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(398)
Bar Patron (uncredited)
1955
1954
Cookie
1937
1951
Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
1952
Man on Jury (uncredited)
1948
Knuckles (uncredited)
1961
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1962
Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
1948
Audience Member (uncredited)
1957
Western Saloon Set Propman
1947
Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
1951
Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
1947
Keystone Cop
1939
Townsman (uncredited)
1961
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1951
Townsman (uncredited)
1960
Townsman (uncredited)
1959
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
1950
Saloon Drunk
1941
Townsman (uncredited)
1940
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
1955
Parade Spectator (uncredited)
1946
Hadley
1936
Miner (uncredited)
1946
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
1956
Townsman (uncredited)
1944
Cabby (uncredited)
1947
Townsman(uncredited)
1957
Barfly (uncredited)
1953
1949
Stagehand (uncredited)
1954
Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
1949
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
1950
Comedy Waiter #2
1957
Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1945
Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
1945
Pee Wee McDougal
1937
Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
1961
Man at Assembly Meeting
1952
(uncredited)
1947
Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
1952
Villager (uncredited)
1947
Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
1942
Taxi driver (uncredited)
1946
1944
Stagehand (Uncredited)
1949
Street Musician
1952
Barfly
1952
Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
1946
Man Pacing in Jail Cell
1953
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
1943
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1949
Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
1948
Townsman (uncredited)
1947
Park Caretaker
1954
Pee Wee
1938
1949
Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
1948
Pee Wee
1938
Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
1956
Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
1932
Townsman (uncredited)
1948
Waiter (uncredited)
1957
Bill Collector (uncredited)
1932
Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
1946
Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
1954
Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
1946
Barfly (uncredited)
1947
Townsman
1951
Sailor (uncredited)
1942
Pee Wee
1938
Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1960
Baker
1936
Boggins
1930
Renegade
1934
Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
1943
Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
1950
Reporter (uncredited)
1958
The Auctioneer's Helper
1923
First Flophouse Customer
1916
2nd Bartender
1942
Archie
1940
Photographer at Birthday Party
1931
Janitor
1944
Bartender (uncredited)
1950
Property Man
1935
Janitor Suds
1939
Fireman
1943
Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
1941
Peewee
1938
Campbell
1937
Party Guest (uncredited)
1948
Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
1957
Pop Denton (uncredited)
1944
Townsman (uncredited)
1952
Vic Moran
1936
A Community Player (uncredited)
1931
Townsman (uncredited)
1946
Self (archive footage)
1961
Town Barber (uncredited)
1946
Prince of Rochquefort
1920
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
1942
1918
The Corn-Fed Secretary
1919
Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
1952
Bartender
1937
Man on beach
1918
Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942
Dance Official
1943
Townsman
1947
The Leading Man
1919
Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
1941
Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
1944
Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
1951
Snub
1918
Ticket Seller
1946
Victor
1934
Stubby
1937
Supper Club Patron
1942
1918
Soup Customer (uncredited)
1942
Pee Wee
1937
Cookie (Hart hand)
1936
Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
1961
Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
1948
Waiter (uncredited)
1955
King's Physician's Aide
1934
Saloon Swamper
1943
Cinvvict Shorty
1935
Gyp
1936
Poker Player
1939
Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
1943
His Valet
1919
Snub
1920
1919
Pa, Man in Nightshirt
1940
Snub
1919
1921
Snub
1918
Prisoner
1937
Plumber's Assistant
1963
Party Guest (uncredited)
1941
'Perky'
1938
1918
Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
1918
The Musical Comedy's Director
1919
The Kidnapper
1919
Show Spectator
1949
Hired Hand
1923
Frank Smith
1935
1918
1920
Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
1919
1915
The Bridegroom
1922
Irate Father (uncredited)
1943
Snub
1919
1918
Drummer (uncredited)
1935
Snub Pollard
1928
The Husband
1921
Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
1936
George
1934
1919
Witness (uncredited)
1944
Plumber's assistant
1931
Shorter pal
1924
The Boy
1926
Pee Wee
1938
1923
1918
1917
The Good Grandson
1922
1917
Snub
1923
1932
Danny, the Pickpocket
1935
1918
The Valet
1919
1922
Passenger with trunk
1917
Snub
1918
1918
Restaurant owner
1917
1928
Snub
1917
Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
1944
Bicycle Messenger
1920
1917
Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
1919
1917
1919
Cafe Waiter
1917
The Caretaker of the Estate
1921
1922
The New Director
1918
Snub
1917
1916
1917
1920
1916
Snub
1917
1918
Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
1937
Extra
1915
1920
1920
1919
1916
Detective Snub Pollard
1923
The Unwelcome Suitor
1919
1923
The Dandy
1920
The Dandy
1920
1919
Spectator at Beach
1917
Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
1922
Snub
1918
1916
1916
The Chauffeur
1922
Drunk (uncredited)
1945
Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
1945
The New Director
1922
Billy Bullion
1919
1919
Papa
1923
1919
Snub
1918
Snub
1919
1916
1916
1920
The Neighbor
1919
1916
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1941
1919
1918
1916
1918
1916
1919
Snitch, Another
1917
Snub
1916
Cookie
1939
1922
1919
A Hobo
1922
Butler
1913
1916
Snub
1922
Abner Maize
1923
1915
1918
The Neighbor
1919
Moke Morpheus
1915
Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
1945
Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
1946
1916
Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
1922
Snub
1917
1916
Trolley conductor
1919
1927
1916
1917
1916
The Dandy
1919
1916
Projectionist
1916
Campbell
1946
1926
1918
1920
1916
Snub Larkin
1915
1917
The Chap
1920
The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
1919
1917
1916
1918
Tin-Horn Tommy
1915
Inventor
1923
1920
1916
Hugo Snubb
1915
1916
Snub, the Butler
1918
1916
Luke's Co-Worker
1915
Snub - the Scenario Writer
1922
Snub the Butler
1917
1919
1919
Simplex Joe
1918
1918
1919
The Assistant Chef
1919
Jelous Admirer
1919
1927
Count
1915
The Papa
1923
1920
Snub
1917
1916
1917
1916
Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
1937
His Assistant
1918
1919
1916
1919
1916
1917
1915
1918
1917
1919
1916
Chambermaid Man
1922
1928
1917
1919
1916
Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
1918
1920
Bellhop
1916
1915
1917
Sourball Joe
1915
The Old Settler
1923
1916
1917
Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
1922
1916
1929
1918
1919
1919
1917
The Governor
1922
1919
1920
1918
Husband
1920
1917
1919
1916
1921
1918
1921
1921
1929
1920
1919
Hunter
1921
1926
1917
1920
1920
1919
1919
1919
1921
Snub
1922
1919
Marquis de Marmalade
1921
1920
Hatchet Face
1919
1917
1920
The Tenderfoot
1921
1917
1919
1918
1942
1923
1918
1926
1919
Inventor Ignatius Pollard
1924
1917
Alphonse
1929
1921
1920
1918
Snub
1921
1916
1928
Bartender
1937
Our Hero
1923
1928
1919
1927
Teacher