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American actor who played the hapless getaway driver in the 1967 film classic Bonnie and Clyde
The baby-faced, twinkly-eyed Michael J Pollard, who has died aged 80 from a heart attack, was described by the New York Times in 1969 as “the first important post-Method actor … If Method actors mumble their lines to convey the chaos inside, Pollard seems ready to give up talking altogether.”
He was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for his breakthrough performance as CW Moss, the naive gas-station attendant who becomes a rather hapless getaway driver, in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the iconoclastic hit that spearheaded the American new wave. The sheepish grin and air of vague but serene befuddlement that he exhibited in the film served him well throughout the rest of his career. Continue reading...