Michael J Pollard

The stage-trained New Jersey native racked up numerous credits on and off Broadway from his 1958 debut in "Comes a Day", including "A Loss of Roses" (1959), co-starring Warren Beatty, the musical "Bye Bye Birdie" (1960), "Enter Laughing" (1963), as the oddball friend of the leading character, a role he recreated in the 1967 feature version, and Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class" (1978).

Pollard entered films with Martin Ritt's …