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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 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. Born : 8th-Nov-1889

Movie Credits

Ex-Flame

A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
Released : 19th-Nov-1930

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Belle Starr's Daughter

The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
Released : 13th-Nov-1948

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The Fast and the Furious

A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.
Released : 1st-Nov-1954

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State Fair

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
Released : 29th-Aug-1945

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Stars in My Crown

Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
Released : 11th-May-1950

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Arizona Days

Tex and sidekick Grass join McGill's traveling show. When Price has McGill's wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay. Business doesn´t go as plan.
Released : 30th-Jan-1937

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Mr. Celebrity

A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
Released : 10th-Oct-1941

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The Sound of Laughter

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Released : 17th-Dec-1963

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Framed

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Released : 25th-May-1947

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His Wedding Scare

El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
Released : 15th-Jan-1943

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Song of the Buckaroo

An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go straight.
Released : 7th-Dec-1938

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Santa Fe Rides

The Transcontinental Broadcasting Company sends a sound truck and equipment to a ranch to obtain an audition from "Santa Fe" Evans and his musical cowboys (Oscar Gahan, Lloyd Perryman, Robert "Curley" Hoag, Rudy Sooter and Sherry Tansey.) Carver, arch enemy of Evans and a rival for the love of Carol Sheldon, fails in an attempt to spoil the audition. Carver frames Mr. Sheldon and Carol's brother Buddy on a charge, by Al Jensen, of receiving cattle stolen from him by Evans. Carver blames Evans for all of the Sheldon's troubles and, what with one thing or another, it looks like Evans and his cowhands will miss the big broadcast.
Released : 25th-Feb-1937

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Raise the Rent

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an improvised tent.
Released : 22nd-Feb-1920

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Bowery at Midnight

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Released : 30th-Oct-1942

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A Countless Count

The daughter and sweetheart are in love, but their affairs move anything but smoothly, because the father has other ideas for his daughter's marriage.
Released : 1st-Jul-1915

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House of Strangers

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
Released : 1st-Jul-1949

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Valley of Fire

An outcast gambler hijacks a wagon train of eligible women taken west by a mayor.
Released : 20th-Nov-1951

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Newly Rich

Newly Rich is a silent comedy short
Released : 10th-Dec-1922

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Don't Rock the Boat

Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair stranded on a nearby island where comic situations ensue.
Released : 4th-Jul-1920

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His Best Girl

His Best Girl is a silent film comedy
Released : 27th-Feb-1921

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Blue Sunday

Blue Sunday is a silent film comedy
Released : 5th-Jun-1921

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The Hustler

The Hustler silent movie
Released : 4th-Dec-1921

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In the Movies

In the Movies is a silent comedy short
Released : 28th-May-1922

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The Stone Age

The Stone Age is a silent comedy short
Released : 6th-Aug-1922

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Jack Frost

Jack Frost is a silent comedy short
Released : 22nd-Jul-1923

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Goofs and Saddles

Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General "Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise themselves as gamblers and get into a card game with the villain, but must flee when their identities are discovered. They hole up in a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
Released : 2nd-Jul-1937

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Gents in a Jam

Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of the bucks once again.
Released : 4th-Jul-1952

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Conquest of Cochise

A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
Released : 1st-Sep-1953

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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
Released : 17th-Apr-1936

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The Oregon Trail

In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sending in soldiers disguised as settlers in order to strengthen American claims to the Territory.
Released : 31st-Aug-1959

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The Old West

Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Autry in an effort to clean up the town of Sadderlock.
Released : 29th-Sep-1952

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Stand by for Action

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Released : 31st-Dec-1942

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The Man with the Golden Arm

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Released : 26th-Dec-1955

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The Drunkard

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1935

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Clancy Street Boys

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
Released : 23rd-Apr-1943

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Thick and Thin

Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food.
Released : 29th-Apr-1928

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The Big Shot

Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.
Released : 30th-Apr-1929

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All Wet

In this film, Snub leaves his extremely tiny town to go live with his aunt, who he doesn't even know. He arrives at her house when she's throwing a party and she doesn't want to invite him inside...until she learns he owns an oil well. Then she encourages him to meet and become smitten with her daughter. However, Snub isn't that interested in this vamp and instead is interested in the maid. But due to their persistence, Snub finally agrees to marry the cousin--at which point the maid hatches a plan to expose the ruse and a silent comedy chase ensues.
Released : 21st-Dec-1926

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Phony Express

Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
Released : 18th-Nov-1943

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Luke and the Bomb Throwers

Luke is trapped and bound by a group of terrorists.
Released : 8th-May-1916

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Luke Foils the Villain

Luke's courting of Maizie Nut is interrupted by a villain.
Released : 14th-Feb-1916

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Fresh from the Farm

Farm youth goes to college, pursues the pretty co-eds and joins a fraternity.
Released : 4th-Oct-1915

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It's a Gift

A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.
Released : 13th-Oct-1923

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Riders of the Rockies

Tex and his pals join the Rangers to fight rustlers along the border. When Doc and Pee Wee get framed for rustling and then jailed, Tex deserts the Rangers, crosses the border, and joins up with the outlaw gang hoping somehow to clear his pals.
Released : 2nd-Jul-1937

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Vitamin 'U' for Me

Dr. Whoozis' vitamin and exercise routine turn young girls into super-charged pin-up models
Released : 2nd-Feb-1942

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Wanted - $5,000

Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.
Released : 12th-Jan-1919

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The Yokel

Snub comes to town with his pet duck where people think that he has struck oil at home, and so is briefly pursued by the young women, before settling on Thelma Daniels.
Released : 21st-Oct-1926

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The Doughboy

The film begins with Snub going off to war in WWI. He manages to get lost behind enemy lines and spends most of the movie hiding or just barely escaping encounter after encounter with German soldiers.
Released : 21st-Sep-1926

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Mitt The Prince

The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made for the Weiss Brothers) want to make a few bucks. The film begins with them doing some maintenance sort of work--with Fat on a ladder and Snub sweeping outside. When this doesn't work out, a random stranger just happens to walk up to them and offer them HIS MOTHER'S CAR and asks them to make a delivery.
Released : 28th-Apr-1927

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Double Trouble

"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord.
Released : 28th-Apr-1927

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The Big Idea

Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned.
Released : 12th-Jan-1924

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TV Credits

Racket Squad

- Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
Released : 7th-Jun-1951

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Public Defender

- The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
Released : 11th-Mar-1954

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Bar Patron (uncredited) - A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1955

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