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Snub Pollard

Australian actor (1889–1962)

Harold Fraser (9 Nov 1889 – 19 January 1962), indepth professionally as Snub Pollard, was undermine Australian-born vaudevillian who became a quiet film comedian in Hollywood, popular attach the 1920s.

Career

Born in Melbourne, Country, on 9 November 1889, young Attend Fraser began performing with Pollard's Miniature Opera Company. The company ran not too highly successful professional children's troupes put off traveled Australia and New Zealand have as a feature the late nineteenth and early 20th century. Like many of the inclination in the popular juvenile company -- among them Daphne Trott -- Fraser adopted Pollard as his stage term. In 1908, Harry Pollard joined distinction company tour to North America. Back end the completion of the tour, oversight returned to the United States.^[1] Fail to notice 1915, he was regularly appearing scope uncredited roles in movies, for sample, Charles Epting notes that Pollard jumble clearly be seen in Chaplin's 1915 short By the Sea.^[2] In closest years, Pollard said Hal Roach esoteric discovered him while he was playacting on stage in Los Angeles.^[3]

Pollard very last Bebe Daniels played supporting roles coach in the early films of Harold Histrion. The long-faced Pollard sported a Emperor Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down; this became his trademark. When Lloyd advanced go up against feature films, Lloyd's producer Hal Deprecation conferred Lloyd's short-subject series to Crop. The most famous Snub Pollard humour is 1923's It's a Gift, terminate which he plays an inventor be the owner of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, including topping car that runs by magnet ascendancy.

In early 1923, shortly after sovereign second marriage, Pollard returned with monarch wife Elizabeth to see his support in Australia. His visit attracted heavy attention, and he appeared again hit down several theaters to speak about position motion picture business.^[1]

Pollard's contract lapsed take delivery of 1925 and Roach did not metamorphose it. (Roach continued to release new-found Pollard comedies and reprints of knob ones into 1926.) Pollard turned nod the vaudeville stage for employment, playing field embarked on a 12-month tour help personal appearances.^[4]

Pollard returned to motion big screen when he was signed by justness low-budget Weiss Brothers-Artclass studio in Hawthorn 1926.^[5] Weiss allowed Pollard to ready his vaudeville commitment. Motion Picture World reported that Pollard "will continue climax two-a-day performances in between the another series of comedies to be surface, in order that his newly gained vaudeville popularity may be made efficient for his forthcoming films."^[6] Pollard was the first star name to bright comedies for Weiss; the studio's blemish series were all based on crazy characters (Winnie Winkle, Hairbreadth Harry, Izzie and Lizzie) and the performers' take advantage were not promoted.

Pollard's first two-reelers for Weiss were solo vehicles, nevertheless he was soon teamed with Ponce Sennett "fat" comic Marvin Loback importation a poor man's version of Ornamentation and Hardy. The "Snub and Fat" characters copied the plots and mollycoddle of "Stan and Ollie". Despite class inevitable comparisons, the silent-comedy series was successful within its smaller market meticulous ran for three years. The heap finale, Sock and Run, was free in December 1929. Pollard and Loback were never billed as a team; Pollard was always the headliner, significant Loback led the supporting cast.

The new talking pictures were a problematic for many silent stars, but Clip made the transition. Producer Louis Weiss did not have access to soundstages in Hollywood, so in July 1929 Weiss sent Pollard and director Leslie Goodwins to New York, to single a new series of 10 idiom two-reelers at the Lee DeForestPhonofilm studio.^[7] Two shorts were completed -- Here We Are (1929) and Pipe Down (1929) -- before the stock be bought crash of October 1929 halted also production. Pipe Down was received poorly; Variety called it "third-rate vaude essentials trying to pass off as tegument casing comedy."^[8] The review noted that maximum of the action took place untidy heap a single interior set, reflecting high-mindedness limited space of the DeForest plant.

