8.1
8.1
Singin' in the Rain
1952
as Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Also known as: Harold Fraser
Acting
Born:November 8, 1889
Died:January 19, 1962(aged 72)
Birthplace:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality:Australia
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (332 movies)
8.0
8.0
Pistols for Breakfast
1919
8.0
8.0
Springtime Saps
1929
7.9
7.9
Limelight
1952
as Street Musician
7.1
7.1
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
as Street Vagrant (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
One Good Turn
1931
as A Community Player (uncredited)
6.9
6.9
Bumping Into Broadway
1919
as The Musical Comedy's Director
6.9
6.9
Bashful
1917
as Snub the Butler
6.8
6.8
Gents in a Jam
1952
as Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
Goofs and Saddles
1937
as Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
Hey There
1918
as The New Director
6.6
6.6
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957
as Comedy Waiter #2
6.6
6.6
From Hand to Mouth
1919
as The Kidnapper
6.6
6.6
State Fair
1945
as Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
Park Row
1952
as Barfly
6.5
6.5
The Purchase Price
1932
as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
Ask Father
1919
as The Corn-Fed Secretary
6.4
6.4
Homicidal
1961
as Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
6.4
6.4
Just Neighbors
1919
as The Neighbor
6.4
6.4
Casanova Brown
1944
as Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Three Pests in a Mess
1945
as Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Police
1916
as First Flophouse Customer
6.2
6.2
The Paradine Case
1947
as Cabby (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Pal Joey
1957
as Waiter (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
The Perils of Pauline
1947
as Western Saloon Set Propman
6.2
6.2
Main Street Today
1944
as Pop Denton (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Monkey Businessmen
1946
as Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
6.0
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Captain Kidd's Kids
1919
as The Valet
6.0
6.0
Jeanne Eagels
1957
as Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Strange Impersonation
1946
as Taxi driver (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
The Black Coin
1936
as Vic Moran
6.0
6.0
The Dumb-Bell
1922
as The New Director
6.0
6.0
It's a Gift
1923
as Inventor
6.0
6.0
The Girl in the Case
1944
as Witness (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Somewhere in Turkey
1918
as His Assistant
6.0
6.0
Partners in Time
1946
as Townsman (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Take a Chance
1918
as Simplex Joe
5.9
5.9
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919
as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
5.9
5.9
The Lady Gambles
1949
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
5.9
5.9
Master of the World
1961
as Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
5.9
5.9
Stingaree
1934
as Victor
5.8
5.8
I'm on My Way
1919
as The Neighbor
5.8
5.8
Off the Trolley
1919
as Trolley conductor
5.8
5.8
Clancy Street Boys
1943
as Irate Father (uncredited)
5.8
5.8
Sold at Auction!
1923
as The Auctioneer's Helper
5.8
5.8
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917
as Spectator at Beach
5.8
5.8
The Marathon
1919
as Snub
5.8
5.8
His Royal Slyness
1920
as Prince of Rochquefort
5.7
5.7
Loaded Pistols
1948
as Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
5.7
5.7
Over the Fence
1917
as Snitch, Another
5.6
5.6
Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918
as Snub
5.6
5.6
Rockin' in the Rockies
1945
as Drunk (uncredited)
5.6
5.6
Young Mr. Jazz
1919
as Snub
5.5
5.5
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
as Self (archive footage)
5.5
5.5
Follow the Crowd
1918
5.5
5.5
The Big Shot
1929
5.5
5.5
The Doughboy
1926
5.5
5.5
Fireman Save My Child
1918
5.5
5.5
Spring Fever
1919
as The Unwelcome Suitor
5.4
5.4
Next Aisle Over
1919
as The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
5.4
5.4
Look Out Below
1919
as Snub
5.4
5.4
Phony Express
1943
as Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
5.3
5.3
A Gasoline Wedding
1918
as Snub
5.3
5.3
Two-Gun Gussie
1918
as Snub
5.3
5.3
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
as King's Physician's Aide
5.2
5.2
The Dippy Dentist
1920
as The Dandy
5.2
5.2
The City Slicker
1918
as Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook
5.2
5.2
Ring Up the Curtain
1919
as The Leading Man
5.2
5.2
A Sammy in Siberia
1919
as Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
5.2
5.2
Clubs Are Trump
1917
as Snub
5.2
5.2
Looking for Trouble
1919
as The Dandy
5.2
5.2
Never Touched Me!
