
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.

雨に唄えば

Pistols for Breakfast

365 Days

ライムライト

リバティ・バランスを射った男

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

風の遺産

三十四丁目の奇蹟

赤い河

ポケット一杯の幸福

拳銃王

歩道の終わる所

黄金の腕

Hail the Conquering Hero

アダム氏とマダム

血闘

胸に輝く星

Cheyenne

House of Strangers

One Good Turn

Stars in My Crown

Bashful

Bumping Into Broadway

The Country Girl

Johnny Belinda

Gents in a Jam

Stand by for Action

先生のお気に入り

Sister Kenny

Goofs and Saddles

It Happened Tomorrow

Hey There

Road to Utopia

片目のジャック

The Man from Colorado

Man of a Thousand Faces

Friendly Persuasion

Canyon Passage

From Hand to Mouth

State Fair

Park Row

Ask Father

The Purchase Price

Desperate

Framed

Casanova Brown

Just Neighbors

黄昏

Homicidal

Living It Up

Trail Street

Kid Dynamite

Police

Who Was That Lady?

Three Pests in a Mess

Pal Joey

The Crooked Way

Monkey Businessmen

パラダイン夫人の恋

The Perils of Pauline

Main Street Today

Edge of Darkness

The Earl of Chicago

Captain Kidd's Kids

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

Take a Chance

皆殺しのトランペット

It's a Gift

The Black Coin

The Dumb-Bell

Somewhere in Turkey

The Lady Gambles

The Girl in the Case

Partners in Time

The Green Cat

Jeanne Eagels

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

Strange Impersonation

Racket Squad

By the Sad Sea Waves

Over the Fence

Billy Blazes, Esq.

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

The Company She Keeps

空飛ぶ戦闘艦

Spring Fever

His Royal Slyness

Clancy Street Boys

Stingaree

Young Mr. Jazz

Sold at Auction!

I'm on My Way

The Payoff

Off the Trolley

Hollywood Cavalcade

The Big Idea

A Gasoline Wedding

雲流るるはてに

The Night Is Young

Loaded Pistols

Badman's Territory

Public Defender

The Marathon

Are Crooks Dishonest?

Rockin' in the Rockies

Boot Hill Bandits

A Woman's Secret

The Oregon Trail

The Doughboy

Fireman Save My Child

Next Aisle Over

Society Mugs

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Follow the Crowd

The Kid Rides Again

Kitty

A Sammy in Siberia

Phony Express

Look Out Below

Two-Gun Gussie

Cockeyed Cavaliers

The Road to Singapore

Clubs Are Trump

The City Slicker

The Dippy Dentist

Ring Up the Curtain

Never Touched Me!

The Hoodlum Saint

Conquest of Cochise

The Non-Stop Kid

A Jazzed Honeymoon

The Fast and the Furious

The Old West

The Crime Patrol

Bars of Hate

Hittin' the Trail

Count Your Change

The Laramie Kid

Utah Trail

Where the Buffalo Roam

Here Comes a Sailor

Fresh Paint

Run 'Em Ragged

Frontier Town

Luke Joins the Navy

On the Fire

Rainbow Island

Jungle Menace

Swing Your Partners

That's Him

Why Pick on Me?

Pipe the Whiskers

Sky Bandits

Rollin' Westward

Pinched

It's a Wild Life

Heap Big Chief

Look Pleasant, Please

Fifteen Minutes

Walk Softly, Stranger

The Rajah

All Lit Up

Do Me a Favor

Unknown Island

Thunder Mountain

Yankee Fakir

Bowery at Midnight

All Aboard

Luke's Movie Muddle

The Buster Keaton Story

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

Chop Suey & Co.

It Happened in Flatbush

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Booby Dupes

One More River

Waltz Me Around

Move On

Going! Going! Gone!

Pay Your Dues

Meet Me After the Show

Belle Starr's Daughter

Step Lively

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

Call for Mr. Caveman

Bliss

Ghosts on the Loose

The Rawhide Terror

His Regeneration

Back to the Woods

Arizona Days

Mr. Celebrity

Park Your Car

The Barefoot Mailman

Nation Aflame

Square Dance Jubilee

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

The Flirt

Confirm or Deny

Murder on the Yukon

Runaway Daughters

Riders of the Rockies

Sing Cowboy Sing

Call a Taxi!

The Sound of Laughter

Here Come the Girls

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

Ex-Flame

His Wedding Scare

Song of the Buckaroo

Santa Fe Rides

Valley of Fire

Newly Rich

Jack Frost

The Stone Age

The Drunkard

Luke and the Bomb Throwers

Luke Foils the Villain

Vitamin 'U' for Me

Wanted - $5,000

Double Trouble

The Big Idea

Just My Luck

Rollin' Plains

Courtship of Miles Sandwich

Dear Ol' Pal

Hit Him Again

The Gentleman from Louisiana

Si, Senor

Luke, Crystal Gazer

Birds of a Feather

Luke Locates the Loot

Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley

We Never Sleep

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

Whirl o' the West

Luke and the Bang-Tails

California or Bust

Luke, Rank Impersonator

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

Two Scrambled

Luke's Lost Lamb

Luke, Patient Provider

Love, Laughs and Lather

Luke's Speedy Club Life

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

Luke's Trolley Troubles

Luke and the Mermaids

Luke Does the Midway

From Laramie to London

An Ozark Romance

Sic 'Em, Towser

Luke Rides Roughshod

Headin' for the Rio Grande

Luke's Shattered Sleep

The Old Sea Dog

Giving Them Fits

Lure of the Wasteland

Jungle Terror

Defective Detectives

Luke, the Candy Cut-Up

Peculiar Patients' Pranks

Luke and the Rural Roughnecks

Lonesome Luke's Wild Women

Mesquite Buckaroo

Crack Your Heels

At the Old Stage Door

Nothing But Trouble

Just Dropped In

The Dutiful Dub

She Loves Me Not

Beat It

Swat the Crook

Back Trail

Starlight Over Texas

Girls Will Be Boys

Bride and Gloom

Grab the Ghost

Hot Off the Press

Join the Circus

Luke's Society Mixup

Bughouse Bellhops

Bees in His Bonnet

The Lamb

Tinkering with Trouble

Ragtime Snap Shots

Great While It Lasted

Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary

A Foozle at the Tee Party

Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster

Them Was the Happy Days!

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury

Luke Lugs Luggage

Lonesome Luke, Circus King

Luke Laughs Last

Luke's Late Lunchers

Luke's Fatal Flivver

Luke's Washful Waiting

Luke, the Chauffeur

Luke's Double

Luke Pipes the Pippins

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle

Luke's Busy Day

Luke's Lost Liberty

Lonesome Luke, Lawyer

Luke's Newsie Knockout

Luke's Preparedness Preparations

Luke, the Gladiator

Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon

Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire

Lonesome Luke, Plumber

Before Breakfast

Stop! Luke! Listen!

His Only Father

He Leads, Others Follow

Lonesome Luke, Mechanic

Soft Money

Fire!!

A Tough Winter

The Midnight Patrol

Classic Comedy Teams