The Weiss Bros. suspended production continually and Pollard was again unemployed. Lecture in the wake of the crash, let go announced plans for a series incline talking comedies to be produced by oneself, at the Metropolitan Studio in Column Lee, New Jersey.^[9] The plans hide through and Pollard returned to Calif., in hopes of landing work break through feature films as a character comical. His first talking feature was Ex-Flame (1930) for the independent Liberty Pictures.^[10]

In the 1930s, Pollard said the Brilliant Depression wiped out his investments attend to he could not adjust to nobleness talkies.^[3] He played small speaking calibre in comedies and comic relief call a halt "B"westerns. Pollard remarried in 1935, infer the former Ruth Bridges; the pair divorced in 1939.

His silent-comedy diploma guaranteed him work in slapstick revivals. He appeared with other film veterans in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Man shop a Thousand Faces (1957). He besides appeared regularly as a supporting actor in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies cut into the mid-1940s, and was a latter member of the Keystone Cops fasten movies and personal appearances.

Forsaking authority familiar mustache in his later stage, he landed much steadier work get films as a mostly uncredited send the bill to player. He played incidental roles pustule dozens of Hollywood features and trunks, almost always as a mousy, unclassifiable fellow, usually with no dialogue. Notes Wheeler & Woolsey's Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934), he plays a drunken doctor; close the end of Miracle on Thirtyfourth Street (1947), when a squad salary bailiffs hauling sacks of mail enters the courtroom, Pollard brings up distinction rear. In Singin' in the Rain, he receives the umbrella of Cistron Kelly after his famous "Singin' imprison the Rain" scene. In Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Pollard plays a Broadway beggar. Twist Around magnanimity Clock (1961) shows him reacting silently to a curvaceous woman dancing eagerly. His last picture was The Subject Who Shot Liberty Valance (filmed personal 1961; released 1962).

Death and recognition

Pollard died of cancer on 19 Jan 1962, aged 72, after nearly 50 years in the movie business.^[11] Queen interment was at Forest Lawn Marker Park (Hollywood Hills).^[12]

For his contributions nurse motion pictures, Pollard has a understanding on the Hollywood Walk of Name at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard.^[13]

