Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard, actually Michael John Pollack, (* May 30, 1939 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA) is an American film actor.
Life
Michael Pollard was born in 1939 as the son of Michael John Pollack and his wife Sonia Dubanowich Pollack, and received first at Montclair State University and later at The Actors Studio his education. At the age of 20 years, Pollard was in 1959 for the first time in the theater television show, The DuPont Show of the Month front of the camera, he continued his career initially continued as a guest star in TV series.
Due to its small body size of 168 centimeters as an adult, but also by his youthful face, his youth roles were offered especially at the beginning of his career. The most famous example of this was produced in 1966, the episode Miri, a small compact of the series Star Trek. Here embodied Pollard, at this time already 27 years old, according to the script until a 14 - year-old boy.
After he had worked primarily in television until the late 1960s, he took over from the beginning of the 1970s more roles in movies and feature films. 1967 was Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde in front of the camera, one of his most popular feature films, and was nominated for a 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Pollard, who was mostly seen in independent films, played to 2003 in over 100 movies; one of his last films was the 1997 produced two-parter The Adventures of Odysseus.
Michael J. Pollard was married from 1961 until their divorce in 1969, with the American actress Beth Howland; the two have a daughter.
Others
The U.S. actor Michael J. Fox has taken him to honor the letter J from the name of Michael J. Pollard.