1919
as Jealous Admirer
5.2
5.2
The Road to Singapore
1931
as Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
5.1
5.1
The Non-Stop Kid
1918
as Snub, the Butler
5.1
5.1
A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919
5.1
5.1
Conquest of Cochise
1953
as Barfly (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
The Laramie Kid
1935
as Cinvvict Shorty
5.0
5.0
Punch the Clock
1922
as Snub
5.0
5.0
Before the Public
1923
5.0
5.0
Get Busy
1924
as Shorter pal
5.0
5.0
Bars of Hate
1935
as Danny, the Pickpocket
5.0
5.0
Do Me a Favor
1922
as A Hobo
5.0
5.0
Count Your Change
1919
as Billy Bullion
5.0
5.0
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
5.0
5.0
Sky Bandits
1940
as Pa, Man in Nightshirt
5.0
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Utah Trail
1938
as Pee Wee
5.0
5.0
Where the Buffalo Roam
1938
as Pee Wee
5.0
5.0
Jungle Menace
1937
as Campbell
5.0
5.0
Run 'Em Ragged
1920
5.0
5.0
Frontier Town
1938
as Peewee
5.0
5.0
Rainbow Island
1917
as Snub
5.0
5.0
Look Pleasant, Please
1918
as Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
5.0
5.0
The Crime Patrol
1936
as Gyp
5.0
5.0
Society Mugs
1946
as Party Guest (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Pay Your Dues
1919
5.0
5.0
Swing Your Partners
1918
5.0
5.0
Pinched
1917
5.0
5.0
Fully Insured
1923
as Our Hero
5.0
5.0
That's Him
1918
5.0
5.0
It's a Wild Life
1918
as Snub
5.0
5.0
Fresh Paint
1920
as Bicycle Messenger
5.0
5.0
Raise the Rent
1920
5.0
5.0
Hittin' the Trail
1937
as Bartender
5.0
5.0
Unknown Island
1948
as Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
5.0
5.0
Luke's Movie Muddle
1916
as Projectionist
5.0
5.0
Heap Big Chief
1919
5.0
5.0
Fifteen Minutes
1921
as The Husband
5.0
5.0
The Rajah
1919
5.0
5.0
Luke Joins the Navy
1916
5.0
5.0
The Bum's Rush
1927
5.0
5.0
The Yokel
1926
5.0
5.0
Why Pick on Me?
1918
5.0
5.0
All Lit Up
1920
as The Dandy
5.0
5.0
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
5.0
5.0
On the Fire
1919
as The Assistant Chef
5.0
5.0
The Floor Below
1919
5.0
5.0
Bowery at Midnight
1942
as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
4.9
4.9
The Fast and the Furious
1954
as Park Caretaker
4.9
4.9
All Aboard
1917
as Passenger with trunk
4.8
4.8
Chop Suey & Co.
1919
4.8
4.8
Hear 'Em Rave
1918
4.8
4.8
Booby Dupes
1945
as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
4.8
4.8
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936
as Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
4.7
4.7
One More River
1934
as George
4.7
4.7
Meet Me After the Show
1951
as Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
4.7
4.7
Move On
1917
4.7
4.7
Waltz Me Around
1920
as Snub
4.7
4.7
Going! Going! Gone!
1919
4.6
4.6
Step Lively
1917
4.5
4.5
What a Whopper!
1921
4.5
4.5
White Legion
1936
as Baker
4.5
4.5
The Big Idea
1917
as Snub
4.3
4.3
Call for Mr. Caveman
1919
as Hatchet Face
4.3
4.3
Bliss
1917
as Snub
4.3
4.3
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917
as Snub
4.2
4.2
His Regeneration
1915
as Extra
4.2
4.2
The Rawhide Terror
1934
as Renegade
4.1
4.1
Back to the Woods
1919
as His Valet
4.0
4.0
Arizona Days
1937
as Cookie
4.0
4.0
Square Dance Jubilee
1949
as Show Spectator
4.0
4.0
Park Your Car
1920
4.0
4.0
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
Nation Aflame
1937
as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
3.9
3.9
The Flirt
1917
as Restaurant owner
3.5
3.5
Murder on the Yukon
1940
as Archie
3.5
3.5
High Rollers
1921
3.5
3.5
Years to Come
1922
as The Bridegroom
3.3
3.3
Runaway Daughters
1956
as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
3.0
3.0
Riders of the Rockies
1937
as Pee Wee McDougal
3.0
3.0
Sing Cowboy Sing
1937
as Prisoner
2.0
2.0
Here Come the Girls
1918
2.0
2.0
The Sound of Laughter
1963
as Plumber's Assistant
1.0
1.0
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937
as Pee Wee
1.0
1.0
Once Over
1928
as Snub Pollard
Luke's Society Mixup
1916
Bughouse Bellhops
1915
as Moke Morpheus
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
The Lamb
1918
Hello Teacher
1918
Love's Young Scream
1919
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916
Tinkering with Trouble
1915
as Sourball Joe
Great While It Lasted
1915
as Hugo Snubb
Ragtime Snap Shots
1915
as Snub Larkin
A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
1915
as Tin-Horn Tommy
Wanted - $5,000
1919
Luke Lugs Luggage
1916
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916
Luke Foils the Villain
1916
Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916
Luke's Double
1916
Them Was the Happy Days!
