunter
Marquis de Marmalade
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The Tenderfoot
1920 N/A
The Chap
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Husband
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Snub
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Bicycle Messenger
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Prince of Rochquefort
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The Dandy
The Dandy
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1919 The Kidnapper
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The Dandy
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The Valet
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Hatchet Face
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The Musical Comedy's Director
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Billy Bullion
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Jelous Admirer
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The Neighbor
Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
The Unwelcome Suitor
Trolley conductor
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His Valet
Snub
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The Leading Man
Snub
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Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
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Snub
The Neighbor
The Assistant Chef
The Corn-Fed Secretary
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1918 N/A
Simplex Joe
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Snub
His Assistant
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Snub
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Snub
Snub, the Butler
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The New Director
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Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
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Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
Snub
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1917 N/A
Snub
Snub the Butler
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Passenger with trunk
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Snub
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Spectator at Beach
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Snitch, Another
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Snub
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Cafe Waiter
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1916 N/A
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Projectionist
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Bellhop
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First Flophouse Customer
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Snub
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1915 Tin-Horn Tommy
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Snub Larkin
Hugo Snubb
Sourball Joe
Moke Morpheus
Luke's Co-Worker
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Count
Extra
1913 Butler
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Year Character Movie/Tv

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