{"id":7138,"date":"2019-11-23T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2019-11-23T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:45:18","slug":"oscar-nominated-bonnie-and-clyde-actor-michael-j-pollard-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/23\/oscar-nominated-bonnie-and-clyde-actor-michael-j-pollard-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Nominated &#8220;Bonnie and Clyde&#8221; Actor Michael J. Pollard Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7131\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-star-trek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-star-trek.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-star-trek-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-star-trek-560x285.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-star-trek-260x132.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-star-trek-160x81.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The death of actor <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33ddzRn\">Michael J. Pollard<\/a> was confirmed by director Rob Zombie, who mourned the actor on Facebook. Zombie and Pollard worked together on the director\u2019s 2003 cult horror movie <em>House of 1000 Corpses<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The late actor was best known for his performance as C.W. Moss in <em>Bonnie and Clyde<\/em> opposite Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. His character was based on the real-life W.D. Jones, who served as an accomplice to the infamous outlaws.<\/p><div id=\"morty-982074555\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pollard was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He was the son of Sonia V. (n\u00e9e Dubanowich) and Michael John Pollack, a bar manager. His parents were both of Polish descent. His mother was born in New York and his father was born in New Jersey. Pollard&#8217;s father supported his wife and Michael Jr. by working 60 hours a week as a bartender at O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s Tap Room. Pollard attended Montclair Academy and Actors Studio in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard was once married to actress Beth Howland, with whom he had a daughter.<\/p>\n<h3>Early career<\/h3>\n<p>Pollard had his earliest screen roles in television, with multiple appearances in programs broadcast during 1959. He had two roles in episodes of <em>Alfred Hitchcock Presents<\/em>: &#8220;Appointment at Eleven&#8221;, a minor part as a shoeshine boy and as Herpetologist H. Eidelpfeiffer in &#8220;Anniversary Gift&#8221;. Pollard also portrayed Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead, in a television adaptation of William Saroyan&#8217;s novel <em>The Human Comedy<\/em>, narrated by Burgess Meredith, and broadcast as an episode of the DuPont Show of the Month. That same year Pollard appeared in David Hedison&#8217;s 16-segment NBC espionage TV series <em>Five Fingers<\/em> in the episode &#8220;The Unknown Town&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same year, Pollard appeared in episode five of CBS&#8217;s <em>The Many Loves of Dobie<\/em> Gillis as Jerome Krebs, the first cousin of Maynard G. Krebs, played by Bob Denver, who in real life had been drafted into the United States Army. Pollard&#8217;s character was to have been a replacement for Maynard but disappeared when Denver was classified 4-F and was able to return to the series.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2309442840\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pollard created the non-singing role of Hugo Peabody in the original Broadway production of <em>Bye Bye Birdie<\/em>. In 1962, Pollard appeared in the short-lived Robert Young comedy\/drama series <em>Window on Main Street<\/em> in the episode &#8220;The Boy Who Got Too Many Laughs&#8221;. That same year he was cast in the role of Virgil, Deputy Barney Fife&#8217;s socially awkward but talented cousin, on CBS&#8217;s <em>The Andy Griffith Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7134 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-560x381.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-260x177.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country-160x109.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-sunday-in-the-country.jpg 1263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 1963, he appeared on an episode of ABC&#8217;s <em>Channing<\/em>, a drama about college life starring Jason Evers and Henry Jones. That same year Pollard played the role of Digby Popham in the Walt Disney family musical <em>Summer Magic<\/em>, opposite Hayley Mills. He was cast too as Danny Larkin in the 1963 episode &#8220;Tell Me When You Get to Heaven&#8221; of the ABC drama, <em>Going My Way<\/em>, starring Gene Kelly as a Roman Catholic priest in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard played the role of Cyrus in a 1964 episode of the CBS western series, <em>Gunsmoke<\/em>, one titled &#8220;Journey for Three&#8221;. That year he also appeared as Ted Mooney, son of Mr. Mooney, on <em>The Lucy Show<\/em>. In 1965, he played the role of &#8220;Jingles&#8221; in the episode &#8220;The Princess and the Paupers&#8221; on the ABC crime drama, <em>Honey West<\/em>, starring Anne Francis.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966, he portrayed Bernie in another NBC espionage series, <em>I Spy<\/em>, in the episode &#8220;Trial by Treehouse&#8221; (October 19, 1966), alongside series stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp with other guest stars Cicely Tyson and Raymond St. Jacques. Also in 1966, Pollard played the (uncredited) role of Stanley, the runny-nosed airplane mechanic, in <em>The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard was known for his short stature, which allowed him to play youthful roles well into his twenties. One such role was in the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> series as the teenage-leader of an all-child planet in the episode &#8220;Miri&#8221; (1966).<\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Pollard is smarmily effective as, in essence, a cult leader for the kids, and the kids themselves manage a perfect blend of creepy, scary, and silly. The cry of \u201cbonk-bonk on the head\u201d is amusing right up until twenty kids pile onto Kirk and he emerges with blood seeping down the sides of his head.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared in a first season episode of Irwin Allen&#8217;s <em>Lost In Space<\/em> as a nameless Peter Pan-like boy who lives in the dimension behind all mirrors (&#8220;The Magic Mirror&#8221;).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7135\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7135 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-560x416.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-260x193.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde-160x119.