Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Known for Acting · 405 credits
- Born
- 1889-11-08
- Died
- 1962-01-19
- Place of birth
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as
- Harry 'Snub' Pollard · Harry Pollard · Snub Pollard · Harold Hopetown Fraser · Harold Fraser · Harry Fraser
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.
Known For
TV Shows (3)
Movies (402)
Singin' in the Rain
1952
as Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Julius Caesar
1953
as Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
Red River
1948
as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
as Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
Friendly Persuasion
1956
as Carnival Patron (uncredited)
Canyon Passage
1946
as Miner (uncredited)
The Purchase Price
1932
as Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
Stingaree
1934
as Victor
Rollin' Westward
1939
as Poker Player
Carrie
1952
as Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
as Knuckles (uncredited)
One-Eyed Jacks
1961
as Townsman (uncredited)
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
as Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
1960
as Townsman (uncredited)
The Tin Star
1957
as Townsman(uncredited)
Unknown Island
1948
as Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
Adam's Rib
1949
as Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
1946
as Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
Trail Street
1947
as Farmer (uncredited)
Limelight
1952
as Street Musician
Kitty
1945
as Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
Police
1916
as First Flophouse Customer
The Gunfighter
1950
as Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Scaramouche
1952
as Man at Assembly Meeting
Frontier Town
1938
as Peewee
Move On
1917
Back Trail
1948
as Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
Park Row
1952
as Barfly
Booby Dupes
1945
as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
as Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
Pal Joey
1957
as Waiter (uncredited)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
as Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
The Country Girl
1954
as Stagehand (uncredited)
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957
as Comedy Waiter #2
Once Over
1928
as Snub Pollard
Pistols for Breakfast
1919
Bashful
1917
as Snub the Butler
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
as Parade Spectator (uncredited)
Si, Senor
1919
Johnny Belinda
1948
as Man on Jury (uncredited)
Who Was That Lady?
1960
as Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
Jungle Menace
1937
as Campbell
High Rollers
1921
Framed
1947
as (uncredited)
The Man from Colorado
1948
as Townsman (uncredited)
Main Street Today
1944
as Pop Denton (uncredited)
On Location
1921
as The Caretaker of the Estate
Desperate
1947
as Villager (uncredited)
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Monkey Businessmen
1946
as Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
Runaway Daughters
1956
as Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
Kid Dynamite
1943
as Dance Official
Teacher's Pet
1958
as Reporter (uncredited)
Fire!!
1926
as The Boy
The Hustler
1921
as Snub
The Paradine Case
1947
as Cabby (uncredited)
Cheyenne
1947
as Barfly (uncredited)
Road to Utopia
1946
as Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936
as Cookie (Hart hand)
Loaded Pistols
1948
as Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
The Lady Gambles
1949
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Clubs Are Trump
1917
as Snub
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
as Keystone Cop
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955
as Waiter (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
as Townsman (uncredited)
House of Strangers
1949
The Fast and the Furious
1954
as Park Caretaker
Master of the World
1961
as Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
His Regeneration
1915
as Extra
Hey There
1918
as The New Director
Badman's Territory
1946
as Town Barber (uncredited)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932
as Bill Collector (uncredited)
The Oregon Trail
1959
as Townsman (uncredited)
Jeanne Eagels
1957
as Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
Stars in My Crown
1950
as Bartender (uncredited)
Homicidal
1961
as Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
All Aboard
1917
as Passenger with trunk
The Crooked Way
1949
Classic Comedy Teams
1986
as Self (archive footage)
All Wet
1926
State Fair
1945
as Hog Calling Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
as Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
1944
as Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
Living It Up
1954
as Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
Stand by for Action
1942
as Sailor (uncredited)
A Woman's Secret
1949
as Stagehand (Uncredited)
Edge of Darkness
1943
as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Rollin' Plains
1938
as Pee Wee
Nation Aflame
1937
as Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
The Company She Keeps
1951
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Luke Joins the Navy
1916
The Earl of Chicago
1940
as Townsman (uncredited)
365 Days
1922
as The Good Grandson
Clancy Street Boys
1943
as Irate Father (uncredited)
Jungle Terror
1946
as Campbell
Pinched
1917
Defective Detectives
1944
as Janitor
The Payoff
1942
as Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
Be My Wife
1919
Valley of Fire
1951
as Townsman
The Rawhide Terror
1934
as Renegade
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
Luke's Busy Day
1917
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953
as Man Pacing in Jail Cell
Belle Starr's Daughter
1948
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
The Perils of Pauline
1947
as Western Saloon Set Propman
Bowery at Midnight
1942
as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
One Good Turn
1931
as A Community Player (uncredited)
Conquest of Cochise
1953
as Barfly (uncredited)
Murder on the Yukon
1940
as Archie
Great While It Lasted
1915
as Hugo Snubb
The Kid Rides Again
1943
as Saloon Swamper
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
1941
as Saloon Drunk
Fully Insured
1923
as Our Hero
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942
as Soup Customer (uncredited)
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
1923
as Papa
The Sound of Laughter
1963
as Plumber's Assistant
A Gasoline Wedding
1918
as Snub
About Harry 'Snub' Pollard
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… With 405 credits spanning from 1913 to 2009, Harry 'Snub' Pollard has appeared in 402 films and 3 TV shows.
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Most Popular Harry 'Snub' Pollard Movies
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) — as Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) — as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
- Julius Caesar (1953) — as Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
- Red River (1948) — as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947) — as Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
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