Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bar Patron (uncredited)
1955
Film
Singin' in the Rain
Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
1952
Film
Miracle on 34th Street
Final Court Officer Bearing Mail (uncredited)
1947
Series
Racket Squad
1951
Series
Public Defender
1954
Film
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
1962
Film
Red River
Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
1948
Film
One-Eyed Jacks
Townsman (uncredited)
1961
Film
Friendly Persuasion
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
1956
Film
Limelight
Street Musician
1952
Film
Julius Caesar
Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
1953
Film
The Tin Star
Townsman(uncredited)
1957
Film
Inherit the Wind
Townsman (uncredited)
1960
Film
Scaramouche
Man at Assembly Meeting
1952
Film
The Man with the Golden Arm
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
1955
Film
The Country Girl
Stagehand (uncredited)
1954
Film
Adam's Rib
Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
1949
Film
Canyon Passage
Miner (uncredited)
1946
Film
The Paradine Case
Cabby (uncredited)
1947
Film
Pocketful of Miracles
Knuckles (uncredited)
1961
Film
The Company She Keeps
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1951
Film
Teacher's Pet
Reporter (uncredited)
1958
Film
Till the Clouds Roll By
Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
1946
Film
Living It Up
Vagrant in Park (uncredited)
1954
Film
The Gunfighter
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
1950
Film
The Man from Colorado
Townsman (uncredited)
1948
Film
Jeanne Eagels
Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited)
1957
Film
Homicidal
Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)
1961
Film
Pal Joey
Waiter (uncredited)
1957
Film
House of Strangers
1949
Film
Casanova Brown
Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
1944
Film
Johnny Belinda
Man on Jury (uncredited)
1948
Film
The Lady Gambles
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1949
Film
His Regeneration
Extra
1915
Film
Trail Street
Farmer (uncredited)
1947
Film
Edge of Darkness
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
1943
Film
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
1950
Film
Road to Utopia
Amateur Contest Violinist (uncredited)
1946
Film
Sister Kenny
Man at Barn Dance (uncredited)
1946
Film
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Film
Badman's Territory
Town Barber (uncredited)
1946
Film
Carrie
Lunch Wagon Counterman (uncredited)
1952
Film
A Woman's Secret
Stagehand (Uncredited)
1949
Film
Cockeyed Cavaliers
King's Physician's Aide
1934
Film
Ghosts on the Loose
Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)
1943
Film
Master of the World
Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
1961
Film
Stars in My Crown
Bartender (uncredited)
1950
Film
Hail the Conquering Hero
Townsman (uncredited)
1944
Film
Swat the Crook
1919
Film
The Conspirators
Airport Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
1944
Film
Rollin' Plains
Pee Wee
1938
Film
Man of a Thousand Faces
Comedy Waiter #2
1957
Film
State Fair
Hog Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1945
Film
Loaded Pistols
Second Small Man at Dance (uncredited)
1948
Film
Strange Impersonation
Taxi driver (uncredited)
1946
Film
Mesquite Buckaroo
Janitor Suds
1939
Film
Stingaree
Victor
1934
Film
Stand by for Action
Sailor (uncredited)
1942
Film
Newly Rich
The Chauffeur
1922
Film
The Crooked Way
1949
Film
Phony Express
Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
1943
Film
The Fast and the Furious
Park Caretaker
1954
Film
Framed
(uncredited)
1947
Film
Spring Fever
The Unwelcome Suitor
1919
Film
Two Scrambled
1918
Film
Hollywood Cavalcade
Keystone Cop
1939
Film
Who Was That Lady?
Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
1960
Film
Desperate
Villager (uncredited)
1947
Film
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
The Hoodlum Saint
Parade Spectator (uncredited)
1946
Film
Cheyenne
Barfly (uncredited)
1947
Film
Pay Your Dues
1919
Film
Bowery at Midnight
Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
1942
Drink Hearty
Snub
1920
Film
Police
First Flophouse Customer
1916
Film
The Earl of Chicago
Townsman (uncredited)
1940
Film
The Perils of Pauline
Western Saloon Set Propman
1947
Film
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
1941
Film
Bughouse Bellhops
Moke Morpheus
1915
Film
Pete Kelly's Blues
Waiter (uncredited)
1955
Film
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Man Pacing in Jail Cell
1953
Film
The Crime Patrol
Gyp
1936
Film
The Payoff
Stubby - Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942
Film
Kitty
Hugh's Rental Coachman (uncredited)
1945
Film
Belle Starr's Daughter
Party Guest (uncredited)
1948
Film
The Night Is Young
Drummer (uncredited)
1935
Film
Defective Detectives
Janitor
1944
Film
One More River
George
1934
Film
The Doughboy
1926
Film
Luke's Movie Muddle
Projectionist
1916
Film
Mr. Celebrity
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1941
Strictly Modern
Chambermaid Man
1922
Film
The Barefoot Mailman
Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
1951
Film
Gents in a Jam
Telegram Deliverer (uncredited)
1952
Film
Si, Senor
1919
Kicked Out
1918
Film
Do Me a Favor
A Hobo
1922
Film
The Road to Singapore
Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
1931
Film
Count Your Change
Billy Bullion
1919
Film
The Gentleman from Louisiana
Hadley
1936
Big Game
Hunter
1921
Film
Just Neighbors
The Neighbor
1919
Film
Luke Joins the Navy
1916
No Kidding
1928
Film
Soft Money
1919
Film
Double Trouble
1927
Film
Park Row
Barfly
1952
Film
Call a Taxi!
