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- Category: Motion pictures
- Star rank: 1711
- Address:
6435 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
- GPS location:
34.101725, -118.330134
Snub Pollard
Biography
Snub Pollard collector’s card
Source: things-and-other-stuff.com
Harry “Snub” Pollard (November 9, 1889 – January 19, 1962) was a silent movie comedian, popular in the 1920s. He is often described as the brother of comedy actress Daphne Pollard, but this is a misconception. In Australia they both acted with “Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Co.” which gave stage performances featuring children and performers of small stature. This was a very well-known troupe in its time, and many of its performers adopted the surname “Pollard.” Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd. 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.
Fact file
- Born: Harold Fraser 9 November 1889 Melbourne, Australia
- Died: 19 January 1962 (aged 72) Burbank, California, U.S.
- Occupation: Actor, comedian
- Years active: 1915–1962
Read more about Snub Pollard at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Cahuenga and Wilcox
Nearby you will also find Fanny Brice, Bert Lytell, and many others.