Michael J. Pollard

On stage 5 productions, 10 years

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Worked with more than once1 names

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Also credited on1 work

Bonnie and Clyde

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In the literature3 passages

• Michael J. Pollard was a sweetheart, though on matinee days he went out between shows and got a little tipsy, and invariably, not long before the second show, I’d hear a knock on my dressing room door, and there would be Michael, his smile just a little off, his eyes glazed, wanting to know what was going on. I didn’t even have to ask. I…ebooks/Dyke, Dick Van/My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business_ A Memoir - Dick Van Dyke.txt
• Cast: Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Paul Lynde, Dick Gautier, Michael J. Pollard, Susan Watson, Charles Nelson Reillyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• = ALAN MOWBRAY, VIVIAN BLAINE, BARBARA DANA, MICHAEL J. POLLARD, ALAN ARKIN, SYLVIA SIDNEY, MARTY GREENE in “ENTER LAUGHING”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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What this page does not know

• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.