Do you remember actor Michael J. Pollard?

There were a couple of threads about him when he died.

It always grossed me out when he kept wiping his nose in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. For some reason, I was always squeamish about him.

I saw him aimlessly walking around and sitting on a fire hydrant in near the New School in 1981. Maybe he was between classes or panhandling.

As a actor I thought he fugly and boring as hell.

I saw him on tv in a movie with Robert Redford and Lauren Hutton. Little Fauss And Big Halsy. It must have been back in the 90s when I saw it. I just remember this young gay guy being so taken by how hot Redford was in that movie. It turns out the movie was filmed in 1970, before I was even born.

^ one of the few movies where Redford didn't act with a stick up his ass.

Pollard was in an episode of Star Trek called 'Miri,' which I still catch occasionally. Also liked him in Bonnie and Clyde.

I don't think he won an Oscar for BONNIE & CLYDE. And he was the original 'Hugo' on Broadway in BYE BYE BIRDIE. No Bobby Rydell he.

R6 He was also in an episode of Lost In Space.

Was the little homosexual boy who worked on one of my films?

On one of his death threads there was a post that said he gave John C. Reilly the possibility of a career.

Pollard was married to Beth Howland, 1961-1969. I think they met while appearing in the original Broadway production of "Bye Bye Birdie."

Birdie

He was in an episode of "The Lucy Show" as Mr. Mooney's son. Let's say, sitcom acting was not his groove. It's like he was acting in a completely different show.

R11 What a strange pairing that was.

Very unflattering sweater in R12.

R7 You're right - he was nominated for Bonnie And Clyde (his only Oscar nomination) but didn't win.

"It always grossed me out when he kept wiping his nose in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming."

I thought he was hilarious in that movie. He was only in it for a few minutes but he made quite an impression. He was unique actor. Of course he would be, with those looks. I thought he was very talented, in that odd way of his.

R16 Hollywood really didn't know what to do with him which is why be became a character actor with hit and miss movies.

Beth Howland called him a deadbeat dad, that didn't give her any money nor any other kind of support when she raised their child alone.

Who?

Poor guy, he deserved Paul Giamatti's career.

He was unique actor.

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"Beth Howland called him a deadbeat dad, that didn't give her any money nor any other kind of support when she raised their child alone."

Well, what did she expect? Did she expect MICHAEL J. POLLARD to be a responsible, conscientious father? If she did, she must have been delusional. I don't think he ever tried to disguise what he was: a weird little guy who liked to party and hang out with rock stars. He was a buddy of Janis Joplin's and she was very hard core.

He had a bit part in a Doris Day movie called "Caprice".

Got left off of Oscar's "In Memoriam" segment.

There was a story about MJP leaping unto Jackie O's back at a cocktail part in NYC in the early 70's- had to wrestled off her

He kind of reminded me of Bud Cort -- the Harold & Maude actor. They both had really unusual faces and about the same amount of talent.

R25 That's shitty since he had once been nominated for their award.

He was cute. in that pixie way. Didn't else think he was cute? I could easily imagine picking him up one drunken night and bringing him home....

R29 Yes, he was cute in a pixie way but awfully weird. Maybe good for a one night stand.

Anyway who knows about movies would know who Michael J. Pollard was. He was one of the stars of "Bonnie and Clyde" and was quite memorable in it.

After C.W. ,Moss in Bonnie and Clyde, his best role is Herman in Sleepaway Camp 3 (1989). In my opinion, of course.

Great actor and I always found him oddly cute.

The Trek episode he did was one of the worst in the entire series, largely because of Pollard. Not even co-star Kim Darby could save that script.

He also played Barney's klutzy cousin Virgil on an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."

I saw him just an hour ago on a rerun of Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1959. He played a snake seller. There was a really nice twist at the end but I'm too tired to explain. Harry Morgan and Broadway's Barbara Baxley co-starred. All were excellent. What a great series that was.

MJP was great in Bonnie & Clyde.

In her memoir Miss Dunaway speaks of Pollard affectionately and says they had fun while filming 'Bonnie and Clyde". He did have a nothing role in one other great movie, "Melvin and Howard".

