MICHAEL J. POLLARD BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Michael J. Pollard was born on May 30th, 1939 in Passaic, New Jersey with the birth name Michael John Pollack Jr. born to Sonia and Michael John Pollack.  He received his education at Montclair Academy and later at the Actors Studio.
 
His career as an actor began working on television appearing on such series as, "The Dupont Show of the Month", "Lux Playhouse", "Five Fingers" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (all 1959).  
 
Along with working on television he also did a number of stage performances such as in the play, "Bye Bye Birdie".  As his career progressed he added a number of other television credits to his resume such as, "The Andy Griffith Show", "Route 66", "Going My Way", "The Lucy Show", "Gunsmoke", "Lost in Space", "Mr. Novak", "Honey West", "I Spy", "Cimarron Strip", "The Fall Guy" and "Leo and Liz in Beverly Hills".
 
Pollard has also graced the big screen in such feature films as, "Summer Magic" (1963), "Caprice" (1967), "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, "Hannibal Brooks" (1969), "Between the Lines" (1977), "The American Way" (1986), "Roxanne" (1987), "Night Visitor" (1989), "Tango and Cash" (1989) and "Dark Angel" (1990).
 
Michael J. Pollard married in 1961 to Beth Howland and they had one child before the marriage ended in divorce.  He has not re-married again and remains working in the industry with more recent roles being on the television series, "Jack and Jill", "Becker" and the films "Forever Lulu" (2000), "House of 1000 Corpses" (2003), "Sunburnt Angels" (2011) and soon to release, "The Woods" and "The Next Cassavetes" (2012).

Filmography

2012   The Next Cassavetes

2012   The Woods 

2011   Sunburnt Angels 

2003   House of 1000 Corpses 

2002   Backflash

2001   Out of the Black 

2000   Forever Lulu 

2000   Jack & Jill

2000   Danny and Max 

1999   Becker

1999   The Debtors 

1999   Tumbleweeds

1998   L.A. Doctors 

1998   The Unknown Cyclist

1998   Merchants of Venus

1997   Stir 

1997   The Odyssey

1996   Mad Dog Time 

1995   Wings 

1993   Tales from the Crypt 

1993   Skeeter 

1993   Blossom 

1993   Arizona Dream 

1992   The Ray Bradbury Theater

1992   Split Second

1992   Eerie, Indiana

1991   Motorama

1991   Another You

1991   Joey Takes a Cab

1991   Guns of Paradise

1991   The Art of Dying

1991   The Arrival

1991   Heartstopper 

1991   The Toxic Crusaders 

1990   Working Tra$h 

1990   Dick Tracy 

1990   Enid Is Sleeping 

1990   Nasty Boys

1990   The Young Riders

1990   Dark Angel 

1990   Why Me? 

1989   Tango & Cash 

1989   The Adventures of Superboy
 
1989   Next of Kin

1989   Stuck with Each Other

1989   Season of Fear

1989   Night Visitor

1989   Fast Food

1989   Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland 

1988   Scrooged 

1988   Crime Story 

1988   American Gothic 

1987   Roxanne 

1987   Paul Reiser Out on a Whim 

1986   America

1986   The Patriot 

1986   Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills 

1986   The American Way

1986   Simon & Simon

1985   George Burns Comedy Week 

1985   Heated Vengeance 

1984   The Fall Guy

1983   Candy the Stripper

1980   Melvin and Howard 

1977   Between the Lines

1975   Four of the Apocalypse 

1974   Get Christie Love! 

1974   Sunday in the Country 

1974   Movin' On 

1972   Dirty Little Billy

1972   Morbidness

1971   Frenchie King 

1970   Little Fauss and Big Halsy 

1969   Hannibal Brooks 

1968   The Smugglers 

1968   Jigsaw 

1967   Cimarron Strip 

1967   Bonnie and Clyde

1967   Caprice 

1967   The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. 

1967   Enter Laughing

1966   Star Trek 

1966   I Spy 

1966   The Wild Angels 

1966   The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming 

1966   The Virginian 

1966   Lost in Space 

1965   Honey West

1965   Mr. Novak

1965   The Baileys of Balboa

1964   Gunsmoke 

1964   Channing 

1964   The Lucy Show 

1963   Route 66 

1963   Summer Magic 

1963   The Stripper 

1963   The Doctors and the Nurses 

1963   Going My Way 

1962   Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

1962   The Andy Griffith Show

1962   Henry Fonda and the Family

1962   Window on Main Street

1960   Startime

1959   The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis 

1959   Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1959   Five Fingers

1959   It Happened to Jane

1959   Lux Playhouse

1959   The DuPont Show of the Month