1920
Film
The Oregon Trail
Townsman (uncredited)
1959
Film
Walk Softly, Stranger
Custodian on Stairway (uncredited)
1950
Film
Birds of a Feather
1917
Film
Monkey Businessmen
Mr. Grimble (uncredited)
1946
Film
Ask Father
The Corn-Fed Secretary
1919
The Parrott Chase
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
Film
Unknown Island
Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski
1948
Film
Valley of Fire
Townsman
1951
Get Busy
Shorter pal
1924
Film
The Buster Keaton Story
Audience Member (uncredited)
1957
Film
One Good Turn
A Community Player (uncredited)
1931
Film
Conquest of Cochise
Barfly (uncredited)
1953
Film
Here Come the Girls
1918
Film
Over the Fence
Snitch, Another
1917
Film
Going! Going! Gone!
1919
Film
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Bill Collector (uncredited)
1932
Film
Arizona Days
Cookie
1937
Film
Where the Buffalo Roam
Pee Wee
1938
High Rollers
1921
Hello Teacher
1918
Film
Young Mr. Jazz
Snub
1919
Film
Bumping Into Broadway
The Musical Comedy's Director
1919
Film
Square Dance Jubilee
Show Spectator
1949
Slippery Slickers
1920
The Mystery Man
Detective Snub Pollard
1923
Film
Society Mugs
Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
Film
The Purchase Price
Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
1932
Film
Classic Comedy Teams
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
Main Street Today
Pop Denton (uncredited)
1944
Film
Jungle Terror
Campbell
1946
Film
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Soup Customer (uncredited)
1942
Film
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
Film
Fire!!
The Boy
1926
Film
Goofs and Saddles
Bad guy caught by sash window in shed (uncredited)
1937
Film
365 Days
The Good Grandson
1922
Film
Move On
1917
It's a Joy!
The Papa
1923
Film
Never Touched Me!
Jealous Admirer
1919
Film
Confirm or Deny
Air Raid Refugee in Basement Crowd
1941
Film
The Kid Rides Again
Saloon Swamper
1943
Film
I'm on My Way
The Neighbor
1919
Film
Yankee Fakir
Townsman
1947
Film
His Wedding Scare
Fireman
1943
Film
Runaway Daughters
Mr. Fields, Little Drunk at Dance Club
1956
Film
Starlight Over Texas
Pee Wee
1938
Film
The Dutiful Dub
1919
Film
Ring Up the Curtain
The Leading Man
1919
Film
The Rawhide Terror
Renegade
1934
Film
Sold at Auction!
