Michael J. Pollard Death
Michael passed away on November 21, 2019 at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Michael's cause of death was cardiac arrest.
When did Michael J. Pollard die?
November 21, 2019How did Michael J. Pollard die? What was the cause of death?
Cardiac arrestHow old was Michael J. Pollard when died?
80Where did Michael J. Pollard die? What was the location of death?
Los Angeles, California, USA
Michael J. Pollard Birthday and Date of Death
Michael J. Pollard was born on May 30, 1939 and died on November 21, 2019. Michael was 80 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: May 30, 1939
Date of Death: November 21, 2019
Age at Death: 80
Michael J. Pollard - Biography
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).
