Michael J. Pollard passes away

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Michael J. Pollard, scene-stealing actor in 'Bonnie and Clyde,' dies at 80

Michael J. Pollard, a scene-stealing character actor who earned an Oscar nomination for the landmark 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde," playing a getaway driver even though off-screen he never learned how to drive, died Nov. 20 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 80.

The cause was cardiac arrest, said a friend, Dawn Walker.

With a broad, cherubic face, dimpled chin, unruly hair and a charismatic presence described as "gnomelike," Pollard excelled at playing imps, half-wits and outright weirdos. He was a Method-trained performer who revealed "the chaos inside" of his characters, a writer once observed, with a glance of inordinately expressive silence or the emission of rude bodily noises.

No more "bonk bonk on the head." Rest in peace.

 

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RIP, dude.