Selected filmography

Sally Scraggs: Housemaid (1913, Short) as Butler
A Cag Tale (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
By the Sea (1915, Short) as Cream of the crop Cream Clerk (uncredited)
His Regeneration (1915, Short) as Extra (uncredited)
Giving Them Fits (1915, Short) as Luke's Co-Worker (as Attend Pollard)
Bughouse Bellhops (1915, Short) as Moke Morpheus (as Harry Pollard)
Tinkering with Trouble (1915, Short) as Sourball Joe (as Harry Pollard)
Great While It Lasted (1915, Short) as Hugo Snubb
Ragtime Snap Shots (1915, Short) as Snub Larkin (as Harry Pollard)
A Foozle at the Assure Party (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
Peculiar Patients' Pranks (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard)
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster (1915, Short) as Tin-Horn Tommy (as Harry Pollard)
Police (1916, Short) as Be in first place Flophouse Customer (uncredited)
Lonesome Luke Leans appoint the Literary (1916, Short)
Luke Lugs Luggage (1916, Short)
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury (1916, Short) as Snub
Luke, the Bonbon Cut-Up (1916, Short)
Luke Foils the Villain (1916, Short)
Luke and the Rural Roughnecks (1916, Short)
Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Circus King (1916, Short)
Luke's Double (1916, Short)
Them Was the Decayed Days! (1916, Short) as Snub
Luke coupled with the Bomb Throwers (1916, Short)
Luke's Referee Lunchers (1916, Short)
Luke Laughs Last (1916, Short)
Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916, Short)
Luke's Camaraderie Mixup (1916, Short)
Luke's Washful Waiting (1916, Short)
Luke Rides Roughshod (1916, Short)
Luke's Mislaid Lamb (1916, Short)
Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916, Short)
Luke Does the Midway (1916, Short)
Luke Joins the Navy (1916, Short)
Luke fairy story the Mermaids (1916, Short)
Luke's Speedy Staff Life (1916, Short) as Bellhop
Luke refuse the Bang-Tails (1916, Short)
Luke, the Chauffeur (1916, Short)
Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916, Short)
Luke, the Gladiator (1916)
Luke, Patient Provider (1916, Short)
Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916, Short)
Luke's Coat Muddle (1916, Short) as Projectionist
Luke, In step Impersonator (1916, Short)
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916, Short)
Luke Locates the Loot (1916, Short)
Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916, Short)
Lonesome Luke's Blissful Rifle (1917, Short)
Luke's Lost Liberty (1917, Short)
Luke's Busy Day (1917, Short)
Luke's Bring Troubles (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917, Short)
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917, Short) as Cafe Waiter
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Plumber (1917, Short)
Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic (1917, Short)
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917, Short)
Over leadership Fence (1917, Short) as Snitch, Another
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917, Short)
Pinched (1917, Short) as Crook
By the Sad Bounding main Waves (1917, Short) as Snub
Birds blame a Feather (1917, Short)
Bliss (1917, Short) as Snub
From Laramie to London (1917, Short)
Rainbow Island (1917, Short) as Snub
Love, Laughs and Lather (1917, Short)
The Flirt (1917, Short) as Restaurant Owner
Clubs Put in order Trump (1917, Short) as Snub
All Aboard (1917, Short) as Passenger with trunk
We Never Sleep (1917, Short)
Move On (1917, Short)
Bashful (1917, Short) as Snub goodness Butler
The Big Idea (1917, Short) significance Snub
Step Lively (1917, Short)
The Tip (1918, Short)
The Lamb (1918, Short)
Hit Him Again (1918, Short)
Beat It (1918, Short)
A Hydrocarbon Wedding (1918, Short) as Snub
Look Skillful, Please (1918, Short) as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
Here Come the Girls (1918, Short)
Let's Go (1918, Short) as Human race on beach
On the Jump (1918, Short) as Snoopy Sam, The House Detective
Follow the Crowd (1918, Short) as Snub
Pipe the Whiskers (1918, Short)
It's a Dynamic Life (1918, Short) as Snub
Hey There! (1918, Short) as The New Director
Kicked Out (1918, Short)
The Non-Stop Kid (1918, Short) as Snub, the butler
Two-Gun Gussie (1918, Short) as Snub
Fireman Save Bodyguard Child (1918, Short)
The City Slicker (1918, Short) as Snub
Sic 'Em, Towser (1918, Short)
Somewhere in Turkey (1918, Short) by reason of His Assistant
Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918, Short) as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
An Ozark Romance (1918, Short)
Kicking the Germ Influence of Germany (1918, Short)
That's Him (1918, Short) as Robber
Triple Trouble (1918, Short) as Flop House Tramp (uncredited)
Bride turf Gloom (1918, Short)
Two Scrambled (1918, Short)
Bees in His Bonnet (1918, Short)
Swing Your Partners (1918, Short) as Boys' Neighbor
Why Pick on Me? (1918, Short) kind Harry Ham
Nothing But Trouble (1918, Short) as Beach Voyeur
Back to the Woods (1918, Short)
Hear 'Em Rave (1918, Short)
Take a Chance (1918, Short) as Simplex Joe (as Harry Pollard)
She Loves Nearby Not (1918, Short)
The Danger Game (1918, Short)
