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Michael J. Pollard

Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard
Born: May 30, 1939 in Passaic, New Jersey
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-'90s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Bonnie and Clyde, Melvin and Howard, Little Fauss and Big Halsy
First Major Screen Credit: The Andy Griffith Show: Cousin Virgil (1962)
23 Videos for Michael J. Pollard
House of 1000 Corpses (2002) Motorama (1991) Roxanne (1987)
Out of the Black (2001) Enid Is Sleeping (1990) The Patriot (1986)
Along for the Ride (2000) I Come in Peace (1990) Heated Vengeance (1984)
Tumbleweeds (1999) Why Me? (1990) Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Mad Dog Time (1996) Next of Kin (1989) The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! (1966)
Skeeter (1994) Tango & Cash (1989) The Wild Angels (1966)
Split Second (1992) The Night Visitor (1989) The Stripper (1963)
Another You (1991) Scrooged (1988)
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Biography:

Actors Studio-graduate Michael J. Pollard was first thrust upon the public as Maynard G. Krebs' funky cousin on the 1959 TV series Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959). The leprechaunish Pollard had been hired as a potential replacement for Bob Denver (aka Maynard), who'd been drafted; but when Denver flunked his physical and returned to the series, Pollard was shown the exit.

He went on to co-star in the 1961 musical Bye Bye Birdie (1961), then made his film debut in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962). Pollard earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as the moronic C.W.Moss in Bonnie and Clyde (1967); he followed this triumph by sharing co-star billing with Robert Redford in Little Fauss & Big Halsey (1969), and by essaying the role of Billy the Kid in Dirty Little Billy (1972).

In all the above-mentioned films, as well as his many TV appearances in series like The Andy Griffith Show, Lost in Space and Star Trek, Pollard essentially played the same character: a slow-witted, stammering child-man, ever out of step with an unfeeling world. Audiences eventually tired of Pollard's one-note characterizations.

No longer a star, Michael J. Pollard has continued accepting sizeable character roles in films, and was seen as Leonard the handyman in the 1986 TV sitcom Leo and Liz in Beverly Hills. In 1990, Michael J. Pollard was reunited with his Bonnie and Clyde co-star Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy, playing the amusing supporting part of police wiretapper Bug Bailey (also in the Tracy cast was another B&C alumnus, Estelle Parsons).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.