Michael J. Pollard

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Michael J. Pollard (born Michael John Pollack Jr.; May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019) was an American character actor and comedian best known for his role as C.W. For the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Moss received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Personal life

Pollard was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and grew up in the nearby North Jersey towns of Garfield and Clifton. He was the son of Sonia V. (née Dubanowich) and Michael John Pollack, a bar manager. Both his parents were of Polish descent. His mother was born in New York and his father was born in New Jersey. Pollard's father supported his wife and Michael Jr. by working 60 hours a week at O'Rourke's Tap Room. Pollard attended Montclair Academy (now Montclair Kimberley Academy) and Actors Studio in New York.

Pollard was married to actress Beth Howland, with whom he had one daughter, Holly Howland. He had a son, Axel Emmett Pollard, from a second marriage to Annie Tolstoy.

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Career

Pollard made his first television appearances in television, with multiple appearances in programs broadcast during 1959. In "Anniversary Gift," he appeared in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Appointment at Eleven," a minor role as a shoehine boy and as her investigator Hansel Eidelpfeiffer. In a television version of William Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy, narrated by Burgess Meredith and broadcast as an episode of the DuPont Show of the Month, Pollard also portrayed Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead. In the episode "The Unknown Town," Pollard appeared in David Hedlson's 16-segment NBC espionage television series Five Fingers.

Pollard appeared in episode five of CBS' "Man of Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" as Jerome Krebs, the first cousin of Maynard G. Krebs, played by Bob Denver, who had been drafted into the United States Army in real life. Pollard's character was supposed to have been a substitute for Maynard, but she was unable to return to the series when Denver was classified 4-F.

Hugo Peabody, who was not singing in Bye Bye Birdie's original Broadway revival, was created by Pollard. Pollard appeared in the episode "The Boy Who Got Too Many Laughs" on Main Street in 1962. On CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, he appeared on Virgil, Deputy Barney Fife's socially awkward but talented cousin.

In 1963, he appeared on ABC's Channing, a drama about college life starring Jason Evers and Henry Jones. Pollard appeared in the Walt Disney family musical Summer Magic opposite Hayley Mills in that same year. In the 1963 episode "Tell Me When You Get to Heaven" of the ABC drama, Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly as a Roman Catholic priest in New York City, he was cast as Danny Larkin.

In a 1964 episode of CBS western series Gunsmoke titled "Journey for Three," Pollard played Cyrus. On The Lucy Show, Ted Mooney, uncle of Mr. Mooney, appeared as Ted Mooney this year. In 1965, he appeared in the ABC crime drama "The Princess and the Paupers" starring Anne Francis.

Pollard appeared in Bernie in the popular NBC spy film "I Spy" (1966), alongside series regulars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, and guest stars Cicely Tyson and Raymond St. Jacques. In 1966, Pollard played Stanley, the runny-nosed airplane mechanic, in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.

Pollard was known for his short stature, which enabled him to perform youthful roles well into his twenties. In the episode "Miri" (1966): One such role was played as the teenage king of an all-child planet.

He appeared in a first-season episode of Irwin Allen's Lost In Space as a nameless Peter Pan-like boy who lives in the dimension behind all mirrors ("The Magic Mirror").

C. W. Moss, a leading actor in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, was nominated for Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actor, as well as Estelle Parsons. In 1968, Jim Lowe, best known for the 1950s' hit "The Green Door," led to his joke campaign for President of the United States. "Hey, man... president of what?" Pollard says on the record. Robert F. Kennedy's snippet; Kennedy was assassinated shortly after the disc was released, prompting several radio stations not to air it.)

Pollard appeared in Derek May's short film Niagara Falls in 1967. He was once more lauded in Carl Reiner's autobiographical comedy Enter Laughing later this year; noted film critic Roger Ebert wrote:

In the British World War II-themed comedy Hannibal Brooks, directed by Michael Winner, he appeared in 1969 as the supporting role of an American POW, "Packy."

Pollard appeared in the 1970 film, Little Fauss, was directed by Robert Redford, Noah Beery Jr., Lucille Benson, and Lauren Hutton as Little Fauss.

Pollard appeared in Dirty Little Billy (1972), a retrofitted western depicting Billy the Kid at the start of his criminal life, which was set in Coffeyville, Kansas.

In the season one opener, "The Time of His Life," the trucking television series Movin' On, he appeared as a young man dying of cancer. Melvin and Howard, who later played a key supporting role in the Melvin Dummar-Howard Hughes Mormon Will controversy, died. Pollard appeared in six episodes of the failed CBS comedy series Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills (1986) with Harvey Korman and Valerie Perrine.

In the film Roxanne, starring Steve Martin, Pollard starred an inquisitive volunteer firefighter named Andy. Pollard starred in The following year, she was a teenager whose death greatly influences Bill Murray's character in the Christmas film Scrooged. Pollard appeared as a villain in the horror film American Gothic in 1988.

Pollard appeared in Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland and a bigger role (as the designer of super weapons and a supercar) in Tango & Cash, 1989, which also starred Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone. Mr. Mxyzptlk, the fifth-dimensional villain in the Superboy TV series, appeared in 1989.

In the 1990 film Dick Tracy, Pollard played Bug Bailey.

In 1992, he appeared in The Handler, a sixth-season series of Ray Bradbury Theater, in which he portrayed a mortician who wanted to offer his clients more care than they should have. He appeared in the horror film Skeeter in 1993. Armand Assante appeared in The Odyssey in 1997, and he appeared as Aeolus in the role.

Pollard continued to work in film and television into the 21st century, including his appearance in the 2003 Rob Zombie-directed cult classic House of 1000 Corpses.

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