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-bonnie-and-clyde.jpg 1193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J Pollard as C. W. Moss in Arthur Penn&#8217;s <em>Bonnie and Clyde<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1967, he played the supporting role of C. W. Moss in Arthur Penn&#8217;s <em>Bonnie and Clyde<\/em>, alongside Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. The role led to his joke candidacy in 1968 for President of the United States, complete with a campaign song: &#8220;Michael J. Pollard for President&#8221;, recorded by DJ and recording artist Jim Lowe, best known for the 1950s hit &#8220;The Green Door&#8221;. (The record features Pollard himself, asking, &#8220;Hey, man&#8230; president of what&#8230;?&#8221; and a snippet from real candidate Robert Kennedy; Kennedy was assassinated soon after the disc came out, which led many radio stations to refuse to play it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7136 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-560x666.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-260x309.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-160x190.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>Also in 1967, Pollard played the lead role in Derek May&#8217;s short drama, <em>Niagara Falls<\/em>. Later that year, he was once again singled out for praise in Carl Reiner&#8217;s autobiographical comedy Enter Laughing; noted film critic Roger Ebert wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael J. Pollard, an unknown before his fascinating entry in Bonnie and Clyde, brings his squint and grin to the part of Marvin, our hero&#8217;s buddy, and steals every scene. There is something about Pollard that is absolutely original and seems to strike audiences as irresistibly funny and deserving of affection. If he works at it and gets a break or two, there will be no stopping him. Really. All he needs is visibility, and people will become addicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 1969, he played the supporting role of an escaped American POW, &#8220;Packy&#8221;, in the British World War II-themed comedy, <em>Hannibal Brooks<\/em>, directed by Michael Winner.<\/p>\n<h3>1970s\u20132019<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7137\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7137 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy-560x369.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy-260x171.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-little-fauss-and-big-halsy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J. Pollard as Little Fauss in <em>Little Fauss and Big Halsy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1970, Pollard had a starring role as Little Fauss in the cult motorcycle racing movie, Little Fauss and Big Halsy with Robert Redford, Noah Beery Jr., Lucille Benson, and Lauren Hutton.<br \/>\nPollard starred in <em>Dirty Little Billy<\/em> (1972), a revisionist biography of Billy the Kid at the beginning of his criminal career, set in Coffeyville, Kansas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7132 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-560x386.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-260x179.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1-160x110.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-1.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is no typical, Tinseltown western though. It&#8217;s more like The Making of a Sociopath, with Michael J. Pollard starring as displaced, 17-year-old Billy Bonney, in the days leading up to his evolution into the notorious Billy the Kid &#8230; this is the perfect role for Pollard. And though a little old to play a teenager (he was 33), he hands us a Billy who&#8217;s perpetually victimized by bad luck, until he finally blows a gasket at the very end and sparks his future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7133\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7133 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne-560x678.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne-260x315.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne-160x194.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/michael-j-pollard-roxanne.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J. Pollard as Andy in the Columbia pictures feature, <em>Roxanne<\/em> (1987)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1974, he played the role of a young man dying of cancer, in the season one opening episode, &#8220;The Time of His Life&#8221;, of the trucking TV series <em>Movin&#8217; On<\/em>. He later had a key supporting role in the 1980 cult film Melvin and Howard about the Melvin Dummar-Howard Hughes Mormon Will controversy. Pollard also starred in 6 episodes of the failed CBS comedy series <em>Leo &amp; Liz in Beverly Hills<\/em> (1986) with Harvey Korman and Valerie Perrine.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, Pollard played the role of an inquisitive volunteer firefighter, Andy, in the film <em>Roxanne<\/em>, starring Steve Martin. The following year Pollard played the role of Herman (the homeless man who thought Bill Murray was Richard Burton) in the popular holiday movie<em> Scrooged<\/em>. Also in 1988, Pollard played a villain in the horror film, <em>American Gothic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, Pollard had a minor role in <em>Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland<\/em> and a larger role (as the inventor of super weapons and a super car) in <em>Tango &amp; Cash<\/em>, which also starred Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone. Also in 1989, he had a two-episode role as the fifth-dimensional imp-villain Mr. Mxyzptlk in the <em>Superboy<\/em> TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard played Bug Bailey in the popular 1990 film <em>Dick Tracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, he starred in a sixth-season episode of<em> Ray Bradbury Theater<\/em>, The Handler, in which he portrayed a mortician who tried to give his clients a little extra treatment that he thought they should have. In 1993, he appeared in the horror film <em>Skeeter<\/em>. In 1997, he played the role of Aeolus in The Odyssey starring Armand Assante.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard continued to work in film and television into the 21st century, including his appearance as &#8220;Stucky&#8221; in the 2003 Rob Zombie-directed cult classic <em>House of 1000 Corpses<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of actor Michael J. Pollard was confirmed by director Rob Zombie, who mourned the actor on Facebook. Zombie and Pollard worked together on the director\u2019s 2003 cult horror movie House of 1000 Corpses. The late actor was best known for his performance as C.W. 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