Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Acting
🎂 1889-11-08
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.
Cast credits(396)
1951
1954
Bar Patron (uncredited)
1955
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1962
Town Barber (uncredited)
1946
Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
1952
Man at Assembly Meeting
1952
Townsman (uncredited)
1961
Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
1948
Witness (uncredited)
1944
Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
1961
1944
Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
1949
Street Musician
1952
Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
1952
Western Saloon Set Propman
1947
Townsman (uncredited)
1960
Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
1947
Knuckles (uncredited)
1961
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
1956
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
1955
Townsman(uncredited)
1957
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
1950
Victor
1934
Stagehand (uncredited)
1954
Bartender (uncredited)
1950
Parade Spectator (uncredited)
1946
Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
1946
(uncredited)
1947
Townsman (uncredited)
1948
Park Caretaker
1954
Waiter (uncredited)
1957
Cabby (uncredited)
1947
1949
Reporter (uncredited)
1958
Miner (uncredited)
1946
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
1950
Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
1946
Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
1961
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
1943
Baker
1936
Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1960
Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1945
Stagehand (Uncredited)
1949
Comedy Waiter #2
1957
Party Guest (uncredited)
1948
A Community Player (uncredited)
1931
Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
1946
Man on Jury (uncredited)
1948
King's Physician's Aide
1934
Keystone Cop
1939
Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
1942
Townsman (uncredited)
1947
Townsman (uncredited)
1944
Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
1944
Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942
1949
Pee Wee
1937
Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
1945
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1949
Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
1943
Audience Member (uncredited)
1957
Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
1957
The Unwelcome Suitor
1919
Sailor (uncredited)
1942
Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
1950
Barfly
1952
Irate Father (uncredited)
1943
Townsman (uncredited)
1952
Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
1941
2nd Bartender
1942
Cinvvict Shorty
1935
Pop Denton (uncredited)
1944
Dance Official
1943
Villager (uncredited)
1947
Waiter (uncredited)
1955
1918
Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
1956
Pee Wee
1938
Townsman
1947
Man Pacing in Jail Cell
1953
First Flophouse Customer
1916
Peewee
1938
Barfly (uncredited)
1953
Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
1951
1917
Snub
1917
Show Spectator
1949
1919
Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
1943
Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
1948
Drunk (uncredited)
1945
Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
1948
1919
1919
Townsman (uncredited)
1940
Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
1948
1918
Pee Wee
1938
Campbell
1937
Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
1932
Townsman (uncredited)
1959
Townsman
1951
Snub the Butler
1917
1918
Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
1952
The Assistant Chef
1919
Taxi driver (uncredited)
1946
Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
1919
Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
1946
1916
Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
1945
Supper Club Patron
1942
Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
1945
Pee Wee
1938
Prisoner
1937
Self (archive footage)
1961
The Auctioneer's Helper
1923
Prince of Rochquefort
1920
Snub
1919
Cookie
1937
Hadley
1936
1920
1916
Bill Collector (uncredited)
1932
Danny, the Pickpocket
1935
Party Guest (uncredited)
1941
1916
Townsman (uncredited)
1946
Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
1918
The Musical Comedy's Director
1919
Photographer at Birthday Party
1931
Property Man
1935
The Corn-Fed Secretary
1919
Cookie (Hart hand)
1936
Barfly (uncredited)
1947
1917
Vic Moran
1936
George
1934
1917
'Perky'
1938
Saloon Swamper
1943
Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
1941
Pee Wee McDougal
1937
The New Director
1918
1920
1919
Snub
1921
Poker Player
1939
1919
Pa, Man in Nightshirt
1940
1917
Janitor
1944
1918
Snub
1918
Spectator at Beach
1917
Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
1951
Drummer (uncredited)
1935
The Chap
1920
1919
1918
Cafe Waiter
1917
Projectionist
1916
1918
Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
1919
Billy Bullion
1919
Janitor Suds
1939
1932
Bellhop
1916
1921
1919
1917
Soup Customer (uncredited)
1942
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1941
1917
Campbell
1946
Renegade
1934
1917
Simplex Joe
1918
His Valet
1919
Moke Morpheus
1915
1916
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
1942
The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
1919
Passenger with trunk
1917
Bartender
1937
Plumber's Assistant
1963
The Leading Man
1919
The Valet
1919
1918
1919
Boggins
1930
Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
1922
1916
1916
Snub
1918
The Neighbor
1919
Snitch, Another
1917
Snub
1919
His Assistant
1918
The Boy
1926
The Dandy
1920
1918
Pee Wee
1938
1920
Hunter
1921
1918
The Dandy
1919
1918
1929
1916
1919
The Husband
1921
1919
Extra
1915
1920
1926
Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
1937
Sourball Joe
1915
1918
1916
1918
Butler
1913
Ticket Seller
1946
Snub
1919
Saloon Drunk
1941
1942
1922
1919
Snub
1917
1926
1916
Jelous Admirer
1919
Alphonse
1929
1921
1927
Hired Hand
1923
1918
Bicycle Messenger
1920
Frank Smith
1935
1919
Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
1936
1917
The Tenderfoot
1921
1917
1919
Hugo Snubb
1915
1915
1919
Snub, the Butler
1918
1920
1917
Our Hero
1923
1919
The Chauffeur
1922
Snub
1917
Stubby
1937
Detective Snub Pollard
1923
1923
1917
1923
1919
1921
Archie
1940
1916
1917
The Kidnapper
1919
Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
1920
1918
1919
1920
Snub Larkin
1915
1920
1916
1919
1920
The Old Settler
1923
1916
1916
1918
Man on beach
1918
The Caretaker of the Estate
1921
Husband
1920
1916
1920
Trolley conductor
1919
1922
Papa
1923
1916
1916
1919
Plumber's assistant
1931
1918
1928
1928
1916
Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
1918
1923
Snub
1918
1919
1916
1918
The Neighbor
1919
Snub
1923
1919
1916
1917
1916
1916
1926
The Governor
1922
Inventor Ignatius Pollard
1924
1919
1916
1918
Inventor
1923
1917
1917
1916
1917
1917
1917
Gyp
1936
The Papa
1923
1915
Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
1944
Snub - the Scenario Writer
1922
Luke's Co-Worker
1915
1919
Tin-Horn Tommy
1915
1915
1918
A Hobo
1922
1918
Fireman
1943
1916
Snub
1922
Hatchet Face
1919
1928
1920
1919
1919
Snub
1916
Shorter pal
1924
Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
1937
1918
1919
1919
1916
1916
1916
Cookie
1939
The New Director
1922
Snub
1922
1918
1916
1917
1920
1917
1921
1918
Snub Pollard
1928
1921
Abner Maize
1923
Snub
1918
1916
1919
1919
1915
1917
1927
1916
Snub
1920
1920
Marquis de Marmalade
1921
The Good Grandson
1922
Count
1915
Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
1922
1920
1917
1929
1922
1928
Chambermaid Man
1922
1916
The Dandy
1920
1921
The Bridegroom
1922
1920
1920
1917
Bartender
1937
1922
Teacher