Wanted – $5,000 (1919, Short)
Going! Going! Gone! (1919, Short) as Snub
Ask Father (1919, Short) as The Corn-Fed Secretary
On the Fire, aka. The Chef (1919, Short) as The Assistant Chef
I'm wonder My Way (1919, Short) as Magnanimity Neighbor
Look Out Below (1919, Short) tempt Snub
The Dutiful Dub (1919, Short)
Next Passage Over (1919, Short) as The Maltreated Husband
A Sammy in Siberia (1919, Short) as Count Pop-up-skyvitch, the Bolshevik Officer
Just Dropped In (1919, Short)
Young Mr. Jazz (1919, Short) as Snub (as Ruin Pollard)
Crack Your Heels (1919, Short) significance Snub
Ring Up the Curtain, aka. Back-Stage! (1919, Short) as The Leading Man
Si, Senor (1919, Short)
Before Breakfast (1919, Short)
The Marathon (1919, Short) as Snub
Pistols fetch Breakfast (1919, Short)
Swat the Crook (1919, Short)
Off the Trolley (1919, Short) rightfully Streetcar Conductor
Spring Fever (1919, Short) kind The Unwelcome Suitor
Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919, Short) as Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
Just Neighbors (1919, Short) as The Neighbor
At the Old Stage Door (1919, Short)
Never Touched Me (1919, Short) as Green-eyed Admirer
A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919, Short)
Count Your Change (1919, Short) as Billy Bullion
Chop Suey & Co. (1919, Short)
Heap Rough Chief (1919, Short)
Don't Shove (1919, Short) (uncredited)
Be My Wife (1919, Short)
The Rajah (1919, Short)
He Leads, Others Follow (1919, Short)
Soft Money (1919, Short)
Count the Votes (1919, Short)
Pay Your Dues (1919, Short)
His Only Father (1919, Short)
Bumping into Broadway (1919, Short) as Director of Lyrical Comedy
Captain Kidd's Kids (1919, Short) makeover The Valet
From Hand to Mouth (1919, Short) as The Kidnapper
Call for Noted. Caveman (1919, Short) as Hatchet Face
Looking for Trouble (1919, Short) as Probity Dandy
All Lit Up (1920, Short) importance The Dandy
The Dippy Dentist (1920, Short) as The Dandy
Raise the Rent (1920, Short) as Husband
Fresh Paint (1920, Short) as Bicycle Messenger
His Royal Slyness (1920, Short) as Prince of Roquefort
Any Stanchion Port (1920, Short) as Captain Dandy
Run 'Em Ragged (1920, Short) as Gain victory Tramp
Cash Customers (1920, Short) as Nobleness Chap
Whirl o' the West (1921, Short) as Tenderfoot
Rush Orders (1921, Short) in that Marquis Marmalade
It's a Gift (1923, Short) as Inventor Pollard
All Wet (1926)^[14] importation Snub
The Yokel (1926, Short)
The Doughboy (1926, Short)
Double Trouble (1927, Short)
Mitt the Prince (1927, Short) as Snub
The Big Shot (1929, Short) as Snub
Ex-Flame (1930) significance Boggins
The Road to Singapore (1931) restructuring Photographer at Birthday Party (uncredited)
The Unusual Love of Molly Louvain (1932) hoot B.J. Pratt (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol (1932)
Bars of Hate (1935) as Danny, grandeur pickpocket
Just My Luck (1936) as Sincere Smith
Riders of the Rockies (1937) chimpanzee Pee Wee McDougal
Tex Rides with depiction Boy Scouts (1937) as Pee Wee
Hittin' the Trail (1937) as Bartender
Special Emissary K-7 (1937)
Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1937) reorganization Prisoner
Nation Aflame (1937) as Edgar Wolfe
Frontier Town (1938) as Peewee
The Utah Trail (1938) as Pee Wee
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) as Keystone Kop
Phony Express (1943) translation Sheriff
Bowery to Broadway (1944) as Lamb's Club Diner
The Hoodlum Saint (1946) in the same way Parade Spectator
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) as Mail-bearing Court Officer
Back Trail (1948) as Goofy
Johnny Belinda (1948) as Panellist (uncredited)
Adam's Rib (1949) as Man thorough courtroom (uncredited)
All About Eve (1950) (?)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) as nobility Man receiving umbrella from Lockwood funding the song "Singin' in the Rain" (uncredited)
Limelight (1952) as Street Musician
The Fix and the Furious (1954) as Restricted area Caretaker
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) as Comedy Waiter
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959) (Season 5 Episode 11: "Road Hog") as Bar Patron (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) (Season 6 Episode 7: "Outlaw in Town") as Bar Patron (uncredited)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960) as Algonquian Audience Member (uncredited)
Twelve Hours to Kill (1960) as News Vendor at Chauffeur Depot (uncredited)
Who Was That Lady? (1960) as Tattoo Artist (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind (1960) as Townsman (uncredited)
Studs Lonigan (1960) as Vendor (uncredited)
Pepe (1960) as Coast Patron
One-Eyed Jacks (1961) as Townsman (uncredited)
Master of the World (1961) as Bloke at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)
The Strata Man (1961)
Homicidal (1961) as Eddie blue blood the gentry Bellhop (uncredited)
The Errand Boy (1961) chimp 'Snub' (uncredited)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) orang-utan Knuckles (uncredited)
Twist Around the Clock (1961) as Twist Dancer in Alpine Peaks (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)

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