Skip to main content
The Horror CodexBeta
HomeHarry 'Snub' Pollard
Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Actor·1889–1962·Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

6 horror credits

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.

Actor6 films

Homicidal

Homicidal

Eddie, Bellhop (Uncredited)

1961 3.5
Master of the World

Master of the World

Man at Balloon Society Meeting (uncredited)

1961 4.0
Unknown Island

Unknown Island

Extra in Dive, Pointing Out Tarnowski

1948
Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose

Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)

1943
Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight

Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)

1942
Grab the Ghost

Grab the Ghost

Husband

1920