No one's mentioned Harold and Maude where MJP and Ruth Gordon have an affair It used to be a popular cult claaic.

[quote] MJP was great in Bonnie & Clyde.

Warren Beaty cleaned the story up a bit. In real life the third gang member Pollard represented was named Henry Methvin who was Ckyde's boytoy.

Not much to look at but much better than Pollard.

Bud Cort was a successful producer.

Bud Cort was a successful producer and i am an idiiot. Of course it was Bud Cort in Harold and Maude, not MJP.

I just watched him in a Hayley Mills movie the other night. It was "Summer Magic".

I just came here to post what r36 did. It was a fun episode and I have to admit MJP looked cute in his tortoise shell glasses and white t-shirt.

I always confused him with David Winters, who played A-rab in West Side Story and went on to become a choreographer. He also died last year.

"The Trek episode he did was one of the worst in the entire series, largely because of Pollard. Not even co-star Kim Darby could save that script."

Oh, come on. There were much worse Star Trek episodes. I thought "MIri" wasn't bad at all.

GRUP, GRUP, GRUP!!!

BOMP BOMP ON THE HEAD!

Grandfather to Vicky...

I knew him from 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek,' and found him repellent ever afterward, avoiding his films. But I was bothered by the fact that the Oscars failed to mention him during the 'In Memorium' section. They also passed over the other 'Trek' actor losses of this past year: Robert Walker Jr ('Charlie X'), Sid Haig ('Return of the Archons'), and Rene Auberjonois ('Deep Space Nine').

There were others in 2019, but these were the ones I noted in passing, and missed at the Oscars.

And MJP had been Oscar nominated...

Another good movie he was in - Roxanne with Steve Martin

r23

As long as he had a good reason..

Can you imagine how UGLY that child must be, with those two as parents.

LOVEY-DOVEY, BONK BONK!

He was a unique character actor. VERY unique. His looks really made him stand out, they were so odd.

It's inexplicable how Hollywood never cast Pollard in a big screen version of the magazine.

OP,,

Michael J. Pollard was nominated for the 1967 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in “Bonnie & Clyde”.

He did not win.

Nominees were: John Cassavetes, “The Dirty Dozen”; Gene Hackman, “Bonnie & Clyde”; Cecil Kellaway, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”; George Kennedy, “Cool Hand Luke”; and Michael J. Pollard, “Bonnie & Clyde”.

The winner was George Kennedy in “Cool Hand Luke”.

Following my post @ R56:

He was a horrible person, why are you complimenting him?

He always annoyed me...and no matter what part he was playing, it was the same as all the others.

"He was a horrible person, why are you complimenting him?"

What makes you say that? He had a lot of friends in Hollywood. He was an eccentric person, but I heard anything that would be just cause to call him "horrible."

Now we have Bonnie and Clyde living in the whitehouse.

Times have changed.

wasnt he in the movie sleepaway camp 3?

Yes, r62. He seemed to find something of a second career in the 80s and 90s doing low budget direct-to-video movies. He did another really bizarre one around the time of Sleepaway Camp 3 called American Gothic. Co-starring Rod Steiger and Yvonne DeCarlo, Pollard isn’t even the weirdest character in the movie.

[quote]What makes you say that? He had a lot of friends in Hollywood. He was an eccentric person, but I heard anything that would be just cause to call him "horrible."

Ah, he had a child and refused to support it financially or even see it. That makes him horrible.

"Ah, he had a child and refused to support it financially or even see it. That makes him horrible."

So it's said. But who knows how much truth there is to it. I don't put stock into everything that gets said.

He played Barney's ne'er-do-well cousin on an episode of [italic] The Andy Griffith Show [/italic].

[quote]That's shitty since he had once been nominated for their award.

Yes, it certainly was.

Pollard appeared in a first-season episode of "Dobie Gillis" as a cousin of Maynard G. Krebs after Bob Denver was drafted. Pollard was hired as a possible replacement character for Maynard, but he wasn't needed when Denver was classified 4-F.

Saturday, 4/25, 8pm. MoviesTV just started showing Bonnie and Clyde. It's one of those over-the-air digital subchannels (Channel 5.2 here in New York) but some cable systems carry it too. Check your local listings.