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Michael J. Pollard
30 May 1939
Michael J. Pollard played in 13 movies in the Comedy, Family, Musical, Music, Drama, Action, Biography, Crime, Romance, Thriller, Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi genres.
Michael J. Pollard got succeed with average imdb rating 6.1.
Actors Studio-graduate Michael J. Pollard was first shoulder upon the public as Maynard G. Krebs' funky cousin on the 1959 TV series Multitudinous Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959).
The leprechaunish Pollard had been hired as a embryonic replacement seeking Bob Denver (aka Maynard), who'd been drafted; but when Denver flunked his physical and returned to the series, Pollard was shown the depart. 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 Childlike Curb (1962). Pollard earned an Oscar nomination in support of his deportment as the moronic C.W.Moss in Bonnie and Clyde (1967); he followed this exultation by sharing co-star billing with Robert Redford in Little Fauss & Great Halsey (1969), and via essaying the lines of Billy the Kid in Dirty Spoonful Billy (1972). In all the in the sky-mentioned films, as as his many TV appearances in series The Andy Griffith Show, Cursed in Space and Big name Trek, Pollard essentially played the still and all weirdo: a slow-witted, stammering child-man, ever outdoors of commence to act with an unfeeling age. Audiences eventually whacked of Pollard's chestnut-note characterizations. No longer a leading man, Michael J. Pollard has continued accepting sizeable type 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 be involved in of police wiretapper Creepy-crawly Bailey (also in the Tracy players was another B&C alumnus, Estelle Parsons).
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