The Auctioneer's Helper
1923
Film
The Drunkard
Property Man
1935
Film
Jack Frost
Hired Hand
1923
Film
Back Trail
Goofy (as Snub Pollard)
1948
Film
Step Lively
1917
Film
The Old West
Townsman (uncredited)
1952
Film
She Loves Me Not
1918
Film
Two-Gun Gussie
Snub
1918
Film
Jungle Menace
Campbell
1937
Film
Luke Laughs Last
1916
All Wet
1926
White Legion
Baker
1936
The Bum's Rush
1927
Film
The Sound of Laughter
Plumber's Assistant
1963
Film
Before Breakfast
1919
Film
Great While It Lasted
Hugo Snubb
1915
Film
Giving Them Fits
Luke's Co-Worker
1915
Film
Frontier Town
Peewee
1938
Hear 'Em Rave
1918
Film
Swing Your Partners
1918
Foreign Agent
Supper Club Patron
1942
Film
The Midnight Patrol
1932
Film
Vitamin 'U' for Me
1942
Film
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
Film
By the Sad Sea Waves
Spectator at Beach
1917
Film
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
Papa
1923
Film
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
Film
Waltz Me Around
Snub
1920
Film
Look Out Below
Snub
1919
Rush Orders
Marquis de Marmalade
1921
Film
The Flirt
Restaurant owner
1917
Film
The Lamb
1918
Film
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
Film
Fresh Paint
Bicycle Messenger
1920
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
Film
Boot Hill Bandits
2nd Bartender
1942
Fresh from the Farm
1915
Film
Kid Dynamite
Dance Official
1943
Film
Fifteen Minutes
The Husband
1921
Film
Ex-Flame
Boggins
1930
Film
It Happened in Flatbush
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
1942
Film
Thunder Mountain
Townsman (uncredited)
1947
Film
From Hand to Mouth
The Kidnapper
1919
Film
That's Him
1918
Charlie's Triple Trouble
Flop House Tramp (archive footage)
1944
Film
Pinched
1917
Film
Booby Dupes
Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
1945
Pipe Down
1929
Film
Captain Kidd's Kids
The Valet
1919
Film
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
1919
Film
Rollin' Westward
Poker Player
1939
Film
It's a Wild Life
Snub
1918
Film
Heap Big Chief
1919
Film
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
1917
Film
A Sammy in Siberia
Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer (as Harry Pollard)
1919
Film
Follow the Crowd
1918
Film
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Pee Wee
1937
Film
His Only Father
1919
Film
On the Fire
The Assistant Chef
1919
Film
Sic 'Em, Towser
1918
On the Jump
Snoopy Sam - The House Detective
1918
Film
Luke's Lost Liberty
1917
Count the Votes
1919
Film
Bride and Gloom
1918
Film
Call for Mr. Caveman
Hatchet Face
1919
Film
Pistols for Breakfast
1919
Before the Public
1923
Film
Headin' for the Rio Grande
Cookie (Hart hand)
1936
The Yokel
1926
Film
A Gasoline Wedding
Snub
1918
Raise the Rent
1920
Film
The Marathon
Snub
1919
Film
An Ozark Romance
1918
Film
Luke and the Mermaids
1916
Film
We Never Sleep
1917
Film
Sing Cowboy Sing
Prisoner
1937
Film
Meet Me After the Show
Stage Door Johnnie in Opening Number (uncredited)
1951
Film
Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916
Film
A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915
Film
Whirl o' the West
The Tenderfoot
1921
Blue Sunday
1921
Andy Plays Hookey
Ticket Seller
1946
Film
Wanted - $5,000
1919
Film
Girls Will Be Boys
Plumber's assistant
1931
Film
Partners in Time
Townsman (uncredited)
1946
Film
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918
Film
Off the Trolley
Trolley conductor
1919
A Countless Count
Count
1915
Film
Just My Luck
Frank Smith
1935
Film
The Laramie Kid
Cinvvict Shorty
1935
Film
Dear Ol' Pal
Abner Maize
1923
Film
The Dippy Dentist
The Dandy
1920
Film
Nothing But Trouble
1918
Film
Back to the Woods
His Valet
1919
Film
Ragtime Snap Shots
Snub Larkin
1915
Film
Clubs Are Trump
Snub
1917
Film
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916
Film
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Snub - Waiter (uncredited)
1936
Film
California or Bust
The Old Settler
1923
Film
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917
Film
Luke, the Gladiator
1916
Film
All Aboard
Passenger with trunk
1917
Film
Bliss
Snub
1917
Film
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916
Film
His Royal Slyness
Prince of Rochquefort
1920
Film
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917
Film
Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916
Film
The Green Cat
Snub / Big Boss
1923
Film
Luke's Preparedness Preparations
1916
Film
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Saloon Drunk
1941
Film
Luke, the Chauffeur
1916
Film
The Black Coin
Vic Moran
1936
Film
Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916
Film
Bars of Hate
Danny, the Pickpocket
1935
Film
Luke's Double
1916
Film
Riders of the Rockies
Pee Wee McDougal
1937
Film
Join the Circus
1923
Tough Luck
1919
Let's Go
Man on beach
1918
Film
Luke Rides Roughshod
1916
Cracked Wedding Bells
1920
Film
Clancy Street Boys
Irate Father (uncredited)
1943
Mitt The Prince
1927
The Tip
1918
Film
Rainbow Island
Snub
1917
Film
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
Tin-Horn Tommy
1915
Film
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916
Film
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
Any Old Port
1920
Film
Luke's Washful Waiting
1916
Love's Young Scream
1919
Film
Hey There
The New Director
1918
Film
Luke Locates the Loot
1916
Film
The Non-Stop Kid
Snub, the Butler
1918
Film
Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916
Film
Next Aisle Over
The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
1919
Film
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Snub
1917
Film
Sky Bandits
Pa, Man in Nightshirt
1940
Film
Luke, Patient Provider
1916
Film
A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919
Lucky Cowboy
Man Trying to Stop Fight
1944
Punch the Clock
Snub
1922
Film
The Dumb-Bell
The New Director
1922
Film
The Big Idea
Inventor Ignatius Pollard
1924
Film
Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916
Film
Take a Chance
Simplex Joe
1918
Start Something
1919
Why Go Home?
