familiar mustache in his later years, he landed much steadier work in films as a mostly uncredited bit player. He played incidental roles in scores of Hollywood features and shorts, almost always as a mousy, nondescript fellow, usually with no dialogue. In Wheeler & Woolsey's Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934), he played a drunken doctor and at the end of Miracle on 34th Street (1947), when a squad of bailiffs hauling sacks of mail enters the courtroom, Pollard brings up the rear. In Singin' in the Rain, he receives the umbrella of Gene Kelly after his famous "Singin' in the Rain" scene. In Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Pollard plays a Broadway beggar. His last film, Twist Around the Clock (1962), shows him wordlessly reacting to a curvaceous woman dancing energetically. Death and recognition Pollard died of cancer on 19 January 1962, aged 72, after nearly 50 years in the movie business. His interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). For his contributions to motion pictures, Pollard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard. Selected filmography Sally Scraggs: Housemaid (1913, Short) as Butler A Coat Tale (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard) By the Sea (1915, Short) as Ice Cream Clerk (uncredited) His Regeneration (1915, Short) as Extra (uncredited) Giving Them Fits (1915, Short) as Luke's Co-Worker (as Harry Pollard) Bughouse Bellhops (1915, Short) as Moke Morpheus (as Harry Pollard) Tinkering with Trouble (1915, Short) as Sourball Joe (as Harry Pollard) Great While It Lasted (1915, Short) as Hugo Snubb Ragtime Snap Shots (1915, Short) as Snub Larkin (as Harry Pollard) A Foozle at the Tee Party (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard) Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard) Peculiar Patients' Pranks (1915, Short) (as Harry Pollard) Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster (1915, Short) as Tin-Horn Tommy (as Harry Pollard) Police (1916, Short) as First Flophouse Customer (uncredited) Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary (1916, Short) Luke Lugs Luggage (1916, Short) Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury (1916, Short) Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916, Short) Luke Foils the Villain (1916, Short) Luke and the Rural Roughnecks (1916, Short) Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916, Short) Lonesome Luke, Circus King (1916, Short) Luke's Double (1916, Short) Them Was the Happy Days! (1916, Short) Luke and the Bomb Throwers (1916, Short) Luke's Late Lunchers (1916, Short) Luke Laughs Last (1916, Short) Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916, Short) Luke's