Michael J. Pollard

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Michael J. Pollard , actually Michael John Pollack (born May 30, 1939 in Passaic , New Jersey , † November 20, 2019 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film actor .

Life

Michael Pollard was born in 1939 to Michael John Pollack and his wife Sonia Dubanowich-Pollack and trained first at Montclair State University and later at The Actors Studio . At the age of twenty, Pollard first appeared in the theater television program The DuPont Show of the Month in 1959 ; he continued his career initially as a guest actor in television series.

Due to his small height of 168 centimeters as an adult, but also because of his youthful face, he was offered youth roles, especially at the beginning of his career. The best-known example of this was the episode Miri, produced in 1966 , a small thing from the Spaceship Enterprise series . Here Pollard, at that time already 27 years old, played a 14-year-old boy according to the script.

After working mainly in television until the late 1960s, he took on more roles in cinema and feature films from the early 1970s. In 1967, Pollard starred as gang member CW Moss in Bonnie and Clyde , one of his best-known feature films, and was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Supporting Actor in 1968 . He was mostly used as a supporting actor , but also played several leading roles around 1970, for example with Robert Redford in the motorcyclist film Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) and in the title role of Billy the Kid in the revisionist western Dirty Little Billy (1972). Pollard, who was mainly seen in independent films, played in over 100 film and television productions until 2012.

Michael J. Pollard was married to the American actress Beth Howland from 1961 until the divorce in 1969 ; the two have a daughter together. He died of cardiac arrest on November 20, 2019 at the age of 80.

Others

The American actor Michael J. Fox named him the letter J from Michael J's name in his honor . Pollard taken over.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Squires: [RIP] Oscar Nominated 'House of 1000 Corpses' Actor Michael J. Pollard Has Passed Away. In: Bloody Disgusting. November 22, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rhett Bartlett: Michael J. Pollard, Oscar-Nominated Actor in 'Bonnie and Clyde', Dies at 80. In: The Hollywood Reporter. November 22, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pollard, Michael J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollack, Michael John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Passaic , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2019
Place of death Los Angeles , California