In 1962, Pollard appeared in the short-lived Robert Young comedy/ drama series Window on Main Street in the episode "The Boy Who Got Too Many Laughs". Pollard created the non-singing role of Hugo Peabody in the original Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie. Pollard's character was to have been a replacement for Maynard, but disappeared when Denver was classified 4-F and was able to return to the series. Krebs, played by Bob Denver, who in real life had been drafted into the United States Army. Later that same year, Pollard appeared in episode five of CBS's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Jerome Krebs, the first cousin of Maynard G. That same year Pollard appeared in David Hedison's 16-segment NBC espionage TV series Five Fingers in the episode "The Unknown Town". Pollard also portrayed Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead, in a television adaptation of William Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy, narrated by Burgess Meredith, and broadcast as an episode of the DuPont Show of the Month. He had two roles in episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Appointment at Eleven", a minor part as a shoeshine boy and as herpetologist Hansel Eidelpfeiffer in "Anniversary Gift". Pollard had his earliest screen roles in television, with multiple appearances in programs broadcast during 1959. He had a son, Axel Emmett Pollard, from a second marriage to Annie Tolstoy. Pollard was married to actress Beth Howland, with whom he had one daughter, Holly Howland. Pollard attended Montclair Academy (now Montclair Kimberley Academy) and Actors Studio in New York. by working 60 hours a week as a barman at O'Rourke's Tap Room. Pollard's father supported his wife and Michael Jr. His mother was born in New York and his father was born in New Jersey. ( née Dubanowich) and Michael John Pollack, a bar manager. Pollard was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and brought up in the nearby North Jersey communities of Garfield and Clifton.
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