1916
as Snub
Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916
Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
Luke Laughs Last
1916
Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916
Luke's Washful Waiting
1916
Luke, the Chauffeur
1916
Luke's Preparedness Preparations
1916
Luke, the Gladiator
1916
Luke's Newsie Knockout
1916
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle
1917
Luke's Lost Liberty
1917
Luke's Busy Day
1917
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
1917
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
1917
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1917
Before Breakfast
1919
He Leads, Others Follow
1919
Soft Money
1919
Count the Votes
1919
Fire!!
1926
as The Boy
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
1923
as Papa
Charlie's Triple Trouble
1944
as Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
A Tough Winter
1923
A Countless Count
1915
as Count
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
His Best Girl
1921
Blue Sunday
1921
The Hustler
1921
as Snub
In the Movies
1922
as Snub - the Scenario Writer
The Stone Age
1922
Jack Frost
1923
as Hired Hand
Newly Rich
1922
as The Chauffeur
The Drunkard
1935
as Property Man
Fresh from the Farm
1915
Vitamin 'U' for Me
1942
Red Skins and Red Heads
1941
as Party Guest (uncredited)
No Kidding
1928
Jungle Terror
1946
as Campbell
Ex-Flame
1930
as Boggins
Drink Hearty
1920
as Snub
A London Bobby
1920
Full o' Pep
1922
as Snub
Blow 'Em Up
1922
as The Governor
The Mystery Man
1923
as Detective Snub Pollard
Strictly Modern
1922
as Chambermaid Man
Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies
1937
as Bartender
The Green Cat
1923
as Snub
Men About Town
1928
Teaching the Teacher
TBA
as Teacher
Pardon Me
1922
Some Baby
1922
Lucky Cowboy
1944
as Man Trying to Stop Fight
Slippery Slickers
1920
His Wedding Scare
1943
as Fireman
Defective Detectives
1944
as Janitor
Dear Ol' Pal
1923
as Abner Maize
Andy Plays Hookey
1946
as Ticket Seller
All Wet
1926
Valley of Fire
1951
as Townsman
Thick and Thin
1928
Si, Senor
1919
Two Scrambled
1918
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918
Money to Burn
1920
Double Trouble
1927
Sic 'Em, Towser
1918
We Never Sleep
1917
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
From Laramie to London
1917
Birds of a Feather
1917
Rollin' Plains
1938
as Pee Wee
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
Mitt The Prince
1927
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
1917
as Cafe Waiter
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917
Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917
Luke Locates the Loot
1916
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916
Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916
Luke, Patient Provider
1916
Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916
Luke's Speedy Club Life
1916
as Bellhop
Luke and the Mermaids
1916
Luke Does the Midway
1916
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916
Luke Rides Roughshod
1916
All Dressed Up
1920
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936
as Cookie (Hart hand)
Just My Luck
1935
as Frank Smith
An Ozark Romance
1918
Lure of the Wasteland
1939
as Cookie
Hit Him Again
1918
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936
as Hadley
The Big Idea
1924
as Inventor Ignatius Pollard
Whirl o' the West
1921
as The Tenderfoot
Big Game
1921
as Hunter
The Old Sea Dog
1922
as Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916
How Dry I Am
1919
Name the Day
1921
On the Jump
1918
as Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
Giving Them Fits
1915
as Luke's Co-Worker
Be My Wife
1919
Song of the Buckaroo
1938
as 'Perky'
Mesquite Buckaroo
1939
as Janitor Suds
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916
Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915
California or Bust
1923
as The Old Settler
Santa Fe Rides
1937
as Stubby
The Tip
1918
Beat It
1918
Let's Go
1918
as Man on beach
Kicked Out
1918
Nothing But Trouble
1918
She Loves Me Not
1918
The Dutiful Dub
1919
Just Dropped In
1919
Crack Your Heels
1919
Swat the Crook
1919
At the Ringside
1921
At the Old Stage Door
1919
Rush Orders
1921
as Marquis de Marmalade
365 Days
1922
as The Good Grandson
Back Trail
1948
as Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
Starlight Over Texas
1938
as Pee Wee
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
1913
as Butler
Girls Will Be Boys
1931
as Plumber's assistant
Bride and Gloom
1918
All at Sea
1919
His Only Father
1919
Any Old Port
1920
Call a Taxi
1920
Cash Customers
1920
as The Chap
Cracked Wedding Bells
1920
Grab the Ghost
1920
as Husband
On Location
1921
as The Caretaker of the Estate
Hot Off the Press
1922
as Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
Hale and Hearty
1922
It's a Joy!
1923
as The Papa
Join the Circus
1923
Sock and Run
1929
as Alphonse
The Midnight Patrol
1932
Live and Learn
1920
Start Something
1919
Giving the Bride Away
1919
Order in the Court
1919
It's a Hard Life
1919
Tough Luck
1919
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
Why Go Home?
1920
Getting His Goat
1920
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