Harold Fraser (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962), known professionally as Snub Pollard, was an Australian-born vaudevillian who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.
Career
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Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 November 1889, young Harry Fraser began performing with Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company. The company ran several highly successful professional children's troupes that traveled Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Like many of the actors in the popular juvenile company -- among them Daphne Trott -- Fraser adopted Pollard as his stage name. In 1908, Harry Pollard joined the company tour to North America. After the completion of the tour, he returned to the United States.[1] 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.[2] In later years, Pollard said Hal Roach had discovered him while he was performing on stage in Los Angeles.[3]
Pollard and Bebe Daniels 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. When Lloyd advanced to feature films, Lloyd's producer Hal Roach conferred Lloyd's short-subject series to Pollard. The most famous Snub Pollard comedy 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 theaters to speak about the motion picture business.[1]
Pollard's contract lapsed in 1925 and Roach did not renew it. (Roach continued to release new Pollard comedies and reprints of old ones into 1926.) Pollard turned to the vaudeville stage for employment, and embarked on a 12-month tour of personal appearances.[4]
Pollard returned to motion pictures when he was signed by the low-budget Weiss Brothers-Artclass studio in May 1926.[5] Weiss allowed Pollard to complete his vaudeville commitment. Motion Picture World reported that Pollard "will continue his two-a-day performances in between the new series of comedies to be produced, in order that his newly gained vaudeville popularity may be made effective for his forthcoming films."[6] Pollard was the first star name to make comedies for Weiss; the studio's other series were all based on comic characters (Winnie Winkle, Hairbreadth Harry, Izzie and Lizzie) and the performers' names were not promoted.
Pollard's first two-reelers for Weiss were solo vehicles, but he was soon teamed with Mack Sennett "fat" comic Marvin Loback as a poor man's version of Laurel and Hardy. The "Snub and Fat" characters copied the plots and gags of "Stan and Ollie". Despite the inevitable comparisons, the silent-comedy series was successful within its smaller market and ran for three years. The series finale, Sock and Run, was released in December 1929. Pollard and Loback were never billed as a team; Pollard was always the headliner, and Loback led the supporting cast.
The new talking pictures were a challenge for many silent stars, but Pollard 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 film a new series of 10 talking two-reelers at the Lee DeForestPhonofilm studio.[7] Two shorts were completed -- Here We Are (1929) and Pipe Down (1929) -- before the stock market crash of October 1929 halted further production. Pipe Down was received poorly; Variety called it "third-rate vaude stuff trying to pass off as film comedy."[8] The review noted that most of the action took place on a single interior set, reflecting the limited space of the DeForest studio.
The Weiss Bros. suspended production indefinitely and Pollard was again unemployed. In the wake of the crash, he announced plans for a series of talking comedies to be produced independently, at the Metropolitan Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey.[9] The plans fell through and Pollard returned to California, in hopes of landing work in feature films as a character comic. His first talking feature was Ex-Flame (1930) for the independent Liberty Pictures.[10]
In the 1930s, Pollard said the Great Depression wiped out his investments and he could not adjust to the talkies.[3] He played small speaking parts in comedies and comic relief in "B"westerns. Pollard remarried in 1935, to the former Ruth Bridges; the couple divorced in 1939.
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 dozens of Hollywood features and shorts, almost always as a mousy, nondescript fellow, usually with no dialogue. In Wheeler & Woolsey's Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934), he plays a drunken doctor; at the end of Miracle on 34th Street (1947), when a squad of bailiffs hauling sacks of mail enters the courtroom, Pollard brings up the rear. In Singin' in the Rain, he receives the umbrella of Gene Kelly after his famous "Singin' in the Rain" scene. In Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Pollard plays a Broadway beggar. Twist Around the Clock (1961) shows him reacting wordlessly to a curvaceous woman dancing energetically. His last picture was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (filmed in 1961; released 1962).
Harold Lloyd (center) early in his career with Pollard (lower left) and Bebe Daniels
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