1920
Film
Somewhere in Turkey
His Assistant
1918
Blow 'Em Up
The Governor
1922
Film
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Cafe Waiter
1917
Film
Rockin' in the Rockies
Drunk (uncredited)
1945
Film
Luke's Society Mixup
1916
Film
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916
Film
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917
Film
Beat It
1918
Film
Them Was the Happy Days!
Snub
1916
Film
The Girl in the Case
Witness (uncredited)
1944
Film
The City Slicker
Snub / The Bell Boy / The Cook
1918
Hale and Hearty
1922
The Hustler
Snub
1921
Film
Lure of the Wasteland
Cookie
1939
Film
Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917
At the Ringside
1921
Film
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915
Film
Nation Aflame
Edgar Wolfe (as Snub Pollard)
1937
Film
The Rajah
1919
Film
A Tough Winter
1923
Film
At the Old Stage Door
1919
The Floor Below
1919
Film
Utah Trail
Pee Wee
1938
Film
Tinkering with Trouble
Sourball Joe
1915
Name the Day
1921
Film
Why Pick on Me?
1918
Film
Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916
Film
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916
Film
Hit Him Again
1918
Film
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
Film
Murder on the Yukon
Archie
1940
Cash Customers
The Chap
1920
Film
Luke Does the Midway
1916
Film
Hot Off the Press
Snub - the Newspaper Plant Janitor
1922
Film
Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915
Film
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916
Film
He Leads, Others Follow
1919
Pardon Me
1922
It's a Hard Life
1919
The Big Shot
1929
In the Movies
Snub - the Scenario Writer
1922
Live and Learn
1920
Giving the Bride Away
1919
Film
Look Pleasant, Please
Snub - the Janitor (as Harry Pollard)
1918
Film
Luke's Newsie Knockout
1916
Film
Three Pests in a Mess
Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
1945
Film
Bashful
Snub the Butler
1917
Film
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
Thick and Thin
1928
Film
Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle
1917
Film
Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916
Film
Luke Lugs Luggage
1916
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
Film
Just Dropped In
1919
Film
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Snub
1918
How Dry I Am
1919
Film
Song of the Buckaroo
'Perky'
1938
Film
It's a Gift
Inventor
1923
Film
Run 'Em Ragged
1920
All Dressed Up
1920
Years to Come
The Bridegroom
1922
Be My Wife
1919
Film
From Laramie to London
1917
Film
Luke Foils the Villain
1916
Film
Hittin' the Trail
Bartender
1937
Film
Luke's Busy Day
1917
Film
Grab the Ghost
Husband
1920
On Location
The Caretaker of the Estate
1921
Film
The Stone Age
1922
Film
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1917
Film
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
1917
A London Bobby
1920
Film
Fireman Save My Child
1918
Fully Insured
Our Hero
1923
Film
Chop Suey & Co.
1919
Sally Scrags, Housemaid
Butler
1913
Park Your Car
1920
Full o' Pep
Snub
1922
Film
Santa Fe Rides
Stubby
1937
Film
Luke's Speedy Club Life
Bellhop
1916
Some Baby
1922
Film
The Big Idea
Snub
1917
Springtime Saps
1929
Film
Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
Looking for Trouble
The Dandy
1919
Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies
Bartender
1937
Sock and Run
Alphonse
1929
Film
Crack Your Heels
1919
Red Skins and Red Heads
Party Guest (uncredited)
1941
What a Whopper!
1921
Film
All Lit Up
The Dandy
1920
His Best Girl
1921
Film
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917
All at Sea
1919
Money to Burn
1920
Once Over
Snub Pollard
1928
Order in the Court
1919
Film
The Old Sea Dog
Snub the Ferryboat Pilot
1922
Men About Town
1928
Teaching the Teacher
Teacher
Here We Are
1929
Getting His Goat
1920